Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: A great movie, though I do have a couple of pet peeves
Summary: 5 Stars
Another perfect example of why today's over-engineered cgi flops look stupid when you compare it to this classic. Most of the scenes are amazing, and flow real well, but there's that occassional misstep. They're easily forgivable, and the grand vision of the movie really makes one think. Movie Review: TRON: Way Ahead Of It's Time
Summary: 4 Stars
Like "The Black Hole" three years before it, 1982's "TRON" was another Walt Disney sci-fi movie that did not get proper respect upon it's initial release, but has developed an avid cult following ever since. "TRON" tells the story of a young, hotshot computer programmer named Flynn (Jeff Bridges), who created a handful of popular video games for the company ENCOM but had his ideas stolen by a sneaky co-worker named Dillinger (David Warner), who subsequently rose to the Senior Executive position at the company, while Flynn was subsequently booted out and now makes his living running a video game arcade. With the aid of two friends, Alan (Bruce Boxleitner) and Lora (Cindy Morgan), Flynn breaks into ENCOM and attempts to retreive the evidence of Dillinger's crime, but gets detected by ENCOM's Master Control Program (a highly-advanced computer program with a mind---and voice---of it's own), which catches Flynn and beams him (ala Star Trek) *into* a computer, where computer programs have human feelings & physical bodies (in fact, they are the dopplegangers of the "users" who wrote them). Flynn is forced to fight for his life as a video game warrior in this vastly colorful, computerized world he finds himself trapped in, as he seeks a way back to his own world...."TRON" was the very first film to extensively use computer animation for it's visual effects, and it is without question a dazzling feast for the eyes. Writer/director Steven Lisberger and his production team created a fascinating, unique, *alive* world that has never been seen on the screen before or since. "TRON" also has going for it a brilliant, atmospheric score by Wendy Carlos (available on CD at last!), and terrific performances by Jeff Bridges as Flynn, and David Warner as the oily Dillinger (and his demented program counterpart SARK). Boxleitner, Morgan, Bernard Hughes and Dan Shor also lend good acting support in their roles. However, "TRON" is not a perfect movie. Lisberger's screenplay could've used some more dramatic weight, and somehow, the movie's finale feels rushed and doesn't quite pack the emotional punch that it should. But these mistakes are forgiveable. "TRON" is so much fun, that I don't really mind a less-than-perfect script or a rushed ending."TRON" was way---and I mean WAY---ahead of it's time, which may explain why the movie went sailing over the heads of some audience members & movie critics back in 1982 (although Siskel & Ebert, in particular, praised "TRON" to the hilt---thank you, Gene & Roger!). But the passing of time has been very kind to "TRON," as the film is now recognised as the landmark, groundbreaking sci-fi film that it is. This DVD edition of "TRON," with it's remastered print of the film, the excellent "Making Of" documentary, deleted scenes and other goodies, is wonderful to have, but I hope the folks at Disney will do the right thing and re-release "TRON" back into theaters, so everyone can experience this movie the way it was meant to be experienced. In the words of the late Gene Siskel, "TRON" is a whole lot of fun. It simply dazzles. Movie Review: This must be seen on the big screen to be fully appreciated.
Summary: 4 Stars
You have to understand, I was about 12 years old when this first came out in theatres and I've already had a personal computer for a few years by then (got my first Atari 400 in 1980) and was definitely a computer geek, even then. To see this movie back then was almost beyond words, as it fired my imagination more than just about anything else had before or after. It was a great time - videogames were taking off, computers were taking off, and there was just a feeling in the air that anything could happen. This film was a perfect example of people taking these feelings to their extreme and no other movie takes me back to that era (except for maybe Wargames) better than Tron does.
Back then, a lot of people actually felt threatened by computers and this film did little to help that notion. Viewing Tron today, it may be hard for the younger set to see what the big deal was, but in 1982, this was probably just as mind-boggling to audiences as 2001 was when it came out in '68. I still remember being absolutely floored after seeing this the first time on the big screen...you have to remember, back in '82, there really WAS no CGI and the best graphics resolution on the best home PC or arcade game was not even as good as the original Gameboy. This movie pulled out all the stops and really showed the world what could be done with computer graphics and I feel that it was HUGELY influential in the development of CGI in the years to come.
Ok, the plot is kind of lame and there are a few lines in the script which are cringe-inducing when heard today (eg. "C'mon you SCSI data, be in there"), but I can forgive the writers for dropping a few buzzwords in the script, even if they didn't quite know what they meant. The acting is great - Jeff Bridges completely sells the movie and is solid, as usual, and David Warner is fantastic as Sark. Bruce Boxleitner was definitely cast against type but also did a great job and Cindy Morgan nailed her character as well. Barnard Hughes played his usual father-figure role to great effect as well.
After the lackluster original non-anamorphic DVD which was plagued by line noise, Disney has finally done right by Tron with this double-disc set. The Anamorphic picture looks about as good as possible and the colors really pop. The faces on the characters are a bit grainy due to the process used to make the film, but it's not a problem. The sound has been remixed to 5.1 (unlike the 4.0 of the previous release) but to my ears, for some reason the original DVD has much deeper bass - I'm not quite sure why. On the original DVD, the recognizers absolutely THUNDER, on this DVD, the effect is diminished somewhat.
There are also a ton of extras, the best of which is an absolutely incredible 88-minute making-of documentary which was obviously lovingly prepared and is almost as good as the film itself.
When you discover the actual work it took to create this movie, you realize that it was WAY ahead of it's time. And as I said, if you ever have a chance to see this on the big screen, jump at it.
Movie Review: Tron baby
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the greatest movies of all time...Buy it!
It just might save your life!
Movie Review: Welcome to the neon world
Summary: 5 Stars
Tron is a blast form the past. Awsome story its just a good SIFI movie. Tron is comming from the dawn of special effects. A simplely enjoyable. if you like stuff from the Early 90s and Late 80s this is the way to go. and the THXcertified audio is amazing. It takes this movie to the next level.