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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.'"
"With War Games, it's what got me into technology when I was a kid."
War Games is a very shitty movie because it's a cookie-cutter Hollywood movie. Boy accidentally hacks miltitary facility and tricks the computer(with a plot-driven AI) into believing there is a nuclear war going on. Now, he and his female friend(you see where this is going?) need the help of a bitter scientist(that sure is original) to stop the computer from launching nukes. The boy gets locked up but thanks to the incompentence of the security system and the people working there he escapes. They eventually let the computer run OXO against itself and just before hell breaks lose the computer understands that thermonuclear war can only result in all parties losing(why can't they simply command him to stop? Is his designer so much a dickwad that the computer does whatever it wants to do?). It all ends happily ever after and the boy and girl get together.
It's so cookie cutter that when I first saw it, I was disgusted because of all the hype(nostalgia) here on Slashdot.
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