I caught this on SCI FI Channel Last night. I know it may look a bit cheesy now the effects are not as classic. . . but man . .. it is still GOOD CINEMA!!! Rocket River
I saw it yesterday and I'm gonna have to disagree. its okay, its not bad, but it doesn't stand the test of time like Star Wars, its just not bad like clash of titans. its in between. the graphics and effects are still cool and somewhat believable, but they are still so 80s.
Early 80's (1982). To put it into perspective, computers didn't have mice yet. according to IMDB... "At the time, computers could generate static images, but could not automatically put them into motion. Thus, the coordinates for each image, such as a lightcycle, had to be entered for each individual frame. It took 600 coordinates to get 4 seconds of film. Each of these coordinates was entered into the computer by hand by the filmmakers. While computer animation was used in several scenes, the technology did not exist for a shot to contain both live actors and computer animation. Live-action shots were fantasized using hand-drawn animation. Strong editing, such as with the light cycle chase, created an apparently seamless blend of actors and computer animation."
Boy, I'm sure they wish they made the movie maybe 10 years after the release. All I have to say is...
NOW You guys are going to make me have to search for the GAME It has to be online somewhere . . .somewhere I can download it Rocket River . . . I smell another Thread coming on
Well, you know Tron is on someone's slate to remake into a new movie with the latest technology used. It's just a matter of time.
Probably starring Lindsay 'Skank' Lohan as Yori, Wilmer Valderrama as Tron, and Paul Walker or some other no-talent a$$clown as Flynn. To quote another great 80's flick: I weep for the future.
I was thinking about this a couple of months ago and ironically, even though advancements in special effects and the proliferation of personal computers has caught up with the movie, I don't think the premise of the movie would fly as well today. It's not that we aren't paranoid enough anymore about the threat of sentient AI. Ultimately, I think too many of the plot elements are too "low level" for the average person to understand. Even many IT guys might be thrown by a lot of the chip-level components of the virtual world. We've simply moved on to a more sophisticated view of how computers work, and we take a lot of the underlying hardward like memory registers for granted.
RR -- it's funny you mention this. my son has a Disney Scene It! game. We were playing last night and one of the scenes was Tron. He looked at me with a funny look when the right answer was Tron...he was like, "what in the world is Tron?" i had forgotten about it...but would be fun to watch it with him. This thread reminds me to do that! anyone else have the geeky Tron action figures? they glowed in the dark! oooohhhh...aaaaaah!!
Well, after watching the train wreck called The Cutting Edge 2: Going for the Gold yesterday on ABC Family, I firmly believe some channel will eventually vomit up a made-for-TV Tron sequel. It certainly wouldn't be the first time some TV exec hack raped my childhood.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off. By the way... a few months ago, I was able to identify a movie as Jaws II from the first moment that a portion of text appeared on the screen. I thought that I had set a new record. Then, about a month ago, when I saw that a movie began with an MGM logo, followed by a United Artists logo, I guessed it was Tomorrrow Never Dies..... and got it right. My wife was amazed. It's pretty sick, this ability our family has. If only we could harness that power for profit.
