I thought it stood for "Nice is Neat."
Tron: Ares
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I got that from the music as well
Also with how the live action lighting looks.
Mr. Punk is dead. He was split into two separate beings a la Tuvix.
I’m cautiously optimistic about this one but… Jared Leto is in the cast. Yikes!
I don’t know how they’ll reconcile the physical world mashing up with the ‘digital world’… probably some rubbish about ‘Evil AI’or some such silliness.
While I like Legacy from a visual standpoint and effort at rebooting (lol) the franchise, there is/was one personal gripe about its story. In the first movie, there was a very definite emphasis / grounding of it being ‘inside the mainframe’, I.e. the users communicated with their programs, the ‘Bit’ character, data pathways, the I/O Towers, etc.
The only line in Legacy that even acknowledged that was Flynn’s ‘imagine information moving through the computer… were the circuits like freeways?’ (Paraphrased)
Okay, I’ll hop off my soapbox. But, at least to a twelve-year-old geek watching Tron back in 1982, that was a cool idea and full of possibilities. Now, it’s just ‘a digital world’ and some silly ‘ISO’ apps (programs, AI, whatever). Humbug.
And still - Jared Leto.
Cheers,
-CM-
I don’t know how they’ll reconcile the physical world mashing up with the ‘digital world’… probably some rubbish about ‘Evil AI’or some such silliness.
While I like Legacy from a visual standpoint and effort at rebooting (lol) the franchise, there is/was one personal gripe about its story. In the first movie, there was a very definite emphasis / grounding of it being ‘inside the mainframe’, I.e. the users communicated with their programs, the ‘Bit’ character, data pathways, the I/O Towers, etc.
The only line in Legacy that even acknowledged that was Flynn’s ‘imagine information moving through the computer… were the circuits like freeways?’ (Paraphrased)
Okay, I’ll hop off my soapbox. But, at least to a twelve-year-old geek watching Tron back in 1982, that was a cool idea and full of possibilities. Now, it’s just ‘a digital world’ and some silly ‘ISO’ apps (programs, AI, whatever). Humbug.
And still - Jared Leto.
Cheers,
-CM-
But then there was other stuff that was hard to reconcile...do programs have free will or are they simply automatons? They look and act like free-thinking beings, and when they take part in the games they seem to be making decisions...but for the logic of it to work they would have to be under the direct and complete control of the user.
Colonel Midnight said:I don’t know how they’ll reconcile the physical world mashing up with the ‘digital world’… probably some rubbish about ‘Evil AI’or some such silliness.
Well, this has been the premise since 1982 -- the Digital world invading the real world. So it's not like it's something new.
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I know we're talking about Tron here but there is a verisimilitude to what can happen on The Grid (a digital frontier). It's like someone tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer.
So you can have lightcycles with trails of solid light that can cut you in half. But even if you can transfer a program out of digital space and give it form Out Here: How does that also transfer the "magic" of video game logic?
This might be a bridge too far. I mean, I'll go. But this isn't really what I signed up for.
Oh, and an October release date doesn't fill me with confidence. Especially on the 20th anniversary of Serenity.
So you can have lightcycles with trails of solid light that can cut you in half. But even if you can transfer a program out of digital space and give it form Out Here: How does that also transfer the "magic" of video game logic?
This might be a bridge too far. I mean, I'll go. But this isn't really what I signed up for.
Oh, and an October release date doesn't fill me with confidence. Especially on the 20th anniversary of Serenity.
I see what you did there.
Yes. It’s Nine Inch Nails. For those not familiar, Head Like a Hole is an old, but big hit. Think a more industrial electronic sound. VNV Nation with a much harder edge.
Daft Punk’s sountrack for Legacy still holds up today and I know people will complain that NIN isn’t as good. But the same people complained Daft Punk’s score wasn’t as good as the OG soundtrack.
Daft Punk’s sountrack for Legacy still holds up today and I know people will complain that NIN isn’t as good. But the same people complained Daft Punk’s score wasn’t as good as the OG soundtrack.
I challenge you to listen to Soul (for a start) and still say that.
Right. It's interesting that it is Nine Inch Nails rather than Reznor and Atticus Ross. That has to be its own kind of statement.
He actually digitized himself for this
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I’m not a big Leto fan by any stretch, but when he takes a role, he really digs into it. His dedication to his craft is beyond question.
Apparently everyone called him Ares on set.
It's a pity his commitment doesn't guarantee results.