26th July 2008, 11:50 AM
26th July 2008, 12:46 PM
Yeah, Tron's a fun movie. Getting back Jeff Bridges was essential. I read about this trailer a few days back - kind of cool to see it, even in that crappy camera phone catpure. Ho
It certainly looks better than the Lost Boys 2 trailer I watched...
On a somewhat related note, I love playing GLTron. I highly recommend it for a free 3D Tron game.
It certainly looks better than the Lost Boys 2 trailer I watched...
On a somewhat related note, I love playing GLTron. I highly recommend it for a free 3D Tron game.
26th July 2008, 1:26 PM
Another promotional video, see it before it's taken down!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EFT8J2H9rAI&NR=1
Sean Connery is apparently playing the "M2P" (jeez, do they need to shoe-horn "2" in that, too?). Let's hope it doesn't let us down.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EFT8J2H9rAI&NR=1
Sean Connery is apparently playing the "M2P" (jeez, do they need to shoe-horn "2" in that, too?). Let's hope it doesn't let us down.
26th July 2008, 4:21 PM
Master "2" Program?
Tron IS a cool movie. It WAS a universally panned failure.
Tron IS a cool movie. It WAS a universally panned failure.
26th July 2008, 4:31 PM
TR2N was too stupid a title to use, which is why I called it Tron 2.. why put the number IN the word? It doesn't make it cooler.
Anyway, though, that other trailer is cool too, though the new one is obviously a lot newer and is all new footage...
Not universally panned by videogame fans, that's for sure... :)
Obviously the movie has a fanbase. Otherwise, they would not be making a sequel.
Anyway, though, that other trailer is cool too, though the new one is obviously a lot newer and is all new footage...
Quote:Tron IS a cool movie. It WAS a universally panned failure.
Not universally panned by videogame fans, that's for sure... :)
Obviously the movie has a fanbase. Otherwise, they would not be making a sequel.
26th July 2008, 5:39 PM
What I'm saying is everyone hated it then and it only became popular over a decade later.
Not that I'm opposed to that sort of thing. It was interesting as a fantasy movie, even if it's inaccuracies make The Core look like it was written by Steven Hawking.
Not that I'm opposed to that sort of thing. It was interesting as a fantasy movie, even if it's inaccuracies make The Core look like it was written by Steven Hawking.
26th July 2008, 5:48 PM
Really? As far as I know, it's always been popular with a certain fanbase... I know I loved it from when I first saw it (which, of course, was in the early '90s).
26th July 2008, 9:51 PM
Tron doubled it's $17 million budget and had 24 positive reviews out of 36 listed at RottenTomatoes. Not a stunning succes, but hardly an abismal failure.
But all that's irrelevant, I heartily welcome this new movie.
But all that's irrelevant, I heartily welcome this new movie.
26th July 2008, 10:52 PM
I thought Tron was incredibly cheesy, as did my buddies, since we all studied software and hardware. We downloaded and watched it one night a few years back. It's funny how it comes from an era where computers were becoming more widespread and there was a certain awe about them. Computars! X-Y grid coordinates! Light bikes! Memory! Master Control Program appropriating other programs! Traffic! After I saw it, though, it had enough charm that I never got around to deleting it.
Hackers is another goofy movie from that era, probably breeding new groups of young kid who liked to skateboard or rollerblade around the city with shades on, and going onto chatrooms that only the insiders know about to find some cool hacking tips. Mess with the best and die like the rest motha fuXX0ras!!
Hackers is another goofy movie from that era, probably breeding new groups of young kid who liked to skateboard or rollerblade around the city with shades on, and going onto chatrooms that only the insiders know about to find some cool hacking tips. Mess with the best and die like the rest motha fuXX0ras!!
26th July 2008, 11:39 PM
Yeah as fantasy it's great, but anyone who gets the weird idea that there's anything resembling a "world" "in" the computer somehow is running on some high grade stupid. It would be like having someone go "in" the "world" of a gear operated clock, and I mean exactly like that with no differences in terms of how silly the concept is. Electricity makes it magic though. There isn't going to be a world unless you program one in, and even there the idea that hacking via that world would accomplish anything on the level that it did in the Matrix is silly (yeah that's a pretty odd world too, as though "seeing the code" as the same as the actual virtual objects in the world makes any sense, but at least they don't suggest that a light bike game is actually being played by some mini-people).
All that said, as a fantasy idea it's fine, like Digimon.
All that said, as a fantasy idea it's fine, like Digimon.
27th July 2008, 2:10 PM
Quote:Tron doubled it's $17 million budget and had 24 positive reviews out of 36 listed at RottenTomatoes. Not a stunning succes, but hardly an abismal failure.
Yeah, I thought it was something like that.
Quote:Yeah as fantasy it's great, but anyone who gets the weird idea that there's anything resembling a "world" "in" the computer somehow is running on some high grade stupid. It would be like having someone go "in" the "world" of a gear operated clock, and I mean exactly like that with no differences in terms of how silly the concept is. Electricity makes it magic though. There isn't going to be a world unless you program one in, and even there the idea that hacking via that world would accomplish anything on the level that it did in the Matrix is silly (yeah that's a pretty odd world too, as though "seeing the code" as the same as the actual virtual objects in the world makes any sense, but at least they don't suggest that a light bike game is actually being played by some mini-people).
... Why would someone take the concept of Tron this seriously?
Of course there isn't a "world" inside the computer, but people understand things better when they are anthropomorphized. That's the simple explanation for why something like Tron exists.