I’m putting you on the game grid, Flynn.
July 27th, 2009Holy bonanza of bananas, that Tron 2 that’s been threatened for ages turns out to be a (virtual) reality, and the trailer makes it look promising. Nice to see some old faces in there, feels like it’ll be good to get back to Flynn’s. I can’t be objective about the original Tron at all because I saw it at the movies in England, and my dad came along, and I remember the 12 year old me geeking out over it about as hard as I could geek out over anything (even more than the 11 year old me (& 9 year old KT?!) going to see the triple feature all 3 Star Wars films in a row). When I first got a DVD player I was so excited when the TRon special edition came out, with the Making Of documentary that was actually longer than the film itself! Good times.
There’s probably no way the new Tron will be able to echo that 80’s early computer kid geek film feeling, but hopefully it won’t besmirch the legacy (pun intended). Check it.
Do I remember the Star Wars triple header? Are you kidding!?! As I recall, you and your friends made us little kids smuggle an enormous shopping bag of munchies into the cinema, and then you wouldn’t sit with us because we were totally uncool enough to have an enormous shopping bag of munchies. And then you and your friends ate all the munchies.
I don’t remember any of that weirdly. I remember the trilogy took a loooooooong time and getting bored and thinking “I can’t be bored! This is a dream come true!!” Eating hot dogs in the intermission…
Tron holds up remarkably well and i never get why it’s the butt of movie jokes, sort of the utah of the film world. maybe it’s because it’s still of a dream of mine to live inside a video game someday.