[Flipside]

yes, but the women didn't look hot in them in the original... >_>

I don't think there were any woman in the original Tron. Certainly I don't remember any.

Maybe the original suits just rendered them totally gender-ambigous.

I can't recall if she was in the "Computer" part of it, but there was the blonde laser researcher that going out with Commander Sheridan.

anyway if Kevin Flynn complains at some point "That rug really tied the room together" I would die happy

Yes, she was also in the computer part, the problem was, the original hooded suits, together with the extremely desaturated skin-tones of the computer area left everyone pretty much genderless.

[Liberator]

This has gotten a bit more interesting, it almost looks like Flynn is the bad guy.

[BlueFlames]

yes, but the women didn't look hot in them in the original... >_>

In 1982, nonlocal networking involved dialing directly into a server containing a limited range of software and data.  In 2010, nonlocal networking tends to involve an always-on connection to a cloud of data, some eighty-five to ninety percent is pornographic in nature.  Given that bit of perspective, Tron Legacy is handling the female form quite modestly, as an updated film meant to represent twenty-eight years of technological advancement would be its own porno-knockoff.  Incidentally, I'm reasonably certain that making a Tron porno and not calling it Pron is at least a corporal offense.

Anyway, for better or worse, Tron Legacy had my eight dollars from the first trailer.  The only trouble will be finding someone with enough nerd cred to see it with, because if it turns out awful, I'm going to need someone on-hand who will understand my biting sarcasm.  Normally, any of my friends would do, but this is Tron.  It's going to take a special kind of dork.

[qazwsx]

Anyway, for better or worse, Tron Legacy had my eight dollars from the first trailer.  The only trouble will be finding someone with enough nerd cred to see it with, because if it turns out awful, I'm going to need someone on-hand who will understand my biting sarcasm.  Normally, any of my friends would do, but this is Tron.  It's going to take a special kind of dork.

I have to agree with you there BlueFlames, I kept trying to explain what's so good about this film, but due to my young age, the people I know just don't "get it"
I mean, it's TRON for christ's sake!

[Flipside]

Watched Tron again last night, forgot how many nerd jokes there are in there (The control board behind Sark at one point is a huge Pac-Man game, sounds and all, and a lot of the sound effects are processed versions of effects from Mario etc). Apart from Bruce Boxleitner looking incredibly young, it's still an amazingly fun film, if dated

[Colonol Dekker]

Enough of the cycles and squashy stampy dudes. I want to see how the laser tanks have been upgraded/patched 

[jr2]

yes, but the women didn't look hot in them in the original... >_>

I don't think there were any woman in the original Tron. Certainly I don't remember any.

Maybe the original suits just rendered them totally gender-ambigous.

There were.  I do recall a femaile program being recharged by one of the main characters if my memory serves right... they were all going dead cause the MCP was cutting off their power cycles.  Is my memory accurate?

[Flipside]

More or less, the Command Carrier was de-rezzing, as was everything on it, including Flynn and the girl There was also a computer 'goth-chick' in one scene of the original that wasn't dissimilar to the one from Legacy, I'll see if I can find it, one minute...

Edit: LOL 90's hair and strange saturation....



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[Colonol Dekker]

90's?





 





 

[Flipside]

Ok, ok, 82 then

[Flipside]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10011582-TRON_legacy/trailers/11043895/

Moar!

Pretty much more of the same, nice graphics, interesting plane at the end, but I'm getting Matrix vibes that make me slightly uncomfortable. I'll still watch it, the two films are similar enough at heart that some blending is to be expected, just hope it doesn't get taken too far...

[BlueFlames]

nice graphics

Actually, one of the special effects is the most off-putting thing I've ever seen in a trailer:  the de-aging of Jeff Bridges.  When de-aged Flynn smiles, his cheeks don't move.  I don't mean they were botoxed-stiff; I mean the don't move.  Moreover, just before the "I'm not your father," line, while de-aged Flynn is walking, his head doesn't sync with the rest of his body's motion.  Either this effect is still a work-in-progress, and the final version will be better, or they blew the whole effects budget on the obligatory light cycle and disk scenes, and I'm going to have to wretch, every single time de-aged Flynn shows up on the screen.

My prediction for the film is leaning slightly more toward comedically awful, because if the effects budget ran out for a mother-f'n Tron movie, how much do you suppose the writers got paid?  My guess would be fifty cents and a Twix bar.  Time will tell.

[Bobboau]

it does however have good music.

[Flipside]

To be honest, a few of the effects seemed a bit pre-production, to clarify, I was talking more of re-creating the Tron universe than the altered Flynn. I actually, at first glance, just thought it was someone who looked a bit like Jeff Bridges did when he made Tron, didn't realise it was actually Bridges face re-mapped, but now you mention it, yes, I see what you mean, the face isn't nearly 'alive' enough, that's probably why I thought it wasn't Bridges.

As for the music, I'd love to hear a more modern take on the original Tron stuff (mainly the gorgeous title music at the end of the film), I have suspicions it will crop up, they've resurrected just about everything else...

[Bobboau]

for your listening

[NGTM-1R]

Actually, one of the special effects is the most off-putting thing I've ever seen in a trailer:  the de-aging of Jeff Bridges.  When de-aged Flynn smiles, his cheeks don't move.  I don't mean they were botoxed-stiff; I mean the don't move.  Moreover, just before the "I'm not your father," line, while de-aged Flynn is walking, his head doesn't sync with the rest of his body's motion.  Either this effect is still a work-in-progress, and the final version will be better, or they blew the whole effects budget on the obligatory light cycle and disk scenes, and I'm going to have to wretch, every single time de-aged Flynn shows up on the screen.

Or it's delibrate since he's computer-generated and they were reaching for exactly that effect in the viewer.

[Flipside]

One interesting thought occurs to me, the last physical entity the MCP had contact with was Flynn, and there was a classic line from the original Tron, from the MCP of 'Your move, Flynn....'

Now we have a character that apparently looks like Flynn, and is obsessed with the real Flynn making his 'move'.... (remembering the MCP started of as a chess AI).

[BlueFlames]

Or it's delibrate since he's computer-generated and they were reaching for exactly that effect in the viewer.

Except, when he's de-aged for the bedtime story flashback that takes place in the real world, and his face is still beige cardboard.  Moreover, why is the digital Flynn clone the only character with this horrible effect applied, if it's something meant to be indicative of all artificial programs?  You're really, really reaching.

To be honest, a few of the effects seemed a bit pre-production

This seems more likely, and what I'm hoping.  There's still several months to release, so hopefully that time is being used by the effects team to smooth out some of the rough edges like this.

[Bobboau]

Or it's delibrate since he's computer-generated and they were reaching for exactly that effect in the viewer.

why is the digital Flynn clone the only character with this horrible effect applied, if it's something meant to be indicative of all artificial programs?  You're really, really reaching.

because he is the big bad and you want him to have a creepy un-natural vibe.

[BlueFlames]

why is the digital Flynn clone the only character with this horrible effect applied, if it's something meant to be indicative of all artificial programs?  You're really, really reaching.

because he is the big bad and you want him to have a creepy un-natural vibe.

Again, then, why is warm, daddy Flynn given the disturbing, unnatural vibe, when he's telling his son a bedtime story that's presumably not meant to give the kid night-terrors?

It's either an unfinished effect or a half-assed effect.