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Title: Tron
Post by: kanezer on March 28, 2001, 01:09:03 PM
Just seen TRon and the thing I keep asking myself, Why and how did the director ever persuad Disney into producing this magnificent but not very Disney minded movie?


Title: Re: Tron
Post by: Fritz on March 28, 2001, 03:30:05 PM
Have you ever seen Something Wicked This Way Comes...  now thats a Disney film, rotting corpses, snakes, spiders and Jonathan Price. Tron is one of my favorite films,but it does seem that it's one of the films Disney want to forget about,but rumors persist that Tron 2.0 will be out in 2002,I guess you gonna have to wait and see.


Title: Re: Tron
Post by: Greywizard, The Unknown Movies on March 28, 2001, 06:34:49 PM
Well, it was around this time that Disney, after having lost a lot of its audience during the '70s with a number of infantile movies, was really trying to gain that audience back. So they were looking for movies that would break the impression that all they made were goofy kiddie movies.


Title: Re: Tron
Post by: ER on October 18, 2023, 09:00:07 AM
Funny, I grew up hearing about this movie's mind-blowing special effects and its plot which was twenty years ahead of its time, yet to my '90s eyes when I got it on VHS it looked like a bunch of retro-sci-fi characters standing around in the day-glo lighting of a mall laser tag range, interspaced with animation that had all the charm of those oddly linear Soviet cartoons. Maybe it was one of those "had to be there" situations but I have never found Tron appealing.


Title: Re: Tron
Post by: M.10rda on October 18, 2023, 08:23:15 PM
TRON has not exactly aged well, though its design is at least specific enough that I feel like it retains some charm and curiosity value. There are films from the 90s where I think the FX have aged even more poorly in less time. LAWNMOWER MAN? Actually any Bret Leonard SFX flick? Maybe never "good" but oh boy, today they're painful to look at.


Title: Re: Tron
Post by: Dr. Whom on October 20, 2023, 01:12:06 AM
Funny, I grew up hearing about this movie's mind-blowing special effects and its plot which was twenty years ahead of its time, yet to my '90s eyes when I got it on VHS it looked like a bunch of retro-sci-fi characters standing around in the day-glo lighting of a mall laser tag range, interspaced with animation that had all the charm of those oddly linear Soviet cartoons. Maybe it was one of those "had to be there" situations but I have never found Tron appealing.

As someone who was there at the time, Tron is from the early eighties when computers were still essentially magic. Most people (including myself) had any practical experience with computers, so everything was wild and exciting. So yes, it did go from cutting edge to quaint and obsolete in no time.


Title: Re: Tron
Post by: zombie no.one on October 20, 2023, 01:58:05 AM
TRON was 21 yrs old, when this 22 yr old thread was made  :buggedout:

internet is getting old





Title: Re: Tron
Post by: FatFreddysCat on October 20, 2023, 07:29:24 AM
I saw Tron during its theatrical run in the summer of '82 (I was 12) with my friend Dave. At the time they were just starting to teach us about computers in school, so we loved it. However, Dave's Mom didn't get it at all, I remember her asking us, "What the heck did we just watch?" as we left the theater.

If memory serves, I wrote a book report on the film's paperback novelization when I started seventh grade that Fall. :D

I've seen it once or twice since then over the years; the last time was probably ten or twelve years ago when the release of the long-delayed sequel Tron: Legacy was imminent. It was definitely a product of its time, but I still appreciated it for its bizarro-world style and its historical value.

At least it was memorable in its own way. I honestly couldn't tell you a thing that happened in Tron: Legacy aside from Olivia Wilde looking fine as hell in one of those skin tight glowing neon body suits :D