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Tron (1982)
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 :)
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 :)
