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The Story of Tron
An anonymouse reader writes "Tom's Hardware has a feature up on the makings of Tron which may interest latent fans. Through interviews with the creators they explore the makings of Tron, from how it came to be picked up by Disney to how the effects were put together ('While the majority of the film takes place in the computer world, only 15 minutes worth of footage actually used CGI', because it would have taken years to make the film otherwise). They then explore why the film flopped at the box office. 'It was like we put LSD in the punch at the school prom and it was just way more than they can handle,' said Steven Lisberger."
honestly think about tron without the image of the tron guy coming to mind?
I can handled some better grammar and/or editing
""The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination.""
hey! but thats what i tell all my new sysadmins!?!
Prehaps the plot should be about the redux of the MCP trying to taking over the internet and enforce its own standards which everyone else has to confirm to ... Oh sorry that was Verisign wasn't it.
OK What about a multi-national company that tries to get into every corner of your home to control the environment that has an evil overlord at the top... no sorry thats microsoft
Right ok definitly good idea this time
My Little Pony attack the Care Bares .... (goes off into a strange, caffine induced rant)
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Speak for yourself. It was the only movie that I have ever seen that has engaged me on a human level. But engaged on a human level I mean human-machine-human which is a lot closer that I usually get.
And for once I really understood the dialogue. I can't say that it connected very well, sort of like an RS-45 to a DE-9. But like any other dialogue, a little solder and a little rewiring made it work. And after that movie I finally understood the philosophical significance of an open collector logic gate! The bit really spoke to me! Yes, no, and when you didn't ask him anything, nothing!
It works the same for us people in tech support. Users always seem to go one step further and break things
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For Tron's special effects — The Super Foonly F-1. I bet it had a phat exhaust, blue downlighting, a killer sound system with a 16 inch subwoofer, and a stylish fibreglass skirt fitted to the front of the reel-to-reel cabinet.
Is it just me, or does Tronguy look quite a lot like Ned Flanders at a fancy dress? "Yes indeed-e, tron-a-roony."
What were they going to call it? Troff?
Cron of course.
I can throw myself at the ground, and miss.
"Has anyone here seen Tron?"
"No"
"No"
"No"
"Yes - I mean no."
Interesting to whom?
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Obviously all the trails and glowing auras were meant for us trippies!
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I believe he has my stapler.
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There's a reason why Scorcese's "Raging Bull" doesn't center on the world frisbee champion, you know.
Obviously, because people wouldn't be able to stand the sheer thrill and excitement if it did.
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How about a prequel where they have it all taking place inside a calculator and everything is slow motion and LCD black on grey?
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
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ron cost 17 million to make and pulled in 33 million. How is this considered a flop?
Well, they expected it to make $400 million, so it was a disappointment.
And if it made $400 million, it's still a disappointment because they expected it to make $2 billion.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
From the article: "One of the things I'm most proud about in Tron is there are no guns in the movie -- it's a killer Frisbee!" he said. "I mean, try to make an action adventure movie without a gun. I dare you."
So, those aren't gun turrets on the tanks? I guess those are love turrets, and they fire love and happiness.
As long as there's a scene where somebody slashes a giant talking paperclip with a lightsaber, I'm there!
Just junk food for thought...
Toy Story? The creators are totally unoriginal--they named all the characters after Debian releases!