Tron 2 Trailer

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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.

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.