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Wednesday, Mar 2, 2005
7:30pm
Tron
The sinister genius in Tron is one Ed Dillinger, a thievin' telecom exec played by British bad boy David Warner. Held captive inside the Master Control Program (MCP), a computer operating system he invented, Dillinger boomingly warns his adversaries, “I've gotten 2,415 times smarter.” Think of his silicon-based evil empire as OS 666. That Tron takes place inside the virtual depths of a computer is quite fitting, for it boasted the most advanced computer-generated imagery (CGI) ever used in a feature film. Hundreds of radiant sequences were composited with live actors, generating a cyberspace of ever-morphing relations. Into this digital domain comes Flynn (Jeff Bridges), a game designer whose creations have been boosted by the telecom tyrant. To regain his standing, Flynn must destroy the MCP, an effort that requires passing through a Game Grid where molten asteroids might amuse him to death. In Tron, the video games have consequences, but the film still feels like a trip down random access memory lane.
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