Posted on 09/11/2007 8:51:03 AM PDT by longtermmemmory
TRON 2 is going to be a nightmare to make.
Its biggest critics and fans will be gamers, who will expect to see a cross between “300”, “Counter-Strike”, “Halo 3” and “World of Warcraft”.
It might actually be better to make the technology for TRON 2 so advanced that it is like The Matrix, going for a realism-plus look instead of a stylized computer graphics look.
That is, it is easier and maybe better to dress up Brent Spiner as an android then to make an android that looks like Brent Spiner. It can go wrong either way, but there is nothing they can put on the screen that will exceed the imagination.
The original TRON, with its antiquated computer graphics actually helped the actors because the plot had to be slower and they had to go for a “vast expanses, but still enclosed” look to the virtual sets.
If you look at computer games today, you can’t move five feet without something happening.
Most likely, it will end up as a lame excuse, like Lawnmower Man, that just becomes silly when it goes virtual.
I don’t buy that apocryphal stuff.
You’re on a roll today fierro
I bet they include blacks in the remake.
"They had a movie of the future called 'Logan's Run.' Ain't no n----rs in it. I said, well, white folks ain't planning for us to be here." - Richard Pryor
Whether you buy it or not, it is still a legend or myth like Hercules. It’s like saying “I don’t buy Star Wars.”
Well, fine, but so what? It’s a movie.
I liked both movies. I even bought the Logan's Run comic book (and still bought it after the serialization of the movie ended) and read the book it was based on. Fun to watch on tv sometimes. Saw Tron in the theaters, too, although that sometimes seems a bit hokey on TV, but I guess that was a movie that was made for CGI.
I'll probably see them both....
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