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Friday, July 24, 2009

Film Also Today in Geek

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:35 PM

cac2/1248474207-tronlegacy.png Slog tipper Brad sends along an e-mail containing a link to this preview of Tron Legacy, the sequel to 1982's Tron. The only text in the e-mail is the subject line, which reads "Dude..."

I'm with Brad on this one.

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Dude.

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on July 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM

The Dude must get some HELLA good stuff to be seeing this shit. But where is the bowling?

Posted by douchus on July 24, 2009 at 3:47 PM

Well given that we've already established that the Dude is not Iron Man, it's nice to see that he has gotten an upgrade, albeit in a different way.

Posted by Chris B

on July 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM

good lord YES

so glad they dropped the whole "TR2N" title. That was lame.

Posted by Akbar Fazil on July 24, 2009 at 3:54 PM

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude!

Posted by Josh Bomb

on July 24, 2009 at 4:29 PM

PLEASE NO MORE REMAKES....PUT THE CGI MAKER DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM THE CLASSIC.......

DROP IT!

DONT TOUCH THAT RENDERING MACHINE....

STOP!

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on July 24, 2009 at 4:57 PM

What happened to the 90 degree turns?

Posted by St. Beretta on July 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM

A_squirrel, a continuation of the original story set years after the first one and starring the original actor is a sequel, not a remake.

And as for the CGI comment: Duuude, have you actually seen TRON???

Posted by pahana on July 24, 2009 at 5:13 PM

Bad idea. The first TRON was great because it was at the birth of computer graphic use in movies. It was different and unusual and visually interesting. The story was ok, but not spectacular. It didn't matter though, because the whole thing looked so cool.

Now all that stuff is old hat. If the story of this new movie sucks, it won't matter how pretty it looks.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on July 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM

JEFF BRIDGES!

Posted by oxyala trio

on July 24, 2009 at 8:47 PM

This movie has me very excited.

Posted by Donolectic on July 24, 2009 at 11:59 PM

The Dude derezzes...

Posted by COMTE

on July 25, 2009 at 12:32 AM

Can we fucking stop the slow motion action shots in movies? It looks fucking retarded.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on July 25, 2009 at 5:16 AM

I'm pretty sure this exact same clip was shown last year at Comic Con, and the file is called something like "Concept Test" -- is this movie actually in production at all?

Seems strange to make a Tron sequel, considering the movie bombed for Disney in the 80s (though I was partly inspired in high school by it to want to be a computer graphics artist), but I guess studios are having bidding wars over movies about Facebook and the Viewmaster toy right now.

The Dude thing is pretty hilarious, though. Once you think about that, it makes the clip 30 times more fun.

Posted by Peter F on July 25, 2009 at 11:20 AM

wow that looked like a giant ad for disney >.

Posted by watchout5

on July 26, 2009 at 9:53 AM

Tron 2.0 was a 2003 PC game by the Monolith folks (I think using a later engine than the original Lithtech). It featured computer graphics that were more complex than those in the original movie (and then rendered in realtime!) and updated the lightcycles game (though not to the degree that is seen in this video) to be more involved than Surround or Serpents with the ability to adjust speed.

It'll be interesting to see if the new film acknowledges the events in Tron 2.0, and if they follow in the footsteps of the original film and add new techniques to the vast library of CGI devices used in film today.

That said, Dude!

Posted by Uriel-238 on July 27, 2009 at 12:40 AM