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-Pjackso · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 791 Location: Oklahoma

[...digging up a thread from a year ago...]

More TRON LEGACY trailers have been released from Comic-Con 2010.
...And it's looking even cooler!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD9G6X0ULWo&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9szn1QQfas&feature=related

I can't wait!!!!
... must ... wait ... four ... more ... months ...

akajester · Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 934 Location: Wisconsin

yeah, this movie is looking very cool. I previewed the 720p trailer on the barco and wow! Smile

ecrabb · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:25 pm Post subject:

THREAD BUMP!!!

OK, boys... We went to the midnight show of TRON: LEGACY last night... I've been waiting for over a year-and-a-half... I was admittedly worried it would be all action and effects and no story or acting, ala Transformers like Dave said... Well, no reason to have been worrying because they really made a hell of a movie. I'm admittedly a bit of a fan boy, but honestly it was a pretty good story with pretty good acting, and I even liked the ending!

It was rife with references to the old film - some even pretty overt. Added to the fun.

The visual treatment of this movie was way cool. The costumes, the colors... All awesome. Holy sh*t... The action sequences were super-cool, and the sound was incredible.

The music was really excellent, too... If you like cool electronic music mixed with a great cinematic orchestral score. I've heard the Daft Punk fans were disappointed because they expected more Daft Punk, but that would have been a mistake IMHO, anyway. The way they did it was perfect... It's a really cool score.

Oh, and for the theater geeks... We saw it in all its 2D 35mm glory in one of the last big theaters in my area... 800 seats or so and a 60-foot wide screen... Excellent mid-90's vintage THX surround system that was installed when THX certification really meant something. It's a single-screen theater, so they don't have to concern themselves with isolation with adjacent theaters, so it's probably running close to reference levels... and it was frickin' great.

We'll probably go try the 3D presentation after the holidays, but Ebert already bitched that it was too dim - which isn't a good thing for a movie as dark as this one is.

That reminds me... At least 2/3 of the film takes place either at night or in the computer - "on the grid" - which should make this an EXCELLENT movie to show off CRT blacks. If Disney does a good job with the transfer, this will definitely make great demo material.

SC

akajester · Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 934 Location: Wisconsin

Saw it this afternoon. excellent. the 3d was ok. It would've been good either way. Can't wait to see it in CRT glory!

dale

ecrabb · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:19 pm Post subject:

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5320

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

So, I'm guessing it ain't gonna be out on BD for this Xmas. Still, my inability to tolerate other humans in person will force me to wait, and pay the man. Thanks for giving us the feedback, SC. I'll but the BD sight unseen.

ecrabb · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:18 pm Post subject:

Greg, are you not using any gamma correction? I may not be linear all the way down to black, but I have excellent blacks without losing much more than the very bottom. I have no problem seeing into the shadows and still having near full black.

You should rent or borrow or torrent the old movie. It's amazing stuff considering it was made before most PCs even had much for graphics capability. Definitely try to watch it before you see the new one - there a lot of subtle references to the old movie and of course the whole premise of the new movie is based on what happened in the old one.

SC

ecrabb · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:26 pm Post subject:

Wan, I hate the crowds, too... I won't deal with it. I hate the obnoxious that are inevitably part of a crowd. I got luck in that we went to an old theater in the old part of town, so there weren't many people. I'd say around 50 or 60 people in an 800-seat theater... It was like a private screening! Wink

The flip side would have been going to the cinemark at the new mall in the burbs to see it in 3d. I'm sure the masses were packed in there like sardines.

Perhaps there's an older theater running film somewhere you could get into without rubbing shoulders with the unwashed masses. Wink

Oh, and yes - I will be buying the BD the day it comes out.

SC

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5320

-Pjackso · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 791 Location: Oklahoma

... gamma correction aside,

I just watch the movie and really enjoyed it. I was concerned they'd pull a Star Wars episode 1, but thank goodness that didn't happen.
The story was good, and there was enough background to be a stand-along movie. Overall, I really enjoyed it.

...Well, I suppose there could have been more chicks in those ...nice... outfits. Smile

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5320

ecrabb · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:10 am Post subject:

Outfits... Uh buh... Olivia Wilde is super-hot...

Too big to post inline, so check it out...

http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/olivia_wilde_in_tron_legacy-normal.jpg

SC

EDIT - Nice high res poster with Olivia on it.... Mmmmmm.

http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/tron2_poster_b_Olivia_Wilde.jpg

dturco · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:33 am Post subject:

Oh sweet Jesus..... look at 13's real name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Wilde

Yeah I'd burn some fo sho' Twisted Evil

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

it's pronounced "co-burn" Wink

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

She was on Jay Leno last week. Funny when she brought out her Irish accent (Irish on the dad side). I enjoyed the House M.D. episode called Lucky 13.

dturco · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 2:10 pm Post subject:

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

yeah, sorry.

where i grew up (ottawa ontario) there was this up and coming fold singer starting out. got to hear his early stuff at festival and so on before he got famous and all. so i've heard all the Bruce c*ck-burn jokes Smile

dturco · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:12 pm Post subject: