Movie Theater Tron Legacy

[5RWill]

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Anyone else see this? I just watched it on netflix, and i was blown away. The story is sort of bland and does have some plot holes. But apparently so did the first. And the visuals make for everything the story doesn't. IMO it looks better than Avatar at times. There is a young version of jeff bridges that i didn't realize was CGI till the movie was almost over and i read about it. I figured it would be some crappy transition with cheesy young actor but the young guy who plays Sam Flynn actually does quite well. Anyway if you like absolutely stunning visuals, tons of lighting effects, and have a big imagination. I recommend it. The score is also fantastic IMO, hans zimmer helping out Daft Punk makes for a very unique music setting that seems to fit the world of tron.

 

[lessthanfour]

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i loved the daft punk scene

 

[Impact]

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yep I liked the movie too. Blue Ray with 5.1 sound and big TV is awesome.

 

[Stubb]

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It was much better than we expected thanks to the eye and ear candy—great visuals and soundtrack.

—Andreas

 

[Dogtown]

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I was involved with a lot of the key people on that film back when I was at Digital Domain. The director, Joe Kosinski, was actually a 3D artist I knew about 10 years ago who had a really good design sense. He did a few spec spots between 2001-2004 that got David Fincher's attention and led to him directing some commercials.

In 2005 Fincher did the Nine Inch Nails video "Only" in our commercial division using a team and pipeline that wasn't normally used at the rest of the company for films. For example, the teams around that time that did "I Robot", "Aeon Flux" and "Stealth" were using completely different software and had a much more rigid organizational data structure. Eric Barba was the visual effects supervisor in the commercials division, and spearheaded this new approach with Fincher. They used it on "Only", then we did some Orville Reddenbacher commercials as a test bed for face-replacement technology to be used on "Benjamin Button." I unfortunately got saddled with that while they put together a team to do some proof of concept work on "Tron." The results from that small team became a sort of teaser that was shown at Comicon.

Around 2008, "Tron" shifted into full gear. Most of the team we had for "Speed Racer" was rolled onto "Mummy 3" briefly then onto "Tron" where they remained for almost 2 years. Much of the head-replacement technology developed on "Benjamin Button" was applied to "Tron", but the scope of the work grew significantly. That's why there's very few shots of Allen/Tron without a helmet. There was also some complications with Jeff Bridges' performance, as his lip motion had changed in his older age, so what you see is a young version of him with the lip motion of his older age. Weird, I know.

There were lots of limitations/conditions imposed by Disney, including having to setup a Vancouver office to do some of the work (needed for tax credits, I suspect). The amount of visual effects work on "Tron" was almost unbearable, even with several large teams. It always impressed me that Joe, being a relatively new director, handled the stress of a $100+ million film job. In the end, at Digital Domain alone there were probably close to 400 people working 7 day weeks for the last few months of production. It was a very, very rough show because of the scale and volume of work that had to be done.

 

[Swampkat]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: lessthanfour</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i loved the daft punk scene </div></div>

+1

I've watched the movie several times since getting it on DVD.

 

[5RWill]

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One problem i do find very irritating though is the lack of Tron's actual character Tron. Hoping he makes a return in the 3rd.

 

[beretta989]

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Bought it after I watched it in the theater.

 

[Mead]

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Caught it on Netflix and had a nergasm. sorry.

 

[5RWill]

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Haha i just got it on blu ray this will be the 3rd time i've watched it this week. Love the movie to death.

 

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

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I was surprised to see Tony Blair as the bar owner.

I thought it was OK, not really bad in any way, but I felt that it never lived up to the first few minutes. It also seems that some real world plot angles are unfinished?

More white clad robot chicks!