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Tron: Ares

Enough to make it profitable? Legacy didn't light the box office on fire.
Then put it on the streaming service as an original D+ movie. If you don't think it will work at the box office, that's why streaming could be considered a back up plan, or are they worried about another Black Widow kind of situation?
 
I really wish they would have incorporated modern computing, such as cloud computing , into the storyline.... not sure how that would work,,,other than maybe programs being in multiple places at once and maybe merging at times. Maybe files fight each other to not be a deleted copy. (I am think of occasional file conflicts i have with Dropbox).

It's weird isn't it that each new Tron release gets further and further from actual technological trends like the original was. One thing about Legacy I was disappointed in was that it never acknowledged the internet. But no, instead it ends up completely ignoring modern computing, which is weird given what the original Tron world was supposed to represent. Personal computing was in its infancy in the 80's when the original movie came out. While the visuals were impressive for its time, I think what was far more impressive was the story being told and the possibilities it introduced.

Cloud computing is such an obvious topic that it could touch upon. But my guess is the story will have something to do with AI being manipulated by a 3rd party and a simulation of the real world. I've had a theory that the world being invaded isn't necessarily our world, but an AI recreation.
 
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We are basically in Blade Runner 2049 territory. Meaning an alternate history where the technology advances made since original movies never really happened.
 
Then put it on the streaming service as an original D+ movie. If you don't think it will work at the box office, that's why streaming could be considered a back up plan, or are they worried about another Black Widow kind of situation?

That is for people above my pay grade. This was the decision they made with the available data.
 
We are basically in Blade Runner 2049 territory. Meaning an alternate history where the technology advances made since original movies never really happened.
The new Alien: Earth show had taken a similar route, with the Wayland-Yutani ship in E1 having green-screen computer terminals out of the 70’s, like what Nostromo had.
 
It's weird isn't it that each new Tron release gets further and further from actual technological trends like the original was. One thing about Legacy I was disappointed in was that it never acknowledged the internet. But no, instead it ends up completely ignoring modern computing, which is weird given what the original Tron world was supposed to represent. Personal computing was in its infancy in the 80's when the original movie came out. While the visuals were impressive for its time, I think what was far more impressive was the story being told and the possibilities it introduced.

Cloud computing is such an obvious topic that it could touch upon. But my guess is the story will have something to do with AI being manipulated by a 3rd party and a simulation of the real world. I've had a theory that the world being invaded isn't necessarily our world, but an AI recreation.


Oooh The 13th Floor hey?
 
I watched The 13th Floor a little while back, it was pretty good.
Still not feeling it. It all looks visually impressive, but I feel like it's missing something.
Yeah, even though I'm a huge fan of the first two, I just can't work up the kind of enthusiasm for this that I usually can for a new sequel. On the other hand, I am very excited for Disney's other sequel coming out later this year.
 
Are you kidding it's a great underrated gem

Definitely is, and I actually feel like it's one of my favourite of those types of movies being made during the whole VR craze of the 90's. The reason I thought I was the only one to have seen it was that it had very little buzz at the time. Nobody I knew was talking about it.
 
Everyone was too busy slobbering on The Matrix to talk about The Thirteenth Floor. ;)
 
Everyone was too busy slobbering on The Matrix to talk about The Thirteenth Floor. ;)

That's true. But I wonder how different things would have been had 13th Floor came out way before The Matrix, or the latter had been delayed.
 
Probably no significant difference. Some movies are destined to be ignored by the masses.
 
You hear Flynn humming Tron theme in the flashback scene. When he is describing the game to his son he holds a Tron figure and hums the theme from original movie.
You mean the prologue.

I must have seen the picture three times, because I do have the DVD. And I missed it every time. Thanks. And actually glad it's the prologue, because that means I don't have to wade through a 2 hour and six minute movie (and the trailers on the DVD) that I found vastly inferior to the original in order to see it, when I need to do some serious checkbook maintenance, and some unexpected CD editing.
 

Worth a read if you don’t mind teases if not outright spoilers. Some cast members were hidden from the press who visited the set.
 
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