Netflix: Tron (1982)
Sep. 2nd, 2006 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This would be yet another of the movies that I've already seen, but not really since its release.
I figured I just had to rent it again, since I had just finished playing Kingdom Hearts 2, and was jonesing for the original plot and characters. I was pleasantly surprised to see exactly how faithful the KH2 use of Tron was - I never realized that Sora and his pals essentially mirror the main plot of the movie, and yet manage to make it make sense in terms over the overall game plot. Nicely done.
The visuals really are so great for 1982. I remember everyone at the time being so excited by this way of presenting a virtual reality, with vivid color and a sense of the surreal - it's one of the core challenges of good sci-fi, after all, to create a sensical analog between what the audience is familiar with, and what the new world reveals, without being too cheesy. I know I was completely absorbed by it, although, since I was 9 or 10 at the time, I could've done without the embarassing (and yet totally tame) romance sub-plot. I just wanted more racing and crazy-ass traveling inside of a computer.
This would be yet another of the movies that I've already seen, but not really since its release.
I figured I just had to rent it again, since I had just finished playing Kingdom Hearts 2, and was jonesing for the original plot and characters. I was pleasantly surprised to see exactly how faithful the KH2 use of Tron was - I never realized that Sora and his pals essentially mirror the main plot of the movie, and yet manage to make it make sense in terms over the overall game plot. Nicely done.
The visuals really are so great for 1982. I remember everyone at the time being so excited by this way of presenting a virtual reality, with vivid color and a sense of the surreal - it's one of the core challenges of good sci-fi, after all, to create a sensical analog between what the audience is familiar with, and what the new world reveals, without being too cheesy. I know I was completely absorbed by it, although, since I was 9 or 10 at the time, I could've done without the embarassing (and yet totally tame) romance sub-plot. I just wanted more racing and crazy-ass traveling inside of a computer.
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Date: 2006-09-02 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 05:43 pm (UTC)Except for the ending. ugh.
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Date: 2006-09-02 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 06:52 pm (UTC)please excuse my procedural texture fetish
Date: 2006-09-05 05:13 pm (UTC)To my knowledge, this is the only movie to have collected an Acedmy Award for a texturing algorithm.