Seattle’s Cinerama theater is one of the few theaters left that can show movies in their original 70mm format. That means that it’s a great place to catch re-released classics of that format, such as How the West Was Won or 2001: A Space Oddessy. Or, as we did last night, see Tron in all its big screen glory.
I love old films like this and as I didn’t buy Tron on DVD, I didn’t remember much of it from its original release other than that it was glitzy and had (for then) cool computer graphics.
The movie held up surprisingly well, although it was funny to see very large room-size computers in use, standing console video games and dated programming terms. The theater was nearly sold out, filled with geeky, nerdy folks like me who love this kind of movie.
Although the scene that really dated the film was, in my mind, where Tron is at the I/O tower, communicating with his User. Hazy whitelight bathes the scene. Angelic choirs sing. Tron stands on the platform, waiting for his User to give him instructions. And all I could think was, “Wow, this is taking a long time…they must be on dial-up.”
But really, who could resist Bruce Boxleitner so early in his career, long before The Scarecrow and Mrs. King or Babylon 5? Not me!
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