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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"
Well if you like Wendy Carlos or Journey, it is a great nastalgia blast. I loved the former at that time, but loathed the latter.
Sounds like a good buy. Wish all DVDs had a copy of the music soundtrack too.
Imdb also advertises the release of the sequel to Tron, Tron 2.0. Hope it's not a flop
Imperium et libertas
Autocracy and freedom
I'm I the only one who finds the practice of releasing a "vanilla" DVD, then releasing a "extra groovy" DVD six months or a year later totally annoying?
One more reason to rent-rip-burn. Bastards.
-Peter
Found this interesting bit from: http://www.theforbidden-zone.com/mgm.html
Okay, this is the biggie! Disney is finally realizing that one of the few things they did right in the 80s was Tron. Sure, it wasn't a
big success at the time, but it was way ahead of its time. Remember, the Wizard of Oz wasn't a huge success when it first came out, either. Now Disney is putting out a super deluxe Tron 20th Anniversary DVD and even working on a sequel (Tron 2.0 -- perfect title, eh? Coming Attractions came up with it first as a joke, then life imitated art). In addition to the film, there were also two darn good arcade games. I spent many a quarter on the one with the light cycles. So, there it is. A light cycle ride! This could be a fantastic high speed dark ride using black light effects and state-of-the-art imagery. Plus, they could sell a lot of DVDs in the gift shop (Disney always builds a gift shop with every ride nowadays). This ride has great cross-generational appeal for us old fogies who saw the original as kids, and the new chumpers coming up. I'm salivating just thinking about it!
They should include the old arcade video game as a DVD-ROM extra! That'd make my buy it. Actually 4 mediocre games in 1, that became more than the sum of it's parts, it was kinda fun. There was a light cycle game, a game where you shot spiders (though I don't think they were internet spiders back then), a breakout-esque game where you had to break through the cylinder to the MCP, and one more that I can't remember right now. It had the movie soundtrack, and that was kind of cool for a video game back in the day.
Don't forget that Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
I just bought Natural Born Killers , and it advertised "Deleted Scenes" but thoes scenes wernt in the movie, they were in a seperate menu, and some of them would have helped the movie. in Gladiator same thing.. the Delted out takes cant be made part of the viewing experiance yet add to the movie. Snatch on the other hand allowed me to add the scenes into the movie. So what will Tron allow me to do?
The More Knowledge you have the Luckier you Get- J.R. Ewing
who is the co-author of the screenplay, is Alan Kay's (Smalltalk, Xerox PARC, etc.) wife. There are a lot of obscure references to Alan and PARC in TRON. Alan even made a prototype "monitor in a desk" later on at Apple.
Alan went on to work for Disney for a while, recently departing.
:) That's what inquiring minds would like to know!
See deleted scenes
Yes, it drives me absolutely nuts.
Disney's marketing practices thoroughly enrage me. When I first got a Disney DVD and it made me watch Disney home video ads before my movie, I was immediately pissed off.
I buy a lot of DVDs. There are far more old movies that I want on video than I can afford to buy at any given time, and I have no particular order that I feel I need to buy them in. So, if a studio makes nice releases of their movies on DVD, I'm inclined to look for movies from them next time. If they make lousy releases, I'm inclined to look elsewhere.
So Disney is pretty low on my purchase priority list. Every time I see a Disney DVD in the store, or on Amazon, that I'm interested in, I think "Hmm, I'd like to have that movie, but it'll have ads on it, and they'll probably come out with a deluxe edition in six months anyway. I'll get it some other time." And I buy two Warner Brothers DVDs instead because they're cheap.
TO get technical "The Black Hole" came out in 1979. Though it was a flop financially, it really is a rather dark movie for a Disney film. Especilly the scene near the end where where the mad scientist character Dr Zarkov and the robot Maximillian merge. There is also a scene that looks like a funeral procession in Hell.
I seem to recall a "making of" special that aired on TV about the time the film was released. Is that the one that's included, or is this a new one?
And how many folks here remember "Automan"? A TRON ripoff, if there ever was one, at least for SFX.
Oh yeah, if you have the original DVD, check out the plot summary on the back cover. Read closely, and you should get a chuckle out of the error you find there. Wait..., maybe it isn't an error. :)
That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.
Wow, looks like its time to rescind those EFF and GNU donations.
On the contrary, whenever I buy anything produced by a member of RIAA or MPAA, I make a donation to EFF matching the product's retail price. I learned about this from another Slashdot reader. Call it "penance" if you will.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Being very young in the "IBM" era and only realizing what was going on then now that I am older I am absolutely amazed at the atnti-IBM undertones of sci-fi in the era. A few examples:
MCP = IBM in Tron
HAL + 1 letter is IBM; 2001 A Space Odessy
BladeRunner's director Ridley Scott also did the 1984 Apple commercial -- a blatant anti-IBM theme
What other examples are there? Why don't we see such anti-MS undertones in scifi today? Is MS PR that much better then IBM PR at the time? The only example that I can think of was that not-so-popular movie "Anti-Trust" which was a MS satire complete with cameos from Scott McNeay and Miguel de Icaza.
You know you are a real scifi geek when you
remember that the name of the computer that
the battle was in was called "the Matrix"
i saw this same screening and the film-y crowd there at the moma was more interested in symbolism and how disney stifled his creativity. to me, the biggest revealation the director made was that in this film tron == bill gates. he said that. that the film was about how bill gates broke up IBM and the mainframe and distributed computing to the masses. he wrote the script. everyone in the audience was trying to read more into it than was there. personally, all i wanted to know was what kind of hardware they rendered it on... but i didn't get a chance to ask my question!