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Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo and Filmstalker are showing the Tron 2 (aka Tr2n) teaser from Comic-Con 08. From the Giz article: 'It's a tiny bootleg video, but I don't care. You can see that the 3D looks amazing, the new lightcycles are stunning (and move like real bikes), the world and the whole mood is Batman-like dark. And Jeff Bridges ... well, he is Jeff Bridges. What can I say, he looks like a badass version of The Dude. "It's just a game!" he shouts. No, it's not. It's Tr2n. At last. Note: excuse the excitement, but I saw the original in the movie theater, and 200 times after that. With War Games, it's what got me into technology when I was a kid, and ultimately here in Giz. The only thing that has me worried is that the characters in the computer world are fully 3D.'"
You're not the target demographic, I am. That gave me chills - I'm so stoked I can hardly wait. The original movie was a defining icon for my generation.
War Games is a very shitty movie because it's a cookie-cutter Hollywood movie.
That's why it was successful: it took relatively new ideas (boy hacker and war computers) and wrapped it in a tried-and-true plot formula. Complaining about Hollywood acting like Hollywood is ... well ...cookie-cutter complaining. If you want more sophisticated sci-fi, then I recommend you read sci-fi books.
Table-ized A.I.
War Games is so fun because of all the cliches. And WOPR has some l33t blinkenlights.
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They moved like real bikes in the original movie as well. It was only on the game grid that the lightcycles appeared to turn at right angles.
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They should have called it Tron 10. After all, Tron is the only movie so far with a bit in a speaking role.
I believe the target demographic for this film would be those of us who saw the original as children, and now have geek offspring of our own to take to the theaters.
Obligatory Simpson's quote, "Has anybody seen the movie Tron?".
"The bad machine doesn't know he's a bad machine."
Especialy because the original was such an icon, I do not want to see a sequal rape it.
The main reason it was an icon was due to its technical both in story and in way it was brought to the screen. We know better things can be achieved now
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That's what you'll remember about a documentary you saw 25 years ago -- it was the fastest PDP10, not the fastest computer. And some of the cells were hand painted, not all of them. I stand corrected and edumacated.
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Yeah seriously! Who wants more sequels of a serial visual story telling medium! Stupid comic book sequels!
I'm always overwhelmed at the irony of comic book readers who complain about the number of 'sequels'.
Were there people chewing out Homer when he wrote the Odyssey "Oh Lords of Olympus not another sequel!"
I can see the Hebrews in the wilderness "Enough already with the Yahweh stories... we get it... we get it... how about something new and original!"
"What a sequel to the Hobbit!? Do we REALLY need more stories about midgets and magic gold rings?"
I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day you wake up is a sequel.
1. Make Tron in 1980's and lose money
2. Make sequel to the failure movie
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
Wouldn't investors want more details about step 3?
Step 3 seems obvious: The geek kids who loved the original Tron have grown up to have high-paying computer industry jobs, and can easily afford repeated viewings of the sequel, plus Blu-Ray special editions, etc.