Last evening, Disney previewed 20 minutes (and modify) of Tron Legacy at a series of events dubbed Tron Evening. Sam learns the guidelines and fights again. I’m fairly confident in saying that lifelong fetishes will likely be borne of this scene. It is also a nice contrast visually and tonally from the dark, action-heavy games and chase scenes. What follows is an at first clumsy identity disc battle involving game contestants. The stereoscopic 3D preview performed out like an prolonged edition of 1 of the film’s trailers, touching lightly on the plot, but giving more screen time to Tron Legacy’s motion sequences and its beautiful neon visuals. The Recognizer scene stunned me with its quick violence. Trust me.If you’ve observed the Tron Legacy trailer, you realize that Bradley provides Sam news about his lacking father and the keys to Flynn’s Arcade. It WILL be a smash hit! In 1982, people just didn't understand "Tron." Today, they will. Message to Disney: put "Tron" back in theaters! Clean it up with a new remastered print & remastered sound, and let the world rediscover this sci-fi classic. Now that time-and people's knowledge of computers-has finally caught up with "Tron," now would be the PERFECT time for the world in general to take another look at this amazing film.
Looking at "Tron" today, the movie has aged very well indeed, like a fine wine. But the passing of time has been very kind to "Tron." Today, the film has a major cult following, and is recognized by many as the landmark sci-fi film that it truly is. "The Abyss" changed all that in 1989, but that was a big seven years after "Tron." Obviously, everyone in 1982 had missed the film's point. "it's animation, not visual effects," they thought to themselves. And, for the final insult, "Tron" wasn't even NOMINATED for Best Visual Effects at Oscar time, presumably because the Academy in 1982 didn't recognize computer-animation as "genuine" visual effects, i.e. Critics complained that "Tron" was all special effects and no story. As a result, the computer jargon heard throughout "Tron" went sailing over most audience members' heads, and for many, the story was difficult to follow.
The problem was, back in 1982, there was no such thing as the Internet, and, apart from business types, most people didn't really know diddlysquat about computers yet. This may explain why the film was greeted with incomprehension from critics and audience members alike back in 1982. With breathtakingly beautiful computer-animation (and the very first film to use computer-animation extensively), and presenting an original, dazzling world where energy lives and breathes inside a computer, "Tron" was way ahead of it's time. With the aid of a good warrior program named Tron (Bruce Boxleitner), and Tron's significant-other Yori (Cindy Morgan), Flynn must put a stop to the MCP and set things right in the computer world once again before returning to his own world. "Tron" tells the story of a young computer programmer named Flynn (Jeff Bridges) who gets sucked INTO a computer, and must fight for his life playing life-or-death video games, run by the evil Master Control Program. If it were released into theaters today, "Tron" would be a smash hit, 'cause the movie-audiences of today would understand it a heckuva lot better than the movie-audiences of 1982. I hope some smart person from Disney is reading this: if ever there was a movie crying out to be re-released into movie-theaters, it's "Tron," the dazzling sci-fi film from Walt Disney Productions.