Sgt_BFG on 25/7/2009 at 22:20
Quote Posted by Queue
I never gave a fuck about TRON.
oi
Queue on 25/7/2009 at 22:25
Seriously, what was the appeal?
Dia on 25/7/2009 at 23:33
Oh hush you; I'm all for seeing it if it has His Dudeness and the Cap'n in it.
so there :p
Sulphur on 25/7/2009 at 23:34
Quote Posted by Queue
Seriously, what was the appeal?
It's just a case of rose-tinted glasses, really.
If you were a kid of about the right age (which for me was 8 going on 9, having recently been introduced to the wonders of BASIC programming and tasting the smell of frying memory chips as they sparked up puffs of blue smoke), it was a modernistic Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, a sort of electric fantasia coupled with a story that embodied current-day insta-cool that strobed itself directly into your brain and overloaded your visual pleasure centres.
Basically, TRON was everything a nerdy kid wanted to see in a movie that wasn't called 'Star Wars', it was from Disney, and it was an integral part of childhood for many.
Muzman on 26/7/2009 at 01:35
It's aso one of those films just about everyone seems to have seen and liked, yet was a total flop.
Fafhrd on 26/7/2009 at 02:19
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I thought it was obvious, I was asking what happened in the first movie as a prologue to what we saw.
This one doesn't really follow on from the end of the first. The rumour I've heard is that Flynn (present age Jeff Bridges) has intentionally re-digitized himself, and then gone all Colonel Kurtz and basically set himself up as God Incarnate in the digital world. The full CG young Jeff Bridges is CLU (the program of Flynn's that the MCP had executed in the beginning of the first movie), who is running around murdering any program that doubts the divinity of Flynn.
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Seriously, what was the appeal?
David Warner, Jeff Bridges, killer frisbees, glowing motorcycles that materialize around you...
It also anticipated the idea of intellectual property struggles in the digital age, and I kind of love the idea the Flynn saves the world from the MCP and doesn't even realize it, since Dillinger was the only person who knew about the MCP's plans to take over (a la Colossus: The Forbin Project).
ZylonBane on 26/7/2009 at 03:19
Quote Posted by Queue
I never gave a fuck about TRON.
(...yet another in a long line of bad Disney films, to try to make a buck after Walt died, that was about as enjoyable and significant as The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.)
If you don't think TRON was at the very least a
technically significant film, you are beyond ignorant. It created an instantly recognizable visual iconography, deposited a few terms in the geek vernacular which persist to this day, and, and most importantly, significantly advanced the use of CGI in filmmaking.
june gloom on 26/7/2009 at 03:21
I'd like to see TRON at some point. I just don't really have the interest to go out and do it right now.
Queue on 26/7/2009 at 03:38
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Basically, TRON was everything a nerdy kid wanted to see in a movie that wasn't called 'Star Wars', it was from Disney, and it was an integral part of childhood for many.
I felt the same about War Games and Electric Dreams (loved that catchy Culture Club song). I saw TRON when I was a twelve-year old computer geek programming in BASIC on his TRS-80 Model III, and even then the film seemed weak and nothing more than a vehicle just to showcase the marvels of "current-day" computer graphics. Lots of sparks, but nothing else.
ZB-- Yep, great special effects. Shitty movie. But I was only twelve-years old when I watched it. I have grown up since then, and would probably view it now with a less critical eye.
Sulphur on 26/7/2009 at 06:20
Yeah, I get that. I'd still say you'd have to have seen it at the right time to be enamoured with the movie, and 12's a pretty far cry from 8 when you're a kid.
Especially with all that roiling pubescence starting to do funky things to your mind and body just around then and your mom is utterly horrified when she discovers that you... oh. Um. Ahem.
You may also have been a far more inherently critical kid than I - who was pretty much transfixed when it came to anything that featured flashy CGI light shows.
