Tron

r96sk

2020-11-10

⭐ 4

An acquired taste. For me, someone who has no knowledge of computer programming and the sort, it's a very slow, tedious and boring watch. <em>'Tron'</em>, unfortunately, didn't take my interest whatsoever. Not helped by the poor special effects (they get a pass due to it being an 1982 release; though I'm not convinced it's good either way) and forgettable cast performances, it's not a premise that's easy to get into if you have no prior understanding of coding etc. There is some intrigue in there, but not nearly enough to satisfy my viewing pleasure - it felt like a much longer run time …

CinemaSerf

2022-08-16

⭐ 6

I saw this again yesterday - it's 40 years old! I didn't see it at the time, I was one of those kids who hadn't the slightest interest in "Space Invaders" nor did I ever have an Atari, but I do recall the fuss that was being made about Disney's first foray into the world of the emerging computer games market. Actually, the story is not so terrible. It's pretty derivative, with a quite handsome, young, 501-clad Jeff Bridges ("Flynn") out to avenge himself on the evil "Dillinger" (David Warner) who pinched some of his gaming ideas and subsequently rose through the company. Thing is, though, "Dil…

Filipe Manuel Neto

2022-08-31

⭐ 1

**Once avant-garde and innovative, this film feels archaic and old as an arcade game, and has an absolutely miserable script.** I'm not sure what Disney was thinking when they decided to make this film, but I understand the concept and the reasons that led the studio to bet on something like this. In the 1980s, the creation and gradual massification of the computer (a huge box that we see in the movie and which is now primitive compared to the machines we use) generated a “fever” around computing and led to the creation of games that, later, the World Wide Web has taken it to another level.…

[Noticed all the other reviews here are posted by folks who have no interest in technology in the first place...] TRON (1982) is an incredibly imaginative concept that was decades ahead of its time. At the time of production these graphics were cutting edge - in a certain way some of the practical effects are still better than modern CG (in my opinion anyway) as they lend to a gritty realism that is often lost in 21st century cinema. The performances are well enough to let me suspend disbelief and imagine they are really inside some virtual world. The metaphor of programs being "people" par…