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Bookmark this pageTron (1982)
Director: Steven Lisberger
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From Time Out Film Guide
Disney's twenty million dollar bid to break into the booming fantasy market is a sympathetic but slightly clumsy rewrite of The Wizard of Oz, with a whizkid programmer (Bridges) trapped inside a computer world. The film boasts some impressive computer-generated animation, but for all its inventiveness, Tron never reaches a level of excitement commensurate with its effects budget. Indeed, in what might have proved to be a dire precedent for the cinema, Tron the video game is probably better than Tron the movie.Author: DP
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- Tron Guy said...
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Posted on Dec 19 2010 00:59
Unreal. Wizard of Oz? So you're extrapolating the plot was that a guy had a dream about being sucked into a computer, asked the wizard what to do, and he clicked his computer shoes together and ended up back in the real world?
Did you even watch the movie? Or did you just skim it? I'd venture to think you skimmed it. Moron. - Report as inappropriate
Cast & crew
Director: Steven Lisberger
Producer: Donald Kushner
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Dan Shor full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 96 mins
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