While I agree that the plot wasnt amazing, but not every movie has to have the best plot ever, sometimes just enjoyable is good (that being a combo of things naturally) . The visuals were pretty amazing to me. Out of curiosity what where the movies involving tech that you didnt cringe with. Im guessing one will be Social Network
]]>I agree on the ‘meh’.
What really irked me as I watched the scene in your 4:th picture: Who in their right mind would look at that ‘history’ output and then immediately rerun the last command, rather than first check out the contents of ‘last_will_and_testament.txt’? I mean, seriously? Make me believe that if you find your missing fathers hidden ancient computer, and see that file being edited a few commands up, your first response is not to check it out?
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/dev/.udev/names/ptye0/\x2fdevices\x2fvirt…
Wa-it! \x2f, isn’t that… Yeah, it’s the humble slash, escaped. What’s going on there?
]]>I’d actually have to disagree. While I definitely agree that the plot was clearly ‘meh’, every other aspect of the movie was amazing. I usually don’t forgive movies so easily for not having a good plot but the music, visuals and overall style more than make up for it. It’s one thing for a movie to have good special effects (something which I would usually ignore too) but it’s another thing for them to be so stylized and artfully executed. Definitely take a look at the link that ido posted. It shows just how clever and artistic the effects were and this is only the work of one effects group.
Also Olivia Wilde was extremely hot in the movie which may play a disproportionately large part in my opinion of the movie, haha.
]]>I, too, agree with the ‘meh’.
I saw the movie in IMAX 3D, and I have to give it this- the collusion of:
1.) Incredible soundtrack
2.) Impressive visual effects
3.) and most importantly- a set of understated 3D effects
Really stood out to me. It’s truly tragic they didn’t do more with the plot- they certainly could have.
Regarding using actual linux commands and creating the sfx on Tron: Legacy, here is a very good article from one of the movie’s sfx guys:
http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178
Where he talks on how it was important for them to keep the “digital culture” true to form.
Regarding the movie itself,
I agree with your “Meh”, Tron got zero points from me on the plot but it got major point on the use of music and visuals. without the music and visuals, the movie wouldn’t be worth the watch, but with it, it has some value.
I don’t agree with you on not getting points over visuals, for most movies, yes – there is a constant climb in visual effects, a constant climb with a very gentle slope. But every once and a while, comes a movie that raises the bar. The first Matrix did it with the “Bullet Time” effect and Avatar did it with the usage of 3d. now I’m not saying that Tron had the same game-changing effect, but it certainly had one of the best aesthetics I’ve ever seen on film, way above the current level in films – it had the “wow” factor, and it should get credit for that.
]]>If you look closely at the first computer terminal screenshot, you’ll see that it is actually a modern Emacs buffer. Another shot from the same scene shows he was also playing Emacs tetris and running the Towers of Hanoi clock for some reason, even though he was in a hurry.
In your second screenshot from later in the movie he’s supposed to be on an old 80’s computer there, running what is meant to look like SunOS (“SolarOS”). However, it’s running on an i386 (wouldn’t happen in that era) and it’s running Xorg, which wouldn’t exist for more than a decade (2004). A couple of tiny mistakes, if you want to count them as that — but you could say it’s tall taking place in a parallel universe where these aren’t anachronistic. I really like that they were pretty careful with all these details.
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