I just watched Tron! It’s astoundingly not rubbish! I was expecting it to be an amusing subtext to the failure of the ancient times to appreciate the future of technology, but a better description would be ‘an homage to the appreciation of computing and technology available at the time’. It makes total sense without succumbing to the old trick of trying to anticipate the future while not knowing anything about it. I’d say the best way to describe it is a generic action film written by a programmer/gamer in 1978, then filtered gently through someone making sure the general public aren’t going to be put off by the programming/CLI side of it. If anyone ever tells you that every geek should watch this film, they’re not just saying that. Grab a nice bottle of wine and sit down with it.. it’s worth a peek. It’s kinda like the Matrix, only in reverse. With some Terminator for good measure. Only it was obviously before these two. Amazing!
Also, now that we know that Retro Studios can make a great adventure game (the Metroid Prime series) they should totally make an ‘inspired by Tron’ game. It could be staggeringly brilliant.