'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World

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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"awesomely bad 80s graphics"

[Eunuchswear]

WTF!

Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics"

[Talderas]

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.

Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics"

[Maxo-Texas]

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.

Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics"

[mcgrew]

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.

Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics"

[Captain Splendid]

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).

Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics"

[commodore64_love]

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.

Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics"

[Nadaka]

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

Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics"

[simcop2387]

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

Don't Diss the 80s

[Nom du Keyboard]

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.