![]() ![]() Their virtual world (known as the Grid) is connected to our world by a laser that digitizes people and a portal that converts them back. Don’t ask too many questions about how it all works. It’s just a vehicle to stick characters into video games à la Jumanji and show off the latest and greatest in computer technology. The Tron movies are best remembered for their effects. Tron looks dated now, but it was a pioneer in its time. John Lasseter, the cofounder of Pixar, has said that Toy Story wouldn’t exist without it. Not everything in Tron: Legacy holds up a decade later, either, particularly a CGI version of a young Bridges that looks like someone took acid en route to the uncanny valley. But some of the set pieces (electronic gladiators flinging laser discs at each other in a virtual coliseum and racing holographic motorcycles on ribbons of light) are still jaw-dropping spectacles.īoth movies have the same basic plot structure. The main character is trapped inside the Grid by a renegade program on a power trip of cosmic proportions. The sequel isn’t just using new technology to tell the same story all over again. ![]() It reexamines the basic assumptions of the original and changes how you look at it. A streak of Christian theology runs through Tron. Programs are created in the image of their users, but a seemingly impenetrable barrier exists between them. The programs aren’t even sure if the users are real. ![]() When an evil program takes control of the Grid, it purges the “religious fanatics” who believe in them.
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