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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
I saw the original once in the 00's. Boooooriiiing and also peak cringe hearing all the technical terms being used for names wantonly.

If a movie can be a tech demo, Tron would be it.

Sequel is a nice lazy sunday movie though.

Mola Ram said:
I did not know anyone cared about Tron.
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Everyone acted like the original was good when the sequel came out, but I was also in an insufferable faggoty art school surrounded people who wanted to act cultured.
 
juwo said:
I completely forgot that Tron even existed. Haven't seen the re:View yet, but I thought they were both fine movies, if a bit bland and boring despite amazing visuals. I still remember being somewhat impressed by the young Jeff Bridges graphics in Legacy. It looked like a rubber mask, but still.

Also, Tron 2.0 was a really solid game made by Monolith (you know, AvP2, NOLF, F.E.A.R.). It even had the light cycle.
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I loved Tron 2.0 so much. It was pretty crushing when the comic miniseries follow-up was published, and it turned out to be this trippy mindscrew about Jet maybe or maybe not going crazy, rather than sending him back to the digital realm for further adventures with Mercury. It was kind of like The Last Jedi before The Last Jedi, basically. 🙁

KrewlKween said:
I can't hate Tron but I can't love it either. I respect the visual achievements of the original and the soundtrack of the second but that's about it. The stories were never great. The original felt like it was made for every basement dwelling Commodore 64 owner and no one else. Like Jay mentioned, none of the "normal" people would have been familiar with the terminology and not much of it is really explained. That just leaves beind the "ooh and ahh" factor of backlit animation and janky looking costumes/sets. I do however know a couple die hard Tron fans and they are some of the most insufferable assholes I've never met. They've also replaced any unique personality traits with loving the 80s and gatekeeping everything so that's to be expected.
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I guess I'd consider myself a pretty hardcore Tron fan. I'm not a computer science geek, though, or very knowledgeable about computers to begin with. I just like the visuals (both the abstract look of the costumes and sets of the original and the sleeker ones from the sequel), the music and the philosophical/religious questions posed by the concept of programs as sentient sub-creations.
 
I like the original Tron well enough as a goofy, charming sci-fi adventure film.

Tron: Legacy had everything going for it... except for a good script. It was like peak, post-Batman Begins gritty reboot shit. Seriously, why the fuck would you hire god awful Once Upon a Time screenwriters to write your Tron film?

Tron 2.0 was definitely the best thing to come out of that franchise. I remember people saying the Legacy tie-in animated series was good but I wasn't one of the five people to watch it.
 
Anyone here ever play the tie in games for Legacy? I remember they made like 4 different ones and they all had different stories.

Wii, PS3/360, PSP and DS all had their own unique game.
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
Anyone here ever play the tie in games for Legacy? I remember they made like 4 different ones and they all had different stories.

Wii, PS3/360, PSP and DS all had their own unique game.
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I vaguely remember that, never played though. They had a lot of odd tie ins and supplemental material for Legacy. I've actually played Tron Deadly Discs on one of the afformentioned insufferable Tron weirdos' Mattel Aquarius before. Talk about shit.
 
Got around to watching it. Pretty much hits the nail on the head.

I just saw one of the original suits they wore in the first Tron at the MOPOP in Seattle and remember thinking how cheap it looked. It looks goofy pre-special effects on video but in person it looks like cheap cloth with black marker all over it.

Am feeling compelled to watch Tron Legacy again. I remember just finding it cozy some ten years ago when I saw it on TV and a later day Jeff Bridges is always nice.
 
I saw Tron once as a kid on the Disney channel, I remember being both blown away by the visuals but also pretty bored, I remember it created a very weird, almost depressing feeling where you wish the movie was better than it actually is.

I haven't seen it since but I think one can definitely enjoy the trippy visuals of it even today, it may not be a great movie, but there's far worse out there.

I actually saw Legacy in theaters, in 3D and while I did enjoy the visuals and the action, it did feel pretty cliched at times (I picked up on the similarities to Star Wars as well)

I also picked up on how weird it's handling of the actual character of Tron was.

It's still a shame there wasn't a Tron 3 to wrap the story up though.

Mister Qwerty said:
At 13:50 they're dissing about how awful the score is from the original movie. The soundtract was written by Wendy Carlos. A lot of troons are gonna be upset when they hear about that.
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I was wondering if they were going to mention that.

What's sad is they also wrote the score for A Clockwork Orange, which is actually pretty great (albeit it is just synth versions of classical music)
 


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Megaroad 2012 said:
Everyone acted like the original was good when the sequel came out, but I was also in an insufferable faggoty art school surrounded people who wanted to act cultured.
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The faggoty art part of Tron's fandom probably apreciates it for the fact that they literally drew those glowing lines painstakinglly onto every cell of the film to get that effect. Which does look kind of cool but I think if I was assigned that task I'd probably kill myself five frames in. Then again I can't draw. I imagine the actual suits must look boring since they were the equivalent of proto-mocap suits.

Otherwise I agree it is more of a novelty that happens to have some actors I like in it. I keep it in my "list of movies I enjoyed" zone but I definitely have not felt like rewatching even part of it since I first saw it, which is probably pretty damning.
 
L50LasPak said:
The faggoty art part of Tron's fandom probably apreciates it for the fact that they literally drew those glowing lines painstakinglly onto every cell of the film to get that effect. Which does look kind of cool but I think if I was assigned that task I'd probably kill myself five frames in.
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They outsourced that stuff to Chinese coolies. The ending credits of Tron actually changes to Chinese language halfway through.
 
Is the Tron re:View the first time they've done a series ironically? Usually they like the movies they're re:Viewing.
 
Mimekiller said:
RLM is so dedicated to content that they have forgone the desire to breed...a dedicated crew with no children...reminds of of a certain show that I can't put my finger on...
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Yeah, I think I remember that show. It was a sci-fi series that took place on a spaceship, about a group of astronauts, on some kinda star trek.
 
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