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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.'"
This film looks killer, though the quality of the clip is very bootleg. There's so much potential (a 68.71% chance?) for subtle nerdy references in this...
Did anyone else notice that the yellow dude looked just like Rimmer? I hope he plays a thinly veiled UAC, that would be perfect.
End of line.
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How do you even pronounce something like that? "Two" doesn't sound like the letter "O" nor does it look like one. Isn't "2" supposed to replace the letter "Z" or something?
Can someone with a major in L337-sp34k explain it?
Given the habit of subtitles and "addendums" in movie titles, we could have had: Tr2n: Tr0wnd Tr2n: 2Tron:2Troff Or if Capcom were producing it it would be Super Hyper Tr2n Alpha 2x2 Part One, Director's edition.
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i don't give a shit.
Not very surprising. I'm 25 years old and I would be hard pressed to find anyone I know that has even seen it let a lone someone that would be excited for a sequel (myself.. I'm leaning towards meh on the whole thing). With that insipid 2 in the name and the almost certainty it will be another 3D eye candy stroke fest (Beowulf anyone?) I'm finding it hard to get pumped, I know.. I know.. fast shiny motorbikes I should have a hard on and a taste for red meat and a bar fight, but I just don't!
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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.
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?
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x692m3_tr2n-cleaned-up-001_fun
Because it was annoying enough for me to figure out which links to click, and I want to save someone else from the effort.
So is this for real? Are they really making a sequel, or is this just some guy's fan-made video? It's pretty good, though. Even with the rough quality (or maybe because of it), it looks like they had guys really riding motorcycles like that, then added CGI over the live footage.
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While you are waiting for "Tron 2" go on ahead and play Armagetron. It's quite a lot of fun, and is one of the games of choice for my lan parties now. http://www.armagetronad.net/
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.
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War Games is so fun because of all the cliches. And WOPR has some l33t blinkenlights.
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I was going over dvds at netflix the other day and found out my wife never saw tron.
Yeah, I've been there. The Tron Guy Suit I wear when having sex made a whole lot more sense to her after she saw the film.
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
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WAAAAHHHGHGHGH, I am soooooo excited about this. I even use extra oooooo's in sooooo to illustrate my happiness.
seriously, tron was a huge part of my childhood. I used to have a VHS taped from a TV broadcast. I had the movie, and the commercials memorized. I would plant my ass in front of the TV, watch my Tron, and make my legos. I would be sitting there building a castle or something, and muttering the dialog along with the movie, then, the commercials would come on and I would continue: "Heart disease, kidney disease, and blindness, are all signs...".
Do you think we can merge with this memory, bit?
my older brother and sister had an intellivision,so I came up playing that. (I was born in 1981) my FAVORITE game was Tron, Deadly Discs. it remained my favorite game until the NES hit a few years later.
I used to get my parents to take me to chuck-e-cheese's (a pizza video game place if you are from far off lands, I am not a totally insensitive clod), and I would take all the tokens and pump them into the tron machine. Mom would say "wouldn't you like to try some other games?"....
"BUT MOOOOOM! I WANNA PLAY MY TRON! Can I watch my tron when I get home?"
"Kelly, you have seen that program a million times, don't you think you should get outside and play?"
"MOM! WHO YOU CALLIN A PROGRAM, PROGRAM?!?
"kelly you need your exercise"
"BUT MO-OM! I am playing the game and I wanna go watch the movie and make my legos!"
and so on
Bring in the logic probe! I can't wait anymore
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So much so, in fact, that it looks like a couple of guys riding bikes around a neon-lit soundstage. Woo-hoo.
Maybe I'm just a bitter old fart, but one of my problems with a lot of modern video games is that the physics are kind of in the uncanny valley for me -- they're undeniably much more realistic than they were when I was a teenage gaming geek a quarter of a century ago (and we used real quarters back then, whippersnapper!) but they're still not quite realistic enough, so I find them constantly distracting. The light cycles in the original Tron moved like they could, in fact, exist only in a video game universe; the scenes with them were maybe the only part of the movie where you could really believe you were seeing a world completely different from that outside the machine. If Tr2n has the almost-but-not-quite-real look of most modern video games, which is what the trailer seems to indicate, then it will be quite a disappointment ... maybe not to younger viewers, but to those of us who were teenagers when the original came out, and I think we're the target demographic here.
Ah, what the hell. Of course I'll go see it. ;)
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Two things:
1. In the future, programs will fight each other using Aerobies rather than Frisbees.
2. It's a helluva lot harder to get derezzed than it used to be.
Then the most powerful computer in the world, and they had to rent time on it because they couldn't afford to buy one. And it didn't actually render the final cells -- it created line drawings which then had to be hand painted by human animators. This is why people got so excited about Tron; it looked like something far ahead of its time.
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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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Which I still remember as being a lousy movie even when I was a kid. Kept up the standard disney mediocrity from the Barefoot Executive to the Black Hole. Even the metaphors to how computers really worked seemed lame. The only area where the movie works for me is in the visuals.
I think you're being slightly harsh, but I agree that Tron isn't a particularly great movie overall- and also that the visuals are by far and away the best thing about it.
:-)
To be fair, although I'm in my early thirties and old enough to have seen (and clearly remembered) Tron when it first came out, I didn't. (*) It wasn't until years later that I caught it on TV. That might colour my judgement- but also to be fair, I could say the same about the nostalgia of people who saw it as kids when it first came out.
Problem isn't just that the plot is flimsy, it's that the film never really makes you believe in the characters or care about what's at stake. The dialogue is clunky and the acting nothing special. I could tolerate the cheesiness, but not that.
So, no... Tron isn't- and never was- a Matrix for its times. Despite being a staple of 80s "nostalgia", its influence on most people at the time was minimal. However, I do think it's visually and technically brilliant, and although some aspects of its attempt to bring the then-new computer culture to the mainstream were quite cheesy, it deserves some credit for the attempt (and has to be seen in the context of the time).
I could say more, but I already said a lot of what I wanted to say in two previous posts; why I think trying to make a Tron sequel after 20-25 years is pointless and why Tron's true technical achievements with pre-digital film-matte animation went sadly unrecognised. Both with Score:5 goodness
(*) I did, however, get to see ET, like most other people did. Vastly overrated film, I never liked it.
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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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that the bad guys are some sort of file sharing program.
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.
Maybe. OTOH the original light cycles were cool and abused physics with those 90 degree turns, they looked nifty and shouted in all caps "this is not the world you're used to!". The new light cycles come to a stop (WTF?) and make boring real world type turns, for all you know they're just a bunch of twits in downtown LA with neon lights on their racing bikes.
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