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posted by [personal profile] leoniedelt at 07:16am on 05/03/2007 under ,
Walt Disney's Tron was pretty amusing. We watched it yesterday as a family unit.

I was surprised at all the wrong terminology in it. And the video games part cracked my shit up. I kept making fun of it; i felt like the MST3K robots sitting there having a laugh.

I admit to missing the roller skating with disco ball and pac man / battleship / asteroids / etc culture that used to be so big in the early 80s, and i feel a pang of sadness that kids these days will never see/do that kind of thing in their lives. I remember skating to Another One Bites the Dust, ffs.

David Warner was adorable, megalomaniacal and over the top as Sark, wooden but scheming as Ed Dillinger, and weirdly robotic sounding as the voice of the MCP.

3 roles in one movie - impressive. Should've been called David Warner: The Motion Picture (with Jeff Bridges in there shirtless to keep the regular girls happy). Heh.

All in all, not a bad sunday evening's romp. But the computer terminology used really cracked my shit up, and the commands they used to type in, hello, even BASIC didnt use the word 'on' in a command - nowhere ever has computer language syntax been anywhere near like english syntax, that was what kept me laughing.

The world sure has changed, a LOT in 25 years. Yes.

edited: I think i'll start saying 'End of Line.' like the MCP. Yes. That was kindof cute. Like 'The buck stops here.' or 'Dont fuck with me, i've had the last word, nyah nyah!' or something. Hee :)
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posted by [identity profile] alocin42.livejournal.com at 11:44am on 05/03/2007
My 80's film knowledge is woefully lax but Tron is the one with the motorbikes isn't it? See that, and that the fact that it has early computer special effects and David Warner in is about all I know!

I did however listen to ep3 of Nebulous last night (the one with the body swap with Dr Klench) and that was hilarious! Paula's reaction to "Nebulous" agreeing to a full body massage with sensual oils = win.
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 11:50am on 05/03/2007
Tron is the one with the CG bikes, yes. And tanks and silly hovering space invaders looking things.

And lots of daft technobabble like 'conscripts' and the TOTAL misuse of the word 'memory' in actual reference to disk space *headdesk*. And a character named RAM. ARGH.

Terrible, terrible 80s video game stuff.

Series 2 Ep3 with the body swapping is utterly HYSTERICAL. And the sensual oils, yes. She attained nirvana and fainted. lol. Nebulous FTW!

I get to use my new Morgan icon :D
 
posted by [identity profile] alocin42.livejournal.com at 12:09pm on 05/03/2007
The 1995 film "Hackers" is just about one of the worst computers-in-films things I've ever seen, but joyfully cheesy. No David Warner though!

Your icon matches your new header!
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 12:28pm on 05/03/2007
In between chores, i got a hankering to watch Morgan again. *dreamy sigh*

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