Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: They loved it!
Summary: 5 Stars
My oldest son loves Tron. It's one of his very favorite movies. He never found it anywhere else, so I was thrilled to find it here, & I bought 2 copies for Christmas - one for him & one for my husband. Because it's an old movie, it's not "high-tech", but it's clean, fun, & interesting in its concepts. All the bonus material excited my son! He's 26, so he's not much older than this movie, but it holds great memories for him of seeing it on TV when he was little. Tron is unique.Movie Review: Still a great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This one really makes you wonder how they did some of the effects before CGI took over. Storyline is cheesy but still enjoyable. Very nostalgic for us early nerds.Movie Review: Classic in the Development of Computer Animation
Summary: 3 Stars
It's been 25 years since Steven Lisberger's TRON opened to mixed reviews in 1982. The question that remains is whether or not TRON was so far ahead of its time that it can legitimately be called a classic today.
Viewing TRON in an historical context one is left feeling that the film is conceptually amazing yet somewhat lacking in both acting and plotting. This is not necessarily a bad thing just a weakness.Many reviewers have disected the plot so no further analysis is really necessary. You can take your choice and view the film either as an adventure film set in the world of computers, a warning against an overly technical society or a Christ type parable.
What remains to be appreciated is the amazing technical skill that went into the film's production. This was a film that harkens back to Disney's Fantasia. It was and is a new type of entertainment never seen before and for that it deserves credit. The film effectively marries traditional animation styles with the newly developed computer animation of companies like MAGI and III into a new form of hybrid and it does this almost seamlessly. The film while slightly dated is still brillient in this aspect.
The disc that I viewed was the 20th Anniversary Edition. The film is presented in widescreen and the transfer while showing its age is well restored. The Wendy Carlos soundtrack sounds fresh and crisp. The sound on the film is a little low but clear. In fact many of the problems are not fromm sound loss but from the jargon filled dialogue.
The heart of this edition is the bonus features. We get just about all available materials from the creation of the film including animation test reels, extensive production drawings, publicity materials , storyboards, trailers and posssibly one of the best making of documentaries seen on a Disney film. The Making of TRON feature runs 88 minutes and features new interviews with most of the people involved and gives a generally good overview of the complex animation issues faced in the making of the film. A commentary track featuring Lisberger, producer Donald Kusner, co producer Harrison Ellenshaw and visual effects supervisor Richard Taylor is well worth the listen even if it does get overly technical at times.
All in all a worthwhile edition to the Disney canon. It is well worth the watch for anyone interested in the history of computer animation.
Movie Review: Great Cinema Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie. My kids and wife don't appreciate it the way I do, so I suspect there is a considerable nostalgia effect on me. I like.Movie Review: Disney's Big Risk pays off Big Time
Summary: 5 Stars
Disney's TRON is the first feature-length film to rely entirely on CGI for all of the special-effects needs, and they managed to pull it off spectacularly. The technologies involved were still in their infancy (and it SHOWS from time to time), but they were good enough to get by on; good enough to prove that it COULD BE DONE, and done WELL. I saw TRON in a theatre on opening day when i was a kid, and I remember being absolutely mind-blown by what I'd just seen: Movies will never be the same again; they'll only get bigger and better - at least in the area of visual-effects.
A 'B+' story, and 'A-' acting helped carry the whole project over the top into cult-classic-dom, laying the groundwork for future CGI-based films ranging from 'The Last Starfighter' to 2007's 'Transformers', as well as the early literary works of William Gibson. Gibson's digital-landscapes and digital-cities seem to me to be the same world that we were introduced to in TRON, but further down the timeline when the societies therein have become over-crowded, slovenly, and decadent - Cyber-Classic fallen to Cyber-Punk... but I digress.
TRON was (and IS) an excellent and highly-entertaining film. Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner both make for great heroes, and David Warner reminds us all why he was so highly sought-after to fill Hollywood's villainous roles. Wendy Carlos' musical score was so perfect that I can't even begin to comment on it; it helped create TRON's world TOO perfectly! The visual effects were amazing when it was first released, and they're still fairly amazing, though they look kind of amateurish by today's standards. But, Hey - This movie's 25 years old, cut it a little slack!
Just go ahead and BUY THIS MOVIE... You won't be disappointed. It might even make you feel young again!