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 | | From: | MHW | | Subject: | Tron Reloaded | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:19:44 -0000 |
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 | Tron Reloaded
Grab your light cycle and prepare for v2.0
13 January 2005
Back in 1982 Tron actually wasn't too implausible a concept. After all, the
idea of a programmer getting trapped inside his computer is rather easier to
stomach when programmers actually could fit inside their computers, being,
as they were, the size of a small hippo. Time and technology have moved on
since then though: we now have microprocessors, nanotechnology and the
ability to watch Internet in six million colours. In short, its about
time for an upgrade.
So it is that Disney has commissioned a remake of Steven Lisberger's cyber
romp utilising all the bells and CG whistles now available. though as
commendable a thought as that may seem, it's really rather sad. After all,
there was always something rather endearing about a futuristic cyber-tale
that looked more low-tech than a 1974 Austin Maxi - and this was when it
came out! Now old Tron has been elevated to cult status by its sheer
naffness, everything from the glowing neon getup (gotta love those helmets)
to the rather funky light cycles. And let's not forget the fact that Tron
turned the Frisbee - 80s outdoor toy of choice, since replaced by the
flick-knife - into an instrument of righteous smiting.
If you're too old, or indeed too young, to have encountered Tron, the film
starred el duderino himself, Jeff Bridges, as a computer programmer who is
abducted from his workstation and sucked into a computer program. Once
inside he's forced to participate in rudimentary, computerised gladiatorial
games (not unlike Daley Thompson's Decathlon on the Spectrum) until he
enlists a security program to help set him free. The new version will be
slightly updated, with the Internet now being the malignant force that sucks
our hero in.
"We are contemporizing it," screenwriter Brian Klugman told Variety, "taking
these ideas that were ahead of the curve and applying them to the present,
and we feel the film now has a chance to resonate with a young audience."
An online environment that entraps people, refuses to release them into the
real world and forces them to play all manner of 'games'? What kind of
far-fetched madness is this?
[From http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/newsstory.asp?news_id=16479 ]
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MHW
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| | From: | synaptyx | | Subject: | Re: Tron Reloaded | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:18:10 -0000 |
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| MHW wrote:
> Tron Reloaded
> Grab your light cycle and prepare for v2.0
> 13 January 2005
Ummm we couldn't justify a proper sequel, so I know, let's just remake the
fucker, nobody'll notice! X(
Aaron
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