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Tron changed cinema – and predicted the future of tech

• samizdis 4y ago
  > The film was even disqualified from the best special effects Oscar, since using computers was considered “cheating”
  • rbanffy 4y ago
    And now even the term "film" is something from a bygone era. Though I like the fact many directors still work with miniatures in SFX/VFX
• mgbmtl 4y ago
  As a kid I remember being hypnotized by the visuals, and having no clue what it was about. As a teen, Tron (and Hackers!) had a huge influence. At the time, there were few people I could identify with. They made me more curious about bulletin board systems and eventually the Internet, where I met people I'm still good friends with today.
  • rbanffy 4y ago
    While advocating for Free Software and Open Source (that war was vicious) I frequently invoked Tron's mission: "We fight for the users".
• rbanffy 4y ago
  The dialog is terrible, acting is meh, argument seemed dumbed down into a kid's movie level and, yet, it explores sentient AI and artificial life, the concept of intelligent software agents acting on the user's behalf, and touches the concept of uploading oneself to a machine and into a simulated reality. A bit like The Black Hole - Disney didn't know what to do with it. IIRC, Bonnie Mc Bird's original screenplay was a bit more fantasy-like in that the hero "fell into the computer" by some sort of accident. Other interesting movie from the time would be Electric Dreams, which also touches the topic of sentient AI, but in a romcom setting with a delightful soundtrack.