TRON is an awesome movie (spoilers)

[djbeatmongrel]

This weekend i was out buy random things media related and i came across the 20th anniversary edition of TRon on dvd for $15. i've never scene the movie before and i thought it was a good price so i decide to pick it up.

so i got home, made a bowl of popcorn, turned of and set my ps2 up to play muh TRON dvd (i have to have my remote). Then the fun begins. once i saw the first major CG scene and got my first real feel for Flynn at his arcade, i was totally hooked. Flynn instantly became my idol with his John Crichton(Farscape) like persona and true love for the art of digital gaming.

Every aspect of that movie was done perfectly. The references to computing, the cold dark computer environment, the glowing American Gladiator get-ups, the data frisbees and the insane polygon environment just blew my mind.

if there ever was a movie to watch about videogames TRON easily it. Too bad it tanked in the theatres. now i all i have to see is the big screen nintendo advertisement called the "The Wizard"

[Flack]

TRON, along with Cloak and Dagger, Wargames, and The Last Starfighter, were four movies that changed my life in one way or another. That was a really great time in film making.

Rent Cloak and Dagger and not only will you get an action adventure involving an Atari 5200 cartridge, but you'll also discover where my alias came from.

[calthaer]

Now you need to go out, get the Tron 2.0 game, and play it. It is a completely worthy sequel to the film - great story, awesome FPS action - well worth the measly $20 they're charging for it now.

[djbeatmongrel]

its going for $20 already!?

[Daniel Thomas]

Tron was a pretty good movie. I remember how impressive it all looked way back when. When I was older, I realized that the movie was basically a computer-generated ripoff of The Wizard of Oz, but it was still pretty good for its time. I can't say it's a movie that holds up for me today, but I'm older and my interests are much different.

Of course, the video arcades based on the movie were the best. I wonder why no one has ever made an online version of Disks of Tron? Wouldn't that be cool?

[Jorpho]

its going for $20 already!?

Aye, but last time I checked, you need a video card that supports hardware TnL in order to play it (i.e., at least a Radeon 7200). I hope this is one of those games that gets released in a jewel case and stays in the bargain bin forever...

[kainemaxwell]

TRON, along with Cloak and Dagger, Wargames, and The Last Starfighter, were four movies that changed my life in one way or another. That was a really great time in film making.

Seen all those but Cloak and Dagger.

[djbeatmongrel]

i said spoilers just incase, i dont want to be the the dick that ruins it, plus its a gamefaqs habit lol.

[FABombjoy]

I first saw Tron when I was 5, and was completely mesmerized by it. 21 years later, I've probably watched it over 250 times. I can quote the entire movie from beginning to end, and given enough time with nothing else to do I could storyboard the entire thing with great accuracy. Obsessed? Naw. Just a big big big fan.

[Oobgarm]

its going for $20 already!?

Aye, but last time I checked, you need a video card that supports hardware TnL in order to play it (i.e., at least a Radeon 7200). I hope this is one of those games that gets released in a jewel case and stays in the bargain bin forever...

I'm not very computer savvy here, but I've got a cheap-o Xstacy GeForce 2 knock off card that runs Tron 2.0 just fine on a 1 Ghz machine with 256 RAM.

Again, I'm not sure if that's the same thing that Jorpho mentioned, but I thought I'd throw that in.

/hijack

[Keir]

I watched Tron on New Year's Eve for the first time in about 20 years. I thought it was terrible.

[hu6800]

TRON, along with Cloak and Dagger, Wargames, and The Last Starfighter, were four movies that changed my life in one way or another. That was a really great time in film making.

Rent Cloak and Dagger and not only will you get an action adventure involving an Atari 5200 cartridge, but you'll also discover where my alias came from.

Id have to go with
empire strikes back , RAD , Quicksilver and Tron.
i have em all on laser disk except RAD.

[Chunky]

every year i talk about all the background hidden mickeymouse heads, and everyone thinks i'm nuts. Still Fricken awesome movie.

[Lady Jaye]

@djbeatmongrel: I guess your copy of Tron is the bug-free version (early batches had a one-frame pixilation bug that'd screw up the image for the rest of the movie when viewed with a PS2)...

And Chunky, what Mickey Mouse heads? Give examples, please!

Does anyone remember the Tron plastic mini-frisbees that were in boxes of Shreddies when the movie first came out in the early 80s?

I second how Tron, combined with WarGames, is the great 1-2 punch of 80s computer movies.

[djbeatmongrel]

@djbeatmongrel: I guess your copy of Tron is the bug-free version (early batches had a one-frame pixilation bug that'd screw up the image for the rest of the movie when viewed with a PS2)...

Actually it did have some odd frame glitch at the part where Flynn meets CLU but it didn't happen once i started the dvd back at that chapter

[Chunky]

And Chunky, what Mickey Mouse heads? Give examples, please!

http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Movies/Tron.html

didn't know there was this place, i remember this talk when it was in theaters, and this site acutually has a picture.

[Lady Jaye]

@ djbeatmongrel: oh, so you do have a bugged copy. You'd think that they'd be bug-free by now, after all this time... If the bug annoys you too much, contact Disney. You'll have to provide the disk's serial number (or something like that, I can't remember) and they'll send you a free replacement copy of the movie (in a paper slip case, not the whole package, but you don't have to send back the original copy). However, the bugged copy runs perfectly fine in most other DVD readers, just not in the PS2.

[Kejoriv]

I cant stand Tron. Ive tried to watch it a few times. In my opinion its horrible

[calthaer]

Aye, but last time I checked, you need a video card that supports hardware TnL in order to play it (i.e., at least a Radeon 7200). I hope this is one of those games that gets released in a jewel case and stays in the bargain bin forever...

Yeah, but the video cards that run this thing are by now probably pretty cheap. I only have a GeForce3 Ti200-based card and it ran the thing in max resolution with all the options turned up to high - with minimal slowdown in like one area or so. I believe the box says that you need at least a GeForce2. You probably just can't run it with those cheapie MX pieces of garbage that they put on stock Dells and Compaqs and junk like that.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Wow, I don't guess I've run across anyone in the gaming community who didn't have a Tron jones. I guess it's a generational thing - for those of us growing up at the time it came out, it was a major WOW flick. I mean, it's not the best writing in the world, even if it did beat the Wachowski Brothers to their basic conceptual sucker punch by almost two decades, but it's got a look like nothing before - or since.

Me, I kinda like it, myself.