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Once I get home from work, I intend to watch it properly. Nevertheless, enjoy!

Music by Daft Punk, of course.

Note: This is the trailer that was attached to Alice in Wonderland, not the old Comic-Con one.

http://bitcast-a.v1.cdg1.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/images/ZZ5D1496CD.jpg

An awesome new poster!

So much sauce. Must see.

This is the first time I've wanted to see this movie. I wasn't a fan of the first one.

I saw this in front of Alice the other day and pumped a fist in the air when I recognized Jeff Bridges.

Isn't there already a thread about this in General!?

Yeah, I thought it was a different trailer, but it looks to be exactly the same.

Sorry. I don't really visit General these days.

What's New button.. the new General. Love it, use it, enjoy it.

edzepp said:

Sorry. I don't really visit General these days.

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Why not, it's not like Media or Games are any safer from arguments...

Of course now that Chaz had me ignored things will get even less argue-y...

Oh it's not that. I just haven't seen a lot of discussions I'm interested in over there in a while.

I don't like the new lightcycles. They're too real world. Kind of breaks the whole "hey we're in a computer" illusion.

Really, you see someone making one in real life?!

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Oh it's not that. I just haven't seen a lot of discussions I'm interested in over there in a while.

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The one about Tron obviously would have interested you...

Short of the trailing stream of light, they look like glammed up motorcycles to me. They don't look explicitly computer. Same thing goes for the new "n" shaped ship models.

That is your nitpick? Really?

I, for one, think the trailer looks awesome. Updating the look of the computer world only makes since since only, oh, twenty eight years have passed since the original.

That I thought the inside of the computer was not inside-of-a-computery? Yeah, I guess so. It's like having Gandalf on a chromed out horse.

Oh, the motorcycle at teh start, yeah, that in the real world... the light cycles show up after the title at the end, at about 2:12...

And there are other trailers showing them.

...he mentioned the trails of light. Ergo, he KNOWS when it's a real motorcycle and not a lightcycle.. and I agree with him, the new lightcycles don't look very.. software-y like the original ones did.

Yeah, weird, it's like computer technology changed in the last 20-odd years or something...

But they look mechanical! One thing is to show time passing and make them look, I dunno.. web 2.0-y or OSX-y or something. But they look like they were built by those American Chopper guys and they only added neon lights all over.

Calleja said:

...he mentioned the trails of light. Ergo, he KNOWS when it's a real motorcycle and not a lightcycle.. and I agree with him, the new lightcycles don't look very.. software-y like the original ones did.

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Oh sorry, misunderstood what he said in the last post....

Still, i think it's just that it looks so high res that's the problem, it's not like the original cycles didn't look like they could be made in the real world:

Gusto said:

Yeah, weird, it's like computer technology changed in the last 20-odd years or something...

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I was waiting for someone to play that card.

How about my card?! Where you expecting that? Nobody expects the Picture Inquisition.

I think I can kind of see what fade is saying. It's not that the graphics have improved, it is the fact the vehicles, locations, etc... they all have a "mechanical" design that implies they utilize gears, levers, engines, and such. It does not even expand to just the vehicles, but also the environment. When the four wheeled craft is "spinning out" it kicks up dust and debris like it was a monster truck at the local fairgrounds. I think it makes the film look good, but it makes it feel less "Tron" which was all about the sterile, rigid computer feel, while it now just looks like he was teleported to the future.

Exactly. What he said.

Also, while I like Flynn, I am going to be really sad if a movie named "Tron" does not actually have Tron in it. I am worried that is going to be the case based on the previews.

I read a news article a while back that states that Tron will be in the movie.

IMDB and a quick google search reveals numerous news articles that mention bruce boxleitner (the original Tron) being in the new movie.

Tinwhistler said:

I read a news article a while back that states that Tron will be in the movie.

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Thank you, I guess I got caught up in the marketing focusing so much on Flynn and his son I just assumed Tron became a casualty. I just hope he does not have a bit part at this point, a "oh look it's TRON! done, moving on now..."

Oh, and does anyone have ideas of what you think the story will be about? I got a few ideas (spoilers on the first Tron in the next paragraph, avoid if you really can't handle it) Based on the trailers, it seems two Flynns exist in the mainframe, a good one that is locked away, and a bad one in red that is doing who knows what. I theorize that the bad Flynn is actually what was left of the original Tron Flynn. If you think about it, when Flynn was digitized he was turned into a program, and it was him entering the MCP that allowed Tron to erase it. When Flynn is sent back to the real world following that event, we never saw if his return caused the deletion of the program version of him. What if it lived on as it's own entity, having mingled with the code of the MCP and "corrupted" by it? Maybe his plan to capture his "real" counterpart was part of a larger scheme to somehow form himself in the real world, something that he deemed was robbed from him by remaining behind as a program?

Just some story discussion.