An observation on video games to movies!

[elfs]

Omaha and I went out last night and had a lovely time. Watched The Dark Knight, which was pretty good up until the end speech. While we were at the restaurant, I mentioned that a trailer for the movie Tr2n is out. I said that it looked okay but I thought the video game, Tron 2.0 (which I thought was much better an an "interactive movie" than as a video game) was also a better sequel to Tron than any movie could have been. (I'm disappointed that the game got Bruce Boxleitner to replay Tron, but failed to get Jeff Bridges to play Flynn again).

No, really. Three-D video games have long fought the fact that getting things to look realistic and organic is hard. Tron 2.0 was therefor perfect: everything looked computer generated!

Omaha said, "Yeah, it would have been cool if they'd based the movie on the game."

I said, "Nah, it had better not be. Isn't there some law somewhere that says that if you make a movie based on a video game, Uwe Boll has to direct it?"

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Not to be utterly anal or anything (but I'm going to be), Boxleitner didn't appear as Tron in Tron 2.0, only as Alan 1.0 er, Alan, Jet's dad. However he does appear as Tron in the Space Paranoids section of Kingdom Hearts 2. Which weirdly enough goes to the trouble to suggest that it's a direct sequel to the original Tron as well.

Of course you probably knew that already...

[elfs.livejournal.com]

That's true. Tron 2.0 was corrupted, wasn't it, and ended up not running.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was the one big dissapointment about the game (after I realized Flynn wasn't going to show up.)

[raggedrobin.livejournal.com]

Regarding Jeff Bridges, he's featured in the teaser trailer shown at ComicCon. I'm not sure what that means for him showing up in the actual movie, though. While I'm loathe to link to MTV: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/07/24/breaking-tron-sequel-teaser-revealed-jeff-bridges-returns-for-tr2n/

[raggedrobin.livejournal.com]

And a link to the trailer (albeit blurry) on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=we1Li7SrQEg

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oh, I dunno. They did all right by Iron Man. If they manage to get Flynn and Alan back together again I think it has a chance of being good. There's so much more we know, and so many more memes we know, about uploading and human consciousness and all that. It might work.