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You guys need to also watch the documentary on the making of this film. They had to invent so many new techniques and technologies to accomplish what they did.
So Andrew recognised Barnard Hughes from Sister Act 2, but neither of you recognised him from The Lost Boys? Does that mean you haven’t seen it? It’s such a ‘horror’ classic! You have to watch it if you haven’t!
Fun Fact: 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.
One of the general misconceptions about the Tron movies is that the humans/users are sucked into video-games, when they are actually inside computer servers. The reason there are game elements within the 1982 Grid is because the MCP is using the models from Flynn's Space Paranoids to act as tools for his programs' takeover of the system. Also for his "games" that serve to indoctrinate programs into minions, while killing any opposition. Also, no one built the cities within the system, they were generated by themselves, actually representations of the server's architecture. There, that was my loredump for Tron.
Seriously, I wish everyone knew just how much this movie was responsible for so much of the computer effects we have today, and how much it changed the entire movie scene. The love and innovation that went into this film is astounding!
Tron, Roger Rabbit, and Oz are my trifecta of special effects films. Oz brought color, Tron helped bring CGI, and Roger is a master class of physical effects
13:13 - The actor who plays Dr. Walter Gibbs in TRON, as well as Dumont (his program), is Barnard Hughes. He also played Grandpa in The Lost Boys (1987) and Dr. Aurelius Hogue in Doc Hollywood (1991). 49:58 - The composer for the film is Wendy Carlos. She became well known for the use of synthesizers for music, starting her career with doing synth music renders of the work of Bach for an album called Swithed-On Bach, which caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick. She worked on the score for A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980) prior to TRON. She is actually a transgendered woman, starting off as being born male.
Bruce Boxleitner said he based his portrayal of Tron off Superman/Clark Kent. He's the mild mannered guy with glasses as Alan and the confident superhero as Tron
I saw this movie in the theater when I was 9, changed my life, I became hyper focused on computers. got my 1st computer shortly after (TI-994/A) and learned how to program. I am now 51 and still in the IT industry
A few years ago they did an anniversary double feature screening of TRON and TRON: Legacy in Hollywood, with a panel of guests from the cast and crew. Seeing the original up on a giant screen was glorious!
The team responsible for the light cycle sequence included an animator named Bill Kroyer. Bill won an Oscar for his short Technological Terror that mixed 2D and 3D art for the first time. His animation company went on and created Ferngully as well as a bunch of other mixed animation effects - including the opening credits for Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
I can't wait to see you react to Legacy after seeing this for the first time. I think so much of Legacy's disappointment was rooted in nostalgia and expectations. I love Tron. I can't even count how many times I've watched it. But I understand it's not a "Good" movie like The Godfather is a good movie. It's an experience, it's fun, and it's exciting. And I think Legacy was a successful sequel in more ways than people gave it credit for at release. It's not a "great" film. But it was Tron with all the decades of the weight of the world built in since 1982.
Wendy Carlos did the composing and score for the movie. An amazing pioneer in electronic synthesizers and computerized music. She's definitely worth a look-up and reading about her work.
There are a few videos of her on youtube talking about her synths and the composition process. At the time they were walls of equipment that you had to manually connect parts together with patch cables and adjust all the knobs by hand. It is fascinating. She is also the only trans composer I know of and in one of the older videos she still had insanely epic mutton chops while wearing a suit yet having a dainty physique and a voice most people wouldn't have ever described as masculine. She worked on a few other movies including Clockwork Orange and had several albums of synth music that did fairly well. Some of them are out of print but some can be bought online. Not sure how much of here work is available for streaming. I remember the oldest copies of Tron listed the music as being from Walter Carlos, the later soundtracks listed Walter/Wendy Carlos, and now all the copies of stuff available to buy or stream has been updated to just say Wendy Carlos. I remember It caused a bunch of confusion for me as a kid because I saw two different first names and one last name and wondered if this was siblings or a married couple and at the time it never occurred to me that it was just one person who had changed names. Seriously, if you have any interest in electronic music or the history of the gear or anything check out the videos of her demonstrating the stuff. They are a fun watch.
Tron: Legacy. When that movie came out I was like 10 or something and loved it, couldn’t stop watching, playing the video game, and running around with my action figure throwing frisbees as if I was Tron lol
@@thedrewsephYT Was rewatching it around a week ago (totally forgot about how I was obsessed with Tron till I watched it) and I did a double take at the CGI of young Jeff Bridges lol. (If you haven’t seen Tron: Legacy, I don’t want to spoil so don’t read the rest) Once I saw that CGI, it looked weird and didn’t remember it being that way. But I grew to love it, especially when CLU was on screen. My personal theory on it was that they did it that way on purpose for CLU to make him look more like an older less refined program (least facial wise) since he was the first one Flynn made in that world, one of the originals or the original I guess
Did see this in the theatre on opening day. Twice. And kept going back whenever I could. The visual effects were mind-blowing - Flynn's descent into the computer world felt utterly surreal.
The synths at that time were monophonic and didn't have sequencers so the electronic parts of the soundtrack were essentially recorded one note at a time and then tape spliced and mixed.
Tron: Legacy with Cillian Murphy's character is portraying David Warner's character's son so kind of setting up the rivalry between Garrett Hedlund's character Sam Flynn.
Production of Tron: Ares, which includes Jared Leto has officially started filming. I don't know how (or if) they'll tie the story to Tron: Legacy or not - but as far as I know no one from Tron: Legacy has been announced in Ares.
@@Brook11223 The Blu-Ray included some additional videos, including a communication between Dillenger Jr. and his father, using text, and featuring the MCP voice with the iconic End of Line being used.
Having seen this in the theater when it released I can tell you, this was big when it came out. But it wasn't a box office success when it released. No one had ever seen anything like this to this point. The programmers that worked on this were in a master class. This movie is OG and is the template for so many movies since then. You can do a search to learn more about it and there are videos of behind the scenes the making of Tron you can peruse.
There was an interview on the 20th anniversary DVD of "Tron." Now-former Pixar chief John Lasseter was on it. He saw the light cycle sequence while it was being developed. He said: “Without Tron there would be no Toy Story.”
The actor who played Dr. Walter Gibbs/Dumont is played by Barnard Hughes and he played Grampa in The Lost Boys, Sister Act II as Father Maurice, and so many other roles.
I was 12 when i watched this movie on a rainy Sunday afternoon and was blown away and went straight to DreamMachine arcade at my local arcade to play Tron, which they debuted after it's first showing...
16:39 love how he refers to Mr Peabody & Sherman. 26:00 it’s funny Jeff Bridges “grid” costume is different from everyone else’s cause he was too “endowed” for the kind of movie it was. After this they have “Tron: Uprising” that’s an incomplete animated series (they didn’t want to renew it). After that they have “Tron: Legacy” (has some callbacks to the first one to watch for) then there’s a short called “Tron: The Next Day”. They’ve been working on a new one with Jared Leto. 49:54 as soon as they brought Flynn into the grid there was no more Clu. They wiped him from the system. Flynn was getting ready to rebuild him when the MCP pulled him into the system.
And that's just a bit. There's also a novelization of the 82 film by Brian Daley, the Betrayal comic, Wii Battle Grids, Tron: Evolution, and an ARG called Flynn Lives. Then you even get a "Legends canon" in the form of Tron 2.0, which had the Tron 2.0 Killer App sequel for the Game Boy Advance and the Tron: Ghost in the Machine comic book.
Here's an interesting story for you guys- I've been on the Internet since 1995 & full-time for my Career by 1997. The Internet of that era had tons of things available that now would be on the Deep, or even Dark, Web. People were putting up anything they could, just to have something out there. So, around 1996, I came across an essay a media reporter made about an interview he had with a Retiring BigWig Hollywood Exec back in 1989. They were basically doing a kind of Biography/Retrospective of his career. During the Interview, the Reporter asked the Exec what he thought the most Religious film Hollywood had ever made, was. Expecting the Exec to bring up some film like 'Ben-Hur' or 'The Ten Commandments'. The Guy sat back in his chair, stared at the ceiling for a moment, then, with complete seriousness, looked the reporter straight in the eye and said- 'Tron'. The Reporter was so surprised he didn't know what to say. When I came across this article, it was years before I started keeping everything I thought was strange or worthwhile, so I didn't copy it. I was never able to find it again, but I've never forgotten it. When you consider how widespread the concept of 'Simulation Theory' has become (The Idea that OUR reality is a Simulation, like a stupendously complex computer program), it makes one wonder if the Exec knew something we didn't. This was back in 1989, remember. And if you look at the film from OUR perspective, from the view that the Computer World is OUR World, then yes, it makes sense why the Retiring Exec would say that 'Tron' was a Religious film.
'Less Complicated?' Oh no, Younglings. The Technology may have been less ADVANCED, but those effects were incredibly complicated to create. New techniques were created to get what we see on screen. For comparison, it may be a lot of work to improve a car's Internal Combustion Engine, but creating that engine from SCRATCH? That's a lot harder to do.
I saw this in the theaters when I was a kid. Movies like this were rare back then so we savored every moment. The stories and characters became part of our generational psyche. The music might not be Daft Punk, but the soundtrack along with the music in Bladerunner would arguably inspire the soundtracks of modern video games such as Mass Effect, Hotline Miami and Crypt Of The Necrodancer. It's all part of the synthwave movement from back then and the retro-return of the last decade.
This came out when I was in junior high. It was absolutely amazing. They used stacks of Amigas to do the CGI rendering. I still hear the grid bug theme in my sleep sometimes (because of the video game)
I saw "Tron" when it first came out in theaters, but thinking about it when I watch it today, I'm struck by how much it relies on sheer charm to keep things moving, keep the audience invested and to make up for what they weren't able to do with CGI effects yet.
Know what I love about this movie? It was the first media in which I came to notice the trope of the main protagonist not being the bad ass character. Tron was the "hero" character not Flynn. In Tombstone Doc Holiday was the bad ass not Wyatt Earp. In Robotech Max Sterling was the super ace pilot not Rick Hunter.
I was around 7 when this came out, and saw it sometime after it came to tv in the following year or so. My family mocked me mercilessly for years for liking it... At some point in my teen years, or maybe my 20s I stood up to them saying, "yes, I do like Tron, and I don't care if you don't, so shut up about it already."
Its funny you should mention the Matrix and point out in this movie the endless cubicles in the office building. There is a scene in the Matrix where Neo is running from agent Smith in a maze of cubicles towards an office where Neo tries to escape but fails.
Loved this movie as a kid back in the 80’s. It sparked my interest in computers and games and I’ve been a gamer ever since. Though it’s very dated now, it blew me away as a kid. I had never seen anything like it and I dreamed of riding a light cycle. I still love this movie and even have a framed Tron poster hanging in my living room. RIP Cindy Morgan ❤
I miss arcades!!! For more David Warner (again, a villain) check out the movie "Time After Time" - and then after that you might catch a reference from the move "Back To The Future III" Heh-heh....
57:18 Music by the amazing Wendy Carlos Who also made the music for The Shining. Apparently this score was so complex that the orchestra had a difficult time performing the music which is why a lot of it was supplemented with synth. It was one of those happy accidents however it was meant to be fully orchestral. Overall this film is highly underrated and they really push the boundaries with this film. Despite it being highly colorized the film was primarily shot in monochrome. The themes and ideas were so radical for the time considering that computers were still in such a primitive state compared to today's computer. For example a lot of the computer terminology was still relatively unknown when the film came out. So it's a really fascinating how complex this film was story wise and technology wise!
Wendy Carlos was born Walter Carlos. Quite possibly the World's first trans composer. Or at least, the first really well-known one. Walter made a huge splash in the late 1960s with the ground-breaking album "Switched-On Bach", in which pieces by J.S. Bach were played on a Moog Synthesizer. Believe me, our minds WERE blown, seeing "Tron" in theaters in 1982.
Great reaction Andrew & John! 😊 This is one of my favorite Jeff Bridges movies, along with the sequel "Tron: Legacy", "Starman", "Iron Man", and "The Big Lebowski". If one or neither of you haven't seen "Tron: Legacy" yet, you need to see it. Even if it's a re-watch. It's a must react to!! Such a great movie! Looking forward to the next reaction. 😊
Saw this the Day it came out in 1982, and yes it was AMAZING on the big screen! It blew everyone Away! The Graphics so groundbreaking!!! No one had ever seen this before on the big screen. The Making is Facinating to watch! The way they did all the Sets and Costumes..very cool! They did have a Tron game. a few Tron games actually. The Toys were cool too, specally the Light Cycles!
@43:52: My dad is pro-fascist, but we had Tron, Watership Down, etc on betamax, which I think helped to counter those ideas. But having seen Tron countless times, what really jumped out to me watching this reaction is the amazing sound design. Not that I never noticed, but this movie really is chocked full of cool sounds. And look into Wendy Carlos, btw... she's a pioneer that every film buff should be more familiar with.
I saw Tron when it first came out. I loved it! BTW, the game with the ball and the scoops (called "cestas," or "baskets" in Spanish) is called jai alai (pronounced "HI lie") and is very big in South Florida.
I love this movie! I was soo excited to see you guys react to this. This movie is a favorite in my family..due to the fact that my dad, some of his brothers and their dad are programmers.. I get most of the jokes. Plus Jeff bridges is a such a hambone in this.
Really happy you guys got around to checking this flick! I was in kindergarten when this hit theaters. I was hanging out with my older cousins going to the movies/arcades back then. You guys are absolutely right, the movie, the arcade game and the toyline were unlike anything else at that time!
After watching this, and seeing how much you liked it, I'm really excited to see you guys do Tron: Legacy. Sequels of beloved movies, especially more than 20 years later, are generally not good. You guys are in for a treat!
Flynn getting blasted by the laser and his body getting digitized scared me when I was little because it reminded me of the movie Jumanji where Alan got trapped in the game in a scary way for years .
'When special effexts were less complicated' in order to make the suit lines glow. They had to go through each individual frame and paint in the lines. Not sure that counts as less conplicated hahah😊
The accompanying video games to this movie, although “primitive” and simpler compared to today’s games, are still so much fun. If you have a chance to play “Tron” (lightcycle races, tank battles, defeating the MPC) or “Discs of Tron” (disc battles), you should definitely check them out!
Oh I hope you react to Tron: Uprising. Disney were so stupid when airing that cartoon, always moving the time and day. Only 2 seasons, but they're so amazing. Elijah Wood voices the main character, Beck. It takes place after the original and before Legacy. It's soooooo good. It's a crime it didn't get a third seasons, for one big reason, but I won't spoil it. There is talk of TRON 3 yet again. I'm not getting my hopes up.
Watched this one all the time as a kid. The sequel came out my first semester of college and inspired me to major in VFX. Tron literally changed my life.
A huge amount of what looks like animation was actually hand drawn images and rotoscoping in the actors in layers to create the visuals.. You should totally look at the documentary about how Tron was made.. It is really interesting stuff
I watched this as a kid and definitely made me look at playing games a lot differently. I also recommend one of the first fully CGI shows, Reboot. It has a lot of similarities and is a fantastic story.
I was lucky enough to see this when it first released in 82. I was in 7th or 8th grade. This really blew my mind as a kid. The sequel has amazing visuals
My entire life the summer after I saw this in the theaters me and my friends entire life was throwing frisbees at each other as hard as we could. Ahhh the 80's. Loved the reaction. Thanks!
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The Tron animated show was great too. Set in between the movies
You guys didn't grow up in the 80's? I feel so sad for you. Y'all missed out. This movie blew my mind when I was a kid.
You guys need to also watch the documentary on the making of this film. They had to invent so many new techniques and technologies to accomplish what they did.
So Andrew recognised Barnard Hughes from Sister Act 2, but neither of you recognised him from The Lost Boys? Does that mean you haven’t seen it? It’s such a ‘horror’ classic! You have to watch it if you haven’t!
hey REEL REJECTs
i Dare you to do "FIRST TIME WATCHING = HEAVY METAL (1981)
Fun Fact: 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.
I’d go even further and say modern blockbuster movies are more animated than live action.
So your saying tron is the reason movies suck these days and they started a domino effect thanks I knew it
To a certain extent... No. To every extent. Yes.😅
Tron is one of those movies that only comes out when there are big improvements in technology for movies production
CGI work would be characterized as VFX which is a separate category that did not exist in 82.
One of the general misconceptions about the Tron movies is that the humans/users are sucked into video-games, when they are actually inside computer servers. The reason there are game elements within the 1982 Grid is because the MCP is using the models from Flynn's Space Paranoids to act as tools for his programs' takeover of the system. Also for his "games" that serve to indoctrinate programs into minions, while killing any opposition.
Also, no one built the cities within the system, they were generated by themselves, actually representations of the server's architecture.
There, that was my loredump for Tron.
I don't think people understand how important Tron is in terms of the upbringing of special effects. Tron is an underrated gem.
It is up there with how The Wizard Of Oz made color/colour the standard and also the sound design was years ahead of its time!
Seriously, I wish everyone knew just how much this movie was responsible for so much of the computer effects we have today, and how much it changed the entire movie scene. The love and innovation that went into this film is astounding!
Tron, Roger Rabbit, and Oz are my trifecta of special effects films. Oz brought color, Tron helped bring CGI, and Roger is a master class of physical effects
13:13 - The actor who plays Dr. Walter Gibbs in TRON, as well as Dumont (his program), is Barnard Hughes. He also played Grandpa in The Lost Boys (1987) and Dr. Aurelius Hogue in Doc Hollywood (1991).
49:58 - The composer for the film is Wendy Carlos. She became well known for the use of synthesizers for music, starting her career with doing synth music renders of the work of Bach for an album called Swithed-On Bach, which caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick. She worked on the score for A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980) prior to TRON. She is actually a transgendered woman, starting off as being born male.
He was one of my favorite actors as a kid in the 80s because of his tv about Merlin in modern day.
Wendy Carlos also collaborated on an album retelling the story of "Peter and the Wolf" with "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Bruce Boxleitner said he based his portrayal of Tron off Superman/Clark Kent. He's the mild mannered guy with glasses as Alan and the confident superhero as Tron
The fact they hand painted the illumination circuitry on 75K of the frames is a work of love and amazing in that time!
I can confirm that, as an 11 year old, this movie was in fact mind blowing in the theater.
I saw this movie in the theater when I was 9, changed my life, I became hyper focused on computers. got my 1st computer shortly after (TI-994/A) and learned how to program. I am now 51 and still in the IT industry
Wendy Carlos also did the score for A Clockwork Orange and The Shining.
Wendy Carlos was one of the pioneers of the original Moog synthesizer.
A few years ago they did an anniversary double feature screening of TRON and TRON: Legacy in Hollywood, with a panel of guests from the cast and crew. Seeing the original up on a giant screen was glorious!
The team responsible for the light cycle sequence included an animator named Bill Kroyer. Bill won an Oscar for his short Technological Terror that mixed 2D and 3D art for the first time. His animation company went on and created Ferngully as well as a bunch of other mixed animation effects - including the opening credits for Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
I can't wait to see you react to Legacy after seeing this for the first time. I think so much of Legacy's disappointment was rooted in nostalgia and expectations. I love Tron. I can't even count how many times I've watched it. But I understand it's not a "Good" movie like The Godfather is a good movie. It's an experience, it's fun, and it's exciting. And I think Legacy was a successful sequel in more ways than people gave it credit for at release. It's not a "great" film. But it was Tron with all the decades of the weight of the world built in since 1982.
Wendy Carlos did the composing and score for the movie. An amazing pioneer in electronic synthesizers and computerized music. She's definitely worth a look-up and reading about her work.
There are a few videos of her on youtube talking about her synths and the composition process. At the time they were walls of equipment that you had to manually connect parts together with patch cables and adjust all the knobs by hand. It is fascinating. She is also the only trans composer I know of and in one of the older videos she still had insanely epic mutton chops while wearing a suit yet having a dainty physique and a voice most people wouldn't have ever described as masculine. She worked on a few other movies including Clockwork Orange and had several albums of synth music that did fairly well. Some of them are out of print but some can be bought online. Not sure how much of here work is available for streaming. I remember the oldest copies of Tron listed the music as being from Walter Carlos, the later soundtracks listed Walter/Wendy Carlos, and now all the copies of stuff available to buy or stream has been updated to just say Wendy Carlos. I remember It caused a bunch of confusion for me as a kid because I saw two different first names and one last name and wondered if this was siblings or a married couple and at the time it never occurred to me that it was just one person who had changed names.
Seriously, if you have any interest in electronic music or the history of the gear or anything check out the videos of her demonstrating the stuff. They are a fun watch.
The original Tron and sequel are both very underrated movies.
What's your favorite Jeff Bridges performance??
Tron: Legacy. When that movie came out I was like 10 or something and loved it, couldn’t stop watching, playing the video game, and running around with my action figure throwing frisbees as if I was Tron lol
Starman & The Dude…
there are so many others i love tho.
I loved CGI Jeff Bridges Vs Older Jeff Bridges in the sequel Tron Legacy.
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@@thedrewsephYT Was rewatching it around a week ago (totally forgot about how I was obsessed with Tron till I watched it) and I did a double take at the CGI of young Jeff Bridges lol.
(If you haven’t seen Tron: Legacy, I don’t want to spoil so don’t read the rest)
Once I saw that CGI, it looked weird and didn’t remember it being that way. But I grew to love it, especially when CLU was on screen. My personal theory on it was that they did it that way on purpose for CLU to make him look more like an older less refined program (least facial wise) since he was the first one Flynn made in that world, one of the originals or the original I guess
Did see this in the theatre on opening day. Twice. And kept going back whenever I could. The visual effects were mind-blowing - Flynn's descent into the computer world felt utterly surreal.
Saw this...not lying...17 times in the cinema when I was a kid.
Seriously impressive.
I don't recall if I saw it in the theater or not, but I did wear out a VHS tape of it.....
I remember hearing that they edited every single frame for the digital lighting effects on the actors. Crazy.
The synths at that time were monophonic and didn't have sequencers so the electronic parts of the soundtrack were essentially recorded one note at a time and then tape spliced and mixed.
You guys are correct. The actor playing Ram, is Dan Shore who plays Billy the Kid in Bill & Ted.
Tron: Legacy with Cillian Murphy's character is portraying David Warner's character's son so kind of setting up the rivalry between Garrett Hedlund's character Sam Flynn.
It's too bad we'll never see that play out
@@matthewbertram4312 I was so hoping for that storyline to happen. Also in that scene you had Jeffrey Nordling as well.
Production of Tron: Ares, which includes Jared Leto has officially started filming. I don't know how (or if) they'll tie the story to Tron: Legacy or not - but as far as I know no one from Tron: Legacy has been announced in Ares.
@@Brook11223 The Blu-Ray included some additional videos, including a communication between Dillenger Jr. and his father, using text, and featuring the MCP voice with the iconic End of Line being used.
I was 10 when this came out. My Huffy was a light cycle until Return of Jedi turned it into a speeder bike. Way before its time.
Having seen this in the theater when it released I can tell you, this was big when it came out. But it wasn't a box office success when it released. No one had ever seen anything like this to this point. The programmers that worked on this were in a master class. This movie is OG and is the template for so many movies since then. You can do a search to learn more about it and there are videos of behind the scenes the making of Tron you can peruse.
The actor from Sister Act 2 also plays grandpa in "The Lost Boys".
Barnard Hughes (Walter/ Dumont) was also the old town doctor in Doc Hollywood with Michael J Fox
“The only thing wrong with this town is all the g*dd**n vampires!”
@@ArthurSB73 Oh yeah. I forgot about that movie.
There was an interview on the 20th anniversary DVD of "Tron." Now-former Pixar chief John Lasseter was on it. He saw the light cycle sequence while it was being developed. He said: “Without Tron there would be no Toy Story.”
The actor who played Dr. Walter Gibbs/Dumont is played by Barnard Hughes and he played Grampa in The Lost Boys, Sister Act II as Father Maurice, and so many other roles.
I was 12 when i watched this movie on a rainy Sunday afternoon and was blown away and went straight to DreamMachine arcade at my local arcade to play Tron, which they debuted after it's first showing...
I spent so many quarters on Tron in the arcades, that dang spider level, I just wanted to play the speeder bikes! haha
Me too! The spiders were nearly impossible to beat.
That Tron arcade game is still my favorite. Haven't seen one in a very long time.
So excited to see John and Andrew react to this movie! This movie has some crazy and pretty good visuals! 👍
RIP Cindy Morgan - (September 29, 1954 - c. December 30, 2023)
16:39 love how he refers to Mr Peabody & Sherman. 26:00 it’s funny Jeff Bridges “grid” costume is different from everyone else’s cause he was too “endowed” for the kind of movie it was. After this they have “Tron: Uprising” that’s an incomplete animated series (they didn’t want to renew it). After that they have “Tron: Legacy” (has some callbacks to the first one to watch for) then there’s a short called “Tron: The Next Day”. They’ve been working on a new one with Jared Leto. 49:54 as soon as they brought Flynn into the grid there was no more Clu. They wiped him from the system. Flynn was getting ready to rebuild him when the MCP pulled him into the system.
And that's just a bit. There's also a novelization of the 82 film by Brian Daley, the Betrayal comic, Wii Battle Grids, Tron: Evolution, and an ARG called Flynn Lives.
Then you even get a "Legends canon" in the form of Tron 2.0, which had the Tron 2.0 Killer App sequel for the Game Boy Advance and the Tron: Ghost in the Machine comic book.
Here's an interesting story for you guys-
I've been on the Internet since 1995 & full-time for my Career by 1997. The Internet of that era had tons of things available that now would be on the Deep, or even Dark, Web. People were putting up anything they could, just to have something out there.
So, around 1996, I came across an essay a media reporter made about an interview he had with a Retiring BigWig Hollywood Exec back in 1989. They were basically doing a kind of Biography/Retrospective of his career. During the Interview, the Reporter asked the Exec what he thought the most Religious film Hollywood had ever made, was.
Expecting the Exec to bring up some film like 'Ben-Hur' or 'The Ten Commandments'. The Guy sat back in his chair, stared at the ceiling for a moment, then, with complete seriousness, looked the reporter straight in the eye and said-
'Tron'.
The Reporter was so surprised he didn't know what to say.
When I came across this article, it was years before I started keeping everything I thought was strange or worthwhile, so I didn't copy it. I was never able to find it again, but I've never forgotten it.
When you consider how widespread the concept of 'Simulation Theory' has become (The Idea that OUR reality is a Simulation, like a stupendously complex computer program), it makes one wonder if the Exec knew something we didn't. This was back in 1989, remember. And if you look at the film from OUR perspective, from the view that the Computer World is OUR World, then yes, it makes sense why the Retiring Exec would say that 'Tron' was a Religious film.
Saw this in 1988 on the Disney channel and taped it. I had a blue frisbee and my sister had a red frisbee. Tron was regularly played in our backyard.
'Less Complicated?' Oh no, Younglings. The Technology may have been less ADVANCED, but those effects were incredibly complicated to create. New techniques were created to get what we see on screen. For comparison, it may be a lot of work to improve a car's Internal Combustion Engine, but creating that engine from SCRATCH? That's a lot harder to do.
I saw this in the theaters when I was a kid. Movies like this were rare back then so we savored every moment. The stories and characters became part of our generational psyche. The music might not be Daft Punk, but the soundtrack along with the music in Bladerunner would arguably inspire the soundtracks of modern video games such as Mass Effect, Hotline Miami and Crypt Of The Necrodancer. It's all part of the synthwave movement from back then and the retro-return of the last decade.
Wendy Carlos was a pioneer of digital synthesized music and did several well known film soundtracks
This came out when I was in junior high. It was absolutely amazing. They used stacks of Amigas to do the CGI rendering. I still hear the grid bug theme in my sleep sometimes (because of the video game)
Same here! I loved the arcade version and the music is permanently etched into my brain.
I saw "Tron" when it first came out in theaters, but thinking about it when I watch it today, I'm struck by how much it relies on sheer charm to keep things moving, keep the audience invested and to make up for what they weren't able to do with CGI effects yet.
Not to hate on it, but outside of the CHI, this movie falls incredibly flat. The dialogue is... something else.
Know what I love about this movie? It was the first media in which I came to notice the trope of the main protagonist not being the bad ass character. Tron was the "hero" character not Flynn. In Tombstone Doc Holiday was the bad ass not Wyatt Earp. In Robotech Max Sterling was the super ace pilot not Rick Hunter.
Robotech! 💙
I'm from this era. Tron sparked my love of art and science. I could go in on this movie for hours. And yes,Funko has a classic Tron pop.
I was 12 when it came out and yes we saw it at the theaters. TRON is actually a command in BASIC language. TRace ON.
I was around 7 when this came out, and saw it sometime after it came to tv in the following year or so. My family mocked me mercilessly for years for liking it...
At some point in my teen years, or maybe my 20s I stood up to them saying, "yes, I do like Tron, and I don't care if you don't, so shut up about it already."
Its funny you should mention the Matrix and point out in this movie the endless cubicles in the office building. There is a scene in the Matrix where Neo is running from agent Smith in a maze of cubicles towards an office where Neo tries to escape but fails.
in Kingdom Hearts 2, you actually get sucked into Tron and have to compete in the game and defeat Master Control. I always loved it
If y’all liked this then YALL would love the movie War Games!
Loved this movie as a kid back in the 80’s. It sparked my interest in computers and games and I’ve been a gamer ever since. Though it’s very dated now, it blew me away as a kid. I had never seen anything like it and I dreamed of riding a light cycle. I still love this movie and even have a framed Tron poster hanging in my living room.
RIP Cindy Morgan ❤
The actual TRON arcade game was fun. The light cycles had two speeds (slow and fast) but you couldn’t stop. You always moved forward.
Corridor crew did a breakdown on how this movie was made and the new one along with the effects and it's really interesting to learn about
The laser bay, server room and the big door were all filmed at Lawrence Livermore Labs.
1982 was an amazing year for sci fi, Tron, Blade Runner, The Thing, and E.T. all came out that year, and I remember them all fondly to this day.
Disney's best fillm. An absolute masterpiece. I've seen this film so many darn times over the past 42 years.
I miss arcades!!! For more David Warner (again, a villain) check out the movie "Time After Time" - and then after that you might catch a reference from the move "Back To The Future III" Heh-heh....
I watched it in theaters 3 times and played the Tron game constantly in arcades. Lightcycles forever!
57:18 Music by the amazing Wendy Carlos Who also made the music for The Shining. Apparently this score was so complex that the orchestra had a difficult time performing the music which is why a lot of it was supplemented with synth. It was one of those happy accidents however it was meant to be fully orchestral.
Overall this film is highly underrated and they really push the boundaries with this film. Despite it being highly colorized the film was primarily shot in monochrome. The themes and ideas were so radical for the time considering that computers were still in such a primitive state compared to today's computer. For example a lot of the computer terminology was still relatively unknown when the film came out. So it's a really fascinating how complex this film was story wise and technology wise!
Wendy Carlos was born Walter Carlos. Quite possibly the World's first trans composer. Or at least, the first really well-known one. Walter made a huge splash in the late 1960s with the ground-breaking album "Switched-On Bach", in which pieces by J.S. Bach were played on a Moog Synthesizer. Believe me, our minds WERE blown, seeing "Tron" in theaters in 1982.
Great reaction Andrew & John! 😊
This is one of my favorite Jeff Bridges movies, along with the sequel "Tron: Legacy", "Starman", "Iron Man", and "The Big Lebowski".
If one or neither of you haven't seen "Tron: Legacy" yet, you need to see it. Even if it's a re-watch. It's a must react to!! Such a great movie!
Looking forward to the next reaction. 😊
THE LIGHTCYCLE SCENE IS THE BEST PART!
That Doctor with the voice Andrew recognized, is the Grandpa from Lost Boys. All the damn Vampires!
I’ve never seen Lost Boys 😮
@@andrewgordon7662 Blasphemy! Put it on the list! lol
Saw this the Day it came out in 1982, and yes it was AMAZING on the big screen! It blew everyone Away! The Graphics so groundbreaking!!! No one had ever seen this before on the big screen. The Making is Facinating to watch! The way they did all the Sets and Costumes..very cool! They did have a Tron game. a few Tron games actually. The Toys were cool too, specally the Light Cycles!
This is a classic, the sequel is criminally underrated. The soundtrack alone is spine tingling
I was 16 when Tron came out and yes saw it in the theatres... great movie at the time
I'm glad this movie is getting more recognition I CANT WAIT FOR THEM TO REACT TO TRON LEGACY
I'm crossing my fingers they'll do Uprising too.
yes! been waiting for you guys to check out tron, so excited to see you guys react to tron legacy next
56:40 Now this, puts a smile on my face 😌
The FXs did not upscale to HD very well. It actually looks best projected from a Laserdisc player, in my opinion.
@43:52: My dad is pro-fascist, but we had Tron, Watership Down, etc on betamax, which I think helped to counter those ideas.
But having seen Tron countless times, what really jumped out to me watching this reaction is the amazing sound design. Not that I never noticed, but this movie really is chocked full of cool sounds. And look into Wendy Carlos, btw... she's a pioneer that every film buff should be more familiar with.
Bruce Boxleitner would have cut a good Clark Kent at the time, he's got the spectacles game down.
I appreciate this movie now, but I think I was too young to appreciate this when I first saw this.
I saw Tron when it first came out. I loved it! BTW, the game with the ball and the scoops (called "cestas," or "baskets" in Spanish) is called jai alai (pronounced "HI lie") and is very big in South Florida.
I saw this film back in 1982. I was 9. Mind blown doesn't even begin to describe my thoughts. Haha 😅
I love this movie! I was soo excited to see you guys react to this. This movie is a favorite in my family..due to the fact that my dad, some of his brothers and their dad are programmers.. I get most of the jokes. Plus Jeff bridges is a such a hambone in this.
Really happy you guys got around to checking this flick! I was in kindergarten when this hit theaters. I was hanging out with my older cousins going to the movies/arcades back then. You guys are absolutely right, the movie, the arcade game and the toyline were unlike anything else at that time!
23:04 This is where the fun begins
Bernard Hughes was also The Grandpa from Lost Boys and the Country Doctor from Doc Hollywood. 😁
Just wait till they watch Legacy
Wendy Carlos who did the music for this ALSO did the soundtrack for "Clockwork Orange" AND "The Shining"
After watching this, and seeing how much you liked it, I'm really excited to see you guys do Tron: Legacy. Sequels of beloved movies, especially more than 20 years later, are generally not good. You guys are in for a treat!
Flynn getting blasted by the laser and his body getting digitized scared me when I was little because it reminded me of the movie Jumanji where Alan got trapped in the game in a scary way for years .
'When special effexts were less complicated' in order to make the suit lines glow. They had to go through each individual frame and paint in the lines. Not sure that counts as less conplicated hahah😊
The accompanying video games to this movie, although “primitive” and simpler compared to today’s games, are still so much fun. If you have a chance to play “Tron” (lightcycle races, tank battles, defeating the MPC) or “Discs of Tron” (disc battles), you should definitely check them out!
The last Starfighter came out in 1984 which used a lot of the same tech that this movie used.
We had a Flynn's at California Adventure, back when we had ElecTRONica
ElecTRONica was so much fun!!!
lol…y’all need to react to Time Bandits. Dillinger is in that along with Connery. It’s a crazy movie.
Saw it in the theatre. And the Tron arcade game was one of my favorites, along with the Star Wars trench run game. Those were the days.
Some of the CGI was done on a Cray I supercomputer. The old guy is also the Dad/Grandpa in The Lost Boys.
Oh I hope you react to Tron: Uprising. Disney were so stupid when airing that cartoon, always moving the time and day. Only 2 seasons, but they're so amazing. Elijah Wood voices the main character, Beck. It takes place after the original and before Legacy. It's soooooo good. It's a crime it didn't get a third seasons, for one big reason, but I won't spoil it. There is talk of TRON 3 yet again. I'm not getting my hopes up.
Yes, that actor was Art Carney. He was in Sister Act 2 and Firestarter.
There is a really good documentary on the making of Tron. Shows how they did the costumes and the visuals. Really worth the time.
Watched this one all the time as a kid. The sequel came out my first semester of college and inspired me to major in VFX. Tron literally changed my life.
A huge amount of what looks like animation was actually hand drawn images and rotoscoping in the actors in layers to create the visuals.. You should totally look at the documentary about how Tron was made.. It is really interesting stuff
Yes!!! This is such a classic and monumental moment in movie history. So glad you guys are watching this one! One of my all time favorites!
I watched this as a kid and definitely made me look at playing games a lot differently.
I also recommend one of the first fully CGI shows, Reboot. It has a lot of similarities and is a fantastic story.
Now looking forward to reactions of Tron: Legacy and Free Guy
27:54 My man Tron! 🙏🏽💪
Great reaction. Thank you guys for uploading!!!
Dumont was the Grandftaher from the Lost Boys
This is one of my favorite movies of all time, so much so that I named my first car Alan One. I cannot wait to see the sequel reaction for you guys!
I was lucky enough to see this when it first released in 82. I was in 7th or 8th grade. This really blew my mind as a kid. The sequel has amazing visuals
7 year old me remembers being blown away by this in the theater. So amazing.
My entire life the summer after I saw this in the theaters me and my friends entire life was throwing frisbees at each other as hard as we could. Ahhh the 80's. Loved the reaction. Thanks!