Come Anticipate "TRON 2" or "TR2N" or whatever (now called "Tron Legacy")

Should I really?

What, play the game, or anticipate the movie?

Anticipate the movie: take yer choice
play the game: fuck yeah

nice logo

I haven't watched Tron since the 80s, but the teaser trailer is good enough to have me wanting to see the sequel.

It's not scheduled for theaters until 2011 though, right?

I guess there aren't any other games for a Mac

trzn?

TRQN

lol @ jeff bridges being in this thing

the further away this is from being released the better, as the anticipation will be far greater than the movie itself (i reckon). love that logo too.

the game was mint mostly, but rock hard and i stopped playing after quick saving at a tough moment with fuck all health left. bah

anyone for multiplayer light cycles?

TRIIN

2RON

does the xbox version of game work for 360? have never had a PC powerful enough to play it, but was always curious...

Ha ha. This thread title made me laugh. I thought it was a wittily weary comment on contemporary mores. Then I discovered it really is called TR2N.

TR2N is a terrible name but that logo makes it slightly better.

never got into Tron2 the video game, maybe i should try it again. am annoyed at how often games even 4 or 5 years old don't understand 16x10 aspect ratios though.

lightcycles now obeying laws of physics = this will suck

cycles are obv cool and necessary but i always thought another good way of presenting this would be men standing upright on little podiums that pivot precisely to allow instant 90 degress turns (sorry i did a game design concept/animation in my degree final year that ripped this off quite shamelessly)

my friend makes me laugh whenever i try and make her watch Tron, she refuses point blank with a sickly look on her face stating "it looks silly, men walking around in illuminous space suits"

best light cycle game was Duel, a home made written piece of code that was listed in an old speccy mag. Only showed a small section of the grid at a time which made it great, and it had the best 'screeching motor' sound fx.

lightcycles now obeying laws of physics = this will suck

yeah what the hell is that about

although a schoolfriend did write a lightcycle game with realistic physics and it was quite fun.

there was an awesome public domain game on Amiga just called Cycles but you could end up with 8 or more different coloured lines on the screen all trying to fuck each other up or just going into tactical 'block yourself off but with enough space to go round and round and hope everyone else dies before you do' mode. genius.

nice logo

I misread that as "nice lego" and got exited at a Lego Tron game ala Lega Star Wars.

The film is being written by Lost writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz

good sign?

what sort of realistic physics tho? they just ride around on a flat grid, or is this to do with how they turn? Anything other than 90 degree turning would be absurd.

yeah they turn like normal bikes ;_;

(xxxpost) a Lego Tron videogame would f-ing rule...

(xpost) ...and without wanting to come across as a huge Tron nerd, but the light cycles only turn at right angles when they're on the game grid. In the original movie, they behaved like regular cycles once Bridges and co escaped.

...but on the other hand, when they're off the grid they don't have those light trails coming out the back like they do in the TR2N trailer, so I've kind of undermined my own argument.

i guess this film is set in more modern times, so they're playing an upgraded version of lightcycles.

cute

2RON

-- Ste, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 09:28

"It's goodlight(cycle) from me..."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2007/07/02/btronnies.jpg

Barker's jacket looks like it's been run over by a lightcycle...

The not-turning-at-right-angles thing was brought up on other boards, and it should be pointed out that the only time the original bike did so was in the Game Grid. One they escaped, they operated like normal(ish) bikes: gradual turns as the road changed, banking for sharp curves, etc.

Heh, a GIS for "tron bikes":

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1016/537882960_f686ef0c52.jpg?v=0

fattronguy.jpg

(Bet he gets a cameo - internet fame has got to be good for something, right?)

I think this looks pretty good actually. glad the Dude is in it

okay i've only just watched that trailer, looks nice.

hope they were kind enough to give this guy a bit part:

https://damicoworks.sslpowered.com/candysmokes.com/images/tron2.jpg

Some updates:

Bridges told The Guardian that "doing the new Tron movie is something that is just too good to pass up. It was the same with How To Lose Friends And Alienate People." He added later, "Engaging in that world again feels just like it did all that time ago. Basically, I'm still a child, I love being childlike, and here was another chance to play with these crazy toys. And the cutting-edge technology makes it exciting. Doing the teaser trailer for Comic-Con, I had my first experience of motion capture. And that's turning the industry on its head. It's amazing being part of that."

Bridges said that "when we made Tron there was no internet, no cellphones. But now we have motion capture, so I think we'll get a far more successful version of the story, which is someone literally getting sucked into a video game. When we did King Kong in the 70s, one minute you'd have a shot of Rick Baker in this big suit and then you'd cut to this 80ft stiff model, and they looked nothing alike. Compare to that Peter Jackson's King Kong the technology is there and they did a wonderful job. I thought they created a beautiful Kong. So I hope that'll be the same for Tron."

In other TR2N news, Ain't It Cool News caught up with the sequel's director, Joseph Kosinski, who advised them that the movie will be shot in stereoscopic 3D just as the Comic-Con reel was. AICN adds that filming on "TR2N will be a 'twenty-four month' process" but that Kosinski is "confident that the movie could be ready for late 2010." The site adds that Michael Wilkinson (Watchmen) has been hired to design the costumes.

Lookin' pretty awesome

No.

How many movies that aren't Tron can you spot in that clip?

1. tr2n

2. Empire Strikes Back
3. The Abyss
4. Fellowship of the Ring

5. those drift movies

Come on, aren't you looking forward to seeing Tron 2 on your home theater glasses-less 3 dimensional television in 2010?

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/20/business/EU-TEC-Netherlands-Philips.php

6. new Star Trek movie (it's so like the bit in the trailer where young Kirk nearly goes over the edge of the canyon)

fuck a gabbneb this looks great

Weird, I thought we linked this clip already...

http://tron2trailer.blogspot.com/

― kingfish, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 07:09 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fuck a gabbneb this looks great

corny scifi fux

tho really my objection is it looks like every other movie out there, probably made by kids who weren't born when the first one came out

you prefer it would be made by old people

bummer, but no doubt something in the future will still happen (thinks: reboot)

About that something, and/or maybe a TR3N

http://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-tron-3-was-going-to-be-and-may-still-be-ab-1792863604

Yeah, I dunno if that would happen anytime soon. As even the article points out, Disney has Star Wars and Marvel now, and doesn't need Tron to attract the non-Princesses audiences.

Once one or the other franchises start losing money(in 15-20 years?), then you'll see Tron getting brushed off

Wonder if we'll ever get that Black Hole reboot

http://movieweb.com/movie/the-black-hole-2016/

needs its own thread imo

Not so sure how crazy excited I'd really be for a Tron film set in the normal world tbf.

Uh?

http://io9.gizmodo.com/report-disney-wants-to-reboot-tron-with-jared-leto-1792947026

Just no more orange and teal

thought about this movie again, and how I enjoyed it a lot more than most

this comment from max somewhat predicted Halt and Catch Fire, though

maybe social network will get us period movies about hippie programmers

― max, Thursday, December 16, 2010 6:07 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

movie and soundtrack are great

the Tron ride at Disney World fucking rules

Watching this finally.

Ok so users who get beamed into the grid still have to eat.

Where the fuck do they piss and shit? Or are you telling me computer programs also have bodily functions and this bathrooms

Digital jazz, digital bathrooms.

Wait programs fuck, too?

Cludolph Hitler

What did you think of it?

it was fun to look at and i wasn't bored but found it hard to really get fully invested.

Well here we go I guess:

https://gizmodo.com/tron-3-disney-production-jared-leto-1851182118

Plotwise, details on the threequel are scarce. What’s mainly known is that Jared Leto will have the lead role (and serve as a producer), joined by the likes of Jodie Turner-Smith, Cameron Monaghan, Evan Peters, and Greta Lee.

ayiyi

They should let Leto do the soundtrack.

hmm, interesting

is it

maybe. i don't know. I love tron. I don't want it ruined.

The original Tron video game >>> the original Tron movie

And Jeff's on board:

https://gizmodo.com/tron-ares-jeff-bridges-jared-leto-kevin-flynn-disney-gr-1851443187

Hmmmmmmmm

Hm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVG_X_7Naw

Honestly the most interesting thing is the reminder at the end that Nine Inch Nails (rather than specifically Reznor/Ross) are doing the soundtrack, which hopefully means more slamming beats per what we hear than forlorn pianos in vast empty rooms.

I like how the implied and unplanned subtext now is "Uh yeah well Jared's an abusive cult leader leading people around BUT ANYWAY let's make him be the victim!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShVEXb7-ic

As a friend elsewhere said: "the promise in that trailer that he'll be killed multiple times is appealing"

never not going to read that as TRON: ARSE

He fights for the losers

admittedly this is the only movie lately i'm looking forward to

but where ffs is sam flynn and the iso?

So what if I told you that a significant part of the screenplay of Tron: Ares is about how much Jared Leto’s program character loves Depeche Mode so much he can’t put it into words?

I am not joking, BTW.

Oh and the movie ends with his now human character riding a Ducati motorcycle around India looking to find himself, mannnnn.

I’m not joking about that either!

Anyway I thoroughly appreciated a Nine Inch Nails album visualizer blasting out over a theater sound system but sadly there were these annoying bits of people talking that kept getting in the way.

but where ffs is sam flynn and the iso?

This is dealt with in a casual reference near the start of the film and in then in a bizarro attempt at some kind of sequel-baiting at the end.

okay at least they aknowledged them then

What did you think overall?

I bet he appreciated a Nine Inch Nails album visualizer blasting out over a theater sound system but found there were these annoying bits of people talking that kept getting in the way.

I sas a trailer for this and it made a big deal at the end to boast "Music By Nine Inch Nails" or something. The next trailer for was "Wuthering Heights," and at the end it boasted "With Music By Charli XCX" or something similar. Lotta that going around.

xp fairs

Watched it today with my 11yo son. He thought it was great. I thought it was… not great.

Some really bad lines in the script, hobbled all the more by Jared Leto trying to say them. And some *really* stupid plot logic throughout. Also there were at least two actors in this film that I’ve seen in things before, but seemed to be relegated to extras—leaving me to think there are whole sections of this film that had been chopped out.

At its core though, the biggest flaw is in the premise. The real fun of Tron movies is watching the characters on the grid. The real world stuff is more of an obligatory slog at the beginning for the sake of exposition. But this movie inverts that and all the action in the real world just doesn’t feel that special.

Anyway, all that said it was a fine way to spend an afternoon with my kid. And his insistence that whatever movie he just saw is the greatest movie he’s ever seen makes all the complaints melt away.

Watched it today with my 11yo son. He thought it was great. I thought it was… not great.

this also describes the original Tron, which I thought was great when I was a kid, and then, when rewatching it years later, I realized it was pretty boring.

The real fun of Tron movies is watching the characters on the grid. The real world stuff is more of an obligatory slog at the beginning for the sake of exposition. But this movie inverts that and all the action in the real world just doesn’t feel that special.

absolutely. if this new movie spends significant amounts of time in 'the real world' I'm not sure what the point of it even is

also why do they keep putting jared leto in movies? he is not a box office draw. no one likes him. he has loads of credible abuse allegations. and he's not a good actor.

The only thing that would've made me want to see this is if the cycles, recognizers etc. in their real world deterioration ended up looking like the original versions.

this also describes the original Tron, which I thought was great when I was a kid, and then, when rewatching it years later, I realized it was pretty boring.

The first Tron is definitely much slower than I remember but its aesthetic still makes up for it. I rewatched it with my kids a year or two ago and we all (still) loved it.

It's a very boring plot but I agree the look helps a lot, 80's futurism meets silent film aesthetics.

The one thing I took away from watching it and the second one (have not and prob will not see this third installment) is that while neither has a good story, the original has a coherent story that makes sense in an A leads to B kinda way, while I remember the second feeling diffuse in that usual modern blockbuster written by 70 people style.

"Also there were at least two actors in this film that I’ve seen in things before, but seemed to be relegated to extras—leaving me to think there are whole sections of this film that had been chopped out."

RLM had a similar reaction to Cameron Monaghan, who apparently has a fairly distinctive role in the film, but his face only appears very briefly because he spends most of his screentime wearing a mask. Ordinarily the inclusion of his character would be a sequel hook - perhaps he might appear in the next film - but that's unlikely. For two very good reasons.

Their take was that the first film was a technical marvel filled with state of the art visual effects and a groundbreaking electronic score that bombed because it was boring, but over the years the film developed a cult following, which led to a sequel that was a technical marvel filled with state of the art visual effects and a groundbreaking electronic score that bombed because it was boring, but over the years the film developed a cult following, which etc.

I bought Tron on DVD when it came out, and then stupidly I threw away the packaging. Which was stupid, because in typical Disney style the DVD went out of print a few years later and then shot up in price. I remember one of the documentaries revealed that Jeff Bridges still has a TRON hat he occasionally wears because it brings him peace. Series of disjointed, disconnected paragraphs. Disjointed sentences. That's what happens when you write things while eating a bag of crisps. No flow because of the licking.

There was a bunch of good-looking 1980s films that were basically just chases with really good production design. TRON, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal etc. You'd think they would reboot them by taking the great production design and beefing up the story, but no, they just beef up the production design and make the story more eventful, but not actually any better. This would also have been perfect as a Netflix shot-in-The-Volume miniseries, but again no.

I saw a video about the 4k restoration of the original film, which looked great (the restoration). All these nerds were psyched to pick it up on DVD, and I appreciate their enthusiasm, but the movie is just not very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYs6VMEOCcs

I probably was more enthusiastic about Tron Legacy than 95% of people but this one tried to create this video/audio spectacle with minimal plotting that just didn't land. Starting in medias res as two companies are seeking the same thing could work, but it was simplified down to a point where I'm wondering if it was targeted at a particularly 10 year old child demographic. Good company makes world better, bad company makes war? My friend indicated his kid liked the movie, so I'll have to ask what the middle school take was.

The second major plot swing hinging on whether you'd like to see more of Jared Leto was a misstep, but I guess he was enthusiastic about Disney making the movie and that's how we arrived at this point.

mh my 11 year old son loved it so your theory holds

got some residual Ready Player One (have not watched, understand notionally) and/or Minecraft vibes off of the "wow, we're in the 80s Tron in this scene" vibes. I guess that's kind of what they were going for?

Wish we had more emotional resonance with Greta Lee's character, but it seemed to be sidelined in lieu of the non-development of the Ares character. I probably spent more time trying to figure out what the movie was trying to be during dialogue scenes than I was hooked into the residual plot