My wife watches Tron (1982) for the FIRST time || Movie Reaction
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- I'm showing my wife the original Tron movie for the first time!
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This thumbnail though 😂
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Lmao thats so funny n smart 😂
Holden really didn't have to go that hard, and I love him for it!
It's beautiful. I can't even tell it's been altered. *wink wink*
Tron July 9,1982 movie. Also the Tron 2.0 killer gameboy advance.
Tron: Legacy is one of my favorite films, I can’t WAIT for you guys to react to that.
Definitely a faster pace compared to this one, and much more emotional. And I definitely prefer the Legacy-era effects.
The game has changed, son of Flynn.
Three things
1. It’s rare when I see someone react to this classic so I’m glad you guys are
2. I cannot wait to see your reaction to Legacy it’s my favorite out of the two
3. That thumbnail is amazing lol
Fun fact: this movie comes from before the terms "hacker" and "cracker" became synonymous. At the time a hacker was just someone who played around with computer systems, maybe did a little light pranking, but mostly was just writing their own programs and tinkering. A cracker was someone who intentionally invaded secure systems for one reason or another, cracker fell out of favour and hacker simply became the popular term for anyone subverting security.
The term “hacker” goes back to the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC), they’re generally believed to be the ones to coin it.
I heard hacker originated in golf as someone so bad at it that he hacks at the grass. It moved into computer science as someone who hacks at the code instead of writing it elegantly. So a derogatory term for someone who is unprofessional, and then doesn't follow the rules. Then applied to people who break into systems. But that takes more skill than the regular programmers so hacker became a label of pride.
The true first description of a "hacker" was a "phreaker". Someone who used the phone key tones to manipulate a system connected to it to get free long distance. Just a shortened version of "phone freak". They would also use toy whistles to manipulate a system.
My comp.sci. teacher told is 'hacker' came from old school computer needs who had to put their systems together by 'hacking' frames together to fit thier components.
@@3Kings_Industries Do you happen to know what kind of computers those would be, from what era?
Tron Legacy has one of the Best Soundtracks of any movie. Daft Punk. Pure Gold. Worth the movie just for the soundtrack.
The glowing effects were created with rotoscoping. They shot it in black and white and literally hand colored it frame by frame. It was a pretty amazing visual accomplishment for its time. I loved this movie growing up, saw it in the theater as a kid when it first came out. The music was actually very revolutionary as well, created by Wendy Carlos.She was an innovator in early electronic music
I think they also made Animalympics to finance their proof of concept for Tron, some of those effects can also be seen in there.
When this came out, there was nothing like it. I loved this movie. It was so underrated.
I love the visuals, the whole thing was unique but I remember then even as a child I thought it was light on story.
Tron Legacy looks sensational and the soundtrack is S tier. The OG Tron is great because of nostelgia and the VFX breakthrough of the time, but it's a hard watch these days.
You guys should check out Wargames (with Matthew Broderick) and Hackers (1995) (with a young Angelina Jolie!)
Another movie of the same era that could be a fun watch was "The Last Starfighter" from 1984. The story incorporated the CGI of the era rather well, and has an adventure feel capitalizing on the "farm boy" trope.
Love the visuals of The Last Starfighter, very cool looking film!
Last Starfighter is my favourite comfort movie 🥹 Still hoping they make a sequel or reboot.
I love that movie!
The main guy for visual effects was Jeffery Okun. He was a groundbreaker for visual effects and once did a CG clip of attacking X-Wings in the late 70s that is as good as anything today. It just took a huge amount of time to render for a short clip. They pay homage to him in Independence Day with the head of Area 51 Brent Spiner named Dr. Okun. He looks exactly as Jeffery Okun did, long white hair and all.
I was just going to recommend that film!!!
I was a very young kid when the original Tron came out, but I do remember the arcade era - every town even the smaller ones had at least one place if not as big as Flynn's then not too far off, jam packed with as many games as could fit, lit only by the dozens of screens. Walking into one of those places with a pocket full of quarters was almost as good as going to Disneyworld.
If you are lucky, now you can find a barcade.
Yep! In addition to the standalone arcades, I remember when it seemed weird (almost unheard of) for any medium to large mall to not have at least one arcade, if not two, and it wasn’t surprising to find one even in a smaller mall. You were sure to find a game room at places such as mini golf courses, and even a couple of machines just inside the entrance of pretty much any grocery store. That is a heyday I miss, but of course, time marches on.
You guys have to watch the animated series Tron: Uprising, which technically was an immediate prequel to Tron Legacy. Lots of talented actors were used for the animated series.
I prefer it over Legacy.
This movie paved the way for so many things that didn't exist.. Video on computer screens, large flat panel displays, touch screens.. Makes you think if it's life imitating art, or did they know something we didn't ....
Theres actually a ps3 game, Tron Evolution, that serves as a precursor of Tron Legacy. Don't remember much of the plot (its been a while ) but I remember the story was really good. Here's wikipedias synopsis: Tron: Evolution explains the events that led to Kevin Flynn's imprisonment inside the Grid, as well as telling how the Grid evolved through the years. The player controls a system monitor program named "Anon" (short for anonymous) - a security program owned by Flynn to investigate a conspiracy in the world of Tron.
After Legacy you should watch Starman (1984) with Jeff Bridges.
Watching this movie in the theaters several times in just the initial weekend and for the time the special effects were awesome. I don't remember noticing the imperfects you speak of. My experience in watching older movies in High Definition frequently reveal things never intended. Some of the imperfections might not be noticeable or less so at a lower resolution. Remember standard TVs had resolution of around 320 x 240p blowing that up to 1080p or higher can introduces unexpected artifacts and anomalies. B&W movies for instance took advantage of being B&W so when colorized they sometimes lost a quality the original director & production team were going after. Some of the imperfections may have been ignore-able due to the resolution or they may have been intentional and are being distorted when viewed at a higher resolution. As far as the sound/music it simple made it feel more like a video game of the time.
The acting wasn't bad, they were doing a homage to 30's and 40's style acting( but without the transatlantic accents), so it felt slightly heightened and theatrical ( especially inside the computer).
One thing I wish had part of your review was the use of metaphor. This film was brilliant in taking computer tech and language and applying visuals and concepts of the "real" world into a digital landscape. Right down to the religious aspect. Sure the visuals were imperfect but the concepts philosophically were brilliant!
There are a couple of really good TH-cam videos about the VFX in this movie. The whole documentary is posted on TH-cam, but Corridor Crew has a sweet video where they try to recreate the CGI. Just amazing what they did with so little
Best thing to do is to listen to the filmmakers commentary while watching the movie. It’s excellent.
This movie aged a bit and I loved the change in art direction with Tron Legacy.
Shame we never got a sequel. The soundtrack is god-tier.
ehhh... Disney is on track to make a sequel though, with that bad actor Jared Leto!
My only tidbit of knowledge is that Bruce Boxleitner (Alan/Tron) and Peter Jurasik (Crom) both ended up co-starring in the cult sci-fi show Babylon 5
The thing that gets lost I think, is how creative this was for the time. This is at the very beginning of thought about a conceptualization of cyberspace. The internet doesn’t exist for a decade after this movie is written. Thanks as always guys. You’re great.
Vernor Vinge's "True Names" was published in 1981, and Gibson's "Neuromancer" in 1984. So yes, "Tron" is right there in the same playpen.
13 years ago, you'd be right about how people generally feel about Legacy. Most comments I see on it now are almost always positive, saying how underrated it was at the time and that it's a classic.
Also, Tron and Tron Legacy are my favorite movies, so it's nice to see you guys react to this.
Two of my favorite reactors reacting to Tron this week!? 🤩 I hope this is starting a trend!
For all the troubles Tron had in theatres, it is one of those 80s movie that acquired a cult-status once it got on VHS and TV. It certainly is one of my childhood favorites.
80s movies had a feel to them few projects since then have been able to capture ("Stranger Things" and "The Last Mimzi" the major exceptions). "Tron", "Last Starfighter", "D.A.R.Y.L.", "Wargames", "Flight of the Navigator" and a whole slew like them.
Also nothing can compare to 80s arcades. I've never found a place that compares to that chaotic energy those places had back then.
The TRON world is definitely a film universe I wish had gotten explored and developed more extensively. Such a cool idea and with today's effects I think it could end up being a beautiful franchise.
The animated tv program Tron: Uprising is quite good if you have never watched it.
Agreed. It was just too far ahead of its time. Most people were barely lucky enough to even have a personal computer back then, and if they did, they usually didn't know how it worked, what R.A.M. was for, what bits and bytes were... these terms are slightly more common today, but still mostly for programmers to understand, rather than the average computer user. That being said, Tron Legacy handled this issue with ease. You don't need to understand any of that to understand Legacy.
AHHH my favorite movie! A couple more fun facts: the laser bay and Big Door were filmed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (sadly it seems neither location remain now). The building for Flynn’s arcade does still exist, it’s a restaurant in southern California. Wendy Carlos the composer was a real pioneer of synthesizers, and helped develop one of the models used in this soundtrack. Daft Punk even cited Tron as one of their inspirations.
Looking forward to the Tron Legacy video, and perhaps even Tron Uprising after that? It fills in some time between the two movies, but sadly only got one season.
When I heard Teraflop I was fully expecting him to finish it up with something about a Hard Drive
If you want more Tron content, you should check out Tron: Uprising. It's an animated show set between the movies that aired on Disney in the early 2010s
Before Tron Legacy there was already another really good sequel called Tron 2.0 where the main character is Alan Bradley's son. Obviously non-canon but still worth a look (though ideally with an overhaul mod, it is a 20 year old game after all.)
Fun Fact: the Academy refused to nominate Tron for the Visual Effects category because they considered using computers as "cheating".
Also, the way they did the shiny lights on the suits was actually far more complex then the method used in Star Wars (a tape that reflected light back at the lenses). The method they used was called "Back-lit animation". All you see that has colored light was actually black on set, then on post production they have to create mattes to cover everything else except the black areas, which they put a light behind and photograph. They had to do a matte for this method for every single frame of the movie where they used this special effect.
Also also, the sequences that have 3D digital models were all coded in. No paths for the light-cycles to move, no "wasd" movement commands and such. Everything you see that has movement they had to calculate by coding the position in XYZ space.
Another fun fact: the costumes were designed by the famous concept artist Moebius.
I was 8 in 1993 when I first saw Tron, and pretty much around the same time I got to hear some songs from Daft Punk for the first time. Both Tron and Daft Punk instantly became personal favorites, the digital looks and feels were so unique, even now nothing comes close. Both went very much out of their way to create something new and fresh the world didn't see or hear before. I think you can imagine how extatic I was when I heard that Daft Punk would not only be doing the soundtrack but also had a small cameo in the movie. As Daft Punk loved the original Tron which might even have influenced their work, I knew it was a perfect combo.
Can't wait for you to watch Legacy, this one alone is worth a subscription!
THIS MOVIE DEFINITELY HAD A LOT OF 80'S STUFF IN IT!
Oh I’m so excited for you to show her Tron legacy now!!
Tron: Legacy is criminally underrated. I really don’t know why it had such a mixed reception. Its great.
It's visually stunning. I've watched it many times.
I totally agree. Beautiful looking film, and I thought the plot was solid (although not superb).
@@adrianpeart It was sonically stunning too...
Every frame of the in computer scenes was individually animated. There were several panels. It’s why it became one of the most expensive movies ever at the time.
80’s was superb for movies….Back to the Future, Never Ending Story, Star Wars, ET…the list goes on and on!
In some ways the SFX hold up better than modern CGI.
Love that people are finally checking out these movies! They're super underrated and I'm glad people are finally figuring out they exist :)
If Jen or neither of you have seen it, a 1980s movie I bet she would love is Beverly Hills Cop! One of my favorites (along with 2), highly recommended!!!
When I was a kid, I couldn’t find this movie ANYWHERE. Blockbuster or video stores didn’t have it so I genuinely thought I’d dreamed it up. Then Tr2n was announced at Comic-Con and this was released on Blu-Ray
Any new viewer needs to put this film in context. It is over 40 years old and one of the first, if not the first to use CGI to this extent. Jen, I'm sure you have more off-hand IT knowledge than any of the target audience had back then. The computer my high school had in '82 was a TRS-80 from Radio Shack. My favorite Disney movie from that time came out three years before in '79, "The Black Hole".
Loved this movie when I was a kid. The main arcade game was good, but I really loved the lesser known Disks of TRON game.
And yes, 80s arcades were awesome. 😉
Ya know, a great Disney film from this time period that might catch Jen a bit off guard would be The Black Hole.
We will NOT be dissing the musical genius of Wendy Carlos.
You know you are heading into hot waters when your wife uses your first middle and last name all in the same sentence.
I am 56 YO and I will still occasionally use the "Greetings, programs!" salutation. But only sometimes, and only with a certain small subset of friends. Roughly 98.7% of people react to that salutation with a mix of disdain, puzzlement and a thin veneer of anger.
Even among my geek friends of HS, and later in adult life, most tolerate Tron, at best. I was obsessed with this movie, and what it represented. I loved the tie-in of programming, coding, etc. My friends who were (for the mid-80's) programmers didn't care for most of the sci-fi and human element in this movie and my Sci-Fi geek friends weren't really into the programming and computer coding. I happened to enjoy both.
Even my daughter, who definitely picked up my love for Sci-Fi, did not pick up a love for "Hi-Tech" stuff (like noodling around with it, programming it, etc.) and thus did not really care for Tron, when I screened it with her. It's all good though. Your kids resemble you, but they aren't YOU. We have very compatible Sci-Fi TV/Movie tastes (much to the chagrin of my wife who, mostly, does not).
For years, before i ever owned a video recorder, the only time of the year this was broadcast on the tellybox was the day after i had to go back to work in the new year.
omg Holden that RAM joke caught me so off guard! that was a level 11 my guy 😂😂😂
This is such a fascinating movie in Disney's history and the sequel even more unique imo. For future reactions you should definitely check out Pacific Rim, King Kong 2005, John Wick Chapter 4, and Prey
I worked at a Aladdin's Castle ( A huge Arcade Franchise) When Tron Came out . The Tron Video Game came with a over head Monitor and Boy with the State of the Art Graphics it would draw a crowd if a great game player would play it. This was one of the last games you could play for hours on a Quarter . After Hour it was the Game the Employees went on. As far as the movie goes . I loved it but the now obsolete computer terminology makes it harder for the younger audience to understand. This was a movie made by nerds for nerds and I love it for that !!!!!
Fun fact about TRON:
The movie’s sequel “TRON: Legacy” wasn’t the first attempt at continuing the TRON series. There was an arcade & PC game that came out called “TRON 2” and it was about the son of the programmer who created the TRON program. And an updated version of the grid that was more 90’s esk video game in a way.
There is also a comic mini series that takes place after it called “TRON: Ghost in The Machine”, (or something like that), it’s a much more complicated story with twists and turns and it leads into the Legacy era of the TRON franchise.
Next is the game “TRON: Evolution” and the understated spin-off series “TRON: Uprising”. The series sadly only has one season and ended on a cliffhanger which would’ve been explored in a season two that would’ve led into “TRON: Legacy”.
It is a must watch, in a way it’s a lot like Clone Wars in a sense and it’s a lot more mature and has a unique animation style. If you guys plan to do the rest of the TRON series, definitely give it a watch if you have the time.
Very fair analysis/thoughts at the end.
I also am someone who loves Tron Legacy, so much so that I've watched it numerous, numerous times. I bought the soundtrack to Legacy, etc. So I felt obligated to go back and watch this one. Even loving Tron Legacy as much as I do, and actually knowing and understanding most of the computer terminology used in this original, I didn't make it through my first watch attempt. But I went back and made myself finish and was happily surprised. Jen is one step ahead of me going into Legacy, knowing this backstory from the original movie.
Can't wait for the Tron Legacy video from you guys!
I watched this on TV a few years ago, and my dad, being a hockey buff, started commenting on all the helmets that everyone wears in the grid world, and how each one is a different brand. To this day, I can't unsee that.
One of my childhood favorites
I think you guys are too millennial to really appreciate what you are watching, concepts alone in this movie were so far ahead of their time, I don't think you fully understand that we didn't have a computer language to describe what was on screen. These programs are avatars , the MCP is an operating system ( Windows/ Mac/ Linux ) , Tron himself was a Firewall/antivirus program. None of these concepts were known to the general public, personal computers had barely been invented and D.O.S. hadn't been invented yet. The reason this movie became a cult classic is because society at large had to catch up. And as far as visuals go nothing like this wouldn't be on screen in this scale for another decade. As a Gen X er I can remember a time before home gaming internet Wifi and practical visual effects. You have to respect, what came before to appreciate where you going to.
I definitely think Jen is going to enjoy Tron: Legacy a lot more. I've been a fan of the original Tron since I was a kid, and I absolutely LOVED Tron: Legacy. I loved that the 3D theatrical presentation wasn't just a money grab, but they actually did something cool with it(keeping the "real" world 2D, and only going 3D inside the computer, kind of like The Wizard Of Oz with the b&w/color switching). It's one of only three movies I think genuinely benefited from seeing it in 3D(the other two being Avatar and Doctor Strange).
3 separate CGI companies worked on this film to produce what amounts to 30% of the effects(vehicles, the transition from real world to the digital grid and some of the backgrounds). Everything else was done traditional methods of animation, matte paintings and compositing. It was groundbreaking for the day. The next film to really set the bar for CGI effects was "The Last Starfighter"(1984). That film did 100% of its special effects with CGI done on a Cray Supercomputer. While there are weaknesses in some of the sequences(due to a deadline they couldn't meet so corners got cut in some of the rendering), it was the first film to do "photo-realistic" CGI shots and the 3-D quality of many of the movement shots still hold up today.
Tron Legacy is great, I think it's an underrated sequal and the soundtrack is S tier in my book.
LOL THE THUMBNAIL!
This is one of my favorite movies. I saw when it first came out in 1982 I was 9 years old. This movie was a precursor to what was to come when it came to CGI being used in movies in the future. A good majority of the movie was still done with practical effects with hints of CG thrown in. The idea stemmed from a radio commercial ad using the effects. The movie was part of Buena Vista Productions which handled Disney's more adult orientated movie content. But now when you watch Tron it says Walt Disney. Oh if you guys are fans of scifi tv shows two of the actors will be huge names come the early to mid 90's. Those actors are Bruce Boxlitner and Peter Jurasik. In this movie they play Tron and Chrom respectively.
I love Tron legacy so much, cant wait till y'all get there. Also I love that when you guys don't like something you both don't go out of your way to dump on it. That's one of the many reasons why I return to your channel, as always loved the reaction and I hope all is well with the little one.
I love the score, written by the legend Wendy Carlos, of Switched-On Bach and A Clockwork Orange fame. Of course, the sequel steps up the game even further via Daft Punk. But as a child of the 80's, the album really hit for me.
So the voice in Andor saying "On Program!" In the prison was a tron reference. Interesting.
No, that was the editor (me) being a loser lol
Super excited for Tron Legacy. I think Jenn will understand it easier now.
NOW WE NEED TRON LEGACY!
Bernard Aloysius Kiernan"Barnard" Hughes, who played Walter, also played the grandfather in the Lost Boys and Merlin in a series called Mister Merlin.
Shortly after Tron was released, a TV series called Automan came out. it's basically the opposite of Tron - a computer generated character comes out of the computer into the real world and fights crime
I used to watch Automan at the time!
Watched this in the theater.
World building and visuals were stunning.
I only really understood the story when I read the novelisation in the library many months later.
I had a similar experience with the Star Wars prequels:
A lot of emphasis given to visual effects. But undermined by the storytelling/acting.
Watching movies and discussing them is one of my favorite things to do in my pastime.
I suspect I'm not the only one to say this, but I enjoy watching you guys reacting to movies. Makes me feel like I'm part of your movie watching gang.
Looking forward to you guys watching the sequel, Tron: Legacy. That movie's soundtrack was and still is one of the selling points for me. When it launched, I was working at a cinema as a projectionist. After hearing its soundtrack at a test screening with the speakers in the cinema before showing it to the audience (I only saw a couple of minutes), I was hooked and could not wait to see and hear the whole thing properly after my shift was over.
This was a unique movie for its time. Bruce Boxleitner was known for being in the show Babylon 5. Holden, Arcade games were awesome. You really would've liked them.
Another Jeff Bridges sci-fi classic is “Starman” one of my favorites directed by John Carpenter
Didn’t care much for Legacy, but I grew up with the original Tron and love it. Tron sparked my interest in computers and games and it has a special place in my heart. It hasn’t aged well but it blew me away when I was a kid back in 82.
Loved that you threw that quick audio from Andor! Lol. “On program”. All this movie was all the programs chanting “One Way Out!”
By today's standards these special effects are still absolutely amazing. What they accomplished with the existing technology is truly inspiring.
Great pick. I'm 51. I bought the soundtrack on cassette tape at Sears when it came out. Wore it out in one of my earlier boom boxes. I played the heck outta the game at my local arcade. Only Solutions was my favorite Journey song for years. I also had one of the first copies of the VHS with the big puffy white plastic case. I love this movie, really takes me back. Legacy is really underrated, hope she enjoys it. "Now that is a big door."
I remember when EPCOT first opened, they had a sign that said COMING SOON: TRON WORLD. I waited and waited, but unfortunately, it never happened.
I saw this in the theater when i was 10, and i also loved the arcade game of this, the light cycles being my favorite of the 4 mini-games (shocking, i know).
I was 7. Loved it
If she can just appreciate the original Tron, my guess is she will really like the new one. Tron was before my time, so I also had the "I appreciate it, but I don't really love it..."
However, I think the soundtrack is phenomenal. Maybe it's the musician in me, but Wendy Carlos is a pretty renowned composer, writing for such films as The Shining and Clockwork Orange, she definitely does well with synth and atmosphere.
Holden's comment about the music is understandable though, I get where he's coming from in that it sounds like "80s computer" music - but I would say the integration of orchestral music, with the strong synth stabs, makes a very unique and fantastic score. I'd say to give it another listen.
Something to think about the VFX for this one, the suit glow and the glow all over the world... that was HAND ANIMATED on each and every frame of celluloid. It took like 2 years to do. A lot of imperfections can be chalked up to that. The actual CGI was at a time when you had to do math to draw lines and create motion. There wasn't really a graphical interface to animate CG. This movie was bleeding edge stuff. EXTREMELY ahead of its time. It would be like comparing From the Earth to the Moon with Avatar. Also, at the time... computers were extremely rare in most people's lives. No we all have extremely powerful computers in our pockets 24/7. So to come up with a visual language to show what a world of electrons and binary bits would be like was pretty crazy.
Tron is played by Bruce Boxleitner, who is most well known for playing Commander John Sheridan on Babylon 5
I am always feeling like re-watching this movie. I don't expect most people to like it - a lot of people did not go for it then - but especially if they are focused on a certain type of visual effects and just get distracted by the type of music and sound effects.
I worked at a K-Mart in the early 80's. The company stopped selling large televisions, so they emptied the small showroom in back and made it a video game arcade. I played TRON so many times on my breaks that I got into trouble. I had the high score, though..... 😆
Holden; I'm hoping you can show Jen the Highlander movies. That would be a reaction I'd love to see. It's another 80's movie, but I think she would enjoy the soundtrack enough to get into the movie. It's a great soundtrack with Queen being heavily featured throughout the franchise. Two of queens very recognizable songs came from this franchise: Princes of the Universe & Who Wants To Live Forever. Amazing songs.
"Now that is a big door."
Have to share this since I learned of it, at 15:00, the program fighting flynn is Peter Jurasic, the great Lando Molari from Babylon 5! Fantastic dude!
Tron Legacy is one of my all-time favorite films (it is permanently in my top 10). Out of my love for that film it helped retroactively raise my appreciation for this original movie (which I never really enjoyed on its own, outside of its technical accomplishments).
It's experimental, with ideas that were ahead of its time (one of [if not actually] the first cyberpunk films/stories, notions of cyberspace and digital avatar programs, publicly connected computer systems, etc), while other ideas that were just being thrown against the wall to see what sticks.
It also from that period in Disney's film history where they were trying to transition away from making exclusively films for children and broaden their output with titles aimed at teens and adults (The Black Hole is another cult film of theirs from this era). So you get a weird tone balance where it's still trying to keep its feet in both camps.
But, one thing is for certain: there will never be another film made the way this film was made ever again. It was just a few years too early to avoid the insane amount of hand animation, film layers (boxes upon boxes upon boxes) and coordinate-point-by-coordinate-point computer animation programming needed to create the look of this movie.
In the end, it provides a creative backstory foundation that the rest of the modern Tron franchise was able to build upon and leverage into something truly special (not only is Legacy a film that rewards repeat viewings to uncover its many layers and subtleties, but the [sadly cut-short] animated series Uprising was excellent in its own right).
Omg the thumbnail! Love it!
War Games is one of the best 80s movies
The making of is interesting, but I loved CorridorCrew’s video where they remade shots with modern tech.
They cover how the shots in this movie were made and how difficult it was with the tools of the time. Things that are taken for granted now required insane amounts of effort. Highly recommend that video.
TRON & ROM were my nick names when I was a Marine in 82-88. LOL
27:30. As a huge fan of this movie who's quite aware of its warts and all, I really appreciated Jenn's comments and viewpoint on this movie.
If you haven't been watching 1982: The Greatest Geek Year Ever....you need to. They had an entire section on Tron on episode 3. It's been a great series so far.
I think it's almost impossible to truly appreciate this movie unless you were a kid when watching it (I was 11). 2 main things for me: 1) These CGI bikes, tanks etc looked STUNNING to us at the time, first time use etc. Think Jurassic park but EVEN more amazing for the time. 2) anyone into games/computers at the time had very simple systems so that world, dialogue etc seemed very futuristic but relatable (bit was clever, RAM ref etc)
the thumbnail is incredible 🔥
There's some Bonus content out there called Tron: the next day, which fills in the gaps between Tron & Legacy. It also has a teaser end credit style scene for the Tron 3 that never got made around 10 years ago.
Also Tron Uprising is a spinoff show like Clone Wars & Rebels that ran for about a season or 2. If you like Tron its worth checking this stuff out
Jen try to think of deresolution as disintegration. The program is broken down into its component bits. One of the definitions for resolution is:
The conversion of something abstract into another form.
In Tron that would be programs being converted from code to digital avatars. In Flynn's case from being an organic being to a digital avatar. Deresolution is deconstructing that digital form back down to bits the equivalent to humans of atoms. This results in the deletion of the program. Hope that helps. 😊
Keep in mind that in 1982, very few people owned personal computers and there was no Internet as we know it now, so for those who were not computer savvy, the story was understandable and not confusing. Tron on the big screen in theaters is where the movie was meant to be viewed. It's more of a visual spectacle and cool to watch. The movie is also the third movie to use CGI as part of the creative collaboration. Still, the movie is entertaining.
Tron: Legacy is so underrated, one of my favorite movies
Sup, Holden! I love this pair of films (Tron & Tron Legacy)! Classic! And it's sad that you missed out on the arcade era. I'd like to see you guys react to "The Last Starfighter", another classic of the 80s! And maybe a classic from the 60s: Disney's "The Black Hole"
Excited for Tron: Legacy!
P.S. Tron: Ares is in very slow pre-production, but it is still in the works.
"I'd go with a soft 7" - Holden Thomas Hardman!!!!!!
The score was mimicking the scores on arcade games of the day and that is why it sounded like that. It was meant to be you going into a 1982 arcade game. It was done by the same composer who did The Shinning and Wendell Carlos (Wendy) was a synthesizer pioneer of that time. Also the suits did not have sccotchlight on them. They were black and white and the glowing was done by taking every frame and doing cell animation using the black on the suits as the holdout matte. So that movie was done cell animation which is why they have to hire a Korean cartoon cell animation company alongside the Disney guys to do it as all those frames had to be done and you're talking over an hour of that.