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Tron is a 1982 American science fiction action adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story he co-wrote with Bonnie MacBird. The film stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer and video game developer who is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer where he interacts with anthropomorphic programs in his attempt to escape. It also stars Bruce Boxleitner,…
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Tron hit theaters in 1982, and at the time most people did not know what to make of it. Computers were still mysterious machines sitting in offices and arcades. The idea of entering a digital world felt more like science fiction than something even remotely possible. Directed by Steven Lisberger, Tron was ambitious in a way that few films were back then. It was one of the first movies to lean heavily into computer g…More
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Tron, the Real World, and Why the Grid Doesn’t Seem So Far-Fetched Anymore So the new Tron sequel is out, and it’s wild to realize how close the real world has drifted toward the kind of tech dystopia these movies warned us about decades ago. When the original Tron hit in 1982, the idea of people getting pulled into a computer system felt like pure fantasy. Fast forward to today — everyone’s basically living inside…More
Ah, what a film. Way way way ahead of its time in terms of special effects and graphics. In todays terms this would be like releasing a film that plays in your Livingroom as you watch it, it was that far ahead of its competitors. The 80's was an era of exploring new sci fi films. We saw several really well known films even by people today released back then. It was a time of humanity exploring its boundaries in term…More
It won't be a long text, I just want to briefly express my opinion on one aspect of the Tron: Legacy movie (+ write my extremely short opinion on the whole) and write something short about ID in a similar context. Originally, I wanted to do it in the form of 2 texts - a mini review of the film and a one devoted exclusively to music for both works, but I decided that I have nothing to write about and I don't want to…More
Ignore the jargon, enjoy the film. If you can get past the jargon and accept that a programmer already knows how a computer works, and therefore doesn't need to the learn the new environment totally. Then we have a quite enjoyable film, most geeks will probably enjoy it anyway. The writers did do a reasonable job keeping to some computing concepts, such as clock cycles, on/off or yes/no states. Either way we have an…More