Tron: Legacy - is the plot about a Tron no longer supported by the manufacturer and no drivers for Windows 7? #geek #tron #dejavu
- @goochonline Twitter, December 2010
Tron: Legacy is a movie where Jeff Bridges reprises his role as Jeffrey Lebowski (complete with beard and bathrobe) to reprise his role as Kevin Flynn [ideologically, Linus Torvalds] from 1982's Tron. In 1989, Flynn has been frequently going back and forth between the real world and the computer world working with his program, Clu, who looks exactly like the character Terry Brogan in "Against All Odds." One day, Clu gets corrupted and before Flynn can run chkdsk /r, he gets trapped inside the computer and helplessly observes Clu commit genocide on a bunch of useless free programs (which I wish Android Market would do occassionally).
In 2010, Flynn's son unwittingly gets sucked into the computer world after Alan Bradley, Flynn's friend and creator of Tron (but we'll get to that later) receives a page from Flynn's Arcade on the last activated pager on planet Earth (my house doesn't have a land line, but an arcade that's been shuttered for 20 years apparently does). Instead of calling the number back, Bradley visits Flynn's son at his standalone garage apartment and suggests that he, not him visit the arcade instead. He finds his way to his Dad's secret computer lab and sits in a seat directly in line with a gun that can import you into the computer at the touch of a button (the one time that UAC would actually have been a nice feature). You'd think that after his incident in 1982's Tron, Flynn would aim that thing away from the office chair, but anyways.
Wait wait wait... In 1994 it took me 30 seconds to scan a full 8.5X11 document and Flynn's got a device from 1982 that can import a full grown adult male? Crazy.
After entering a bunch of UNIX commands (he doesn't work or go to school, and he hasn't seen his computer wiz Dad in 20 years, but he's wildly skilled at UNIX and has intense views, yet misses the point, on the Open Source movement)Son of Flynn immediately gets into arena type Discs of Tron battles with who later turns out to be the Tron who has turned to the computer version of the Dark Side. In nearly 30 years, Tron has beccome very adept at parkour. So for 20 years, Flynn Lebowski has been living in a post modern apartment with a hot piece of ass named Quorra (Olivia Wilde) who was probably bummed out to be inevitably cockblocked by his son. Sam sort of figures out a way to get himself, Dad, and Quorra out of the computer world into the real world which was supposed to be impossible, then it became possible, then they make it to the portal to the outside world but then get portal blocked by Clu (again, played by 1985 Jeff Bridges). In the end, Sam and Quorra literally ride off into the sunrise.
Once again, Tron is the name of a character that has little to do with the plot of the movie. I mean, in this movie, it's almost as if they forgot to include Tron at all, so they made the henchman (very Darth Maul type character) Tron and he doesn't do too much to move the plot along until the end.
Geek:out.
In 2010, Flynn's son unwittingly gets sucked into the computer world after Alan Bradley, Flynn's friend and creator of Tron (but we'll get to that later) receives a page from Flynn's Arcade on the last activated pager on planet Earth (my house doesn't have a land line, but an arcade that's been shuttered for 20 years apparently does). Instead of calling the number back, Bradley visits Flynn's son at his standalone garage apartment and suggests that he, not him visit the arcade instead. He finds his way to his Dad's secret computer lab and sits in a seat directly in line with a gun that can import you into the computer at the touch of a button (the one time that UAC would actually have been a nice feature). You'd think that after his incident in 1982's Tron, Flynn would aim that thing away from the office chair, but anyways.
Wait wait wait... In 1994 it took me 30 seconds to scan a full 8.5X11 document and Flynn's got a device from 1982 that can import a full grown adult male? Crazy.
After entering a bunch of UNIX commands (he doesn't work or go to school, and he hasn't seen his computer wiz Dad in 20 years, but he's wildly skilled at UNIX and has intense views, yet misses the point, on the Open Source movement)Son of Flynn immediately gets into arena type Discs of Tron battles with who later turns out to be the Tron who has turned to the computer version of the Dark Side. In nearly 30 years, Tron has beccome very adept at parkour. So for 20 years, Flynn Lebowski has been living in a post modern apartment with a hot piece of ass named Quorra (Olivia Wilde) who was probably bummed out to be inevitably cockblocked by his son. Sam sort of figures out a way to get himself, Dad, and Quorra out of the computer world into the real world which was supposed to be impossible, then it became possible, then they make it to the portal to the outside world but then get portal blocked by Clu (again, played by 1985 Jeff Bridges). In the end, Sam and Quorra literally ride off into the sunrise.
Once again, Tron is the name of a character that has little to do with the plot of the movie. I mean, in this movie, it's almost as if they forgot to include Tron at all, so they made the henchman (very Darth Maul type character) Tron and he doesn't do too much to move the plot along until the end.
Geek:out.
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