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Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild
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on Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:30 PM
from the get-it-while-it's-hot dept.
from the get-it-while-it's-hot dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo and Filmstalker are showing the Tron 2 (aka Tr2n) teaser from Comic-Con 08. From the Giz article: 'It's a tiny bootleg video, but I don't care. You can see that the 3D looks amazing, the new lightcycles are stunning (and move like real bikes), the world and the whole mood is Batman-like dark. And Jeff Bridges ... well, he is Jeff Bridges. What can I say, he looks like a badass version of The Dude. "It's just a game!" he shouts. No, it's not. It's Tr2n. At last. Note: excuse the excitement, but I saw the original in the movie theater, and 200 times after that. With War Games, it's what got me into technology when I was a kid, and ultimately here in Giz. The only thing that has me worried is that the characters in the computer world are fully 3D.'"
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Greetings, programs! (Score:4, Funny)
Did anyone else notice that the yellow dude looked just like Rimmer? I hope he plays a thinly veiled UAC, that would be perfect.
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Re:Greetings, programs! (Score:5, Funny)
I hope he plays a thinly veiled UAC...
Allow or Deny?
Or in Dr Who speak: "Obey or Exterminate?"
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I think its David Warner. [imdb.com]
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Very bootleg indeed. The article summary suggests "You can see that the 3D looks amazing". HA! Looks about the same as the original Tron from the quality of the capture. I'm sure it will be slick, but this bootleg doesn't give you any hint as to what's coming as far as quality. I'm excited, I loved Tron, pumped many thousands of quarters into the video game and of course, own the 25th Anniversary Special Edition DVD... may have to watch it again this weekend...
Looking forward to seeing this become a reality
Tr2n? (Score:4, Funny)
How do you even pronounce something like that? "Two" doesn't sound like the letter "O" nor does it look like one. Isn't "2" supposed to replace the letter "Z" or something?
Can someone with a major in L337-sp34k explain it?
Re:Tr2n? (Score:5, Funny)
How do you even pronounce something like that? "Two" doesn't sound like the letter "O" nor does it look like one. Isn't "2" supposed to replace the letter "Z" or something?
Can someone with a major in L337-sp34k explain it?
If you are trying to parse it in l337 sp34k, that's your problem. It's parsed in Prince-Speak.
While there does appear to be letters in the title, it's actually a symbol. You pronounce it "The movie formerly known as Tron 2."
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Re:Tr2n? (Score:5, Funny)
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Could have been worse. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Could have been worse. (Score:5, Funny)
Just replace lightcycles with DDR, and it could be called Tron 2: Electric Boogaloo.
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Re:Tr2n? (Score:4, Insightful)
They should have called it Tron 10. After all, Tron is the only movie so far with a bit in a speaking role.
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Re:Tr2n? (Score:5, Interesting)
You have my vote for "Tron 10". Write is as such but say "Tron 2" when speaking it out loud.
Would confuse the hell of out of people. :D
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Re:Tr2n? (Score:4, Funny)
After all, Tron is the only movie so far with a bit in a speaking role.
It was just a bit part.
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Re:Tr2n? (Score:4, Funny)
>> After all, Tron is the only movie so far with a bit in a speaking role.
> It was just a bit part.
Yes, but it had regular work in a serial.
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Well, that regular work must not have paid very well; it had to use a bus to get around.
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Giz? Gizmodo! (Score:2)
So both the submitter *and* the /. editor failed to read the submission?
I'm in. (Score:2)
Saw the original in theaters, can point out the hidden Mickey Mouse. Inspired me to become an avid gamer. /end of line
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Saw the original in theaters, can point out the hidden Mickey Mouse.
yes, but can you explain the purpose of the grid bugs?
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to get us... duh.
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Easy kills for bumping up those early weapon skills.
They also zap you.
Something is wrong here (Score:2, Interesting)
1. Make Tron in 1980's and lose money
2. Make sequel to the failure movie
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
Wouldn't investors want more details about step 3?
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1. Make Tron in 1980's and lose money
2. Make sequel to the failure movie
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
Wouldn't investors want more details about step 3?
Step 3 seems obvious: The geek kids who loved the original Tron have grown up to have high-paying computer industry jobs, and can easily afford repeated viewings of the sequel, plus Blu-Ray special editions, etc.
Cleaned up video link (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x692m3_tr2n-cleaned-up-001_fun [dailymotion.com]
Because it was annoying enough for me to figure out which links to click, and I want to save someone else from the effort.
So is this for real? Are they really making a sequel, or is this just some guy's fan-made video? It's pretty good, though. Even with the rough quality (or maybe because of it), it looks like they had guys really riding motorcycles like that, then added CGI over the live footage.
Great Tron-Based game (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Great Tron-Based game (Score:5, Informative)
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The Dude Abides (Score:5, Funny)
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
-Peter
Look (Score:2)
This movie is to cater one demand in entertainment (SCIFI - XMEN,BATMAN,ETC, these movies are ma
yesyesyes (Score:4, Funny)
WAAAAHHHGHGHGH, I am soooooo excited about this. I even use extra oooooo's in sooooo to illustrate my happiness.
seriously, tron was a huge part of my childhood. I used to have a VHS taped from a TV broadcast. I had the movie, and the commercials memorized. I would plant my ass in front of the TV, watch my Tron, and make my legos. I would be sitting there building a castle or something, and muttering the dialog along with the movie, then, the commercials would come on and I would continue: "Heart disease, kidney disease, and blindness, are all signs...".
Do you think we can merge with this memory, bit?
my older brother and sister had an intellivision,so I came up playing that. (I was born in 1981) my FAVORITE game was Tron, Deadly Discs. it remained my favorite game until the NES hit a few years later.
I used to get my parents to take me to chuck-e-cheese's (a pizza video game place if you are from far off lands, I am not a totally insensitive clod), and I would take all the tokens and pump them into the tron machine. Mom would say "wouldn't you like to try some other games?"....
"BUT MOOOOOM! I WANNA PLAY MY TRON! Can I watch my tron when I get home?"
"Kelly, you have seen that program a million times, don't you think you should get outside and play?"
"MOM! WHO YOU CALLIN A PROGRAM, PROGRAM?!?
"kelly you need your exercise"
"BUT MO-OM! I am playing the game and I wanna go watch the movie and make my legos!"
and so on
Bring in the logic probe! I can't wait anymore
Yeah, the bikes move like real bikes (Score:4, Interesting)
So much so, in fact, that it looks like a couple of guys riding bikes around a neon-lit soundstage. Woo-hoo.
Maybe I'm just a bitter old fart, but one of my problems with a lot of modern video games is that the physics are kind of in the uncanny valley for me -- they're undeniably much more realistic than they were when I was a teenage gaming geek a quarter of a century ago (and we used real quarters back then, whippersnapper!) but they're still not quite realistic enough, so I find them constantly distracting. The light cycles in the original Tron moved like they could, in fact, exist only in a video game universe; the scenes with them were maybe the only part of the movie where you could really believe you were seeing a world completely different from that outside the machine. If Tr2n has the almost-but-not-quite-real look of most modern video games, which is what the trailer seems to indicate, then it will be quite a disappointment ... maybe not to younger viewers, but to those of us who were teenagers when the original came out, and I think we're the target demographic here.
Ah, what the hell. Of course I'll go see it. ;)
What we learned from this trailer (Score:3, Interesting)
Two things:
1. In the future, programs will fight each other using Aerobies rather than Frisbees.
2. It's a helluva lot harder to get derezzed than it used to be.
They move like real bikes (Score:4, Insightful)
They moved like real bikes in the original movie as well. It was only on the game grid that the lightcycles appeared to turn at right angles.
How much you wanna bet... (Score:4, Funny)
They haven't asked yet... (Score:4, Informative)
To answer the inevitable questions: No, they haven't asked me to participate yet. Yes, if they ask, I'll do it.
Re:first post (Score:5, Interesting)
i don't give a shit.
Not very surprising. I'm 25 years old and I would be hard pressed to find anyone I know that has even seen it let a lone someone that would be excited for a sequel (myself.. I'm leaning towards meh on the whole thing). With that insipid 2 in the name and the almost certainty it will be another 3D eye candy stroke fest (Beowulf anyone?) I'm finding it hard to get pumped, I know.. I know.. fast shiny motorbikes I should have a hard on and a taste for red meat and a bar fight, but I just don't!
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Re:first post (Score:5, Insightful)
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Especialy because the original was such an icon, I do not want to see a sequal rape it.
The main reason it was an icon was due to its technical both in story and in way it was brought to the screen. We know better things can be achieved now
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I would be very excited about a sequel, but probably not this one. It already looks to be shaping up to be a CGI crap-fest. I'd really like to see the philosophy and religion of the Tron universe explored further than it was, but I guess this will probably be dumbeddown and devoid of anything like that. You want a sequel, install Tron 2.0 on your PC and play it.
Oh, and why couldn't this guy ZOOM up onto the screen instead of having it sideways in the very bottom corner? Moron.
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Youre at least 6 or 7 years too young to appreciate this. Sadly, your generation's nostalgia will be rap videos and Captain Planet. *shudders*
Re:first post (Score:5, Funny)
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Maybe you haven't noticed there are about 500 versions of Blade Runner at this point.
Re:War games comment (Score:5, Insightful)
War Games is a very shitty movie because it's a cookie-cutter Hollywood movie.
That's why it was successful: it took relatively new ideas (boy hacker and war computers) and wrapped it in a tried-and-true plot formula. Complaining about Hollywood acting like Hollywood is ... well ...cookie-cutter complaining. If you want more sophisticated sci-fi, then I recommend you read sci-fi books.
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Re:nice (Score:4, Funny)
I was going over dvds at netflix the other day and found out my wife never saw tron.
Yeah, I've been there. The Tron Guy Suit I wear when having sex made a whole lot more sense to her after she saw the film.
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It was a Cray (Score:3, Informative)
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This site [osu.edu] will tell you a great deal about the graphics in TRON and how they were produced. They were done by several different companies on a bunch of different hardware.
AFAIK, the only things that were hand-painted were the rotoscoped "circuitry" traces on the costumes, and the Grid Bugs.
Oh dear (Score:3, Insightful)
Not a great film, but technically brilliant (Score:5, Interesting)
Which I still remember as being a lousy movie even when I was a kid. Kept up the standard disney mediocrity from the Barefoot Executive to the Black Hole. Even the metaphors to how computers really worked seemed lame. The only area where the movie works for me is in the visuals.
I think you're being slightly harsh, but I agree that Tron isn't a particularly great movie overall- and also that the visuals are by far and away the best thing about it.
:-)
To be fair, although I'm in my early thirties and old enough to have seen (and clearly remembered) Tron when it first came out, I didn't. (*) It wasn't until years later that I caught it on TV. That might colour my judgement- but also to be fair, I could say the same about the nostalgia of people who saw it as kids when it first came out.
Problem isn't just that the plot is flimsy, it's that the film never really makes you believe in the characters or care about what's at stake. The dialogue is clunky and the acting nothing special. I could tolerate the cheesiness, but not that.
So, no... Tron isn't- and never was- a Matrix for its times. Despite being a staple of 80s "nostalgia", its influence on most people at the time was minimal. However, I do think it's visually and technically brilliant, and although some aspects of its attempt to bring the then-new computer culture to the mainstream were quite cheesy, it deserves some credit for the attempt (and has to be seen in the context of the time).
I could say more, but I already said a lot of what I wanted to say in two previous posts; why I think trying to make a Tron sequel after 20-25 years is pointless [slashdot.org] and why Tron's true technical achievements with pre-digital film-matte animation went sadly unrecognised [slashdot.org]. Both with Score:5 goodness
(*) I did, however, get to see ET, like most other people did. Vastly overrated film, I never liked it.
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Re:Yay Aping And Repetitiveness. (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah seriously! Who wants more sequels of a serial visual story telling medium! Stupid comic book sequels!
I'm always overwhelmed at the irony of comic book readers who complain about the number of 'sequels'.
Were there people chewing out Homer when he wrote the Odyssey "Oh Lords of Olympus not another sequel!"
I can see the Hebrews in the wilderness "Enough already with the Yahweh stories... we get it... we get it... how about something new and original!"
"What a sequel to the Hobbit!? Do we REALLY need more stories about midgets and magic gold rings?"
I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day you wake up is a sequel.
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Maybe. OTOH the original light cycles were cool and abused physics with those 90 degree turns, they looked nifty and shouted in all caps "this is not the world you're used to!". The new light cycles come to a stop (WTF?) and make boring real world type turns, for all you know they're just a bunch of twits in downtown LA with neon lights on their racing bikes.