Tron 1982 was GROUND BREAKING for its time! First time watching reaction & review
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It's not CGI. It's actual Disney animation, done by hand. I saw the Making Of. It was a huge project.
@Guest User Yes, I was just trying to point out that Special Effects of today use computers. Which? In 1982, the Academy deemed it’s being used as ‘cheating’.
@@alphazero219 the main reason they didn't use it is because it was terribly slow and expensive. They would've gone over budget.
One of my favorite movies
You don't recognise Bruce Boxleitner?!?!?! Seriously, you don't recognise John Sheridan?!?! That' settles it, can one of her Patrons get Babylon 5 shortlisted as the next series that Mary watches?
Factoid: Back in 1982 (same year this movie was released), the "Academy Awards" refused to nominate "Tron" for the Special Effects Awards Category due to movie makers using computers to create these effects. The Academy believed this was 'cheating'. In effect, they were 'disqualified'. Nowadays, CGI is used in almost every movie to a certain extent.
Never know that. And now we have a award for best visual effects. Shame it got screwed over. Didn't Raiders of the Lost Ark in that year? I think Tron would have easily beat it in that category if it were allowed.
I'll just post a friendly reminder that factoid...doesn't mean what you think it means.
Bring in, The Logic Probe!!!
A lot of people now don't understand visual effects and think CGI is "cheating," or doing it easier without realizing the advantage.
Showing once again that the Academy is a bunch of idiots in many respects.
Mary: "I didn't recognize any of the actors, ...."
Me: Laughing every time she referred to Jeff Bridges' character as "Dude."
I had to lauigh too. 😂😂😂
The sequel is absolutely fantastic and even 12 years later I'm blown away still by the CGI. highly recommend! also all of the good daft punk tunes are in the second one ;-)
There is NO WAY to get one to understand what was felt by the more 'nerdy' of us when in the 80's the trailers for this dropped in theaters. Until technology advances so far that in the future you'll have to try the same explanation to your grand kids whom don't even acknowledge TRON Legacy.
The sequel is Amazing, and ground breaking.
But ... getting the original under your belt definitely makes the sequel more emotional.
I went to see TRON Legacy at the cinema. It's a great movie.
Agree. Sequel was superior.
Was one of the few needed, and good sequel.
Fun fact, there are only 15-20 Minutes of CGI in this movie. The rest are oldschool visual effects.
The light-up costumes were drawn on the film by hand, I believe.
@@SuprousOxide Yes, but it was far more complex than that. The Corridor Crew did a video about it, if you are interested.
@@andreasvogler1875 didn't mean to imply it was easy :)
As a 9yr boy, I was so excited to see this movie! My mother took me to see Annie instead.. It's a hard knock life...
Thanks for the laugh. That was a good one.
Another fun early CGI movie is "The Last Starfighter", which is also a surprisingly fun slice of 80's cheese. Notable for it being Robert Preston's last movie.
I second this!!
Greetings Starfighter!
Robert Preston what a treasure so many roles in good films
I somehow missed that film as a kid and recently watched it for the first time, very well done.
A mobile cave that never went anywhere. 😉
Also, I think that space car's transition out of hyperspace to regular space was the coolest ever.
Flynn was the only user in the System. The Programs all resemble the Users that Created them, with the only "exception" being the MCP. It was Dillinger's "Face" and "Voice", but Altered by all the Programs he's Assimilated.
The Stand Up TRON Arcade Game was the Number One Video Game of the Early 80's, with the Graphics 100 times better than the Home Systems.
I liked Discs of Tron.
I'm sure someone else has probably already mentioned it by now, but the infamous 'Tron Lines' in this film were meticulously hand-painted, frame-by-frame
What a lot of people also don't know is that the film was manufactured in bulk and the spools of film to be used were numbered to be recorded upon in numerical order, but the production crew ended up just grabbing random reels to load into the cameras. That's why the movie had that intermitted flash in random scenes. When the film was manufactured in bulk, and the film was spliced into smaller reals to fit into the production cameras, the areas of the film where the splices were made, the "shading" of the film would match, but only if used in order that it was cut, but when the crew grabbed random reels, certain scenes would produce a random flash because the film negative's "shading" at the splice didn't match. Not to be confused with the flash lines that would appear on the walls at random.
Rotoscope technique has been around since the first filmes were made. Not very high tech :)
What did they painted it with to make it such glowy?
Flynn is the only user (human) in the computer. Everyone else is a program.
Tron isn’t the greatest movie ever made, but it is the movie that inspired me to study computer animation.
A couple of abstract things about it that can be confusing to the first time viewer:
- to most programs, users are essentially the gods who created them. The MCP tries to claim users are a “superstitious and hysterical belief”, partly as a method of control and partly because it believes it has grown beyond the comprehension of any user (“No one user wrote me, I’m worth millions of their man-years”). Also, when Ram dies, he smiles because he’s basically looking at the face of God.
- As a user in the computer world, Flynn has almost godlike powers: restoring the Recognizer, creating a junction to another beam, surviving the deresolution of Sark’s carrier, and bringing Yori back from deresolution. Some things that would kill a regular program don’t faze him.
Yeah, I don't blame Yori at all for basically "cheating" on Tron, by kissing Flynn. If I were a program-chick, I'd probably kiss him too. lol
@@jacob4920 Try and look at it this way, "kissing" is an unknown thing to programs, so Yori has no real idea what it means beyond an expression of friendship by a User. She later shares this new information with Tron, who is both surprised and delighted by it.
-User God does not exist
-Prove it
-I do not see any user here inside CPU's memory.
-Ah Ok.
@@josepablolunasanchez1283
- What is his password then?
- "god"… oh…
;)
Tron is an exceptional movie for me just for the premise alone. Getting into a computer and to have adventures in a digital world is every nerd's dream. Reminds me of Reboot cartoon.
Tron is pre ReBoot. ReBoot was an awesome show I've watched it on and off on UA-cam for the last couple of years. I've got a scene from ReBoot on my channel.
ReBoot was a great show. I’m a big fan of the ‘war in the computer’ genre
I'm pretty sure Reboot was inspired by Tron. There's a lot of similarities.
The 2010 movie TRON LEGACY is an amazing movie in my opinion. Overlooked underrated gem. Hope you do the 2th one!
One of the most beautiful films I've seen, and damn that soundtrack. Legacy was also one of the few films I've enjoyed in 3D at the cinema. Our world was in 2D and their world in 3D but all as depth. Worked so well.
The visuals and soundtrack were amazing in the 2010 version. I'm not sure how good the actual plot, etc. was. I love the movie though, regardless.
yeah, no doubt...I think Daft Punk did the soundtrack too .....
2nd
Legacy is awesome. I just rewatched that recently and it still holds up.
One of the good things about being old (52) is that I saw this movie in theaters when I was a kid
Cool, you're already level 52.
You don't look 52. 🥰😍😉
@@briansmith48 0h, sorry, it's not a picture of me, it's actress Jessica Lucas
58... represent!
51 and saw it in theaters too! Did you wind up chucking frisbees at your friends too? 😁
3d animation software didn't exist at that time so the animators at Disney had to see a test reel, determine what they wanted to change, calculate all the coordinates for all the elements, write all those numbers down on paper and fedex all that paper to the specialized computer company that rendered the animation. Wait for the new reel to arrive by post and repeat.
Cloud rendering service of the day, eh? :J
You really need to watch the sequel Tron Legacy now 🔥
TRON is the DOS (Disk Operating System, the Forefather of MS Windows) command for TRace ON, a debug utility tool for the BASIC (beginner's Assembly Symbolic Instruction Code) language, which brought programming 'main stream' in the 70s.
The actor who played Alan, Bruce Boxleitner, had an amazing sci-fi tv series in the 90's called "Babylon 5". It's one of the best sci-fi stories in tv history. A self-contained 5 season story that inspired so many series after it. I'd highly recommend it.
Well...Londo is in it too. :)
@@JnEricsonx played by Peter Jurasik
@@mbwoods2001 Who I happily have met. And Andreas before his death, and Richard.
Bruce said he would have never done sci-fi until he did Tron. He only did westerns.
I played the Tron game at the arcade back in the early ‘80s, and it was really fun! I was terrible at it, but I kept coming back to try again. It was on my most frequently played rotation, beside Q-Bert, Centipede, and of course Pac-Man.
You still can. I do. Except for COVID, there is a Convention of old arcade games here in Mesa, AZ every August.
Spent my teenage years in arcades. My best game was Gorf, I could roll the rank 7 times on one quarter. Joust, Tempest, Centipede, and Robotron were some of my favs.
You Will have to see the sequel from 2010 "Tron Legacy"
yep, defenitely a good surprise
Yeah that is one of the most visually stunning movies there last 12 years!
there may have been some confusion about what is what in the computer-world. when a program is compiled it takes the appearence of its user. so in the beginning when flynn is searching for his game-code the program in the tank has his face and tron has alan's and yori has lora's apprearence. the only actual user in the computer is flynn. tron:legacy is a blast especially with all of the soundtrack by daft punk. and no. 13 of course
My wife and I had just started working for Pacific Bell in the LA area when this movie came out. We were hired out of the Military, wife is a Marine and I am a Sailor. We were hired to work on the computers which generated all the dial tone and routed all the calls. We went and watched this movie at the theater, and we both loved it.
I was a bit over 2 years in and saw this at a theater near NASJAX. Interesting that our command had just received an experimental computer system designed to combine radar signals from a couple coastal locations into a single information stream to be displayed on a CRT with CG symbols and maps, replacing the much older Single Long Range Array left by the Air Force with had been in use since the commands inception. On 3rd watch when there was no warning area traffic to monitor, I'd play with one of the stations seeing what it could do. Yes - I made a crude 'oval track map' and used the simulated aircraft commands to 'fly' a CG target around the track. The 'guys' upstairs noticed my interest in learning the system and approved. So it's a no-brainer when this movie came out I WAS in line.
BTW - Flynn - the hero of this film, is played by Jeff Bridges - who played Stane - the villain from the first Iron Man movie. :D
1982 - i was 11 at that time.. i remember that everything was so simple, so magic for my young eyes. I was so fascinated by the new technologies: computers, videogames.
And this film was so appealing to me, the scene of motocicles was the coolest thing i ever seen so far. Those were wonderful times.
I was not expecting you to watch this but I’ve been listening to the soundtrack for the last week! It’s one of my favorite soundtracks and was done by Wendy Carlos, who is not only a pioneer in electronic music, but was also one of the first famous transgendered people. She won many awards as “Walter Carlos” for a groundbreaking album called “Switched On Bach” before she became Wendy.
You have to remember (I guess you’re too young to actually remember) that computer monitors back then were VGA, black background with green, blue or orange text. That was the look they were trying to reflect with the greyscale and neon lines.
If no one else has mentioned it, another groundbreaking movie that is a milepost in CGI effects was The Last Starfighter from 1984.
Last Starfighter has the 'melted ice cream' landscape because the hardware and software weren't yet fast enough to render in a realistic time frame. I shake my head at people who complain about too much CGI and not enough practicals.
The Making-Of this movie is something else, it was a marriage of the bleeding edge of CGI along with very laborious hand coloured animation over traditional film. That huge cubicle farm is a matte painting. Such a cool looking film!
There's a lot of nerdy programmer stuff in this movie that I love. Watched this movie when I was very young so didn't remember it all that much, but again when I was in college, after I took a Machine/Assembly programming course, and it was interesting to think of some of the interactions as certain chip commands or processes. "End of Line" is kinda funny, because it basically indicates the end of a command. OG Tron certainly paved the way for many movies to come. Legacy is a massive upgrade. I often listen that OST when I work. Might queue it up today, in fact.
I watched this when it was first released in theaters. The computer world was still being created then and the concept of machines taking over was played out many times. This was timed good because all of us were dropping quarters into video arcade machine as fast as we could and the idea there was an alternate world inside them was kinda mind blowing. There were still single screen theaters when this played I saw it in one. The multi-plex type was spreading but hadn't wiped out the huge single theaters completely then.
This movie and Something Wicked This Way Comes did so poorly in the theater that Disney had to consider bankruptcy. It was made for an older audience but since it was Disney, adults thought the movies were for kids and didn't go. It helped lead to the creation of Touchstone Pictures so Disney could release more adult oriented movies. Another cool thing is in one of the solar sail scenes you can see Mickey's head on the ground below.
And Pac-Man playing on a wall! :)
Interesting that you drew the Star Wars character parallels - Jeff Bridges did actually audition for the part of Luke. There are screen tests of him reading against Teri Nunn who was auditioning for Leia. She then moved from acting to singing, becoming the lead singer of the band Berlin (and sang the song "Take my breath away" for the film "Top Gun")
Meanwhile Bruce Boxlitner became the lead in one of the best shows EVER.
@@JnEricsonx Very true !
I thought Kurt Russel auditioned for Luke. Never heard of Jeff Bridges auditioning.
@@jeffburnham6611 Checking .... Oops, yes you're right. My memory isn't what it once was.
Did not know that about Teri Nunn.
Thanks for the info. ✌
Tron is a really nostalgic piece of my childhood, so 20 or so years later, I was BLOWN AWAY at Tron: Legacy and I still love everything about it. The two films are visually stunning for their times they were released! Legacy didnt make a killing at the box office but it really SHOULD have, it's a great homage to the original and a love letter to the fans!
Mary, the main reason for the grey scale was so they could add the bright colors. This was the early stages of Blue and Green screen effects. I also enjoyed David Warner as "Evil" in Time Bandits. Jeff Bridges has a ton of great roles. Bruce Boxleitner did westerns but I enjoyed him most in Tron, Babylon 5 and Heroes series. Barnard Hughes had a few roles I really enjoyed: Tron, The Lost Boys, and Doc Hollywood. I didn't realize Peter Jurasik was in Tron but I loved his character of Londo in Babylon 5!!
EDIT: as pointed out, Thief of Bagdad (1940) used Blue Screen.
Blue screen was first used in The Thief of Bagdad in 1940, so no this wasn't the early stages of blue screen.
@@sntxrrr fair enough ....
Bruce Boxleitner was also in the TV show, Scarecrow and Mrs King in the late 80's.
Time Bandits and The Lost Boys would be great reactions.
@@briansmith48 What? People don't know about Scarecrow and Mrs King? Were these born in the 1980s?
The first ever fully CGI rendered sequence was in "Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan" (1982)!
Done by a very early Pixar Studios.
The best Star Trek movie!
The Genesis effect
Westworld from 1973 featured CGI
80s arcades were fun but you could get sick. My brother had his birthday in one, where we all got unlimited quarters for all machines. He got heat stroke in the arcade as a kid, so factor that into your desires. lol... plus, keep in mind, for a lot of the games you were standing, not sitting.
I hope the sequel will be comming soon. 😁
Mary is loving that sick Daft Punk track, so she'll make her way to it sooner than later.
Tron was ahead of its time. I saw it at the Drive In, forgot about my popcorn while they were on the bikes. Such a wild trip at the time.
I'm glad you enjoyed that Mary Cherry. It's always great so see younger generations reacting and reviewing some of my old favorites. Tron is an essential sci-fi classic. It wasn't as well recieved when it first came out but it's become more appreciated over time. It is very unique and original and quite stylish too. As old as the effects are it still looks fantastic. Sometimes the story goes over some folks heads but if you closely follow it, it's not too hard to understand what it's about. There's some clever symbolism here and at the same time, it's a lot of fun. They don't make movies like this anymore.
I believe the parts of the movie that were filmed to resemble being inside the GRID was all shot in black & white and then the colors were added later.
The way they did this was revolutionnary.
It's interesting that you got to tron by the music. It's appropriate that Daft Punk did the music for the sequel, since the music for this one was done by Wendy Carlos, who was one of the original pioneers of electronic music. Beautiful music, and revolutionary in it's time.
Tron was epic for its time. Imagine 40 years ago a year before the video game crash of 1983. A time of Pizza parlors and arcade games this movie captured that essence. Tron Legacy is visually stunning as well. It fleshes out the grid much more but Tron is my favorite.
It is still epic today.
Ed Dillinger, Commander Sark and the MCP are the main villains of the movie. All three played by David Warner who would later be known as Hockley's henchman Spicer Lovejoy in Titanic.
I saw this in the threater as a kid and it was absolutely amazing! Love the lightcycles!
Yes , at the time this was mindblowing. That motorcycle game is actually really hard to play well lol...ninja reflexes required :)
Oh God, whenever I see the "Tron" arcade machine, I have to play it at least a few times! I can't stay away from that thing! That game/movie literally shaped my childhood! lol
It is still mind blowing today. 😂
Try practicing that in Tron 2.0. The game is a bit outdated now, but it captures the world of Tron perfectly.
There's a video game museum near Pittsburgh that has just about every video game and pinball machine I've ever played since 1974. It's amazing to see.
This is one of the best sci-fi movies of all time timeless classic
Most kids at the time this film came out didn't know anything about computers. It definitely lit some sparks in children's minds.
Did you catch all the Easter eggs?
"Gort Klaatu barada nikto" in dot matrix printout on the wall of Alan's cubicle?
The Pac Man on Sark's tactical display?
Mickey Mouse's face in the valley during the solar Sailer scene?
Lots of clever computer lingo puns throughout the movie, too.
In 1982, the fear of AI taking over was old hat. Lots of books and movies had already been made around the idea. Still, how computers worked was so mysterious to most that you could make a movie with sentient little beings running around in them and it worked.
Wow, definitely wasn’t expecting this!
TRON RULES
TRON LIVES
You know there’s about 10-15 mins total of CGI in this movie. Most of the scenes inside the computer were achieved via backlit animation. I should know because I have some of the original screen used cels.
It hurts to know that many millennials and Gen Z's never had the pleasure to see this film on the big screen when it first came out. It is definitely a film to watch on a Blu-Ray player for it is a very colorful movie. Remember that this in one of the earliest CGI computer graphics films at the time. It's tame (or for some, lame) nowadays because of the advanced computer graphic designs we have today but for 1982, it was mesmerizing! You should also see "The Lawnmower Man" (1992), based on the Stephen King novel. It's a film where the highly talked about concept of virtual reality became a big thing on the big screen. 💡
+100 for Lawnmower Man! Another fascinating movie. A somewhat alarming mix of human horrors ans technological horrors. Definitely worth watching to see the parallels to today's technology.
Yes, I even had the Lawnmower Man video game, it was kinda cool.
Fun fact: there is very little CGI in this movie. Most of what you think was CGI was actually animated by hand. It’s a great testament to the Disney animation team.
Mary Cherry working her way through all of the films featured in Kingdom hearts I see
Lesse, I was 17 when this movie came out and it was everywhere! More merch than you could shake a stick at. It seemed everyone was racing in straight lines with 90 degree turns. I prolly put a thousand dollars in quarters into the arcade game.
SGI did a version you could play on an SGI workstation.
"Tron" and "The Discs of Tron" were definitely two favorite arcade games of mine back then; spent a small fortune on them both.
Good spinner nobs aren't cheap, and not many games used them, but people still add them to their custom built arcade cabinets, mostly just so they can play Tron the way it was meant to be played.
The disks that they used were actual frisbees. They even brought in a pro frisbee player to teach the cast. The frisbees were another thing that was hand painted on each film frame.
Neat little tidbit of information is Daft Punk the group that did the music for Legacy drew a lot of inspiration from the original Tron movie, So I can imagine the pure joy they had when they got the chance to make the music for the sequel.
The user that died was just his icon in the game world he's just fine in the real world,only Flynn real body has been made a program
The actor that played Ed Dillinger / Sark / Master Control Program (David Warner) also played "Evil Genius" in the movie "Time Bandits", and also Jennings (The photographer) in the movie "The Omen".
Ram is the guy who asked Allen for popcorn in the beginning of the movie
The building where Flynn's arcade was shot is in downtown Culver City quite near me. Mel Brooks had his offices upstairs for many years. It's a restaurant called Akasha now. Very tasty. ☺
It's fun to sneer at the surface of "Tron" from our place in the distant future, but I have to admire the ambition behind trying to dramatize concepts that were unimaginable to a movie audience in the late '70s/early '80s. They made an honest and I think rather noble attempt to do something different with this - at Disney, of all places.
I was 21 years old when this movie came out. I went to see it while in college, and computers became the life that I wanted to be in. Because of this movie, I repair, upgrade and build computers. I have seen this movie at least 100 times throughout my life... This movie was cutting edge in my opinion...
Another thing about the movie that you noted is that the in computer world scenes are black and white. All the glows were rotosocped and done optically for every frame. There's also a lot of backgrounds with actors that were painted by animators. I love the CG designs and the futurist artist, Syd Mead did some work designing the lightcycles, recognizers and tanks.
At age eleven, this film changed my life.
OH those arcades were so much fun. A destination spot for groups of friends. People are missing out by only having their games in their hands or at home.
I love Jeff Bridges. Iron Man, The Big Lebowski, The Fisher King, Starman, and Against All Odds, just to name a few. I was heart broken to learn that he got cancer. I wish him and his family the best
Probably the best rotoscopic movie ever. It really showed what you could do with it. That being said it was blown away by this as a kid, and going into the backyard to be Tron and throw frisbees at each other.
Watching this makes me miss going to the old arcades and stuff back in the 80's, back when I was a kid. It was a lot of fun. I miss playing the old "Tron" game along with all the others.
Yes in 1982 this was a very cool film. And for those who have seen Caddyshack 'Lora' in this movie is 'Lacy Underall' in Caddyshack.
So happy you got to watch this lost masterpiece. TRON is truly one of those film that inspire SO MUCH...yet never receive the recognition they deserve. Thank you for watching!
Let's just say I was preteen when I saw this. I don't know why, but I do remember really liking it. 🤣🤣👍👍
80s arcades were great. I turned 16 in 1980 and spent many hours and many quarters in the arcades. This is one of my favorite films, and when the sequel came out, I went to the midnight showing. Loved every minute of it!
David Warner is just an actor's actor. His name is not so well known and he doesn't always have the biggest parts, but he's had a long career and was in many memorable films - Tom Jones, The Omen, Time After Time, Time Bandits, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Titanic, Planet of the Apes, Avatar....
Fall of 1982, ten years old in the basement of Sears. I walk to the cassette tapes, Tron soundtrack sitting there in the rack, sort of isolated from the others. I was already a Tron fan, a video game fan, and a Journey fan. I wore that tape out.
You should also check out "Tron: Uprising" (maybe on Disney+?). It's an anime style cartoon that only had a single season. But, it had great direction, style and I thought was really interesting. Good voice acting from Elijah Wood, Bruce Boxleitner, Lance Henriksen, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, & Paul Reubens.
While many people praise Tron for its use of CGI the first major motion picture to use it had its plot borrowed as well, 1973's Westworld starring Yul Brenner. In fact, the sequel Futureworld was the first film to showcase 3D graphics.
I remember watching this on release as a 14 year old and was amazed by the graphics
Apart from some of the corny dialog/writing/acting, it is definitely one of my favorite films of the 80's. It truly was a major achievement requiring a cooperative effort from hundreds of people, pretty amazing on many technical levels at least.
Saw this movie at my friend's birthday party, his mom rented a laser disk player. One of those disks the size of a dinner plate. We watched this movie and were amazed. Later for my birthday I got a TRS 80 computer for my birthday and while going through the manual found that "tron" is a programming command you can execute in basic language. I thought I had discovered something magic and got into the greatest nerd phase of my life. Tons of fun!
Appreciate you saying this movie isn't really old, as its the same age as myself, seems a lot of awesome stuff was produced in 82 lol!
Tron + Acid = A new understanding of peer-to-peer architecture.
One of my favorite movies. The special effects are so amazing.
Never dated. 😉
@ Appropriate for the time. These effects just evoke "this is what lives in your Atari."
Tron was first on my radar when I passed by a mall bookstore on my way to work. The paperback novel of the movie was on full display in the front. It had Tron on the cover in full digital uniform. I was hooked. I bought the book. I waited and got the movie promo magazine, full of explanations and cgi photos. Then I got to see the movie. I was disappointed, because the projectors weren't bright enough to display the movie properly. It was very dim. Fortunately it came out on that RCA disc format and I bought a player at Radio Shack. I then bought Tron and Star Wars. I watched them over and over.
Back in the 80's, Tron had 2 real-life games in the arcade. One was Discs Of Tron where you had to dodge discs and hit your opponents with yours to advance. The other was Tron where you had 4 missions (one was Light-Cycle, another was Tank Battle)... The rock band Journey that has two songs on Tron's soundtrack also got their own video game in the 80's!.... Side note: I still have the children's storybook adaption of this movie
Yay, Tron! Not exactly a great movie per se, but very influential. You picked up a lot on its legacy as seen in modern films, but it also holds a special place in my heart. I never got to see it in theaters, but I watched it on TV around 1984 or so. It had a huge impact on me in terms of special effects and 3D computer graphics, and was sort of the second part of a one-two punch with Star Wars. These two together are what got my into computer graphics, and thus my current career. I made more iterations of that light cycle racing game than I can count on one hand: in 2D first, as it was depicted in the "real world" in the movie, and then in 3D as the programs experienced it on the game grid, and most recently in VR.
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I remember when we were little we would run around and throw frisbees at each other pretending we were Tron. Fun times
This movie was one of my most favorites of the time. I think I was in junior high when this came out.
You really didn't know Jeff Bridges?
Here a few recommendations..
The Fisher King (1991)
Fearless (1993)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Arlington Road (1999)
Crazy Heart (2009)
True Grit (2010)
Yes! Finally someone's watching this!
Love this movie. Remember watching this on tv way back in the 80s and my mom taping it for me. :3
Perfect timing for me to watch this after working a show last night hosted by your local mate Donny Benet. Dude was making some magical music that would go great to this movie 💃🕺
In late 1982 Atari released the 2600 home consoles. So at this time only military & large corporations had computers. Average people didn’t know how computers really worked.
I enjoyed the binary ‘yes/no 1 or 0’ drone that followed a few characters. I was 10 and Tron was my 1st hand held game I owned. Much nostalgia
I saw this when it came out back in the day. It was big deal not only for CGI but for gaming and computers. I forgot Jeff Bridges starred in this. Funny he would eventually go on to play the "DUDE" in The Big Lebowski
The guy that asked Allan for popcorn was played by the actor that played Ram. So he did have a counterpart in the real world.
It's amazing how it really hit the mark in how it portrayed cyber crime, future technology, etc. A lot of IT professionals today say this movie inspired them to choose their career.
Random thought while watching, not sure if you picked up on it: The reason the programs seemed to have so much reverence for users is because they view users as gods - the users are their creators, after all.
Great reactions to this movie, Mary!!!👏👏👏Tron was also an arcade game that came out the same year. It contained four sub-games from the movie. Take care, Michael😃
In University, starting in 1982, some guys from my floor in residence were aces at that game... they'd play an hour or two on one quarter.
Another one of my all time favorite movies. I am excited to hear your thoughts on it. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you will check out Tron legacy as well. Nevertheless I look forward to your future videos. Keep up the great work.
Have to remember it's early 80s.. and the beam that shot flynn was deconstructing him piece by piece and digitizing him , this movie is still cool as hell and iconic . The second movie was amazing too