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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 5 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | A masterpiece of breakthrough CGI ingenuity, Disney celebrates the 20th anniversary of TRON, a dazzling film at the flashpoint of a continuing revolution in its genre. This special collector's edition showcases an epic adventure inside a brave new world where the action is measureed in microseconds. When Flynn (Jeff Bridges) hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer to prove his work was stolen by another executive, he finds himself on a much bigger adventure. Beamed inside by a power-hungry master control program, he joins computer gladiators on a deadly game grid, complete with high-velocity "light cycles" and Tron (Bruce Boxleitner), a specialized security program. Together, they fight the ultimate battle with the MCP to decide the fate of both the electronic world and the real world! | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes | | Director: | Robert Meyer Burnett | | Format: | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language: | English | | Subtitle: | Spanish, French | | Number of Discs: | 2 | | Studio: | Walt Disney Video | | Run Time: | 96 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | January 15, 2002 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 258 reviews |
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 Tron Jul 27, 2010
I haven't actually watched the movie yet, but it appears to be new, sealed in it package and looks good. It will be nice to have the 20th Anniversary of Tron, with the new Tron movie coming out in December.
 A Landmark and a Relic Jul 23, 2010
To all the four and five-star reviewers, let's be honest . . you're giving Tron extra-credit for its undeniable place in special-effects history. As a pure viewing experience, it's seriously lacking. Try to imagine coming to this film cold, without any nostalgia to sway your opinion or any historical context. Can you honestly say it holds up?
Its story is simple and goofy (which isn't always a bad thing), the dialogue is clunky at best, and the ending seemed like a major anticlimax. I made my four kids watch it with me last night to prep them for possibly seeing the new Tron flick this fall, and was struck by how thin the whole thing was. That said, I'm glad they saw it, as I actually think there's value to exposing kids to films made before they were born and before special effects had become so ubiquitous and "real."
So let's be frank . . we admire Tron more than we enjoy it. Points to Disney for trying an experiment like Tron, and demerits for losing any semblance of that experimental spirit over the subsequent decades. But as a pure MOVIE, Tron is silly, simplistic, and a crushing bore. I wish it weren't, and I remain hopeful regarding the sequel.
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Tron DVD Jul 02, 2010
I'd been looking for this DVD for awhile, I really enjoyed seeing this in the theatre and this DVD really is amazing. I like all the extras included. For anyone that is a fan of computer generated graphics this is a must see. In an age where these kind of graphics are the norm, this movie still captivates me. It's still hard to believe this movie is that old, and IMHO set the stage for Pixar and others like it to change how we view animation.
Perfection for what it is. Jun 21, 2010
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Well. after watching this I must say, 80's sci-fi all seems the same. But, that's a good thing, it's something thats always entertaining to watch. It's all based off Star Wars. All of it, this, Indiana Jones, everything in the 80's sci-fi genre. I love it. The plot is great, it is about a gigantic mainframe leading slaves in an order of computing inside a video game. Programs are the slaves, users wrote everything, you have to see it to understand it. Meanwhile, Flynn, this character, has wrote several games and is not getting credit for it from his boss.
Characters? I like to view Flynn as the Luke Skywalker in this movie, and Tron is like Han Solo. Master Control Program is absoulutely the evil emperor, and Yori is princess Leia. The bit is definatly C-3PO and R2-D2. It goes on like that from there. The special effects, 80's were a milestone in special effects, it's just lately when people have been abusing it. I cannot believe I am looking at an old movie. A good way to summarize this movie is like playing Star Fox and watching Star Wars.
You know, anybody wondering how Disney made this film, it was when Disney was scrambeling when Walt died, and they needed material without there main guy. So, they startede making Horror and Sci-Fi films...interesting. It was definatly something worth watching, very fun indeed, I'd say Popcorn compared to some, but a classic masterpiece for all time.
The Rating? Let's face it, for what it is, it's perfect. What it is isn't perfect though, but for what it is, it's perfect. 5/5.
I, Da Ca$hman signing off.
Thank The User! Jun 09, 2010
Are you one of those people who wonders what animals are thinking? Or about the inner details of weird things like beer-making? Or perhaps...what a computer and its components are feeling?
TRON (1982) is your answer. It is the original geek-movie, inspiring a wide spectrum from innovations in the animated medium to theological comparisons. This film is Deeply Personal because I saw it with my best friend from childhood...the last film we went to see together, as adults. It was two years before I met my wife.
In rapid-fire synopsis, TRON is a parallel-story about a video game corporation trying to take over the world while one of its founders--now relegated to the basement lab--is working on teleportation as a means toward data storage. The parallel is the story of the young scientist who decides to fight the corporation, and runs off to find the one hacker who can help. This hacker of course is the inventor of the corporation's best games. And the horrid surprise about the corporation is something we ought to heed more closely: a massive supercomputer that has gained consciousness.
The thing is like Hitler-in-a-box. That is no namby-pamby message.
OK, now for the deeply personal. I don't think many people of my age range would admit to liking TRON as I do. If you want original adult impressions from when the film was new: it was a blast! Sure we had the STAR WARS movies, but this was in another direction. The effects were as always a Disney experiment and only secondary to the story of corporate greed. Half the stuff they did here they did with a pencil, anyway. Much like they had done years earlier in THE BLACK HOLE.
Jeff Bridges, in a very early appearance, plays Kevin Flynn, the hacker/video arcade owner/inventor/disgruntled former employee. When engineers Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner) and Lora (Cindy Morgan) go to him for help, well...action explodes.
Meanwhile corporate bigwig Ed Dillinger (Dillinger, get it?--a sinister David Warner) is being bossed about by the conscious Master computer program. He's also pushing Dr. Walter Gibbs (Barnard Hughes back when we knew him well) into the basement, and Dr. Gibbs in turn is hiding his teleportation/data storage results. When Kevin Flynn breaks in to steal incriminating data, Master turns the teleportation guns on him, sending him into the computer software.
And there is the parallel world we never saw coming. Bytes become virtual people who don't realize they are virtual. They know they are manipulated, but they worship their manipulators ("users")--they are stunned when they find that one of them, the hapless Flynn, is a user. What I love about this film is that they don't fall down and worship Flynn. They just say "I told you so!!"
Also significant is the exploration of artificial intelligence. Only Philip K. Dick had written of it at any length; this film probes the notion deeply and frighteningly. Can you imagine a motherboard bossing around the sinister David Warner?
The acting and story arc truly sizzle and make this film. Nothing like it was done before, and if you love the nuts and bolts of PCs, or are merely a PC nut, you'll love TRON for that alone. Don't laugh at it: it is far older than you! It is older than the net, older than Bill Gates' life's work, older than home computers. Yet it shows how a computer works, it shows the dawn of modern computers and the animation is somehow Japanese in style yet sumptuous--because we never saw anything like it before. I'm not sure I've seen anything quite like it since.
And I must admit that Dan Shor, who played Ram, was very sexy and appealing in this film. That was not an accident, but I don't why Disney did that with the character, or why they killed him off--maybe he represented the virtual prophet/martyr. This, for some reason, causes me to protest any relation between TRON and what we call "cyberpunk". This film is way before any of that.
Directed by Steven Lisberger, who is really only known for his 1989 offering SLIPSTREAM, did fantastic directing. I do not know why he doesn't make more films. He produces and writes a little, and as such he's recognized for producing and writing this year's TRON:LEGACY.
Yet the understanding the Disney team brought to the film transcends all, and that is why I really love it.
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