Tron Legacy

[Anita18]

Oh, the Unfiction forums aren't blocked! I may get a small piece of swag yet.

 

[Anita18]

And huzzah for people figuring it out for me.

FREE TRON SCREENING NEXT MONDAY, DEC 13!!!!! CHECK LOCATIONS AND TIMES AT URL BELOW

http://www.flynnlives.com/ELECTRIFY/

Sounds fun, but there's no tickets or anything so I expect it to be utter madness.

I may skip out on this. It's certainly cool, but I'm not anticipating Tron like I did TDK.

 

[Kane52630]

no free screenings for Dallas? Damn


TRON: Legacy - Sam meets Castor
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A couple more reviews and its currently 73% on RT

Sydney Morning Herald Review 3.5/5

It's a bit like Fast and Furious, directed by Stanley Kubrick on holiday.

Times UK Review

Despite dazzling man-meets-machine design and similar themes, this film does not have the complexity of Avatar and for some it may feel rather like being trapped in a long video game.

FILMINK Australia Review

Like the first Tron movie there's a sense of cutting edge special effect techniques on display, but, once it has established its premise, Tron: Legacy, like its predecessor, doesn't really know where to go and takes a long time getting there.

Cole Smithey Review C-

If you're young and easily impressed, then "Tron: Legacy" won't feel like a rip off. As for the film's non-window-breaking 3D effects, you'll be left to scratch your head about why the filmmakers even bothered.

 

[Anita18]

no free screenings for Dallas? Damn

Yeah they dropped the ball on this one. TDK had 24 locations, Tron only has 16. And for TDK we had registration (with bona fide sellouts) and people STILL showed up at noon for a 6pm screening.

I have no idea what 42E and Disney were thinking. They HAVE to know that first come first serve for the general public at only 16 locations will be a bloodbath.

I probably shouldn't have given out the link here, but really, it's gonna get dispersed someone before Monday. AICN will probably get it within the hour.

 

[Dark Victory]

And huzzah for people figuring it out for me.

FREE TRON SCREENING NEXT MONDAY, DEC 13!!!!! CHECK LOCATIONS AND TIMES AT URL BELOW

http://www.flynnlives.com/ELECTRIFY/

Sounds fun, but there's no tickets or anything so I expect it to be utter madness.

I may skip out on this. It's certainly cool, but I'm not anticipating Tron like I did TDK.

Do you need a pass or something, or can you just show up?

 

[Anita18]

Do you need a pass or something, or can you just show up?

It seems to be something you just show up to. But do so at your own risk, because it's 5 days away and it's plenty of time for this link to spread like wildfire.

 

[Dark Victory]

It seems to be something you just show up to. But do so at your own risk, because it's 5 days away and it's plenty of time for this link to spread like wildfire.

Haha, true. Also, knowing the niche this film appeals to, I'd have to get there early, and the earliest I could get to my closest theater would be like 5:30. I'd love to see it for free, but I'll probably just wait 'til Friday.

 

[Webhead2006]

I love for me I have two theaters very close to where I live and two others not that far out compared to the first two.

 

[redhawk23]

So I just got done watching the first Tron all the way through for the first time, I saw it once or twice about 10 years ago but had never seen the ending. The movie is far better than people give it credit for I think. While there is far more style than substance at play, the story and acting are nowhere near as bad as some people claim. Overall I think its a very solid movie and very fun to watch.

 

[redhawk23]

Also whilst watching I spotted something I'm sure many others have spotted before but that I still thought was pretty interesting. An obnoxiously large and not very subtle Mickey Mouse head on the grid

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

^^^

that's cool! seems that every Disney movie has a Mickey Mouse hidden somewhere

 

[venom892]

Yea they're called hidden Mickeys.They're around the theme parks as well.

 

[Webhead2006]

cool i never noticed that myself. Also what other movies have some hidden mickeys?

 

[Kane52630]

Some minor spoilers ahead..

7 Awesome facts you need to know about Tron Legacy

http://io9.com/5709777/7-awesome-facts-you-need-to-know-about-tron-legacy

We recently had opportunity to speak with the cast and crew of Tron Legacy and hear some tantalizing anecdotes about the film's production...like the time Daft Punk held a rave on set. Spoilers on!

1.) Michael Sheen based his character, the nightclub owner Castor, on glam rock legends.

My whole life has been inspired by [T. Rex lead singer] Marc Bolan and David Bowie. We talked about the character [and agreed...] that he should be larger than life when he appears. He brings a completely different [element] to the movie. He's very chameleon-like. He has many facets and personalities, and you don't where you stand with him. I like the idea of someone who's reinvented himself over and over again. So all those things inevitably led me to Ziggy Stardust.

2.) Bruce Boxleitner saw the film for the first time with the press and got a little choked up. He was also somewhat shock to finally see a digital, de-aged version of himself appear as Tron in a flashback.

I've known the script in various stages for over a year now and luckily I forgot most of it. I knew my part in the beginning and the end, but in the middle, I sat there with my mouth open and I started to get a little emotional towards the end [...] When you see the Recognizers and the Solar Sailer, they resonate with you [...] I saw a younger version of myself walk on camera last night for the first time. It was quite amazing, and I had a great haircut too! It's bizarre!

3.) The programs are getting blotto on nanotechnology.

At one point, I asked Michael Sheen what the liquid was that the programs were drinking in the nightclub scenes.

Me: Michael, you play the nightclub entrepreneur who runs Tron City's End of the Line Club. What exactly are the programs drinking at the bar?

Michael Sheen: I remember when they brought out the drinks — did you see [Tron director] Steve Lisberger as the bartender? — and the drinks had lights in them. Everything they could put a light in, they put a light in. These drinks they bring on, it's probably some kind of oil, some kind of motor fluid.

Me: Like maybe some liquified code or something?

Sheen: Maybe.

Bruce Boxleitner: What do you want it to be?

Me: Some kind of nanotech? Liquid 1s and 0s?

Sheen: Yeah, it's not actually liquid, it's probably lots of mini-computers that go in your system and clean you out!

4.) Screenwriters Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, who had previously worked on Lost together, really didn't want to make an "Internet Tron Movie."

Adam Horowitz: We never wanted to do an internet movie and be like, "Uh oh, here comes the Viagra ads! Get the lightcycles!" For us, this was a world like Oz or Pandora.

Edward Kitsis: Once you get in it, there are very few references to technology. We really didn't want to remind the audience geographically where we were. It's this new universe, and we don't talk about "going down to the hard drive" or "getting RAM." We really tried to stay away from that stuff, so you get overtaken by this new universe [...]

Adam Horowitz: In 1982, Steven Lisberger was posing these really interesting ideas that just started becoming true twenty years later, with the world of The Sims and Second Life and just the idea of everyone having avatars, even if it's just your Facebook page [...] We didn't want to get too lost in the science of it all, but we looked at ideas futurists and scientists think will affect us in 20 or 50 years.

5.) The original Tron was a bit of a subversive film within Disney back in the 1980s.

Tron director Steve Lisberger: It's a little bit like the key Tron group was the young people who saw it in the early 80s, and they became the digital natives who grew up with this technology over the decades [...] and when they got to the point where they were producers and writers and directors, the energy was there.

I went through a lot of administrations at Disney, all the way from the one that made the first Tron — who had never heard the word "user" before and wondered if this was the film of a madman — all the way to [Tron Legacy producer] Sean Bailey, who is of the technology of the day.

6.) Daft Punk held a rave on set one night.

Tron Legacy director Joe Kosinski: We met [Daft Punk] early on about three years ago, before there was any script, before there was the visual effects test. It was one of the first meetings of the project. I quickly realized that the guys and I had a good creative vibe. We wanted to create a classic film score that sounded like nothing else. We started on the music very early and built the soundtrack as we were writing the script and storyboarding and pre-visualizing the movie. I was very lucky to have tracks play on set while we were shooting. The film was edited when the music had been composed — there's a connection between the music and the visuals in this film [...]

Producer Sean Bailey: Here's a cool little anecdote. One night one of the cameras went down so we couldn't shoot for a couple hours. So there was this impromptu rave in the Tron warehouse in the middle of the night with Daft Punk deejaying.

Joe Kosinski: Everyone was in costume!

Sean Bailey: We just had a dance party at four in the morning.

7.) Fans in Hall H at Comic-Con voiced the arena scenes.

Joe Kosinski: We were just starting the sound portion, and the guys at Skywalker [Ranch sound studio] were telling me, "You have all these arenas and all these specific chants — that's a very hard thing to fabricate. You've got to find a thousand people who are willing to follow chants." So we were looking at sports arenas, and I realized, "Wait a minute! I've got Comic-Con coming! Let's record the Comic-Con hall and get our crowd reactions in Hall H." So we did it — all the crowds in the disc wars sequence are Comic-Con fans in Hall H. It was fun to put the fans who supported us in the movie itself.

 

[That-Guy]

2.) Bruce Boxleitner saw the film for the first time with the press and got a little choked up.

"I'm actually in a good movie again..."

 

[venom892]

Just heard the soundtrack awesome stuff!

 

[corby]

"I'm actually in a good movie again..."

A few months ago me and some friends rented "Transmorphers: Fall of Man" just to laugh at it. While watching it I kept thinking I'd seen one of the old guys in it before until I realized it was Bruce!

 

[redhawk23]

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GguvCH38DJo[/YT]

So I was watching the Making of Tron doc from the 20th aniversary and a bunch of concept art from a proposed sequel a while back was featured in the last few minutes. Some interesting designs, but it doesn't look like any of it found its way into this film.

 

[Angelus_Darko]

Also whilst watching I spotted something I'm sure many others have spotted before but that I still thought was pretty interesting. An obnoxiously large and not very subtle Mickey Mouse head on the grid

Awesome, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that I saw Legacy's hidden Mickey on the back of Sam's helmet in the real world.

 

[Dark Victory]

Some minor spoilers ahead..

7 Awesome facts you need to know about Tron Legacy

http://io9.com/5709777/7-awesome-facts-you-need-to-know-about-tron-legacy

We recently had opportunity to speak with the cast and crew of Tron Legacy and hear some tantalizing anecdotes about the film's production...like the time Daft Punk held a rave on set. Spoilers on!

1.) Michael Sheen based his character, the nightclub owner Castor, on glam rock legends.

My whole life has been inspired by [T. Rex lead singer] Marc Bolan and David Bowie. We talked about the character [and agreed...] that he should be larger than life when he appears. He brings a completely different [element] to the movie. He's very chameleon-like. He has many facets and personalities, and you don't where you stand with him. I like the idea of someone who's reinvented himself over and over again. So all those things inevitably led me to Ziggy Stardust.

2.) Bruce Boxleitner saw the film for the first time with the press and got a little choked up. He was also somewhat shock to finally see a digital, de-aged version of himself appear as Tron in a flashback.

I've known the script in various stages for over a year now and luckily I forgot most of it. I knew my part in the beginning and the end, but in the middle, I sat there with my mouth open and I started to get a little emotional towards the end [...] When you see the Recognizers and the Solar Sailer, they resonate with you [...] I saw a younger version of myself walk on camera last night for the first time. It was quite amazing, and I had a great haircut too! It's bizarre!

3.) The programs are getting blotto on nanotechnology.

At one point, I asked Michael Sheen what the liquid was that the programs were drinking in the nightclub scenes.

Me: Michael, you play the nightclub entrepreneur who runs Tron City's End of the Line Club. What exactly are the programs drinking at the bar?

Michael Sheen: I remember when they brought out the drinks — did you see [Tron director] Steve Lisberger as the bartender? — and the drinks had lights in them. Everything they could put a light in, they put a light in. These drinks they bring on, it's probably some kind of oil, some kind of motor fluid.

Me: Like maybe some liquified code or something?

Sheen: Maybe.

Bruce Boxleitner: What do you want it to be?

Me: Some kind of nanotech? Liquid 1s and 0s?

Sheen: Yeah, it's not actually liquid, it's probably lots of mini-computers that go in your system and clean you out!

4.) Screenwriters Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, who had previously worked on Lost together, really didn't want to make an "Internet Tron Movie."

Adam Horowitz: We never wanted to do an internet movie and be like, "Uh oh, here comes the Viagra ads! Get the lightcycles!" For us, this was a world like Oz or Pandora.

Edward Kitsis: Once you get in it, there are very few references to technology. We really didn't want to remind the audience geographically where we were. It's this new universe, and we don't talk about "going down to the hard drive" or "getting RAM." We really tried to stay away from that stuff, so you get overtaken by this new universe [...]

Adam Horowitz: In 1982, Steven Lisberger was posing these really interesting ideas that just started becoming true twenty years later, with the world of The Sims and Second Life and just the idea of everyone having avatars, even if it's just your Facebook page [...] We didn't want to get too lost in the science of it all, but we looked at ideas futurists and scientists think will affect us in 20 or 50 years.

5.) The original Tron was a bit of a subversive film within Disney back in the 1980s.

Tron director Steve Lisberger: It's a little bit like the key Tron group was the young people who saw it in the early 80s, and they became the digital natives who grew up with this technology over the decades [...] and when they got to the point where they were producers and writers and directors, the energy was there.

I went through a lot of administrations at Disney, all the way from the one that made the first Tron — who had never heard the word "user" before and wondered if this was the film of a madman — all the way to [Tron Legacy producer] Sean Bailey, who is of the technology of the day.

6.) Daft Punk held a rave on set one night.

Tron Legacy director Joe Kosinski: We met [Daft Punk] early on about three years ago, before there was any script, before there was the visual effects test. It was one of the first meetings of the project. I quickly realized that the guys and I had a good creative vibe. We wanted to create a classic film score that sounded like nothing else. We started on the music very early and built the soundtrack as we were writing the script and storyboarding and pre-visualizing the movie. I was very lucky to have tracks play on set while we were shooting. The film was edited when the music had been composed — there's a connection between the music and the visuals in this film [...]

Producer Sean Bailey: Here's a cool little anecdote. One night one of the cameras went down so we couldn't shoot for a couple hours. So there was this impromptu rave in the Tron warehouse in the middle of the night with Daft Punk deejaying.

Joe Kosinski: Everyone was in costume!

Sean Bailey: We just had a dance party at four in the morning.

7.) Fans in Hall H at Comic-Con voiced the arena scenes.

Joe Kosinski: We were just starting the sound portion, and the guys at Skywalker [Ranch sound studio] were telling me, "You have all these arenas and all these specific chants — that's a very hard thing to fabricate. You've got to find a thousand people who are willing to follow chants." So we were looking at sports arenas, and I realized, "Wait a minute! I've got Comic-Con coming! Let's record the Comic-Con hall and get our crowd reactions in Hall H." So we did it — all the crowds in the disc wars sequence are Comic-Con fans in Hall H. It was fun to put the fans who supported us in the movie itself.

Put that **** in spoiler tags.

 

[Nirvana]

And huzzah for people figuring it out for me.

FREE TRON SCREENING NEXT MONDAY, DEC 13!!!!! CHECK LOCATIONS AND TIMES AT URL BELOW

http://www.flynnlives.com/ELECTRIFY/

Sounds fun, but there's no tickets or anything so I expect it to be utter madness.

I may skip out on this. It's certainly cool, but I'm not anticipating Tron like I did TDK.

Crap, looks like I'm going to have to show up super early that day.

 

[Anita18]

Crap, looks like I'm going to have to show up super early that day.

Supposedly they won't be letting anyone line up until 5pm. I have no idea how they're going to go about enforcing this, or if it'll even be possible. It's very likely each theater's security will be different.

Apparently it's Disney who dropped the ball, not 42E. They had registration for TDK - 42E/WB know what they're doing. Disney apparently does not, unless they want riots to drum up hype.

 

[Kane52630]

Put that **** in spoiler tags.

its only one minor spoiler in that article

Jeff Bridges on Tonight Show

http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/wednesday-december-8-2010/1264213/

Daft Punk - Derezzed

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[Dark Victory]

its only one minor spoiler in that article

Jeff Bridges on Tonight Show

http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/wednesday-december-8-2010/1264213/

Daft Punk - Derezzed

[YT]m4cgLL8JaVI[/YT]

So? What's possibly a really cool and surprising moment is spoiled for me and probably others. I've been holding back on every marketing and news tidbit since the summer since I'd rather go into this film with a blank, fresh mind, and I'm sure others want to, too.

 

[Nirvana]

Supposedly they won't be letting anyone line up until 5pm. I have no idea how they're going to go about enforcing this, or if it'll even be possible. It's very likely each theater's security will be different.

Apparently it's Disney who dropped the ball, not 42E. They had registration for TDK - 42E/WB know what they're doing. Disney apparently does not, unless they want riots to drum up hype.

That's essentially what I'm banking on. Even if I can't loiter, my friends and I will probably go see 127 Hours or some other flick playing at the theater until they let us line up. And I doubt the security will be super strict...for Kicking and Screening advance showing they said we couldn't have our cell phones but other theater all let us carry them into the theater. I guess we'll see. Still going to go super early, even chill in the car if I have to, haha.