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So I was pretty much blown away around this time last year when the first teaser for TRON Legacy came out. Because, dude, TRON. I'm not sure it's possible to overstate how much a part of my childhood that movie was, and this looked like TRON with nice crisp (computer-generated) graphics.
"What do you want with the Pentagon?"
THE SAME THING I WANT WITH THE KREMLIN. I'M BORED WITH CORPORATIONS.

Then the first trailer hit, the one that played in front of Inception, and... I got a little nervous. It was nice to see Alan again, and the arcade, and Dillinger's (still completely awesome) desk. But in general it felt like they were replicating the surface of TRON, the blue neon and shiny discs, and forgetting what made the spirit of the thing. Plus the new Recognizers are far too smooth. (Those of you who insist that TRON was all surface and no spirit can go sit over there in the corner with Michael Bay and everyone else who wants to ruin my childhood memories.)
"Oh man, this isn't happening, it only thinks it's happening."

I'm feeling a lot better now that I've seen this new trailer, though. Mostly because, to quote MGK, "EVIL COMPUTER JEFF BRIDGES! EVIL! COMPUTER! JEFF! BRIDGES!"
"Pretty good driving, hu-UUH!"
NO
"Who asked you?"

(I've watched it three times this morning, and that last ten seconds gives me the shivers every single time.)
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Date: 2010-07-23 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com
I still have no idea exactly what happened in either the original Tron or this one.. it was a video game that became sentient? and then what, snatched the guy and plugged his head into virtual reality?

Date: 2010-07-23 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] platypusgirl.livejournal.com
I have to laugh = my initials are MCP. Perhaps I should try to take over things...

Date: 2010-07-23 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikailborg.livejournal.com
The laser's one of my favorite parts about TRON. Why? Because of all the 'OMG, sucked into the computer / Internet' storylines I've ever seen, this is the only one that hangs a "hey, look, we've made a gun that sucks things into the computer!" over the mantelpiece in the first act.

No magic VR goggles or cell phones or 300-baud acoustical modems or household 120VAC wiring somehow gone horribly wrong. This movie says, "hey, maybe it's BS, but at least our characters made a digitizing laser ON PURPOSE."

In fact, the only two other positive examples I can think of just now are The Matrix and a late-seventies Doctor Who episode (which also called its network the Matrix).

Date: 2010-07-23 05:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikailborg.livejournal.com
Really, you should rent it. It's pretty, and has an excellent soundtrack. The plot's full of cheese, but the actors are skilled enough to treat it seriously, which makes up for a lot. iTunes doesn't have it, but Netflix might. It's a fun way to blow a couple of hours.

Date: 2010-07-23 02:05 pm (UTC)
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Someone at work has something that purports to be the script to Tron 2.0.

The thing I loved about the original Tron was that, since it came out before anyone really had a personal computer, it didn't use a bunch of programming puns and computer jokes. It wasn't this.

The new script, if this really is, can't say that. And, it doesn't make even good jokes. It looks pretty terrible. I'm hoping that the acting (it does have The Dude) can make up for bad writing, or that the bad writing isn't as bad as it appears in text, or something.

Date: 2010-07-23 02:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] rbandrews
That's what I'm hoping. Or that it's fanfic or a troll or something. I'll see if I can get a copy of it and post it.

Tron was great because it wasn't a computer movie. It took place in a computer, but it was a fantasy movie.

Date: 2010-07-23 06:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] rbandrews
That's it exactly. They didn't try to map their story on to a bunch of computer concepts and puns, they made a believable world that worked for their story that had little to do with a computer. It made it not cheesy, which is something that no other computer movies can say.

Date: 2010-07-23 02:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] nixve.livejournal.com
I am crossing my fingers and bouncing up and down with excitement. :)

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