I’m not going to turn this blog into trailer central or anything, but apparently you could see this in 3D if you went to see Alice In Wonderland in 3D but instead I saw it in a theatre with really crappy sound so I didn’t get to see this and holeeeeeeeeeeeeeee shit.
This is more important to me than a dozen Iron Man sequels.
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I see Jeff Bridges is what made you excited about the first movie.
I concur. Wholeheartedly. We should meet for the premiere so that we may both squeal like teenaged girls on the Ed Sullivan Show circa 1964.
Fuck.
Yes.
I’m actually more intrigued by the live action sequences. Wow.
Tron.. I hope the writing has improved as much as the graphics have.
They say the game of the same name is being ignored in the film…which is a shame since it’s more or less the same plot, just with a different son (Alan’s instead of Flynn’s) looking for his missing father in the computer.
But yes, holy fuckballs indeed (I did get to see it in 3d @ Alice, and it was the best part of the day)
The Matrix callback was cute. And they’re getting the band back together!
Soooooo cooooool…
Scavenger: though the game wasn’t called “Legacy” but rather “Tron 2.0″, it was great, and you’re right: it is a very similar plot. I think it may even be set later than this movie, but who knows. I know that Lisberger and most of the actors were involved in the game, and that Syd Mead designed the “chopper” lightcycles used therein, and that Wendy Carlos even did the new music for it.
It worked as a game, but I’m glad they’re doing something with the movie that lets them use Flynn. Because dammit: FLYNN
It’s Oscar(tm)WinnerJeffBridges now! Also, whoa. (But the monologue during the first part of the trailer was cringe-inducing.)
Zenrage said on March 9th, 2010 at 4:03 am
Tron.. I hope the writing has improved as much as the graphics have.
I have a feeling this is going to be an Avatar-level “Go take a stroll around the lobby between action sequences” type of flick.
Nice upgrade to the Recognizer.
I WANT.
So a crappy movie from your youth gets remade, and it’s pressing all your nostalgia buttons. Maybe you should be writing for DC or Marvel, because that’s the same impulse behind many of their recent editorial decisions.
I saw it in “3D” as part of the Alice in Wonderland 3D previews. It was nice, though the 3D part of it sucked balls. It really wasn’t in 3D.
What? huh? I mean seriously? Tron? People are psyched for @#$#ing Tron? I found it vapid and silly when I was 8.
Now the Last Starfighter, Id be on taht like stink on #%^$+.
If it follows a cohesive plotline and doesn’t add stupid things for the sake of adding stupid things, it’ll be head and shoulders above the original.
You’re DAMN RIGHT. Besides, it’s either this or the more-dreaded Clash of the Titans remake.
Yes, TRON was a bad movie. Even as a 12-year-old fresh off of messing around on TRS-80 Basic programming, I knew this movie made a hash of real-world computing, and that the storyline was contrived, and that they made a huge deal about those spider bots that turned out to be nothing (deleted scene I bet), etc. But viewing that lightcycle race for the first time ever, swear to GOD that was the most mind-blowing thing since the trench run from Star Wars.
So HELL YEAH I’m jacked up for this movie. Part of me even wants Pixar to go back and re-do some of the effects from the original and release a Special Edition like what Lucas did to the original SW trilogy in the mid-90s. You know, get rid of the some of the clunkier stuff, brighten up the scenery a tad, plug in the deleted stuff, all that.
PaulW already touched on some of the reasons why TRON is so beloved (and it’s not that bad a movie, I think), but I just want to add something here, which is that TRON barely touched on the story potential of the setting.
If you’ve played TRON 2.0, you know what I’m talking about: that game wildly expanded the TRON setting, playing with a ton of computing concepts and devices and integrating them into the inside-the-computer universe of TRON. There’s so much story to explore in TRON for a good sequel to exploit.
Can I just interject (speaking of video games about video games) that the Tron level was the most surprising thing about Kingdom Hearts II? With the possible exception of the Steamboat Willie level.
Am I the only one who’s more jazzed Daft Punk doing a buzzing futurist turn for the soundtrack? Seriously, the movie looks like it has something powerful going on with it visually but that bits of score here are what’s doing it for me.
You’re mad… you’re all mad…
If it follows a cohesive plotline and doesn’t add stupid things for the sake of adding stupid things, it’ll be head and shoulders above the original.
Too true, too true.
@Kid Kyoto: I’ve always been sober, and never been sane.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Daniel Tosh is really getting out of hand with these web redemptions.
You’re not the only one cwebb. As much as I’m looking forward to the movie, the Daft Punk score actually has me more excited.
Kinda surprised they didn’t bring Wendy Carlos back for the soundtrack.
To echo cwebb and david: Daft Punk, fucking right! The fact that it’s Tron makes it even sweeter.
Will, nobody cares how nostalgic Geoff Johns is. We object to him actively pruning roughly two decades of stories and characters that some of us are rather fond of for the sake of his nostalgia. A new Tron movie doesn’t cost us anything we currently enjoy.
Also, because somebody had to say it: Kid, we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.
Could really do with more Bridges. He made the first film.
The teaser trailer was awesome enough on it’s own. This is awesome squared.
After having watched the trailer 54 times now, I’m starting to have my concerns.
Mostly, just why is there a TRON Car creating smoke from spinning its tires? I thought there wasn’t real physical friction in cyberspace to allow such a thing…
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