Quick Review: TRON (no spoilers)
Apr. 6th, 2008 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalRandom Observations:
1. God, Bruce Boxleitner looks like he's sixteen in the Real World segments.
1a. Jeff Bridges as CLU has the girliest scream just before his tank crashes.
2. It looks much better letterboxed. I never realized how much of the visuals I was missing in the pan & scan VHS tapes.
3. I never realized that they filmed the digitizing lab and Big Door segments actually in the Lawrence Livermore Labs. Which apparently back then had a honking big multi-laser system named (without apparent irony) SHIVA.
4. The commentary track is worth a listen. It tends to bounce between dry technical stuff on the effects, to the writer cheerfully admitting to some of the cheese factor (like ENCOM Lab's non-amazement at having developed digitizing tech). From the sounds of things, they're still pretty amazed that they managed to pull off everything they did with the technology they had. To put things in perspective, TRON had more effects shots than Star Wars Ep's IV - VI combined, and this was back in 1982.
5. The movie is still a load of fun these days, especially given the persepctive it gives on the technology we had back then and what's availible today.
1. God, Bruce Boxleitner looks like he's sixteen in the Real World segments.
1a. Jeff Bridges as CLU has the girliest scream just before his tank crashes.
2. It looks much better letterboxed. I never realized how much of the visuals I was missing in the pan & scan VHS tapes.
3. I never realized that they filmed the digitizing lab and Big Door segments actually in the Lawrence Livermore Labs. Which apparently back then had a honking big multi-laser system named (without apparent irony) SHIVA.
4. The commentary track is worth a listen. It tends to bounce between dry technical stuff on the effects, to the writer cheerfully admitting to some of the cheese factor (like ENCOM Lab's non-amazement at having developed digitizing tech). From the sounds of things, they're still pretty amazed that they managed to pull off everything they did with the technology they had. To put things in perspective, TRON had more effects shots than Star Wars Ep's IV - VI combined, and this was back in 1982.
5. The movie is still a load of fun these days, especially given the persepctive it gives on the technology we had back then and what's availible today.
