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).
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