TRON on TV

YellowDog

In Memoriam

Donor 2011, 2013
Joined
Apr 12, 2008
Messages
9,851
Reaction score
158
Location
Humble, Texas
I just found this a couple of minutes ago. We have Dish Network & they are running TRON on one of the movie channels. It will be on at 11pm Central time. On our system it is channel 362 (your mileage may vary).

ken
 
I'm bummed. I zoned out about 10 mins in and then woke up for the last 10 minutes of it. Hopefully it's on rotation and I'll be able to watch the whole thing. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to go find my tape and pull a vcr out of the garage to watch it....

ken
 
If you don't already own TRON on VHS, DVD and possibly laserdisc and are a part of this forum, you are doing it wrong. ;)

Darn tootin'! It was scheduled on HDNet last night and tonight! So get those HDDVRs ready! Mine recorded last night...can't wait to check it out in HD!
 
My Dish HD DVR drive died sometime between Sunday and Monday so I missed the first showing to DVR Tron. Replacement should be here today so I can record it tonight.

Didn't loose too much since I offload stuff to an external drive. Just have to remember what stuff I had set up to record before. :(

It made it almost 4 years before failing.
 
If you don't already own TRON on VHS, DVD and possibly laserdisc and are a part of this forum, you are doing it wrong. ;)

No, I am am doing it the KLOV way. I own the VHS copy, therefore I have the purchased the right to legally watch the performance of this artwork as distributed in whatever format. The media is not material according to the MPAA or whatever alphabet soup organization enforces violations these days. So therefore they should permit me to swap the media for a nominal fee rather than force me to purchase a new license when I desire to change media. As soon as they do, I will pay the $3 and get my BluRay disk. I don't need to pay the other $24 for the right to perform the work, I have already licensed that.

I'll let you know how that argument works out....:D

In the meantime, I'll watch it on HD on Dish.

ken
 
I know that I will take some hits for this but here it goes...

I have always been a computer nerd and never saw Tron when I was a youngin' during the 80's (which seems sacrilege in itself). After seeing all the threads here about how great the game is, TRON this and TRON that (I actually got to see one played at Hirschberg's), and someone over the weekend posted it was going to play on TV, I decided that I didn't want to that long and picked the DVD at Best Buy.

I watched it Monday night and finished it up Tuesday night... Let me just say that it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen (right up there with Pluto Nash, Shoot 'em Up, and Kung Pow). Maybe I was expecting too much or the ridiculous computer references were just too much but I just shook my head and laughed that I actually wasted 2hrs of my time watching this flaming pile.

I wanted to like it but I just couldn't. I will say this though, the new TRON Legacy trailer looks pretty cool so maybe I can give that a shot when it comes out.

So... did anyone that originally saw it in the 80's watch it recently and think that, "Wow, this thing just doesn't hold up over time"?

- Mike

FLAME ON!!!

77849-3430-human-torch_super.jpg
 
Tron is an awful movie...there's no getting around that. It was awful in 1982 and it still is. What it had going for it, back then, were groundbreaking special effects, lightcycles, and a "space"-type theme. Everything a 7 year old (like me) could ask for. The only thing going for it now is nostalgia. It's like kids nowadays watching the original Star Wars Trilogy...they just don't get it...whereas the time is was groundbreaking and the only game in town.
 
Don't get me started I'm a huge movie critic.

I hate it how people love only the effects. The effects now suck so people now see past them and understand that the movie sucks!!
I'm mostly referring to modern day culture.. as well. Thats right.

Modern day people and culture.... em, Suck. But there are exceptions...;)
 
Last edited:
Of course TRON sucks if you are attempting to watch it as a serious attempt at movie making. It was and still is a 2 hour advertisement for the state of the art in computer animation at the time it was created. Obviously, I have more power in the PC I am typing this on then there was in all the other computers (except maybe the Cray) that were used to create the images. The whole appeal (for me anyway) is how badly they abused the computer concepts and the incredibly stilted dialog. "Bring in the Logic Probe". I almost split a gut laughing at that one every damn time.

Greetings Programs....

ken
 
Of course TRON sucks if you are attempting to watch it as a serious attempt at movie making. It was and still is a 2 hour advertisement for the state of the art in computer animation at the time it was created. Obviously, I have more power in the PC I am typing this on then there was in all the other computers (except maybe the Cray) that were used to create the images. The whole appeal (for me anyway) is how badly they abused the computer concepts and the incredibly stilted dialog. "Bring in the Logic Probe". I almost split a gut laughing at that one every damn time.

Greetings Programs....

ken

Ha!!!! I get yeah all the way. :)
 
I am glad to hear that it does in fact suck... As for the techno-references... I just stared in disbelief when Jeff Bridges started talked about getting into 'memories to find the hidden files'. WTF!

As for the original Star Wars trilogy. Those stand up to the test of time! They were great back then and just as great today. I could still sit down and watch the Holy Trinity today and not lose interest. Am I biased because I did actually see them in my youth? Perhaps, but I will say that the TRON DVD is going into long term storage with the Ark.

- Mike
 
Looks like TRON only played on Wednesday. Got my replacement DVR last night and installed it but no TRON to be seen. It will surely run again in HD. For any that saw it in HD, how did it look?
 
Back
Top Bottom