The Reel Rejects - TRON (1982) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:37 We mentioned a couple times during the reaction. Like, if we were in the theater in 1982 watching this... Or even just seeing it now in the theater, too. But, like, mind absolutely tripped and blown. Like, at the time of seeing this, you know, with the sound designs and just all the sequences in the gaming digital world, if you will, It's just completely groundbreaking and so cool. And I did read a really cool interesting fact.

Starting point is 00:02:02 Just one thing I did read about this film was it said something like they didn't, in the Academy Awards that year, they didn't include this film for best visual effects because they said it would be considered cheating. Well, come on. I mean, I get how I guess it's going to be like, well, here's why bother nominating anybody else? But at the same time, I'm like, this is, yeah. It's groundbreaking. Yeah, no, but I just, I thought it was very interesting world building and just again, just very groundbreaking effects.

Starting point is 00:02:33 I also, I love Jeff Bridges in this movie. He brought such an infectious energy that I really appreciated. I haven't seen a ton of Jeff Bridges movies being very transparent with you guys. I've seen a couple, obviously. Everyone knows I've seen Iron Man. But I have not seen too many of his films, but I love the energy he brought to this film. I really, you know, cared about his character. I was very invested in him and just like his journey that he went through in the game

Starting point is 00:03:00 and just like making sure I wanted to get him out of the game in a very safe manner as well. Yeah. Excuse me. And also too, like I felt bad for his character too, like having, you know, been ridiculed and fired from his job and everything that happened. So, but again, I just, I love the energy he brought to this. He was so just enmatic and energetic and I just appreciated his performance. But what did you think of the film? Yeah, I agree. I mean, this was, I've heard, you know, this movie has its legacy over time, and I have heard it said before that, like, it's one of those classics that not everybody agrees is, like, great necessarily. And I've often heard people be like, oh, it's kind of boring, or like, ah, you know, for the time, it's cool, but, like, watching it now. But I was actually really into this, and I was really kind of taken with the, obviously, the digital art on display.

Starting point is 00:03:53 But moreover, just the way it added, it's funny, there's like an ironic tangibility that this movie had for my experience of it because, you know, the way the effects are orchestrated, yeah, certain scenes are just all computer simulated. But so much of this is also combining, obviously, live action photography with all those bits and pieces. And you can tell just with the jitters on the edges around characters and stuff like that, that's so many of these. frames must have had to have been cut out and colored onto and you know to get all the different glowing patterns and stuff like there's just so much craft and artistry that would have had to have taken place on something like this and so yeah it's like even though this is a groundbreaking you know tech demo in a lot of ways uh it also felt sort of classic to me and it was reminding me of a lot of other movies to in a good way in a way that you know uh it didn't feel like it was

Starting point is 00:04:52 only deriving from those, you know, it's like people recently have been dogging on like Rebel Moon, because Rebel Moon feels like it's amassed of a bunch of other movies parts and it doesn't really have as much of its own personality. Whereas here, I mean, I definitely thought about Star Wars. I thought about Metropolis. I thought about even like fantastic voyage, but if you were in a computer, the Matrix, like there's so much stuff a little bit before and definitely a lot after that, you know, borrows from and omages this. But yeah, I thought the world of the game and the machine, like, it's one that you want to hop further into and explore just the details and the rules and the lore of.

Starting point is 00:05:30 And I like that, yeah, you have this, you know, almost gladiator-like system. It almost feels like you're in some kind of ancient Rome where you have this emperor in the main, you know, program who is, and again, you know, we live in the time of AI. So you've got this program that has, you know, amassed. and learned and generated its own will and is now sort of running amok on things. And you don't get the sense that there are huge real world stakes right away

Starting point is 00:05:57 but they're threatening like, oh, I'm going to hack into the Pentagon next, you know. And the Kremlin. Yeah, the Kremlin and all that stuff. And so like those elements, I think, have aged up and have gotten more relevant. And, yeah, and it has that charming 80s hook of like, oh, it's, you know, this guy with a video game arcade

Starting point is 00:06:15 who, like, wrote this game. And that stuff reminded me of free guys. too where you know that movie involves you know characters who live inside the game but also the designers and the company who made the game and the politics of all that and you know both stories are kind of working together in the stakes and so uh yeah but but as it pertains to just this uh i really enjoyed the performances uh and i enjoyed yeah just the way that this really felt like i was watching something classic and something again that almost felt like when you're in the machine, when you're in the program and you're watching actors,

Starting point is 00:06:54 especially in close up, like it really did feel like watching some kind of old silent movie or something just the way that, it did. Yeah, just the way the image quality looks, the grain of the film that they used. I wonder if they shot some of those scenes in like black and white and colorized them on like black and white stock or something. But yeah. And the sound designs when they were inside the program and the game, it was so fascinating. And I love too, a lot of the visuals when we were inside like especially at the end with the whole spinning thing and like a it felt like very religious like a temple that they were in that was really fascinating was the the word that came to mind very often which made me think of dune yes i was thinking i was thinking of dune very much i know

Starting point is 00:07:34 dune came out at least the the the was it the david um what's david lynch one david lynch one came out two years after this around the corner but yeah yeah i was still i was thinking of dune for sure and that's the funny thing about this experience to me as well is that this movie, again, obviously, haven't seen Tron Legacy either. Excited to check that out after this. But Tron Legacy, like the trailer for that feels like...

Starting point is 00:07:59 Oh, I love that trailer. It's a great trailer. And the kind of movie that that trailer looks like, I guess, is sort of what I had expected from a movie like this. And I expected that movie to be in the tradition of, whereas I can kind of almost feel like... I get the sense.

Starting point is 00:08:16 It's just a guess. but, you know, like the Tron legacy will probably feel more like a big action blockbuster. And this certainly has that quality, too. But I don't know. Like, there's something about the way that movie presented itself where I'm like, okay, so this is going to be a lot of, like, jousts and light cycle fights. And, you know, it's almost going to feel like some kind of bigger budget. Yeah, but something that's also, like, in a dystopian way, sort of more focused on these particular games or something.

Starting point is 00:08:44 Whereas this, like, sprawled out. And it's like, yeah, you have a light cycle race or two. You have one in game context and then one in real stakes context. And then, you know, the rest of it, you're moving through all these different areas of the world. It kind of moves like a side scroller in a way because you're constantly going to new places and seeing new facets of the machine. Thrilled to be partnering with a brand I've been using for nearly two years now. And that's Harry's Razors. I'm generally more drawn to anything that goes against the norm.

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Starting point is 00:12:30 Even though those were completely digital and it felt like we were watching a game, like I still had that claustrophobic feel when we were inside that and the sound design and the way the cinematography moves in those scenes like just did such a good job of making me like again just feel that intense claustrophobia and like scared for

Starting point is 00:12:48 our feeling the stakes for our characters. Yeah absolutely and like I like that again like that lent that lent the feeling of being in some kind of ancient empire or like a Star Wars type you know futuristic space empire and obviously the big

Starting point is 00:13:05 ship is supposed to, you know, make you think of Star Wars. Going after the little ship. But, yeah, and having those, like, little flourishes that feel like cult or religion. And, yeah, this just had so many more elements and details and a totally different way of moving and breathing than I was expecting. And it was reminding me of things I hadn't expected in terms of just the broad scope of cinema. And so, yeah, this felt like watching some kind of big budget, but also sort of avant piece of art. You know, I felt like I was, and I haven't seen all of THX-1138 or whatever, but it felt like you were dipping into one of those things where it's like, you can feel the hands that made this. It's not so polished that it doesn't feel like people made this. And yeah, I don't know. It's, this was a lot more fascinating than I expected it to be in so many ways. And yeah, like I feel like, again, that that association I grew up with was like, oh, people think this is kind of boring. But like, I don't know. I was really, really. enthralled by this overall.

Starting point is 00:14:07 And I mean, you know, like the outside characterizations in the real world could be he was Billy the Kid. All right. But we got to check. Oh, he was also in Air Force One. Cool. We got to check about me though, John. So you only check about you. Yeah, that's right. That's right. What about me about? Yeah, who do we need to

Starting point is 00:14:23 who do we need to verify? Barnard Hughes. I want to see if he's in Sister Act 2. Father Maurice. That's the important. Yeah. We got to get the whole man. Sister Act 2, Father Maurice. Father Maurice. There you go. Oh, we both got one. We both got one.

Starting point is 00:14:37 High five, Andrew. Yes, and also, fun fact, too, Sister Act 2 was directed by Bill Duke. Ooh. Yes. Thank you so much. Bill Duke and Predator. We loved you.

Starting point is 00:14:47 He directed that? I was, for a second, I was like, wait, you mean the guy from Predator? Yeah, no, he played Mac and Predator. Yeah. Oh, my God. He didn't direct Predator. No, no, no.

Starting point is 00:14:57 But he directed Sister Act 2. He directed Sister Act 2. You can go check and see if I'm wrong. John's like, I trust you. I do. If there's anybody I trust the trivia, oh my God. By the way, we forgot to mention at the beginning of this review, if you have not already, if you are listening on Spotify or Apple,

Starting point is 00:15:13 if you don't mind giving us a rating, we'd so much appreciate. Tronwood, myself. What was my name, Ann Clue? I would appreciate it. I thought we were going to go back to that, too, with the whole Clue character. He got D-Rez. Okay, he got, okay, I don't know. I didn't, I guess I didn't pick up on all the rules,

Starting point is 00:15:32 but I guess you're right. That's why I have you here for you're the smart. one clearly of the pair here. If I ever were to transport into a universe like Tron, I would need the actual Tron character here to survive. So, but let us know. That took me by surprise too.

Starting point is 00:15:46 Sorry. Yeah, just the Tron is this like, is this savior-esque, Paul, like, very simplified, not for the same purpose, almost Paul-A-Tradis type where it's like, it's not even, Jeff Bridges does save the day, but he opens up the opportunity

Starting point is 00:16:01 for Tron to do it, which is neat, which is like, oh, like even calling it Tron, naming it after the savior, yeah, but who's not like the main, main, main character is, is just a neat flirt. There's so many neat flurries. Yeah, I mean, other than the ground breaking visual effects and all that, and Jeff

Starting point is 00:16:18 Bridges being, I thought the name of the game was drawn, but I, that shows some and death. Space Paranoids, baby. And deaf punk is the soundtrack of the second one. That's how much I knew about this one, but I rather enjoyed it. Again, the groundbreaking effects, especially at the time. Really cool. I love

Starting point is 00:16:34 Jeff Bridges. This is... Now we're going to watch Juan Lawmower Man. Right. Yes, but let us know in the comments section. What did you think? Does it still hold up for you? Are you nostalgic about it after all this time? Do you want

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The Reel Rejects - TRON (1982) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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