This is a review I found on the net by Roger Ebert who praises TRON.

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Tron
By Roger Ebert, 4.0 stars out of 4
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US (1982): Science Fiction/Animated

96 min, Rated PG, Color, Available on videocassette and laserdisc

The interior of a computer is a fine and private place, but none, I fear, do there embrace, except in TRON, a dazzling movie from Walt Disney in which computers have been used to make themselves romantic and glamorous. Here’s a technological sound-and-light show that is sensational and brainy, stylish, and fun.

The movie addresses itself without apology to the computer generation, embracing the imagery of those arcade video games that parents fear are rotting the minds of their children. If you’ve never played Pac-Man or Space Invaders or the Tron game itself, you probably are not quite ready to see this movie, which begins with an evil bureaucrat stealing computer programs to make himself look good, and then enters the very mind of a computer itself to engage the villain, the hero, and several highly programmable bystanders in a war of the wills that is governed by the rules of both video games and computer programs.

The villain is a man named Dillinger (David Warner). The hero is a bright kid named Flynn (Jeff Bridges) who created the original programs for five great new video games, including the wonderfully named "Space Paranoid." Dillinger stole Flynn’s plans and covered his tracks in the computer. Flynn believes that if he can track down the original program, he can prove Dillinger is a thief. To prevent that, Dillinger uses the very latest computer technology to break Flynn down into a matrix of logical points and insert him into the computer, and at that point TRON leaves any narrative or visual universe we have ever seen before in a movie and charts its own rather wonderful path.

In an age of amazing special effects, TRON is a state-of-the-art movie. It generates not just one imaginary computer universe, but a multitude of them. Using computers as their tools, the Disney filmmakers literally have been able to imagine any fictional landscape, and then have it, through an animated computer program. And they integrate their human actors and the wholly imaginary worlds of Tron so cleverly that I never, ever, got the sensation that I was watching some actor standing in front of, or in the middle of, special effects. The characters inhabit this world. And what a world it is! Video gamesmen race each other at blinding speed, hurtling up and down computer grids while the movie shakes with the overkill of Dolby stereo (justified, for once). The characters sneak around the computer’s logic guardian terminals, clamber up the sides of memory displays, talk their way past the guardians of forbidden programs, hitch a ride on a power beam, and succeed in entering the mind of the very Master Control Program itself, disabling it with an electronic Frisbee. This is all a whole lot of fun. TRON has been conceived and written with a knowledge of computers that it mercifully assumes the audience shares. That doesn’t mean we do share it, but that we’re bright enough to pick it up, and don’t have to sit through long, boring explanations of it.

There is one additional observation I have to make about TRON, and I don’t really want it to sound like a criticism: This is an almost wholly technological movie. Although it’s populated by actors who are engaging (Bridges, Cindy Morgan) or sinister (Warner), it is not really a movie about human nature. Like STAR WARS or THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, but much more so, this movie is a machine to dazzle a

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Computers probably already alienated some of the audiences...

If I remember correctly, in the 80's, computers were usually tagged with "geeks". (Bah! I love being a geek! Gimme my C64!)

DaveTRON Wrote:I have the original Siskel and Ebert TV review of TRON on video and they both loved it. Thumbs up from both of them.

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I had considered it. Unfortunately, it's rather large even in a streaming format.

Maybe I can cut it into smaller chunks.

Todd,

I have everything I need to cut it down a bit. The entire piece is over nine minutes long. I can cut some non-essential parts and get it down in length. I can also compress it to a smaller screen size than the 720x540 I have it in now. It's 430 MB in size right now too so the upload would kill me!

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Ebert Wrote:That’s all right, of course. It’s brilliant at what it does, and in a technical way maybe it’s breaking ground for a generation of movies in which computer-generated universes will be the background for mind-generated stories about emotion-generated personalities. All things are possible. Copyright © Chicago Sun-Times Inc.

I love how he can forsee the future of CG movies.. lol.. It is very intresting how Tron really did make an impact on movies even though it didn't score well at the box office.

However, like Steve L. said, "Tron is like fine wine. It gets better has the years go by". (not a direct quote but you heard him say it on the 20th Annv. DVD)

I'll tell you, Tron suffered because, like Blade Runner, it was a little too cerebral for most movie goers.

Most people don't like to think when they go to the movies. Tron had a little too much philosophy and technology for the common masses.

What's funny is that the film wasn't nominated for Best Visual Effects that year because the Academy said they wouldn't allow anything created by a computer to be nominated.

Funny how that changes over time, huh?

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