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The Star Of Disney’s TRON Sequel Is …
I am – Hercules!!
Garrett Hedlund ("Friday Night Lights," "Four Brothers," "Eragon") will play the lead role in “Tron,” the sequel to "Tron."
(Shades of "Star Trek" and "Rambo"! Both the original and the sequel now have the same title!)
He'll play a computer geek tracing the steps of Jeff Bridges' character from the first "Tron."
He made his feature debut in "Troy," which is almost "Tron."
Harry says I should start offering opinions when I post something about film, so here goes. This guy is plenty handsome but smoking will turn his lungs black!
Find all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I wanted to jump in here and point out an off-hand factoid in the story... It seems to be saying that this movie will cost $150 million. Jeff Bridges' Flynn is in it and it'll cost $150 million... The Tron nerd in me (I have a framed Australian one-sheet for this movie on my bedroom wall) is freaking out about now.
By all appearances Flynn might have slipped to the dark side in this one. Although I hear there might be more than meets the eye to that angle...
No matter what, I'm excited. Bridges alone means my ass in a seat and I've heard there is some real excitement about this project at Disney, so hopefully we'll end up with a real and worthy follow-up to one of the best geek films in the last three decades.
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I hope you made it!
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Tcal, great post.
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i mean.. its not you said "brad pitt" and we all knew what he looked like.
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T'internet is wonderful and easy to use.
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dangit
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that's not the same title...
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just look at that douche! arent you sorry you asked?
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and i don't look like that
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...but the lad needs shirt money too. After Harry's leather clone look yesterday, and this slice of prime topless beefcake today, a question: is AICN reaching out to the niche, though doubtless important, gay geek demographic? If so, keep reaching for that rainbow!
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Not me.
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Someone needs a raise for stopping that idiocy.
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Calling the movie Tron to me sounds worse than calling it Tron 2.0, Tron 2 or Tr2n.
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and milf lover.. I'm just saying if i was running one of the most popular internet movie sites, and i had new casting news about a relative unknown, i would add a pic so my readers wouldnt need to google it. (but the point is moot now.)
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Why the fuck do you still come to this site?
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I think the reason they changed it is there afraid the non geeks among us will go back and watch the original and not be down for a sequel.
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it's just the choice of pic that is disturbing... makes one wonder about Herc, really...
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My idea is better
T2ON looks better and makes more sense.
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No one has yet purposed or answered that question. If she is available, she should most definitely be in the new Tron film.
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Jan 07, 2009 1:29:16 AM CST
Uh, I thought this was supposed to be a site for movie geeks...
by johnypanic
The first Rambo film's title was "First Blood." The first Star Trek movie's title was "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." So these films do not have the same title as their latest sequels. I mean, maybe a case could be made for ST, maybe, but definitely not Rambo. That's just ignorance. My mom would probably get that wrong, but AICN? How did no one point this out yet?
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7th post...
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Cindy Morgan is the name of the actress who played the lead in Tron. I found her MySpace page. I'm not sure, but it looks like the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld is her husband? Anyway, she looks the same and has done some Tron video game voice-overs. It would sure be great if they cast her as a lead in the new Tron sequel.
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Look at it. Wide, white, studded with _something_...
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The first Star Trek was :The Motion Picture, and the first Rambo was First Blood. Do people not even proofread this shit at all anymore?
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That picture is the gayest fucking shit I have ever seen!!!!
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That is certainly what I got from his picture...
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Beat me to that one. But I mean come ON people!
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DIE 55 REMAKES IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS DIE
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if they didn't stop carting these pretty Michael Bay motherfuckers in for the leads. Well connected shitheads what they are. -
Don't listen to those idiots who don't know how to read Disney. Calling it Tron makes it seem like a reboot, not a sequel.
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Was called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles, the latest sequel, TMNT, that's closer than Rambo!! Heck, even Rocky and Rocky Balboa are... I was hoping Tron Guy was the lead :(
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Alan's son from Tron 2.0? If not, then, shouldn't Jeff Bridges be considered the star/protagonist of this film?
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Panic and Milf lover are right but think the error relates to the second First Blood. "Rambo: First Blood Part II" so while still closer, still wrong......and annoying
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DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD even bothers coming to this site, he obviously does not actually like movies in the least
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a motherfucking Flight Of The Navigator sequel! don't act like you wouldn't watch it!
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They should throw his ass in there,that would be funny,cheesy porno-mustache and all.
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But I'm afraid this will be not even remotely near the (optical) brilliance of the 1982 version. Back then, computer nerds like me instantly fell in love with TRON's visuals because that was EXACTLY the way we imagined what it would be like being in a computer.I don't think that they can recapture that feeling. Todays computer kids are used to lifelike HD graphics. They will never know what it was like playing on a computer with a 7Mhz CPU and 512 KBytes RAM, trying to imagine the weird things going on in those wonderful machines....
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I'm DEAD SERIOUS, I mean if Disney makes sequels to Witch Mountain and Tron why not their other live action cult classic? they could bring back Joey Cramer from wherever he lives in Canada and give Paul Reubens his first major role in years
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It looks all distorted due to someone repeatedly cumming on it and letting it dry.
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coming soon to a cinema near you....
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He's still alive. So will he do a cameo?
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he has covering his body. What kind of a Jupiter-sized asshole poses for a pic in this manner? I bet his mother wants to die and his dad walks the streets randomly punching strangers in the face and getting blind drunk in bars trying to kill the pain.
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Do they sell men's clothes where you got that?
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I'm jerking off right now.
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Scared me when I clicked on the topic. You should warn people against it. Like, a GAY PORN tag, like the spoiler one.
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Seriously, let's stop putting colons in titles of films. THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK was perhaps an early offender, but now everyone is doing it.
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Thanks AICN for posting that picture .
I opened the link and now everybody in my job thinks I browse gay porn on my lunch time. Which is only a half truth . -
I thought he was dead, but according to Wikipedia...he just filmed a movie last year.
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and with the cig too, its like hes begging for cancer.
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playing death frisbee against each other please.
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Call the damn movie Tron 2, or Tron 2.0, or TR2N if you insist, and get it over with. But just "Tron?" Please....
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Disney has truly gone off it's rocker. NO WAY this movie makes back it's budget. After all the middle-aged nerds like me see it first weekend, the BO drops like a high-school girl on prom night. Tron is a joke to 95% of the population.
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And many of the people who'll be involved with it were probably influenced and inspired by it. Transformers was the same. I reckon it'll turn out good.
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and I also recall reading and aticle that the PC game TRON 2.0 would be ported over to the 3 major home platform systems(i.e. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo). Whatever happened to that and when will it happen?
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Seriously, why this picture? I can see the guy's children swimming around in his balls.
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TROFF !!!
From the computer commands TRace ON and TRace OFF. Although I watched the DVD over Christmas and Steve Lisberger denied this is where the name came from, saying instead it was short for "elecTRONic".
Actually, perhaps TROFF wouldn't be such a good name ... we don't want loads of people turning up at cinemas expecting a movie about pigs !!!
Also, didn't realise this before, until the end credits, but Flynn's first battle in the game grids was against a rather unfit accounting program called Crom, who was played by Peter Jurasik (B5's Londo) although I don't believe he ever had a scene with Bruce Boxleitner. But a little bit of B5 trivia there. -
I understand the logic of putting attractive people in lead roles, but this guy is supposed to be a computer geek? They wouldn't let him on BEAUTY AND THE GEEK (as a geek) so that should be our standard!
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i cant get my eyes off it....
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one of the iconic images from Fight Club, at least that's what I saw immediately.
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Who cares!!!!!!
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I'm not being sexist or homophobic here... but when a male lead gets announced on here we get a really graphic, homoerotic 1080p, 3D, smello-vision photo. However when we have news on a female lead..... we get a friggin link. GayICN?
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The first movie was First Blood, not Rambo.
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His love for prime time soaps, MTV reality shows and the like were pretty big clues.
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If I was gay I'd be excited about this news. As it stands, being hetero, I'm more excited by that hot chick TRON girl that was announced a few weeks ago.
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People have been waiting years for a TRON sequel. They're not as interested in James "Overrated" Cameron's MATRIX retread, which, oddly enough, would be yet another remake of TRON. Weird!
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that is some of the glamest shit I have seen this year. Thanks AICN, my twig and berries just retracted a little. And yet the pic somehow fascinates me. It (he) does look a little like a young Kurt Russell.
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SNL. Did he just, "jizz in his pants"?
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was called "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and the first Rambo was called "First Blood." Do your homework.
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and then insisting that its a sequel in order to hide the fact thats just another fucking REMAKE?! touché Hollywood...
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Jan 07, 2009 7:40:28 AM CST
LaserPants, I'm afraid you're (still) a fucking idiot.
by motoko kusanagi
As if saying that you love Speed Racer but hate T2 isn't enough.Now you're trying to tell us that AVATAR will be "Matrix retread".We know next to nothing about AVATAR's storyline, yet you seem to "know" that it has something to do with the Matrix.Your level of fatuousness puzzles me. On the other hand that may explain your love for that ape dung movie with the "pop art" colour palette (sic!) and the fat kid in it.
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Jan 07, 2009 7:47:25 AM CST
It is sexist to not bring Cindy Morgan(Yori) back for this
by diagnostic
So they have been ridiculed into renaming this "Tron?"
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I thought this guy actually did a good job in Death Sentence. And fella's, you've got it all wrong. The first Rambo was called - "Rambo 1". wasn't it?
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Yori rulez by the way! She was hotter than Ms Pac-Man!
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... u know the rest
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TRON XP. TRON Snow Leopard. GnuTRON. OpenTRON. TRONzilla. KTRON. XTRON. Furthermore, I can't wait for something like this to hit YouTube: "Hi, I'm a Mac." ZAP! "And I'm a TRON!"
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this thing will cost $150 million. If it does, the studio behind it is suicidal.
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to this nonsense but leave Narnia blowing in the wind, after F'N up its release date? FUCK YOU DISNEY! FUCK YOU WITH PLUTO'S DICK!
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trying to be Tyler Durden?
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At least differentiate it from the original film's title somehow.
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I will go. Just tell me when.
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just you wait and see
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And you walked directly into the trap AGAIN! Awesome! I love making you monkeys dance. DANCE, MONKEY! DANCE! Go cwy to your Robodaddy. Perhaps he will let you caress his buttcheeks.
Btw, if no metal can go through time travel, how come a robot can? Aren't they made of metal? Liquid Metal, for instance? WHOOOOOOOOOOOPS! Plot hole! Btw, have you looked up pop-art yet? When you do, get back to me. I'd love to hear you cry like some dark, morbidly obese virgin mirror of a shrieking, poop flinging monkey from a movie you never saw when you realize, painfully, that I am right, and you are wrong.
Oh, one thing I did want to give props to you for, though, is the "eyeball fucking" meme. If AVATAR doesn't bomb (unlikely), that phrase is going to be all over the place. -
Keannu Reeves as MCP. He'd be awesome in TRON2.
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Tron 1 was a fluke cult hit because it was unlike any movie of it's time and especially with creators having free reign back then.
Add the comical structure of today's hollywood movies and you get the George Lucas syndrome where they have a need to over explain everything and force in science where it was previously magical. And also a complex story quadruple layered story where it can't even concentrate on one character. Lastly the bad guys will gain a soul at they end either that or bad guy used to be good.
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I admit, I LOLed at your Hasta La Windows Vista joke.
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has time to work out and look like that?
seriously.
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ALL the Die Hard movies were formulaic hollywood movies. The first one was a pretty fun actioner, I loved it when I was a kid, but it hasn't aged well, and was always kind of a generic, typical hollywood summer movie. Of course, I also agree that Die Hard 4 sucked ass, but so did 2, and, to a lesser degree, 3.
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...the worst movie decision ever made in the history of the univere - WHAT... THE... FUCK. This project now fucking SCREAMS 'Remake' till it's hoarse. And that Gayboy Times pic just lost it a further billion dollars.
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has been done so many times with women in the past, I'm suprised that you're all surprised, honestly.
The ones that spring to mind are Denise Richards in whatever Bond movie, Penelope Cruz in Sahara(I don't know why that springs to mind, jesus) and my personal favorite, Sandahl Bergman in Hell Comes to Frogtown. Yes, from Conan and the Whitesnake video. Awesome. Go buy it. Run, don't walk. -
I'll be bored if it's a glorified cameo.
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that was my first big laugh of the day, thank you sir.
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that's not actually a human being, is it?
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...will bring the blacks into my theatre expecting to see a feature about Dave Chappelle's crackhead character.
Seriously, people, it's a TRON SEQUEL! Who gives a fuck what it's called, WE'RE FINALLY GETTING ONE! -
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! (ps: tron sux)
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Cuz for chicks you just imagine them tearing off their silk blouses and going deep on you. C'mon its true. Put them on Megan Fox and try to sit up
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I think that Bridges' character CLU was cut & pasted...or maybe when he was De-Rezzed the MCP kept him in the recycle bin, and put his face on whatever Dastardly Thing the MCP is up to.
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makes me wanna go home and bang my wife super hard. Me real man. Me love Busted T Chicks. Me love Boobies and gnawing on snatch!
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Oh . . . Hollyweird.
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I was wondering where he had been for a while now, since it seems his last movie was cancelled. I still want to see him as Murtagh, son of the Forsworn again...
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They started calling it Rambo with the second one. You're a dipshit, Herc. Sorry, but... time and time again.
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is totally trying to channel promo shots of Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Google it and you'll see. I feel gay just looking at it.
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...Just to tell us you don't give a shit. Invaluable insight as always.
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Tron can't be a joke to 95% of the population because 95% of the population has never seen, or even heard of, Tron.
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and maybe he'll go away. I use that tactic with all my problems in life and it's worked out well so far.
What if he got F'd in the A by his namesake, the real Danny Glover? That would be like some fucked up MC Escher painting, and the mathematical ramifications of said act would probably create some sort of wormhole that would eat the universe. At least we would have to listen to the idiot anymore. -
He did pretty well in that. The movie was still unintentionally funny but he came out looking alright.
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He's directing this and the Logan's Run remake but his IMDB has ZERO previous credits. How does someone with apparently no past experience or credentials get two high profile movies?
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because I want this guy's baby.
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If you know what I mean.
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If you know what I mean.
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If you know what I mean.
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If you know what I mean.
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Hedlund was great ion that film. a 180 from 4 brothers.
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The Bacon rules!
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Saw her in the Tron extras and she didn't look so hot anymore. Granted it's been since 1982 but dang. She was HOT back in the day though...
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i knew it.
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As you can see we have BSB to pick up the slack with his unfunny double entendres. There's one in every crowd.
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DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER.
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So there's gonna be Decepticons in it?
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I have always been content being a silent observer on this site...but when I read (Shades of "Star Trek" and "Rambo"! Both the original and the sequel now have the same title!) on a movie geek site I love and repect, I can be silent no more. At least own up to your mistake herc...First Blood ...Rambo: First Blood PT 2...Star Trek: TMP...Star Trek:The Wrath of Khan..How is that even remotly the same title. I expect better from fellow geeks...very dissapointing
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I have always been content being a silent observer on this site...but when I read (Shades of "Star Trek" and "Rambo"! Both the original and the sequel now have the same title!) on a movie geek site I love and repect, I can be silent no more. At least own up to your mistake herc...First Blood ...Rambo: First Blood PT 2...Star Trek: TMP...Star Trek:The Wrath of Khan..How is that even remotly the same title. I expect better from fellow geeks...very dissapointing
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an almost 30 year old sequel to a movie barely anyone in the mainstream audiences remembers? Yeah, uh, no. Sure, it'll get confusing for archiving purposes, and I'm pretty sure this is the first direct sequel that is using the same damn name as the first movie that is not a direct remake (the fuzzy continuity of JJ's Star Trek is kind of a grey area), but, in the end, we know it's Tron, we buy a ticket for Tron, who cares what it's called? Hell, "The Dark Knight" is a sequel to "Batman Begins" and everyone figured that out just fine. (Although I still wish it had been called "Batman: The Dark Knight" but that's just me.)
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Sarcasm is like a second language to me.
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I kind of want to punch this guy, for two reasons: 1) He looks pretty douchey, and because 2) that picture will probably make my coworkers wonder what I'm looking at and if I'm gay.
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Good grief, could that photo be any more homoerotic? Gee, I wonder how this unknown actor got the part...
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Presented by Vivid Entertainment...
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gay porn
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but yeah...that pic is pretty damn gay. Screw Tron. When are they gonna remake "Laserblast"??? (I caught that one only once when I was a kid, but it could do good... lonely, disenfranchised, geeky, picked-on kid finds an alien weapon that changes him for the worse...I'd see it!
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if they wanna pull a "Rambo"
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and a White Stripes rock star belt, and I'm smoking a cigarette to show I'm a rebel, because smoking today is not only passe, it's politically incorrect. Look at how my pants sag just a little. I can't wait for a man to bend me over and slam his bus in my garage
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every guy here would be creaming their jeans over it.
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That was a great great movie. But I have to say that picture is fucking GAY!
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From Calvin Klein model to passably thuggish in Death Sentance.
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He's trying to grab all the information stored on all the servers in the world to feed his new project that will analyse all that data, both image and text, and synthesize it in the digital world as it is in the real world. Basically Flynn's trying to teach the computer to make things like a hamburger in the digital world look and taste like a real hamburger.
The new Encom system, upon analyzing all of the info stored on the world Internet connected servers should be able to reconstruct anything requested as it actual was. Computers at the moment cant look at an image part of an image, an object, text, or material, and know what it is seeing like real people do.
Flynn's creating a Real Iintelligence System.
He plans to transport himself in there shortly before he dies. Flynn's trying to cheat death by returning to the Encom System. His Utopia if you will.
Problem is he needs to rape all the resources of the worlds servers to collect all of this stuff into his new Encom system.
A system he spent most of the companies budget on. He secured the future of Encom's existence without himself through a military contract so as far as he believes as long as the source code moves on to new technology some part of him will always be alive in the digital realm.
He has too be sneaky about it. He creates a rouge virus called Clu to keep the world at large busy while he rapes these worlds servers. Clu is designed to tamper with things so long as they don't compromise lives. Clu goes rouge and bad shit starts to happen all over the world to systems connected to the net.
Meanwhile our hacker guy- who works at a computer recycling center. He finds a rare treasure when sorting through a batch of old hard drives. It's an old Encom drive (encom drives have the name engraved on them in small silver text. This guy is a true geeks geek he knows that Encom made some of the best 80's arcade games know to man.
He put it in his backpack and takes it home. The living room in his apartment is surrounded with lots of ancient computers he's refurbished. They are displayed with care in acrylic cases. It looks like a trophy room of some sort. This guy is a PC nutter for sure.
He hooks the drive up to his monster of beast computer system called the SpaceGhostMotherMother. Right of the bat he notices that it contains a password locked partition that houses a program called Tron. Our Hacker/PC recycling center guy cracks the 16 bit encryption passcode on the drive with ease.
He tires to run the Tron program, but it wont work. His PC can't recognize the codes value. He goes online to Encom's site, he downloads an emulator use to play Space Paraniod's on new PC Operating systems. It works!!! The world of Tron comes to life. Tron finds out about the net- He and a few other transport onto it to look for Flynn and the original Encom system.
Tron was shut down during one of the many Encom upgrades that commenced back in the mid 80's. Flynn continued to update the Econ system to keep up with technology.
Flynn tried to convert them. He showed up on the Grid as Clu and told Yori Tron Co. That they needed to upgrade their sourcecodes subroutines to function with the new languages used in the new system.
Many converted right away to keep up with the new system, but everyone that was introduced lost their identity/soul.
Flynn came back and promised to find a solution, but until then they would have to stay dormant for a few cycles until he sorted it all out.
Truth of the matter was Flynn forgot about Them. The drive was eventually pulled during a new upgrade and shipped to the recycling center, placed on a rack with tons of other drives, and forgotten completely. Until now............. -
Well done.
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Stallone = God
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M1LK
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Jeff Bridges, like his father, was (and is) a Man's Man. No one can question his masculinity. Garrett Hedlund looks like a girly man. If he is gay that is his business, but looking gay doesn't work for me. TR2N is dead on arrival.
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and suck him dry.
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The original arcade one was pretty cool circa 1982.
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Jan 07, 2009 10:19:36 PM CST
And they should definitely bring back David Warner.
by excaliburffolkes
Even if it's just a cameo. He's a fantastic actor and I never understood why he didn't made it bigger in movies. The guy rocked in everything I ever saw him in.
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if i was cut like that, i would take gay pictures like this too.
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Since we clicked on this link!
Deal with it fuckers-You're asking me about Tron?!?
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WHO GIVES A SHIT?
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And now you start badmouthing DIE HARD???That's hilarious...and sad.
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That must be why you love James "Michael Bay" Cameron so much.
Was I bad mouthing Die Hard? I said I liked it when I was a kid, but that it hasn't aged well and is really pretty generic. I guess some of us grew up. Is that why you like T2: WE WUB WOO ROBODADDY / WHY DO WOO CWY / OLD ROBOYELLER / THE FIRST MICHAEL BAY MOVIE so much? You still require the warm embrace of an ersatz father figure? Is that... why woo cwy? -
A little more cut in the stomach, had some veins ripping down his arms, and didn't look like he had a grainy instant tan, maybe there'd be less commotion of the "gayness" of the picture. Even though I don't think this guy's "gay," he looks kinda gay. I'd still pull out his rocket and prepare it for blast off.
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