Tron and Black Swan

I watched Tron and Black Swan yesterday.   I was really excited for Tron as I remember that I liked the first one though I can't really remember much from it.  All I remember was that some dude got sucked into a video game and he had to play his way out of the game.  The new Tron was really cool too.  We got it on blu-ray as it seemed like the kind of movie to do on blu-ray.  I like to get action movies or movies that have lots of imagery on blu-ray.  Romantic comedies usually don't merit the extra 50 cents for blu-ray in my opinion.  Anyway, as I was saying I really liked the movie.  The plot was good and fairly easy to follow.  The only thing I wished they did was explain more about the Iso's.  I think there could have been a few more instances of playing in the video games.  The movie overall though was good.  I liked the corporate greed angle at the beginning (corporate greed seems to be popular in movies these days for some reason).  The digital world was well done.  One thing I found interesting was that the entire movie was filmed at night time until the end.  In the real world it was always dark and then in the the digital world it was dark.  At the end, the real world was light.  I don't know if it was symbolic or on purpose, but Jana and I thought it was kind of interesting.

Black Swan was one I wasn't sure I would like.  I had heard all sorts of things about the movie like it was the Brokeback Mountain for women and that it had a crazy ending.  I was worried that I would get bored since the film centered around ballet.  In spite of almost the whole movie being ballet scenes I was definitely at the edge of my seat.  The psychological part of the movie was what really took center stage along with her interactions with other characters, especially her mom.  The dancing itself was actually kind of cool in that it was amazing to see what the dancers physically had to do.  The movie did leave me with a lot of unanswered questions which always bothers me.  I just want the movie to neatly tie up all the loose ends, but the wondering and trying to figure out what actually happened might have made the movie more meaningful than had every question been answered.