"Who are they?" "Obsolete data-pushers."

[jazzfish]

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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Comments

[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?

[rbandrews]

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.

[nixve.livejournal.com]

I am crossing my fingers and bouncing up and down with excitement. :)