Posts tagged as Tron
What I Was Thinking During 'Tron'
Could they make 3-D contact lenses for the movies? Or just put a big sheet of 3-D in front of the screen?
RIGHT? I mean some of us wear glasses at the movies, and wearing glasses on top of glasses is not a cute look. For starters. Also it's hard to turn to your neighbor and roll your eyes in those things. Because also I was thinking: "when they looked at the final script, did they think that those 20 sloggy minutes in the late middle weren't going to be exceedingly sloggy?"
False Nostalgia: How VH1 Ruined the Taste of a Generation
In the period between when VH1 stopped airing music videos but before they became the home for such quality infotainment as "Glam God with Vivica A. Fox" and "Celebrity Fit Club," they were best-known for two series: "Behind the Music" and "I Love the 80s," and that show's light-history spawn. READ MORE
Long Player with D. R. Adams: Tron, 1982 (Bally Midway)
I remember the light of the sun shining straight lines of rays through the hollowed-out space above the street-and the dark shadow in the bulky concrete shafts of bleh that rose to the side. I also remember pain. Total pain in my fucking heart and mind. Total static.... It was the end. Manhattan was meant to go cheesecloth and me butter-like the oil of eternity through the laugh track of a commercial in outer space where a mop dances with Fred Astaire and he accidentally drops a sardine off his cracker and says, "Oh dear, summer plums, I have spilled my hors d'oeuvres." Then a bunch of spiders crawl from the subway and he blasts them with his donut lazer. Ah shit. READ MORE

