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Blanka:
I just devaluated my valuable item by removing the shrink wrap. I could have put my 19 pund find on ebay for 100$, but instead I watched it.
OMG what a cool graphics, and OMG what a dumb storyline! The original can't be beaten on graphics! I guess Tron legacy looks ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- next to this. And the original can't be beaten on a dumb kiss-the-chick-in-the-end plot. Wonder how Disney supersedes this in Legacy. It is almost like a Bollywood movie in plot simpleness.
Warning: watch the movie in Finnish or Klingon dub or something. Or leave the sound muted (the music theme at the end with church organs stinks too). The sentences the characters say are totally nonsense. Listening to what they have to say is totally annoying. I hope Daft Punk kills all conversation in Legacy with some serious beats.

Conclusion: TRON is the second coolest mute movie I have ever seen. Number one is Seven Chances with Buster Keaton. That one contains the blueprints to all classic arcade games.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 05, 2010, 01:38:06 am ---Tron was made in a time when only the wealthy had computers and only MIT grads had more than rudimentary knowledge of how a pc actually works

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Bwuh?  Are we talking about the same movie?  Tron was made in 1982... I had a $250 VIC-20 in 1982 -- And I was a piss-poor 10 year old with slightly more than a rudimentary knowledge of how it worked.

RayB:
Timex Sinclair: $99  ;D

So I caught Tron on standard def tv last night. I enjoyed it more as an adult than I did originally. It's got lots of flaws, but some of them are typical of an early 80's movie (like making actors wear obviously fake glasses just to make them appear smart, or how about the fact that a computer work station is placed directly in front of an ultra high-powered laser??)

I got the impression that since the film was such a risk, their budget must have been very limited and they made the best they could of it.  Why are the composited shots so crap? THey look like silent era black & white. And before you say "it was 1982!" keep in mind everything that Star Wars, Star Trek the Motion Picture, etc accomplished using compositing, green screen, etc years before.

Xiaou2:
More than likely it was because of the glow effect.  To add it, may have caused problems with mixing, and or would have needed a lot more money for a more robust solution to get rid of the problems.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on December 13, 2010, 12:47:25 am ---More than likely it was because of the glow effect. 

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IIRC, the glowing in the original Tron was rotoscoped in -- hand drawn by animators, frame by frame.  Tough to keep consistent.

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