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Tron Legacy Exposed
KingofGnG writes "Disney has chosen the San Diego Comic-Con International to present its new sci-fi project: the sequel to Tron. The classic movie from 1982 dealt with video games, virtual reality and 3D graphics when none of those things were widely popular. The new movie has got an official title and synopsis now, and they've released the very first trailer from the movie (this time without silly censorship) together with some concept art and the teaser poster." No matter how silly the movie is, they'll at least get my money for sheer nostalgia.
I'll miss trying to pronounce the working title. Trihtoon, Tratoowon, The movie concept formerly known as Tron 2.
Along with "War Games" TRON gave an unrealistic expectation of what computers could do which continues to perplex Ludites to this day.
On an offtopic note, this reminds me of one time when I went to a school auction. A couple of idiots felt that they got a really good deal, because they got the largest piece of computing equipment (A DEC computer of some sort) for less than what the Commodore PET computers were going for. I couldn't help but smile when I heard one say to the other "This part's the brains."
What culture?
PROTOCULTURE!
Bow-ties are cool.
Is nothing sacred? Lightcycles going around curves. How could you... *sob*
If I remember correctly the premise of the sequel is that Enzo and Andraia get lost on the web for a while and grow up to be badasses - and then return to Mainframe for the final battle with Megabyte?
Bow-ties are cool.
New characters/themes to bring Tron into the 21st century:
1) Qubit - flies around saying, "Yes", "no", and "maybe"
2) Tron-troll - Any scene involving communication between more than two characters is constantly interrupted by the local Tron-troll
3) Anonymous - suddenly hordes of identical looking drones appear to aid the main character in his/her quest then dissipate feeling good about themselves
4) Users - rather than only having sparse information about the users, characters in Tron know everything about the users and are constantly interrupted by the user's incessant communications about what they are currently doing or their asking Tron characters to fill out quizzes which have nothing to do with the plot of the movie
5) DRM - weapons, vehicles, and entire structures suddenly stop working at the whim of the MCP
Faith is a willingness to accept something w/o complete proof and to act on it. Reason allows you to correct that faith.
If the title of this movie will be "Troff"?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
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Yep, that one's a classic, alright! Who could ever forget ÃoeGoinÃ(TM) BerzerkÃ?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
1972 Pong. Up/down, Left/right, Time. 3 dimensions!
Smivs on the intertubes!
It's only four minutes long? What a rip-off.
> still a Hershey bar in your dad's back pocket.
Wait. Wait, wait, what? We're just going to let this pass unremarked? What the fuck does that mean? What bizarre creation myth did your parents tell you led to your existence? I cannot think of any rational way this is a metaphor for meeting and/or fucking your future wife.
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It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
This time it's blacker and deeper than ever!
First Disney movie with that tagline!
Edith Keeler Must Die
Less esoteric was the SEX (sign extend X) opcode of the 6809, which we tried to use at every opportunity.