Please go see Tron: Legacy this weekend

van said:
Don't wait for the DVD.

If you care about Hollywood taking games and gamers seriously, it is imperative that you go to the theater to see Tron: Legacy tonight or tomorrow!
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Edgar Wright (with Hollywood's money) took gamers seriously w/ Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Great movie, and no one saw it.

If Tron Legacy represents Hollywood taking "gamers seriously"....then Hollywood should stay the hell away from gamers. Tron was boring nonsense and I WISH I had waited for the DVD so I could have hit pause and took a nap.
 
GORFGUY said:
I thought the movie was great. I went to IMAX 3D and loved it! It was so cool to see the original actors in it. The original TRON is in my top five movies of all time.....Dr. Strangelove, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Monty Python Holy Grail, TRON......of course I'm an old fart at 45 but the original was so awesome when it came out in 1982.....nobody had a home computer then! OK, maybe a VIC 20 or a Commadore 64.......the cgi in the original was way ahead of it's time.....love'n it!
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Heck, I'm 16 and I still die every time I watch the original tron. It just looks so cool!
 
RareHero said:
Edgar Wright (with Hollywood's money) took gamers seriously w/ Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Great movie, and no one saw it. ...
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It was marketed like shit, then... I had no idea until your post just now that it was about gaming...? :confused:
 
p1899m said:
I wouldn't say it was about gaming but there were a ton of gaming references. The vast majority are console references not arcade.
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Ah, gotcha. So the term 'gamers' is very open to interpretation, then. :rolleyes: Thanks.
 
Pinball Wizard said:
Heck, I'm 16 and I still die every time I watch the original tron. It just looks so cool!
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Agreed. I'm also a teen and Tron as a series has always appealed to me. The new movie didn't seem slow to me, I was completely blown away at every moment and all the friends I took agreed entirely, some obsessed over it much more than I did before and after the new movie. The age card can't really be played here...

And while I haven't seen Scott Pilgrim (freaking thing wasn't at any local theaters I could find), from reading the books I can say it is DEFINITELY marketed at gamers. EVERY SINGLE LINE OR EVENT is a reference to a game or a genre. And the overall premise of the battles is incredibly Street Fighter/Generic JAMMA Fighter-ish so it's not JUST console. It was about a guy who had to Street Fight his way through a hierarchy of generic gaming bosses to get a girl who constantly spouts classic Nintendo references, it was more of a 'gamer movie' than most video game movies are... only, it was the plot centered around the life of a gamer rather than the games themselves.

The problem with most video game movies is that they suck horribly. Scott Pilgrim and TRON are different (well, some will say they suck too, but their concept is still different from most) from other "video game movies" in that they are made to appeal to gamers rather than being based on a game. The TRON arcade games came out around the same time of the movie and were made to fit with the movie as opposed to them trying to take a pre existing game about stuff happening in a computer world and making a plot out of it. Usually games don't translate well to movies, which is why movies marketed to gamers instead of based on games generally go over better than movies about a given game. Tron appeals to fans of arcade games and technology in general. Scot Pilgrim appeals to gamers as it presents a gamer's life the way gamers can only dream-- a life where life IS a game. That sort of innovation is the only thing that can save us from travesties like "Super Mario Bros" and "Street Fighter: The Movie" being the prime examples of 'gaming movies'.
 
The allegorical references to God/Creator vs. Creation/Satan and the scene at the end were great for me. While it has been done before, to quote Joe Hill - "Theymight not have reinvented the wheel but they sure gave it a great spin." If you like vidya games and Tron in particular, go ahead and enjoy the movie. I loved it. My 6 year old son loved it. What more are you looking for?
 
jawhn said:
It was marketed like shit, then... I had no idea until your post just now that it was about gaming...? :confused:
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It's not about gaming, but it's a movie for the gamer generation...I think the trailers and marketing made that very clear from the chiptunes music, the VS. battles, combo attacks, and stupid slogans like "It's on like Donkey Kong" that this was a movie for the gamer generation. The movie follows a video game structure with Scott fighting 7 "Bosses"....and it features music from Zelda, Final Fantasy 2, people turn into coins, the bands in the movie are Sex Bob-Omb (Mario 2 reference), Clash at Demonhead, Crash 'n The Boys (NES games) ....it's the most gamer-cred movie ever made, IMO.
 
RareHero said:
It's not about gaming, but it's a movie for the gamer generation...I think the trailers and marketing made that very clear from the chiptunes music, the VS. battles, combo attacks, and stupid slogans like "It's on like Donkey Kong" that this was a movie for the gamer generation. The movie follows a video game structure with Scott fighting 7 "Bosses"....and it features music from Zelda, Final Fantasy 2, people turn into coins, the bands in the movie are Sex Bob-Omb (Mario 2 reference), Clash at Demonhead, Crash 'n The Boys (NES games) ....it's the most gamer-cred movie ever made, IMO.
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I disagree... Scott Pilgrim was marketed to twenty-something hipsters, not gamers or the "gamer generation" as you call it. They intentionally alienated anyone over the age of thirty, which is everyone who ever stepped foot in a real arcade. That was its downfall.
 
RareHero said:
Jawn, watch this...and then tell me Scott Pilgrim isn't a movie for gamers. :)
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Whoa, Rareero... Man, I never saw anything like that!!! :eek:

Now I want to watch it.

The previews here gave no inclination is was video-game based. It looked 'supernatural', but if they had either of those 2 previews here, I would have been waiting in line!
 
van said:
I disagree... Scott Pilgrim was marketed to twenty-something hipsters, not gamers or the "gamer generation" as you call it. They intentionally alienated anyone over the age of thirty, which is everyone who ever stepped foot in a real arcade. That was its downfall.
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I would have to agree. The golden age of arcades was 1978 through 1984 roughly. It was truly an awesome time to have a quarter! I wish you all could have been at my shopping mall's TIME OUT then. It was amazing!
 
van said:
I disagree... Scott Pilgrim was marketed to twenty-something hipsters, not gamers or the "gamer generation" as you call it. They intentionally alienated anyone over the age of thirty, which is everyone who ever stepped foot in a real arcade. That was its downfall.
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I'm 34, not a hipster, and could watch Scott Pilgrim on a loop. So there. :)
 
Scott Pilgrim was one of my favorite movies of the year.

I just got back from seeing Tron, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
A group of us including some KLOVers had a little Tron party on Saturday. I rented a private theater in Hollywood and watched the original 1982 Tron movie. Then all met up at a local Italian resturant and had some great food. We then saw Tron Legacy at the El Capitan theater. That is the best place to see a movie. They had an awesome laser light show before the movie. I know of a KLOVer who is going back to see it again. Most of us got prime seats in the VIP balacony section with free popcorn and soda. The El Capitan even had a few movie props in the lobby. Great times! I might go back to that theater again to see Tron Legacy for the second time!!
 
Seen it 2x already with the IMAX 3D experience. Well worth it.

The 3D didn't add much at all to the movie, but watching this on a very large screen is the best way to see it as the visual field fills the screen in so many scenes.

btw, the soundtrack was excellent and the spatial imaging top notch. Low end was a little muddy, but I do expect my IMAX to have some blown drivers they haven't addressed.

Will we need to wait another 28 years for a sequel?
 
43 million for one weekend in equals trilogy in hollywood. Imagine the worldwide distribution and streaming goodies next christmas.
 
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