Oh, and "SE7EN" is just SEVEN in case you were wondering. Rant over.

Lasseter and his team had better work long and hard handling this baby just right. Cause this is, like, the Holy Grail of computer animation. The one that started it all. Some respect needs to be paid to this material.

And to all those "TR2N" title haters...I don't know. I was a little jarred by it when I first saw that trailer, but I have to admit it's grown on me. The name will probably change before the release, but damn, it's got some attitude.

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When you stop and think how much information and entertainment (as well as personal blogs and communication) is online and in the "electronic world" now, it will be really interesting to see how the world is different in this one. Kind of a fusion between the first Tron and the Matrix.

I am psyched and totally there, first day, midnight screening.

ANY time a new boundary is crossed, you've gotta acknowledge the accomplishment. You might not agree that the first book to ever roll off the printing press - the Guttenberg Bible - was a bestseller, but you've got to acknowledge it shifted everyone's idea about how information could be reproduced and disseminated.

Flying on Boeing's Dreamliner might be a million times better than what the Wright Brothers did at Kitty Hawk, but for the love of God, please acknowledge that they made an impact on modern travel.

Tron, shit or not, was a breakthrough. No one had thought something like that was possible before the guys involved put their balls to the wall and just did it. And keep in mind, this was a good decade before what anyone would consider "modern" 3D software came out. These dudes entered millions of XYZ co-orinates BY HAND.

Oh, and don't bother trying to argue about how significant Tron was. Cause I've got JOHN FUCKING LASSETER on my side. Booya!!!!!

...Tron got a very lukewarm reception but oddly enough as neons and pastels got huge in the 80s a couple of years later, Tron continued to look cooler and cooler. Couple that with a great arcade game and the rise of the home computer, and Tron became part of the culture. It's more iconic than anything else. All that being said, I still consider it a pretty enjoyable film.

And Dredd, they've got to get him involved. I'm really surprised that Lassiter would back the project without Lisberger. *Really* surprised (and disappointed).

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I agree with you, M-O-M, and I said something like that in an earlier post, how TRON was cool in 1982 because nobody'd seen anything like it, nobody saw an artistic rendition of what computer programs could be, and how they behave. Back then, PCs were still relatively new to the masses. In fact, I don't even think the evil applications were referred to as "viruses" in the movie. They were simply bad "programs" with evil "users"