Tron

We watched Tron the other night which was the first time for me. What a terrible film. The computer graphics aren't the problem; it's the story. There are hilarious parts that really amuse the programmer in me; bits and decision gates and EOL and so on. But, it makes me wonder if people in the eighties actually knew more about computers then people do now or if it was a series of inside jokes. According to the records it was a popular movie, but I can't see how. It made no sense, which is annoying enough, but I can let that slide—for instance, humans as batteries inThe Matrix—but I have no patience for poor story telling.

By comparison, we also watched Tron: Legacy and despite hearing that it was terrible it wasn't nearly as bad as the original Tron. It makes me think that story telling itself has improved immensely. Maybe it's because we actually have this stuff as our intrinsic understanding now so the plot isn't bumping into areas that aren't popular knowledge. To think: in 1982 there were few discussions of being embedded in another reality  that is not meat-space.