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'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the light-cycles-and-olivia-wilde dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We only had to wait 28 years for the second installment of 'Tron' — the sequel, 'Tron: Legacy,' comes out on Friday. It is expected to have less awesomely bad '80s graphics and more awesomely awesome millennial CGI. In advance of the opening, Discover has an interview with director Joe Kosinski in which he talks about reinventing the light cycle, and explains that the Tron world resembles the Galapagos Islands, where everything evolved in isolation."

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  1. "awesomely bad 80s graphics" by Eunuchswear · · Score: 4, Insightful

    WTF!

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    1. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" by spun · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The awesomely bad graphics are one reason you can not purchase the original Tron in advance of the sequel. The awesomely bad plot is another. Disney doesn't want people to remember how bad the movie really was. I mean, I loved it as a kid, don't get me wrong, but I also loved the Dukes of Hazzard, Benny Hill, and the A-Team. Kids have terrible taste in entertainment.

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    2. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" by Talderas · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Kids "terrible taste in entertainment" is a good thing. Even though we can look back on Tron and say. God, that is a horrible film, to a child it spurned his imagination. Imagination is unfortunately repressed in our education system. Inspire it where ever possible.

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    3. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I had the "wonderful kid movie, terrible adult movie" experience with "Escape to Witch Mountain".

      However, rewatching Tron did not produce that experience. It was okay and some parts were better than okay. The story about the people/characters was reasonably solid and a good story can overcome weak effects while awesome effects can't overcome weak characters and bad story.

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    4. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" by mcgrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Jees, these kids... I was about 30 when Tron came out. Tron's graphics were awesome for the time, better than any of the coin operated video games that were out then that the movie was portraying.

      As to the plot, aside from the necessary suspension of disbelief of a) a laser disassembling a human and storing him in a computer and b) true machine intelligence, it was as good or better than the average action flick, let alone one of the old westerns from the '40s.

      I was working at Disney when it came out, and got to see a pre-release screening with 72 mm film close to a large screen. The DVD (my copy of which has been stolen, sadly) really paled in comparison to seeing it in 72 mm in the theater.

      No, I had no part in making the movie; the pre-release was one of the many perks Disney employees got.

      The original Star Trek, on the other hand, DID often have cheesy effects, bad acting, and bad plots, even though a lot of the episodes were and still are awesome.

      I fear the new Tron will suck, but hope it doesn't.

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    5. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This. The original isn't Citizen Kane, but it does hold up better than many of the films that came out during that time. Same goes for the SFX in my opinion (as long as you don't consider ROTJ).

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    6. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" by commodore64_love · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Gotta disagree with ye.

      I find Tron more rewatchable than Star Wars A New Hope or Return of the Jedi (zzzzz). And I don't think the graphics are bad especially considering they are *supposed* to look like a computer world. If they looked like Gran Turismo 5 (i.e. real) then I wouldn't feel as if I was inside the circuitry.

      Of course I also like that "Would You Like to Play A Game?" movie so maybe my taste's just bad. (shrug) Reminds me of my youth.

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    7. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" by Nadaka · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Wargames. I re watched it recently. It actually has some of the most realistic representations of hacking and hackers in any movie ever.

    8. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" by simcop2387 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I believe that War Games vs Sneakers would be a far more interesting match up.

  2. Don't Diss the 80s by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hey, don't diss the 80s. Those effects were state of the art for their time and deserve better than being said that with 10000X more computer power that we can do better now.

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  3. Re:Where did you go to school? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Art and music can be taught without inspiring imagination (unfortunately). And art and music are only one part of imagination. Rote memorization does little good for anyone, but it is what what schools focus on. And much of it is lost so quickly after school ends that it really serves no use. Teach a man to fish... should be our schools motto. So much of what we think we know turns out to be wrong anyway, once we have more information. "Nerves don't ever regrow on their own. Oh wait, they can in the tongue. Oh wait, they can in other areas, too, our brain just aren't wired to remap pathways after childhood..." For just one example. And correcting rote memorization (for those times it does stick) after the fact is really hard.