So I saw Tron...

[hot564231]

Really? Was that it, the legendary tron, pffft... seriously I know better cult movies than this, the visual style was nice, rather good for the late 70's/early 80's, and Bruce Boxleitner was the best actor in it, but overall the acting was bland...

Jeff Bridges acting... was ...errr...

and its a really short movie, I remember Black Hole was longer.

Errr... I hope the 2nd movie is better, it has to be.


anyway have your say and enjoy this tron parody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRPWJV1-4yA

 

[Lucid]

Who ever said Tron was a legendary movie? It was praised for the visual style and that's it as far as I know.

It was also fairly entertaining and a neat what-if scenario about how the inside of a computer network would work with living beings.

 

[hot564231]

Would have been better if the writer/s had a slightly more informed background of programming, I would accept the input better, and loop my logic to its auto visual matrix.

 

[swan_song1973]

i like it, its a very different movie, especially for disney.

 

[Lucid]

You are aware that this was made in the 80s aren't you?

 

[Adabiviak]

I remember cutting advertisements for it out of the sunday newspaper and keeping them because I was so excited for it (I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade). We'd also just started to get the hang of programming our new VIC-20 computer. The timing was just right for me.

 

[Darkside55]

Tron was visually appealing and praised for its innovative use of technology and groundbreaking CG, but as a story it was bland, drawn-out, and boring.

It was the Avatar of the 1980s.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

I remember cutting advertisements for it out of the sunday newspaper and keeping them because I was so excited for it (I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade). We'd also just started to get the hang of programming our new VIC-20 computer. The timing was just right for me.

I never thought I'd be telling this to someone on this forum due to my own age, but dude you're old D:

Tron was visually appealing and praised for its innovative use of technology and groundbreaking CG, but as a story it was bland, drawn-out, and boring.

It was the Avatar of the 1980s.

That's not very fair. The movie didn't have nearly the budget or high profile that Avatar had, plus the production did take as long (well 4 years is still a long time from inception to release)

 

[Darkside55]

"Not very fair?" What I said wasn't intended as an insult. I think it's very fair: a movie praised for technical merit rather than storytelling.

If I wanted to be insulting I would've just said "Tron sucked except for the two arcade games."

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

I suppose I just reacted by thinking you were applying the somewhat joke status that Avatar gets (media and cultural buzz and insane revenue with little praise about its content) to the general mediocrity Tron was.

I bet the cultural references from Tron will last longer though ...

 

[Shyam]

Waiting for Tron 2 though.

 

[hool10]

1. At that time, the overlays creating a neon effect were insane. They still are because nothing else has used this effect before.
2. No movie has looked like Tron ever.
3. IBM was shown as the biggest thing ever. That isn't true anymore as it's many big corps now.
4. It was the most violent Disney movie at the time.
5. The whole concept of you getting sucked into your computer. You somehow find a vast world in there and have an adventure to save a world.
6. It gets your mind thinking of what new technology would change things which is Tron 2.0 and Legacy.
7. Light cycle racing. Pretty cool game and it's on motorcycles.
8. The Tron curse! Every company that was advertising in the film shortly went bankrupt such as Atari.
9. Journey produced a special song during the Flynns arcade scene.
10. The entire film is a time capsule of what computers were back then, with fashion, cars, music, etc.
11. Disc throwing and people getting "rezzed" which is really just a delete command would look like.
12. Claustrophobic environments open to large vast world when they get outside the game arena.
13. The audio is a bunch of electronic clanking when they walk.
14. That cool shadow that they get from their helmet.
15. If you were sucked into a computer, you would instantly become a Gordon Freeman like character. The movie is basically like HL2 as well with overlords, rising against power, rebels, metro cops as guards, etc.
16. Lastly the CGI. Pretty f'ing advanced for it's time.