Tron: The Original Classic Special Edition

First, this is a fantastic classic from the dawn of the computer age as we know it today. The movie came out just after the birth of the IBM PC. Back in those days the concept of distributed computing was unknown outside of the computer room. Main frame and mini-computers lived in air conditioned secured rooms, hosting a bunch of dumb video terminals for the users. Most people had no idea of how they worked and they were usually found only in big companies. Even today the special effects, though quaint by modern standards, are still impressive and the story line is pretty good. But the visual concepts from back then of what it would be like to actually be inside of a computer is what makes this movie really special and fascinating. To say the movie was conceptually far ahead of it's time is an understatement. The video quality in this version is great and looks impressive on my 65" screen with the upscaling provided by my Blu Ray player. Color saturation is rich but not overdone and the images are crisp and clean although you can see the black outline around each character from the matting process. The 5.1 sound is also very clear and clean with good surround sound effect. All in all, it's a terrific movie that all sci-fi fans should have in their library. As for the exorbitant prices being charged for the movie now, bear in mind that it is not Disney that's setting those stupid prices even though they undoubtedly contributed to the situation by not producing any more copies of this movie and/or forcing distributors to return unsold stock. But the prices you see are being set by greedy resellers, for the few copies they have left in stock, who are basing them on the law of supply and demand and hoping they can find enough suckers who want a copy of this movie badly enough to pay them such ridiculous prices. I'm just thankful that I bought my copy from Amazon before these greedy moron resellers jacked up their prices. You'll notice that Amazon is not selling this particular movie; they are just providing access to other resellers who are. Actually I think Disney is being very short sighted and greedy itself in trying to prevent sales of this movie because they think it will negatively impact their revenue from the new Tron Legacy release. It they were really smart, they would have done a digitally remastered Blu Ray version and promoted that to drum up additional interest in the new movie. That way they would have made even more money off both products. I know I certainly would have bought a remastered Blu Ray version and also gone to see the new movie. Bottom line, just don't buy this movie until the prices come back down to a reasonable level. I think that after the new movie has been out for a few months, these prices will come back down to a reasonable level, especially if no one buys from these greedy resellers until they bring the prices back to down to reasonable levels.

this cult-classic movie is everything you want in a sci-fi movie. it is so good that you can watch it over and over again. recommend this movie to sci-fi and Disney fans. also, recommend the sequels, Tron: Legacy and Tron: Ares!

Good movie for its time

Classic Disney movie based on cyberspace staring Jeff Daniels

This is an old movie. Special effects and animation are archaic and almost comical. But if you want to see the original this is it. I saw it when it first came out and watched it again. Despite the drawbacks the movie is enjoyable. Funny seeing Jeff Bridges in his early 20'x.

A great scifi movie…moves right along…great story. Action ahead of its time!

Writers Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird had a great visionary story, and as a director Steven knew how to bring his imagination to life through cgi. What Steven didn't know was how to communicate his ideas to experienced, solid actors. Lisberger did his best (see the disc Extras), working on blank sets that wouldn't be filled in by cgi for another year, but his actors couldn't uniformly agree on what that world they needed to interact with would look like, and Steven couldn't communicate it any better. Everything we see within the computer world of TRON is what the actors couldn't see. The movie suffers for it, both in the different actors muddled reactions to the same thing, as well as some horribly awkward dialog, so out of place with the events happening to the character. Our modern superhero / comic book cinema era was grandly laid out for generations before it reached this blockbuster point, and there was tons of missteps throughout the decades. Few remember that Marvel didn't get solidly on its feet until 2008. Like Star Wars, TRON laid the groundwork for everything that would come after and build upon it. Unlike Star Wars, the actors were as out of their depth with the story as the director was out of his in directing it. What likely helped Star Wars was all if its practical effects, giving the actors Some Thing to work with. A young Tim Burton wanted to direct TRON as his first feature, and Steven was happy to let him have at it (see the disc Extras), but a bad short film Tim made with live actors at the time gave the Disney bosses cold feet. So what does all of this ancient triva mean for the viewer? Is TRON entertaining or not? It's quite entertaining as the world Steve created back in the late 70s, early 80s is in many ways more compelling than cgi worlds we have today. It looks now like a computer savvy person of this era would expect a computerized world to look. By comparison TRON: Legacy was one note and while written better, drew upon shallow, ugly-hearted characters that no one could care about. Unlike Legacy, Steve didn't want his computer world to look like a realistic version of earth, which would have been easy enough at the time with mere neon and light panels. TRON takes us fully into an imaginary world, far more fantastic than Alice's Wonderland – even if the computer characters all talk like they just stepped off the set of Bonanza. TRON remains a rich landscape, flawed yet beautiful, worth repeated visits, and the extras are great!

Amazing movie the cover art is fantastic

Llegó el SteelBook en buenas condiciones, sin daños. La imagen es una mejora sustancial desde la versión en blu-ray, ganado enteros en nitidez, brillo y saturación del color. El efecto HDR10 potencia todos los anterior. Trae audio en inglés Dolby Atmos el cual es muy bueno y potente, sin ningún altibajo en los diálogos. También trae español latino Dolby Digital 5.1 y subtítulos en ambos idiomas. El código digital es válido para USA.

Grappig weetje is dat TRON en TROFF een commando subset zijn in QuickBasic die staan voor Trace On en Trace Off. QuickBasic wordt niet genoemd, maar de uitleg van wat het commando doet zit wel in de film. TRON als film maakt een aantal voorspellingen: (1) Het misbruik van het World Wide Web om ideeën/programma's te stelen door met wat in de film een Master Control Program heet gewoon mensen hun harde schijven af te struinen. (2) De moderne mythologie omtrent de counter-hacker als God-entiteit die het computerachtige systeem met alle 1984 trekken van dien weet te bevreiden. (3) De big-data hype waarbij een schaakprogramma door reinforcement learning niet enkel optimaal leert te schaken, maar zelfs buiten de eigen functionaliteit leert te denken en de controle overneemt van gebruikers. Met name het derde punt is nu zeer sterk aan de orde met door AI gedreven search engines in plaats van de correct werkende bibliotheek systemen zoals we die eerst hadden. In principe betekent reinforcement learning zoals die hier toegepast wordt het indexeren van toestanden gecombineerd met de statistische waarschijnlijkheid dat je die toestand als positief ervaart. De meerderheid beslist in principe voor het individu welke schoenen deze moet dragen en welke film deze moet zien. Dat is ook wat je in de film ziet als het Master Control Program (een voormalig schaakprogramma) de volledige controle heeft en uitoefent. Ik heb in principe twee kritiekpunten op de film. De animaties zijn vaak gebrekkig doordat de gebruikers van de computers om te animeren niet over voldoende creativiteit beschikten om hun computer te doorgronden en optimaal te gebruiken. We hadden met gemak in de jaren 80 de animaties van het niveau dat we nu hebben moeten kunnen hebben. De karakters zijn geschreven met de mentaliteit van kinderen die net de eerste hormonen door het lijf hebben gieren, maar met het inzicht van kleuters, zodat ze geen flauw idee hebben wat liefde en een relatie inhoudt. De "volwassenen" in de film gedragen zich als de ongeïnteresseerde kinderen op een lagere school, die vinden dat ze het toch even allemaal wel kunnen, alsof het allemaal een spelletje is. Dat laatste is ook te zien met het gebrek aan inzicht van Flynn in hoe levensbedreigend de situatie voor hem eigenlijk is. Wel een leuke film om te zien, maar als volwassene erger je je gewoon aan een aantal psychologische dingen.

Bellissimo rivedere un film che ha fatto la storia degli effetti speciali e bellissimo steelbook da avere assolutamente!

I haven't seen this since I was just a little computer program. I never thought I could get it on Blu-ray.

La película que inició todo un hito en el cine por la técnica de colores usada para resaltar los trajes de luz y el uso de cgi en un tiempo en que era prácticamente impensable! Todo un clásico!