Tron sequel may be called Tron; Hollywood may have a brain
Josh
Tuesday
5:17 pm
The folks at Slashfilm are reporting that the upcoming Tron sequel/reimagining may not, in fact, be given a completely stupid name.
The test footage at last year’s Comic-Con was originally titled TR2N, which makes me throw up a little in my mouth every time I type it. Next up was a brief period when it was known as TRZ. After that, it claimed the slightly-less-stupid-but-still-overused Tron 2.0. But during last week’s Disney presentation at Showest, the new logo was just Tron.
Just Tron. I’ll totally take it.
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what I mean to say was…
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/244767.html
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calling it tr2n was ridiculous. not sure how i feel about that trailer. like everything else… hope it doesn’t suck.
i did love the tron 2.0 fps (and i never ever play first person shooters). endured the meh gameplay for the sweet character designs and nostalgia.
Well I’ve never actually seen the original Tron (Shut up! I was born in 1992!), so I don’t know what to expect from this movie…
…what, they don’t have video stores in Ontario? It’s a classic — sure, it’s cheesy, and plays off that 1980s theme of technophobia/technolust, but it’s still a lot of fun.
As far as the game, I never actually played it (I remember my computer at the time not being able to run it well enough in a demo to see all the nice effects), but it sounded like it was a pretty faithful rendition of the world.
The best Tron game ever was the Tron arcade game. Hands down. And Tron was one of the first movies my wife and I watched together. On DVD! Not the theatres silly.
I also agree with Also
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The Tron arcade game was pretty cool, as far as arcades went. At home, I had Tron: Deadly Discs on my Intellivision, and it was really well suited to the platform (the Intellivision’s 12-way control disc made it a perfect fit).
The game still goes down in memory as the one cartridge my dad could whup me at. I’d come home from school to find him fixed on the screen, with some ungodly score he’d piled up after playing for three hours straight.
We had a video store, though they were continually restocking, so unless it was made in the last 10 years, or was just a very bad Horror movie, they wouldn’t have it.
…and the only video they stock is 325 copies of “Strange Brew.”
I admit it: I’m not sure I ever actually watched “Tron.” I remember that my brother and I were the only people in the theater, and we spent most of the time running through the aisles and laughing.
And I wasn’t born in 1992, by a long shot. So no worries, Nick.
That was one of the nice things about living in a tiny town: my bro and I often had the theater to ourselves. But unlike with “D.A.R.Y.L.,” where we were enthralled from start to end (even after having seen it probably ten times already) and didn’t make a sound in the empty theater, “Tron” we all but ignored for the full running time. To this day I’m not even sure what the plot was, beyond the idea that people got pulled into a video game.
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Yeah, twenty years ago we had a theater in town, but the town was so small they had to close it…
Ours eventually closed, too.
That’s OK; I graduated high school in a small town (about 3,800 people in town). And I went to college in a town of 20,000 people. So I’m no city boy.
I went to college in a town of 1,000—all college students or professors. My college was literally in the woods, and the “town” per se was simply a bunch of houses in which the faculty lived.
What the hell? Did you go to Unibomber State?
I guess if we’re separating college and town, the town had maybe 50 people in it. Talk about isolation from the outside world. A little thrill went through me every time the garbage men showed up. They reminded me there actually was a bigger planet out there somewhere. Because I had no car, those were the only non-college-related individuals I saw until I flew home at the end of each year.
And those 50 people did in fact either work for the school or were married to those who did.
But see, it all makes sense. It may not have been Unibomber State, but it is the school from which Professor X graduated. Many mutants graduated from there, I suspect. I’m just waiting for my powers to manifest.
I wouldn’t hold my breath…
And I live in a town of 2000 people and hope to go to University in a city of 75, 000… which may just kill me…