How to make this movie into the highest grossing film of all time.
Open to the Star Field - scroll by some words about a massive army building on a distant planet. Cut to the forest of the planet. Place Jar Jar Binks in front of some massive piece of machinery. Watch him get splattered. Cut to the rear of the machine as the giant Jar Jar stain is shown on the ground. Run End Credits - Collect Billions from Star Wars Fans (Myself included) And they'd save a fortune on production costs.
Evil Empire A vs. Evil Empire B. I almost don't know who to root for in this one. I'm sure this is going to end up in an incredible blood bath. Of course, I would thing Time Warner/AOL would have more of a case had they actually tried to do anything with Netscape of substance and not released that god awful mess that they called Netscape 6.0. Anyone know where I can buy stock in Microsoft's Law Firm?
I am wondering what grounds AOL/Time-Warner has to stand on in this whole mess. This is almost as funny as when Disney (A company that over the past few years has gobbled up massive amounts of media outlets in this country) filed friend of the court briefs on the AOL Merger saying it was anti-competitive.
Any computer geek who is bashing this movie obviously hasn't been around that long. Yes the movie was a financial flop as it was over the heads of 99.9% of the people who might have seen it when it was released in 1982, but the fact remains that a majority of its plot holds true to what the internet is today. Heck, I bet you could draw great parallels between Tron and the open source movement. Replace the MCP with Microsoft, attempting to squash all competition. Place the users and their programs seeking a free system, up against the evil MCP, and voila. Yes, the special effects are pitiful by todays standards, yes the acting isn't that great, but as a whole, the movie was and still is a great movie for computer geeks to watch.
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How to make this movie into the highest grossing film of all time. Open to the Star Field - scroll by some words about a massive army building on a distant planet. Cut to the forest of the planet. Place Jar Jar Binks in front of some massive piece of machinery. Watch him get splattered. Cut to the rear of the machine as the giant Jar Jar stain is shown on the ground. Run End Credits - Collect Billions from Star Wars Fans (Myself included) And they'd save a fortune on production costs.
Evil Empire A vs. Evil Empire B. I almost don't know who to root for in this one. I'm sure this is going to end up in an incredible blood bath. Of course, I would thing Time Warner/AOL would have more of a case had they actually tried to do anything with Netscape of substance and not released that god awful mess that they called Netscape 6.0. Anyone know where I can buy stock in Microsoft's Law Firm?
I am wondering what grounds AOL/Time-Warner has to stand on in this whole mess. This is almost as funny as when Disney (A company that over the past few years has gobbled up massive amounts of media outlets in this country) filed friend of the court briefs on the AOL Merger saying it was anti-competitive.
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Any computer geek who is bashing this movie obviously hasn't been around that long. Yes the movie was a financial flop as it was over the heads of 99.9% of the people who might have seen it when it was released in 1982, but the fact remains that a majority of its plot holds true to what the internet is today. Heck, I bet you could draw great parallels between Tron and the open source movement. Replace the MCP with Microsoft, attempting to squash all competition. Place the users and their programs seeking a free system, up against the evil MCP, and voila. Yes, the special effects are pitiful by todays standards, yes the acting isn't that great, but as a whole, the movie was and still is a great movie for computer geeks to watch.