Tron Legacy - Page 3

Tron Legacy will be in theatrical 7.1.

Speculation:

Tron Legacy will be the greatest movie of 2010, and it will contain the best soundtrack we have seen in a long, long time.

Goodbye Inception. Take your overratedness back home.

Between 'Toy Story 3', 'Step Up 3D' and 'TRON', it looked for a moment like Disney was the only studio interested in theatrical 7.1 mixes. But the press release mentions upcoming movies from a couple of other studios (Dreamworks, Fox):

Disney's 'Tangled', November 24, 2010

Disney's 'TRON: Legacy', December 17, 2010

DreamWorks Animation's 'Megamind', November 5, 2010

Touchstone Pictures's 'Gnomeo and Juliet', February 11, 2011

Twentieth Century Fox's 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', December 10, 2010

Twentieth Century Fox's 'Gulliver's Travels', December 22, 2010

Except the best theater to see the movie (in 3D) will be an IMAX theater as they will get a different version then other 3D theaters and IMAX theaters are not setup to do 7.1

I was really pumped seeing the first Tron Legacy trailer, and then only recently I finally saw the original Tron. My gawd, what a debbie downer it was watching the ridiculousness of the plot, notwithstanding the dated special effects. The ridiculous storyline passed muster when computer technology was an unknown commodity to the masses. I'm not sure how that story premise can even be updated for today's audience.

Yea the original Tron wasn't too good of a movie. Even people who really like it will say the same thing. However, you must admit that the original Tron is a visual masterpiece of it's time, and if you are a computer geek, they use some very interesting lingo. The lightcycle races in the original are really damn cool too. Tron also has a good soundtrack. It's a geek film, but I will agree that the story and plot are just mustered. However, there's lots of treasure to be found in this movie.

There's no doubt in my mind that Tron Legacy will blow the original Tron out of the water and out into oblivion. You can staple my post to that statement too. The soundtrack alone is the greatest thing I have heard from a movie in a long, long time. I'm not even a Daft Punk fan either. Jeff Bridges is back playing multiple roles. Each of the three trailers look amazing, and they show different footage.

Consider this movie the masterpiece of 2010.

It's also shot in like AVATAR was too. We should be seeing not only a powerful story, but some pretty powerful visuals.

I hope so, Fendersrule! I'll see the movie first day regardless, but my enthusiasm is now tempered with caution and apprehension.

The original IMAX trailer was perhaps the best sounding trailer I've ever seen, and felt the use of 3D easily rivaled Avatar. December can't come soon enough.

Inception has already taken the 2010 crown, and won't be ousted. Overrated? I was just thinking the other day how nice it was to finally have a great film live up to it's "ratedness".

I absolutely agree with you about the soundtrack though. Inception's soundtrack is quite excellent, but Daft Punk sure seems to have knocked it out of the park. They have always been great, so I cant wait to hear the full creation. I'd say Trent Reznor's creation for The Social Network would round out the top 3 this year, in no particular order. Great year for films and film soundtracks!

They were giving away free tickets earlier in the week to early IMAX previews on 10/31, but only for the first 20mins of the movie. I got the email invite for it, but it wasn't in my local IMAX.

I also kind of thought it was kind of stupid to just see the first 20mins, find out I liked it, and then I'd have to watch it all over again in Dec.

That strategy worked for Avatar.

The storyline of the original is really no more ridiculous than The Matrix. Just about all movies that have anything to do with computers are pretty stupid if you're looking for realism.

Plus it was a movie that had something to do with computers from the 80's. I can imagine seeing it for the first time in 2010 would leave you wondering why there was a sequel being made at all.

How are you oh-so sure?


With as much hype about a movie that is tag-lined with "Sci-Fi" that doesn't allow for extrapolation of Sci-Fi concepts (from what I see on the screen to what I can take away from me after leaving the theaters), it's clearly overrated IMO. It's a great movie in itself though, but it ain't "up there" by any means. It's clearly better than almost most movies that I have seen as it really relies on interpretation, which is my style of movie.


Hell yea. You can rate the soundtrack because it's available (you can't fully rate it until you hear it in context of the visuals, though). However, you CANNOT claim that Inception takes the crown for a movie this year, being that you have not even seen Tron yet. You've heard the Soundtrack and yes, it's better than Inception's (and many times, similar). Why are you so haste to shoot down that the actual movie won't be? ALL three trailers look downright jaw dropping, which is why I'm making the claim that Inception better watch the F#*@ out. We'll see how marketing can do with Tron: Legacy.

And please, no more Inception talk here. If you want a superior thinker movie that isn't complex for the sake of being complex, check out Triangle. Link me to an Inception thread if you want to nitpick my opinions on it. Inception is a fantastic heist movie that nudges a few non-extrapolative Sci-Fi concepts (that's all it is), but Tron Legacy will be a Legacy from all the information I've been gathering, while Inception just will fall by one of the "pop culture movies of 2010", and a very good one at that.

BTW, you are aware that Daft Punk probably used a truckload of synths for this soundtrack, right? Oh wait, to you, synths are cheesy and have no business being in movies nowadays. I would take a quality done synth (e.g. Vangelis, Carpenter, etc) over stock, generic, amatuerish, boring, software-sounding orchestrated horns that I can reproduce in Garageband that just about most movies use today, including the disgraceful A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010. If it only had awesome intrusive, loud, roaring synths it would have been incrementally better.

People need to understand the music qualities before they slam on the technologies. Remember Danny Elfman? John Williams? Their style is outdated now as no one wants to use them anymore, but I consider their work to be the best soundtracks known to man, and I'm making that as a statement and not an opinion. The same can be said about synths-- Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Streets, Blade Runner, They Live, Prince of Darkness, Big Trouble in Little China, Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, The Thing, The Terminator, Starman, etc are all heavily synth based (among other accompanying instruments), and have some of the best and immersive soundtracks as well.

As the film makes $300M+ and Disney laughs all the way to the bank. For 3D films:

2009 = Avatar

2010 = TRON: Legacy

Yes, computer movies in general would be pretty boring if the kept to realism, but the 80's are particularly bad. I believe it probably has a lot to do with the "promise" of what computers would be. Sortof like in the 60's when everyone thought we'd all be living on the moon and Mars within 10 years.

Of course, computers have (for the most part) met and surpassed what most people thought they would. I still get a chuckle out of this article from 1995 about how the internet will never be anything:

http://www.newsweek.com/1995/02/26/t...ernet-bah.html

That whole article is good for a laugh, but I like this part:

I guess the point behind my posts was lost on some. The story of Tron: Legacy better be as good as The Matrix (original) or else people will just laugh at the silliness that is people in costume playing "computer programs with feelings" saying "my user can beat your user" !!

All I am saying is they better update the storyline to keep up with the state of the art of computers nowadays, and still make the storyline accessible to non-computer geeks. That was the delicate balance that made "The Matrix" so great.

Still, hoping to be pleasantly surprised by Tron: Legacy.

Yep. I'd say there's a damn good chance that everything you are hoping will be fulfilled from what I can see so far, and even more.

I love that this article is now available online.

That is pure brilliance.

Just watched another trailer (old to everyone else but new to me, I'm sure). Cautiously optimistic on this one...less optimistic than I was. It can go so wrong...

I went to 'Tron Night' last night at the IMAX-light in White Marsh, MD. They showed 23 minutes of footage, but it wasn't consecutive. It was selected scenes from the first half of the movie. Overall, the aesthetic of the movie is amazing. I'm not sure it will play to young kids though; it's a grim, dark movie both visually and in tone. The audio was excellent; can't wait to pick up the Daft Punk soundtrack. I didn't care for the 3-D though, but in fairness, I'm not a fan of 3-D in general.

Interesting. Makes me rethink who the target audience might be, which is what I keep trying to figure out about this one.

Tron Legacy seems very interesting movie... I have seen the trailer and the trailer was amazing...^^

So now that you've seen the best scenes in the movie you don't have to see it again.

Last theatrical trailer before release:

Oh my GOD, that looks good. Not only does it look deep, meaningful, powerful, but the action sequences are looking amazing. Star Wars style.

I predict:

Masterpiece in cinema.

I just saw the trailer for this movie while at the show this evening. What got me puzzled was the very poorly done CGI of what appeared to be a not aged jeff bridges. The mouth/lip movement was not done very well and just didnt work for me.

Why would he be a young cgi of an unaged jeff bridges?

I'm not quite sure I get what you're saying. A young, not aged CGI Bridges? Are you just talking about the young looking shots of JB in the trailers? If so, then I agree with you. The CGI shots while he's talking don't look convincing and clearly CGI. It's good for what it is, but unnatural in some way.

Yes, that is what I am saying...in addition to the poor cgi effect, I have to ask why is he "young" not aged? I am lead to believe some time has passed or does it continue from the original time line of the first movie?