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Tron Special Edition On Sale January 15th
Muddie writes: "OnVideo.org reminded me that on January 15 , Disney is releasing the "Tron 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition" (1982) on DVD and VHS. Directed by Steven Lisberger, the film stars Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner and Barnard Hughes. The 2 disc DVD set contains the remastered film with commentary by Lisberger, producer Donald Kushner and visual effects supervisors Harrison Ellenshaw and Richard Taylor, a new 75-minute "making-of" documentary "The Making of Tron", deleted scenes, original soundtrack music deleted from the film and more all for $29.99.
Check out all the happy details at Amazon's link"
Without this single movie, I doubt I would have anything to do with computers today. It is the spark that lit my flame of love for the digital world.
That and online pr0n.
... I wonder if the DVD disc leaves a bright trail of light behind it if you throw it...
In Soviet Russia, sig types you!
...of me dreaming about what goes on inside my Vic 20.
I wanted to know how to access the little tron bike game.
I was upset.
I was also like...8 or so.
does anyone else find it funny that amazon has a "used price" for this movie directly above the paragraph explaining that the movie isn't even released yet?
maybe it's just their patented one-click time-travel system.
I'll re-post an Anonymous Coward submission from yesterday. I'm not taking credit, but it applies again:
Slashdot (to MPAA): You fucking fascists. We hate you.
MPAA: But look at these shiny colors!
Slashdot: Oooh! How much?
Tron was one of the first movies to use computer graphics. /. is a computer community. See the connection?
Ahhhhh, I see now, the computer connection. In that case, I suggest the following the /. with good taste:
Wargames [First modem]
Lawnmower Man 1&2 [The second one is even better!]
Jurrasic Park [first mention of a UNIX BOX!]
Hackers [First realistic portayal of everyday hackers]
Independence Day [First virus upload to alien mothership]
Swordfish [First demonstration of how the average programmer codes & a badguy's last name is Torvalds]
Anything with "VR" in the title
And many many more! Yay computers in movies!
*cough* What about David Warner? He's the greatest villain actor since .. uh.. John Colicos.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
"... and one more that I can't remember right now." That would be the LightTank game. God bless MAME, as I have them both on my pc now. Err... yeah I umm have the rights to the original ROM too... err.. yeah...
Why do I M2 everything negatively?
Everytime I hear anything about this movie I remember what Dennis Miller said about Al Gore... "This man is the Vice President?! His favorite movie is 'Tron' for fucks-sake!"
Oh that will cost me some karma.
An ambitious hacker (Tom Hanks) transports himself into his Windows XP Home Edition computer to pull off the ultimate hack: to free Internet Explorer from Windows. Along the way he becomes attached to a flighty email virus (Meg Ryan) and the two are chased by the Matrix's Agent Smith as they are shuttled from computer to computer around the world. Can he find his Passport home?
Supposedly the DVD will contain deleted scenes of Hanks gaping at all the porn on people's computers and a 30 minute documentary about how difficult it was for him to lose his tan for the part.
</SARCASM>
I can't wait!
The irony here is thick. Tron, the only movie where the bad guy was ICE, an intrusion countermeasures routine written by a huge evil corporation, is now released on a video format protected by... intrusion countermeasures... developed by a huge evil corporation.
If Bill Gate's house bluescreens tomorrow pinning him under the refrigerator till he asphyxiates, I don't think the irony would get any thicker.
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What happens when you outlaw guns
Was anyone else incredibly pissed that Tron lost an Oscar to Gandhi for *BEST COSTUME*???!?!!
I was. That was the turning point. From then on, I knew the oscars were a complete sham.
Come on; a bunch of freakin' sheets beat out the most yummy high tech other worldly costume design to have ever graced the big screen?
Darth Vader, pointing to Boba Fett: "Et pas de disintegrations!"
Years after seeing that, it still makes me laugh.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
No credit for David Warner? He was the Master Control Program for goodness sakes!
If Star Trek wasn't around to give us the Borg, Slashdot would instead be depicting Gates as the MCP.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Somewhere, Steve Jobs is screaming, "No, I'm Flynn/Tron!!!"
TOOOOT TOOOOOT!!!
Moron Express pulling in. Bad metaphors abound. Misleading comparisons made.
Worst of all, the poster thinks he's clever!
TOOOOOT TOOOOT!
Ha ha! Jeff Bridges is Bill Gates! Little geek who takes on the huge corporation and wins, spreading computing to the masses! Then, when he gets money and power, he becomes the evil corporation! How ironic! We need a sequel to Tron where Jeff Bridges, now the megalomaniac ruler of a global computer corporation, sends himself into the Internet to destroy a virtual Penguin program nibbling at his empire. We can have him meet his old Tron program (guarding some archaic server somewhere), wistfully remember his idealistic youth, and then DESTROY IT for not being compatible with .NET. See the Penguin riding a motorcycle through the grid, being chased by giant Jeff Bridges. Ha! Think of the possibilities!
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.