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Subj: You are a fool for doubting TRON Legacy. :)
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 04:55:49 am EST (Viewed 415 times)
Reply Subj: Movie Trailer Talk: Iron Man 2 & Tron Legacy
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 10:48:09 am EST (Viewed 484 times)

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In case you haven't gotten a chance to see them yet:

Iron Man 2:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/


Tron Legacy:
http://www.program-glitch-esc.net


The Iron Man 2 trailer maybe gives away too much story and is definitely disjointed in feel (it seems to change tone randomly), but I'll be damned if the movie doesn't look like fun. That little bit at the end there is great service to fans of the classic Iron Man comic.

I'll never complain about having to look at Scarlet Johansson, but she is a bit soft looking for the Black Widow. I'll wait and see how she does in more than the tiny bit we see here though.

I'm also still not sure that Ultimate Fury works... Hopefully I'm wrong, as they've already paid Sam Jackson for something like 9 movies worth of him.


Unlike the Iron Man 2 trailer, the Tron Legacy trailer is awesome... I just have more doubts about the actual movie itself. Still, the people working on that one know how to cut a trailer and get me excited about a nearly 30 year old premise being revisited.


Everything that everyone thought was so "original" in The Matrix? You can see it all right there in the original TRON, the first movie ever to suggest that an entire parallel reality could exist inside of computers.

TRON came out in 1982, and along with William Gibson, it basically introduced the world to the concept of "cyberspace" before there was even an Internet as we know it now.

And while Avatar moved CGI light-years forward, CGI didn't even EXIST, as we think of it today, before TRON. Without exaggeration, almost every single one of the folks behind PIXAR were inspired to pursue computer animation, as a filmmaking craft, because of TRON. John Lasseter, director of Toy Story, was actually in the editing rooms while they were putting TRON together.

If computer animation was Christianity, TRON would be Jesus Christ himself. When it comes to CGI films, TRON Legacy is truly The Second Coming.

Having a sequel to TRON, after everyone and their brother has made a film about "cyberspace," is like seeing Peter Jackson release the Lord of the Rings trilogy, after decades of other films that were inspired by Tolkien, because he showed the kids how it's supposed to be done.

Welcome to the Heart of Darkness for the arcade generation, complete with Flynn as Kurtz.



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