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Tron: Legacy came out on DVD and Blu-ray yesterday. I’ve been eager to own this ever since catching the movie this past New Year’s Eve (click here for my initial review of the movie), not only ‘cuz I thought it was a great film and worthy follow-up to the 1982 original Tron, but because I was seriously giddy to see how this flick would look on my high-def home entertainment rig. Tron: Legacy was the prettiest pushing of pixels that I’ve seen in the history of anything: say what one might of some of the film’s weaknesses (I’ve read some say that it could have been a bit leaner, but we’ll get to that), visually it was gorgeous.

And oh yeah: Disney announced a few months ago that the original Tron would be released on Blu-ray along with Tron: Legacy. Another reason to look forward ...

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And before anyone asks, lifelong best friend Chad Austin and I are already planning our trip to the cinema to see this.

But first, if you haven’t already bought Daft Punk’s electrifying soundtrack to Tron Legacy…

…then you really oughtta go to iTunes (where I bought it from) or buy it old-school physical media from a retailer and add it to your collection. In all seriousness, I’m finding it increasingly harder to find any friends who haven’t got this album yet. Lately I’m listening to this, well… just about any time that I need music. Just gotta be careful when listening to “Son of Flynn” and “The Game Has Changed” while driving ‘cuz like “Duel of the Fates” did from the Star Wars Episode I soundtrack, it’s too easy to find myself with the pedal to the metal 😛

I didn’t know until today that it was Cillian Murphy ...

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This is just plum lousy…

Hey, I’ll buy it. I just pray that I won’t need a Mattel Intellivision to watch it on.

If that winds up being the final cover for the Blu-ray release of Tron, I swear that I’ll compose one of my own design in Photoshop and use that when I put this movie into my personal library.

Could anyone blame me? Just compare that Blu-ray cover “art” to the original theatrical poster for Tron from 1982…

I suspect that Disney’s failure to stand strongly behind the original Tron during the marketing of sequel Tron Legacy will become known as one of the worst commercial tactics in entertainment history. Disney was sitting on a wazoo-load of potential earnings if it had given the original movie some decent respect and linked it to the follow-up. Instead the suits at Disney are acting as if they should ...

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I’d been planning to see Tron Legacy a year ago. This was a movie that I’d had greater anticipation for than – believe it or not – the first Star Wars prequel. And it’s all because of a friendship that goes back more than a quarter century.

I first saw the original Tron at the house of my life-long best friend Chad Austin, the first time that we had a sleepover at his parents’ house. We were nine years old in the summer of 1983. Tron came out in theaters the summer before but I hadn’t seen it yet.

Well, Chad’s family had a VCR. I’d never watched a movie from a VCR until that night. His dad rented Tron from Cobb TV and Stereo Barn (for the longest time the only place to rent movies from in Rockingham County).

And that was how I first saw Tron, ...

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As of last night there’s a bunch of us that are plotting to make it to Comic-Con next year in San Diego. None of us have been to one so we figured we’d make an epic cross-country road trip out of it.

I just wish I could have been at Comic-Con this year, ‘cuz this afternoon that’s where Disney unloaded this intense trailer for Tron Legacy!

If you can’t watch the YouTube embed, don’t fret ‘cuz this thing is pretty much everywhere tonight....

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This afternoon Disney finally made an official release of that concept footage for Tron Legacy, next year’s sequel to the 1982 movie about a parallel reality that exists within the realm of computers. This is the same footage that Disney showed at Comic-Con last year, but with the new Tron Legacy logo…

Click here to zap back down onto the game grid.

And you might wanna also take a looksee at Flynn Lives, a Tron Legacy teaser website about what has happened to Kevin Flynn (the character that Jeff Bridges played in Tron and will reprise again in the sequel). It hints that in the years since Flynn took over ENCOM he has become a “Bill Gates meets Howard Hughes”-type of person....

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