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Old 02-18-04 | 04:33 AM
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Where's all the Love for TRON?

Greetings programs! Hey, I know this movie has been out on DVD for years (two-seperate releases) but still. Sure it's sort of goofy and cheesy but it's a REALLY fun movie. This is one of the few movies that is light-enough-but-cool-enough play over and over again. Must have watched it 50 times already since I got it and ... it's on my screen as I type this! So any other TRON lovers out there? Maybe if we get some DVDs sold we'll finally get that sequel made? Could happen.


BTW - The TRON 2.0 pc game was really cool and you can get it now cheap ($20).
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There IS a sequel. Albeit the sequel is TRON 2.0 and available for PC. PC you say for a sequel? It's a video game sequel, mind you!
Same goes for the sequel to The Thing. 'Tis a video game sequel.
BUT, we want a live-action, big-budget, silver-screen sequel! Ok, I'm glad I cleared up that matter.
Old 02-18-04 | 05:48 AM
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I like Tron lots. That's why my user name is Flynn. Get it? Huh?
Old 02-18-04 | 06:55 AM
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Flynn ............ "inside the MCP" = Master Control .... nice.

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And honestly, the Reboot television series was the Tron sequel for me. People inside a computer. It has really been done. And anyway, the first movie doesn't have any continuing story needing resolution in a second film.
Old 02-18-04 | 07:01 AM
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If you think someone is trying to shill something, report it to the mods. Don't clog up what might be a legitimate thread with your speculation. Thanks.
Old 02-18-04 | 09:13 AM
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I thought the gondola ride at Disneyland was the sequel?
Old 02-18-04 | 09:19 AM
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Odd, I thought atleast half my post was not talking about shilling... But I guess if all of it seemed fit to be nuked.. whatever.

As I said, Disney may have given tron a 20 year ann. treatment, but it's still a bastard child in it's libary. The people mover removed it's little tron section some time before they even removed the people mover from disneyland. Rather a lot of suckage if you ask me.

So the sequel to you is something completely unrelated? I would have enjoyed a live action sequel but I'm sure that under Eisner's control the interest in making a sequel to a 20 year old film series that might not have had a larger audiance was out of the question.
Old 02-18-04 | 09:58 AM
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Tron 2: Return of the MCP?

Probably be pretty slow using that 150baud modem and all...
Old 02-18-04 | 11:15 AM
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Old 02-18-04 | 03:00 PM
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"**** TRON" - fubar
Old 02-18-04 | 09:37 PM
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Tron 2: The Quickening

Starring Christopher Lambert as Rams brother "Rom" and Jean Claude Van Damm as "Frank Dux".

Frank Dux ~ Yoo Hoo, bad pro grams, you look good in those black sil kee under wear. Prepare to be de rezzed. Ba BAHHHHHHHHHH!!!



Bored sorry.
Old 02-19-04 | 11:08 AM
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I love Tron. I used to watch that flick every day when I was a kid. I bought both DVD's.

And Jack is right, Disney treats Tron like a bastard child. Some days it seems like Black Hole gets more love from them.
Old 02-19-04 | 12:26 PM
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I always thought Tron was a little cheesy, but I loved it as a kid, and I still enjoy it. It's one of those movies that will always have a special place in my heart. I have the 2 disc version and have watched a few times.
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The first time I watched Tron was at the mall, on laserdisc. My mom had a little table at Waldenbooks for something or other, and I had to mind the table every now and then. I was able to go over to one of the big TV stores, where they were playing Tron on a big-screen. I had to watch in chunks, though... I watched the second third, then the final third, and then the first third.
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I'm always being reminded to Tron everytime I play old PC games. That movie is a fun to watch. And oh, am I the only one who think that the special effects is still holding up?
Old 02-19-04 | 09:59 PM
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I'm always being reminded to Tron everytime I play old PC games. That movie is a fun to watch. And oh, am I the only one who think that the special effects is still holding up?
I think so. I love the film.
Old 02-19-04 | 10:15 PM
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I'm always being reminded to Tron everytime I play old PC games. That movie is a fun to watch. And oh, am I the only one who think that the special effects is still holding up?
Of course they are "dated" but they are a wonderful product of their time. I wouldn't change them one iota.

Let's just hope they never remake it with "state of the art" effects.
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My user tells me to hurt people.

I love Tron. The director of the original, last I heard was working on a script for a sequel.
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I remember the Tron arcade game too....damn I lost alot of quarters in that thing.
Old 02-19-04 | 11:59 PM
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I really like the movie. Its holds a really geeky charm for me
Old 02-20-04 | 01:27 AM
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Ah yes . . . Tron . . . back in the day when a "user" was considered to be something special (god-like in the movie).

Now, any old idiot can be a user . . .
Old 02-20-04 | 08:05 PM
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I would love to see a sequel. TRON is probably one of the top films of the 80's!
Old 02-21-04 | 09:01 AM
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Maybe the Matrix is really the sequel to Tron? People living inside a computer world and interacting with programs? The basic technology to create the Matrix is in place in Tron, so maybe the machines just used what was there to create the Matrix?
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I was just going to say, "The Matrix was the sequel", as a joke of how some of the themes were similar.

Not many people notice the similarities between those 2.
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I bought an anniversary edition of Tron on Beta! And I had to get the SE DVD. I couldn't really understand the movie when i saw it in the theatres as a kid. But it's one of the few movies i can watch again and again. The special effects are cool still to this day. Much more interesting than the modern day CGI imo.


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