TRON - I/O Tower

An excerpt from the ground-breaking movie, TRON, where Steven Lisberger dispels the common misconception, especially among programmers, that computers are just boxes full of wires carrying voltage representations of binary data. WRONG! They're full of little people, in luminous spandex suits, with lives of their own. Think about that next time you selfishly over clock your CPU!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(film)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• TRON
• CGI
• computer
• science
• fiction
• electronic
• Disney
• Jeff
• Bridges
• Bruce
• Boxleitner
• graphics

[Secundas]

Every frame in this movie is interesting to look at, even when there's nothing happening. Tron Legacy had it's moments, but everything looked too terrestrial and not enough like another world. The costumes and everything just looked too ordinary. It also could have used some more abstract looking characters, like the tower guard and the MCP.

[Valelacerte]

@Secundas I guess TRON was a wild frontier—huge mainframes, programmers developing tools and inventing CGI as they went along—whereas now people criticise the CGI Jeff Bridges as not being convincing, when it's an incredible achievement.

Personally, when I first got into synthesisers, in the late 70's early 80's, everything sounded alien and unreal and I loved it. However, if you looked at the names of the sounds, they called them "flute", "piano" etc. The intention always was to copy reality.

[Secundas]

@Valelacerte I understand what you're saying and agree. I'm not knocking the special effects in Tron Legacy; for their believability, realism or anything else (they were excellent). Just saying that I find the look of the original Tron more imaginative and aesthetically pleasing.

[Valelacerte]

@Secundas I agree with you; I wasn't referring to you when I wrote about people criticising TRON Legacy. TRON was definitely more imaginative.

[barbaro267]

I didn't grow up with the original, but I sure like it a whole lot better than Tron: Legacy! I loved the whole "Tron fights for the users" thing, where Saark makes all the programs think that the users don't exist....a nice Christian theme I really liked. Tron: Legacy was a nice dog and pony show that showed off the new technology of the decade, but the plot lacked what the original had.

[unknowndeoxys00]

Legacy looked pretty, but I like the plot of the original Tron a bit more :)

[Fbiguy]

@Valelacerte I think the cgi Jeff Bridges was great (except for the final battle scene), but the eyes gave him away. But i agree that the first TRON really gave you the impression that they are in another world, unlike TRON legacy.

[tsntana]

@Xigbar01 I assumed such and that makes perfect sense. And that's what I kept in mind from the first time I watched Legacy. Only I associate it more with video games.

Games have come a long way as far as graphics, detail, and realism. A lot of that advancement is apparent in the TRON universe. Everything and everybody on The Grid looks more "real". Whether it's spectacular or ordinary. It's like the world around us.

[Xigbar01]

@Secundas The director of Legacy said the updated effects were in sync with computer evolution since the original TRON. He said that because the TRON universe was self contained, it was justified that it would have to increase in graphics, functionality, and overall performance.

[Iluthra]

@coolperson962 This is true. Flynn had intended that someday, humans would enter the Grid and live there for who knows how long, short visits or lifetimes. Now how cool would that be!

[coolperson962]

@Secundas i agree with the fact that the TRON city just looked like earth would in the future, but then thats how flynn designed it, so humans could live in it and so made it like earth