Friday, September 22, 2023

Re-watching TRON (1982)

A different Met memory — watching Tron with my younger brother. We both merrily flunked our typing classes (different teachers). “It’s safe to say I ll never use that skill again!” — little did we know that computers (and phones!) would take over the world and typing was the only high school skill we’d use. 

The Tron video game was one of the few in a cabinet at Mother Truckers in downtown Winnipeg. It featured a showdown with Light-Discs. I spent a lot of quarters on it. In hindsight it was easy-peasy, but it sure didn’t feel like it at the time. Today Linux computers can quickly download the Light-Cycle game

Wow, the movie is boring — even with Jeff Bridges!

3 comments:

Joel Swagman said...

This is a movie I really wanted to love as a kid. I was convinced it would be the coolest thing ever, but when I finally got around to tracking down a copy in the VHS rental place... it was just so boring

Whisky Prajer said...

Yeah, you didn't miss anything. The new movie was better, and that's saying something!

Whisky Prajer said...

Apparently before Toy Story computer graphics were crap, so Disney animators did everything by hand. And suffered for it I'm sure.