Have you seen the Tron movie?

[cat_herder]

LOL, sad to say but yes I did when it came out. The duck IS ancient! ROFL

LOL, I saw it in the threater.

 

[cat_herder]

Yes watched the movie at the theater and on Betamax. When is VMK going to let my characters have grey hair?
Indygoof(er)

I was just wondering earlier if I should change my character to have glasses since I'm having more and more trouble seeing these days. I thought about the grey hair thing too.

 

[Pirate Speedy]

Yep I saw it in the theater on opening day with some friends!

boy this does date some of us huh?

 

[Tiinkerbelle]

No sadly I have not.

 

[Someybody]

No sadly I have not.

*Gasp* No!!! You shoudl watch it (if your a computer geek like me).

 

[Tiinkerbelle]

Oh I should then

 

[KingTryton]

Yep! I saw it when it came out at DRIVE-IN!!!

Hey, Did you pay to get in or pile in my trunk?

I saw it at the Drive-In too!

 

[NotAZoo]

Wow to think I was 8 when TRON came out. Part of me was still too way into Star Wars and Empire to care at the time, so at first I think I was still a little to young to get it. However as I have gotten older I couldn't dig the movie more. It really was revolutionary for its time and the concept was so out there. I am sure some of the younger generations won't care for it, but being a child of the ATARI and the Commadore 64 age in the 80's I know I love it.

 

[Someybody]

Wow to think I was 8 when TRON came out. Part of me was still too way into Star Wars and Empire to care at the time, so at first I think I was still a little to young to get it. However as I have gotten older I couldn't dig the movie more. It really was revolutionary for its time and the concept was so out there. I am sure some of the younger generations won't care for it, but being a child of the ATARI and the Commadore 64 age in the 80's I know I love it.

Star wars came out at the same time?

 

[Mnementh]

I had probably just been conceived not long before or after that movie came out. I guess that would make me about -1 years old at the time. I still haven't seen it, though it seems interesting.

 

[Since1971]

I had probably just been conceived not long before or after that movie came out. I guess that would make me about -1 years old at the time. I still haven't seen it, though it seems interesting.

You're a youngun'

I've never seen the movie. DH loves it, but I've never been interested in in. I guess I'll have to check it out now.

 

[VirtuallyMe]

Star wars came out at the same time?

The original Star Wars movie came out in 1978... followed a few years later by Empire Strikes back and then Return of the Jedi...


As for Tron- I was in between my 8th grade and freshman year when Tron came out in summer of 82. Went and saw it at the local movie theater with my friends

It was definitely a movie before its time- the first time I saw the Matrix I laughed and said- they got the idea from Tron lol

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Star wars came out at the same time?

The original Star Wars movie came out in 1978... followed a few years later by Empire Strikes back and then Return of the Jedi...


As for Tron- I was in between my 8th grade and freshman year when Tron came out in summer of 82. Went and saw it at the local movie theater with my friends

It was definitely a movie before its time- the first time I saw the Matrix I laughed and said- they got the idea from Tron lol

Actually, Star Wars came out on May 25, 1977.
It was re-released under the new (and current) title of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope on July 21, 1978.

Empire Strikes back was released May 21 1980 and Return of the Jedi came out on May 25 1983.

Tron was release to theaters July 9, 1982.

And yes, It was a movie before it's time.
A bit of trivia about Tron:

*The movie was passed over for an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects because the Academy felt TRON "cheated" by using a computer.

*At the time, computers could generate static images, but could not automatically put them into motion. Thus, the coordinates for each image, such as a lightcycle, had to be entered for each individual frame. It took 600 coordinates to get 4 seconds of film. Each of these coordinates was entered into the computer by hand by the filmmakers.

*Many Disney animators refused to work on this movie because they feared that computers would put them out of business. In fact, 22 years later Disney closed its hand-drawn animation studio in favor of CGI animation.

*While computer animation was used in several scenes, the technology did not exist for a shot to contain both live actors and computer animation. Live-action shots were fantasized using hand-drawn animation. Strong editing, such as with the light cycle chase, created an apparently seamless blend of actors and computer animation.

 

[Goofy_Bob]

Well, all in all, I've bought the movie 3 times.
Once on video, then on dvd when it originally came out. Then bought the 2 disc Aniversary edition when it came out.

I think I only saw it in the theaters once. I was like 9. But I bought it on VHS years later and double-dipped the DVD, as you did, years after that.

...They also used to have a portion of the People Mover at Disneyland go through a Tron area. It scared the heck out of me as a child....

Oh! The People Mover. I miss that. And I remember riding the PM many times before the Tron addition. And I remember the big deal about those rooms too, which I totally loved.

...It really was revolutionary for its time and the concept was so out there. I am sure some of the younger generations won't care for it, but being a child of the ATARI and the Commadore 64 age in the 80's I know I love it.

I remember being totally WOW'd by Tron. And yeah, today CGI is ubiquitous, so Tron is quite dated. But if you kids can imagine how the Abyss, Terminator 2, Toy Story, the Matix, the new Star Wars or superhero (Spiderman, X-men, etc.) movies may have impressed, that's how Tron was for us back in the day.

...The movie was passed over for an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects because the Academy felt TRON "cheated" by using a computer.

"Cheated" with a computer. LOL I think every movie now-a-days use computers. If not for special effects, then certainly in other areas like audio mixing, editting, etc. Heck, more and more movies are fully digital, never existing as anything other than 0s and 1s.

...At the time, computers could generate static images, but could not automatically put them into motion. Thus, the coordinates for each image, such as a lightcycle, had to be entered for each individual frame. It took 600 coordinates to get 4 seconds of film. Each of these coordinates was entered into the computer by hand by the filmmakers.

And as I remember, the live images of the Tron World were filmed in color, converted to BW and then each cell was colored in by hand to add the glowing effect to the character's costumes. Astounding!

*While computer animation was used in several scenes, the technology did not exist for a shot to contain both live actors and computer animation...

Again, with all the CGI in today's media, it's difficult to even remember a world in which CGI was not just hard to put into a picture, but simply didn't exist!

I feel old.

LOL

 

[Diznygrl]

I was a year old when it came out, but I think I watched it for the first time when I was a teenager. Some of the visuals made me laugh, but mostly for nostalgic reasons since it took me back to the days of Atari and the like. Still, a great movie that's worth watching. Lightcycles rule!