Comments on: HOLY FUCKBALLS YES again

By: PaulW

PaulW — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:36:46 +0000

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…

By: Sofa King

Sofa King — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:12:45 +0000

The teaser trailer was awesome enough on it’s own. This is awesome squared.

By: marvinmartian

marvinmartian — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:59:42 +0000

Could really do with more Bridges. He made the first film.

By: Ambrael

Ambrael — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:03:52 +0000

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.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:13:43 +0000

To echo cwebb and david: Daft Punk, fucking right! The fact that it’s Tron makes it even sweeter.

By: PaulW

PaulW — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:47:18 +0000

Kinda surprised they didn’t bring Wendy Carlos back for the soundtrack.

By: david s

david s — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:30:22 +0000

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.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:10:21 +0000

Daniel Tosh is really getting out of hand with these web redemptions.

By: PaulW

PaulW — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:19:32 +0000

@Kid Kyoto: I’ve always been sober, and never been sane.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

By: William George

William George — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:03:48 +0000

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.

By: Kid Kyoto

Kid Kyoto — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:13:16 +0000

You’re mad… you’re all mad…

By: cwebb39

cwebb39 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:22:58 +0000

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.

By: clay

clay — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:03:09 +0000

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.

By: MGK

MGK — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:12 +0000

So a crappy movie from your youth gets remade, and it’s pressing all your nostalgia buttons.

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.

By: PaulW

PaulW — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:15:29 +0000

So a crappy movie from your youth gets remade, and it’s pressing all your nostalgia buttons.

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.