Tron 1982 Blu-ray
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When a brilliant video game maker named Flynn (Jeff Bridges) hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing. It’s an epic adventure that everyone will enjoy! Some flashing-lights sequences or patterns may affect photosensitive viewers. Tron 1982 Blu-ray
When a brilliant video game maker (Jeff Bridges) hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing. It’s an epic adventure that everyone will enjoy! Tron 1982 Blu-ray
Additional information
| MPAA rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
|---|---|
| Item Weight : | 7.04 ounces |
| Director : | Steven Lisberger |
| Media Format : | Subtitled |
| Release date : | September 16, 2025 |
| Actors : | Barnard Hughes, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, David Warner, Jeff Bridges |
| Dubbed: : | Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish |
| Studio : | Walt Disney Pictures |
| ASIN : | B0FPMQSDW6 |
| Number of discs : | 2 |
| Best Sellers Rank: | #2 in Kids & Family Blu-ray Discs |
| Customer Reviews: | (4,367) |
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Amazon Customer –
An Old Classic
There is just something about this movie that grabs me. Let me explain.The story is probably well known by now. There’s the evil Master Control Program (MCP) that is taking over not only all programs at Encom corporation, but also all programs across the world, including those at the Pentagon and Kremlin. Behind all of this is the over ambitious and sneaky Ed Dillinger, played by David Warner, who having stolen Encom’s most successful game programs written by brilliant and cocky programmer, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), has been promoted way beyond his abilities and is being pushed around by the MCP. Of course, the MCP is actually a very advanced artificial intelligence program, smarter than any program ever written, and way beyond today’s technology. The same applies to other programs, which are lesser AIs that relate to their users as a mortal would relate to an Olympian god. And that’s really the mold of this movie, mere programs (read mortals) struggle to believe in the existence of users (read olympian gods), until Jeff Bridges, as Kevin Flynn (the god of programming), is physically teleported into the world of computer programs. His goal: to liberate all by blowing the MCP to smithereens and to recover evidence that proves that he, and not Dillinger, is the author of Encom’s cash cow game programs.This is one of the earliest computer animation attempts that I know of and, admittedly, the animation is limited, consisting of lines and surfaces in monochrome. Yet it works! The look and feel of the computer world is consistent enough that you believe you are in some strange abstract world, maybe not inside a computer, but certainly inside some fantasy world. And there’s just enough geeky computer lingo thrown in to make you chuckle, like “Bring in the logic probe,” to break down a doorway, or “No microcircuit can contain you, Tron,” as Tron’s girlfriend says with adoration. Yet another appeal is the play between the real world of the office and the virtual world of the computer, connecting the movie to every day life, though in a wildly exaggerated way. We see Tron’s programmer (or user), for example, working in a sea of cubicles stretching as far as eye can see–I could swear there were over a thousand cubicles there on one floor. And the industrial section where the laser device that teleports Flynn is situated looks like some giant power plant ready to spark a fusion reaction.And then there’s the nostalgia, not intentional but there all the same. We walk into Flynn’s game arcade knowing that the producers at the time thought the place as some cool hip place to hang out with no idea how transient arcades would be. Yet there, in that crowded space of computer games, there is noise and action and energy and romance. And there’s that classic little phrase “Klaatu barada nikto” printed on computer paper and tucked away in a cubicle paying homage to the 1951 movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”In the end, there is a lot here that parallels today’s computer dominated world. Freeing the world of some MCP: is that not what people in the world are struggling to do now, to access information free of some Master Control State? And that virtual world: is it not really coming back with a vengeance with the Internet and cloud services? And AI: are we not getting closer to actually having real AI, especially since Watson beat the top Jeopardy champions? So in a strange way, this old film has relevance today more than it did when it was first made, and though the script and acting looks quirky at times, it is these very same rough edges that make the film feel more genuine and real than many of today’s highly sophisticated computer animations, including even the new Tron.
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Matthew Kresal –
Tron Version 1.0
If you were amongst those who saw Tron: Legacy in theaters or on DVD, you may be curious to see its predecessor that came out 28 years earlier. Hard to find a few months ago, the original Tron was finally released again by Disney back in April to coincide with the DVD release of Legacy. So how does it hold up?For starters it has a pretty good cast. Leading the cast is Jeff Bridges as computer programmer turned arcade-owing hacker Kevin Flynn whose attempts to prove that his work was stolen by a rival programmer leads to him being sent into the digital world of the movie. Bridges gives Flynn an eccentric yet everyman quality that, while perhaps not serving the character best in the opening part of the movie, works perfectly when the character of Flynn ends up trying to make sense of the digital world he finds himself in. Bruce Boxleitner plays computer programmer Alan Bradley and his creation: the heroic security program named Tron. The two are very different characters and at times it is hard to believe that are being played by the same actor because of the huge differences between them. Aiding them in both the real and digital world are Cindy Morgan (as Lora and Yori) and Barnard Hughes (as Dr. Walter Gibbs and Dumont) who, like Boxleitner, find ways of making each of their characters different from the other. Opposing them, and perhaps giving the best performances in the movie, is David Warner as program stealing executive Ed Dillinger in the real world as being both the digital world menace of Sark and the electronically distorted voice of the the dictatorial Master Control Program. Put all these actors together and the result is that they give this digitally set movie a human grounding.Which brings us to perhaps the most iconic part of the movie: the digital world the majority of the movie takes place in. Given that the nearly thirty years that have passed since the movie was made have seen a true revolution in special effects, one might expect that the effects (including some of the earliest CGI effects) would look rather passe now. The truth of the matter is in fact quite different: the digital world of Tron is a truly immersive, and highly original, one.The production design, costumes and effects all go towards creating that unique world. The production design imagines a digital world that is both alien and yet familiar with its take on tanks, ships and perhaps most famously cars in the form of light cycles. Then there are all of the unique costumes of the digital characters with their stark whiteness contrasted by the illuminations of the apparent circuitry on them with a truly unusual look being the result. Last but not least on this list is all of the effects work. The effects would seemingly be the most dated part of the original Tron and to some extent this is true on the surface. But if you scratch below the surface you’ll discover that those seemingly dated effects are surprisingly effective. Two perfect examples can be found in the light cycle gaming sequence where there is a point of view shot that gives the viewer a true sensation of speeding along a maze of lines or during the chase sequence that follows directly on from it when the “camera” follows two ships that are pursuing the escaping light cycles. If you are however looking at the effects of the movie cynically from the viewpoint of today’s CGI here is another way of looking at them within the logic of the movie: the film is set and uses early 1980s computers and therefore it makes perfect sense that the digital world reflects the technology of the time rather the more advanced and evolved digital world seen in Legacy. Back to the main point though: the result of all these elements put together is that the digital world setting of the film remains both unique and immersive almost thirty years on.No review of the film though would be complete without a discussion of its script or storyline. The basic plot of Tron are quite simplistic: in the real world Flynn is trying to prove that Dillinger stole his programs to further his own career while in the digital world Flynn and Tron end up on a quest to save to free that world from the tyrannical reign of Dillinger’s Master Control Program and its minion Sark. The dialogue too is more often then not as simplistic as the plot and can be at times either corny or cringe-worthy. Yet Tron’s script and story are full of fascinating ideas: Programs acting as avatars of their programmers with deletions being their literal death (or derezzing), information and programs being sent along by incredible vehicles with energy or light used as paths, and even religious undertones to the relationship of programs to their users which features throughout the film is various character discussions and is best illustrated in the scene where Tron communicates with his user Alan Bradley. As a result Tron on the script and story level is very much driven by its ideas rather then its own plot.While it may be lacking in plot, Tron makes up for that in other ways. That includes the cast which makes the most of the duel roles that most of them have. Where it does that mainly though is in the immersive digital world it is set in and the ideas that lie behind it. Tron therefore is perhaps more a triumph of style over substance but it more then makes up for that fact.
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James McDonald –
It’s a whole new game inside the video game.
TRON (1982). Rated PG. Running Time: One Hour, 25 mins.Directed and written by Steven Lisberger. Story also written by Bonnie MacBaird.I watched TRON (1982) on Amazon Instant Video on Demand. Amazon.com offers a great print of film, However the audio needed to be turned up. This movie was released by Walt Disney Productions two years before Apple announced the Macintosh computer in a Super Bowl commercial in January 1984. It only had 128K RAM of memory. This was eleven years before the World Wide Web, the Internet, was available for people in their homes. In 1982, people were leaving pinball machines for video games in the arcades, such as, Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Astroids. The year earlier, people were buying the Atari 2600 to play video games on their television at home. Disney was ahead of their time in this movie. What if a computer programmer could actually play the game inside the world of his video game? Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is about to find out. Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is about to hack into the master control at his company, ENCOM. The computer warns him not to enter. The laser-device behind him zaps him inside the master control program to be a guest inside the video game. In the cast: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Dan Shor, Jerry Maren. The video game portion of this movie was filmed in black & white with the color added. Kodak helped in the production of this film by using Kodalith. You might find a “hidden mickey”. Pac-Man makes a cameo appearance. Journey performed “Only Solutions” and “1990’s Theme”. Not as entertaining as
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
(1982), but the kids liked TRON (1982) anyway. Who knew that a frisbee could be so powerful.Sequel. TRON: Legacy (2010). Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner return.TRON: Uprising (2012-13) animated series (19 episodes). You might also enjoy:
The Matrix
(1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition)
(2003).
The Matrix Revolutions (Two-Disc Full Screen Edition)
(2003).
Amazon Customer –
Classic movie
Tron is a classic and it showcases Jeff Bridges.
mitchell a. –
A little dated perhaps but atill an enjoyable trip down memory lane
Still relevant today Graphics are somewhat dated A pretty good movie for its time
Feo Amante –
Writers Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird had a great visionary story
Writers Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird had a great visionary story, and as a director Steven knew how to bring his imagination to life through cgi. What Steven didn’t know was how to communicate his ideas to experienced, solid actors.Lisberger did his best (see the disc Extras), working on blank sets that wouldn’t be filled in by cgi for another year, but his actors couldn’t uniformly agree on what that world they needed to interact with would look like, and Steven couldn’t communicate it any better.Everything we see within the computer world of TRON is what the actors couldn’t see.The movie suffers for it, both in the different actors muddled reactions to the same thing, as well as some horribly awkward dialog, so out of place with the events happening to the character.Our modern superhero / comic book cinema era was grandly laid out for generations before it reached this blockbuster point, and there was tons of missteps throughout the decades. Few remember that Marvel didn’t get solidly on its feet until 2008.Like Star Wars, TRON laid the groundwork for everything that would come after and build upon it. Unlike Star Wars, the actors were as out of their depth with the story as the director was out of his in directing it. What likely helped Star Wars was all if its practical effects, giving the actors Some Thing to work with.A young Tim Burton wanted to direct TRON as his first feature, and Steven was happy to let him have at it (see the disc Extras), but a bad short film Tim made with live actors at the time gave the Disney bosses cold feet.So what does all of this ancient triva mean for the viewer? Is TRON entertaining or not?It’s quite entertaining as the world Steve created back in the late 70s, early 80s is in many ways more compelling than cgi worlds we have today. It looks now like a computer savvy person of this era would expect a computerized world to look. By comparison TRON: Legacy was one note and while written better, drew upon shallow, ugly-hearted characters that no one could care about.Unlike Legacy, Steve didn’t want his computer world to look like a realistic version of earth, which would have been easy enough at the time with mere neon and light panels.TRON takes us fully into an imaginary world, far more fantastic than Alice’s Wonderland – even if the computer characters all talk like they just stepped off the set of Bonanza.TRON remains a rich landscape, flawed yet beautiful, worth repeated visits, and the extras are great!
33 people found this helpful
Nathaniel Bennett –
Great movie easy to use!!
Great movie! I wanted to get it on digital and the bonus content was a plus. I got it in sale for a good deal as well.
One person found this helpful
Amazon Customer –
The Grandfather of CGI
Widely regarded as The Grandfather of CGI.This groundbreaking film still stands alone and has incredible design and concepts that stand the test of time. Ahead of its time and genre-defining.A Must-Watch for any Film buff, Sci-Fi fan, Action lover, Animation geek, or 1980’s Nostalgia lover!
Gryphon –
TERRIFIC CLASSIC…but Disney is NOT setting those stupid prices
First, this is a fantastic classic from the dawn of the computer age as we know it today. The movie came out just after the birth of the IBM PC. Back in those days the concept of distributed computing was unknown outside of the computer room. Main frame and mini-computers lived in air conditioned secured rooms, hosting a bunch of dumb video terminals for the users. Most people had no idea of how they worked and they were usually found only in big companies.Even today the special effects, though quaint by modern standards, are still impressive and the story line is pretty good. But the visual concepts from back then of what it would be like to actually be inside of a computer is what makes this movie really special and fascinating. To say the movie was conceptually far ahead of it’s time is an understatement.The video quality in this version is great and looks impressive on my 65″ screen with the upscaling provided by my Blu Ray player. Color saturation is rich but not overdone and the images are crisp and clean although you can see the black outline around each character from the matting process. The 5.1 sound is also very clear and clean with good surround sound effect. All in all, it’s a terrific movie that all sci-fi fans should have in their library.As for the exorbitant prices being charged for the movie now, bear in mind that it is not Disney that’s setting those stupid prices even though they undoubtedly contributed to the situation by not producing any more copies of this movie and/or forcing distributors to return unsold stock. But the prices you see are being set by greedy resellers, for the few copies they have left in stock, who are basing them on the law of supply and demand and hoping they can find enough suckers who want a copy of this movie badly enough to pay them such ridiculous prices. I’m just thankful that I bought my copy from Amazon before these greedy moron resellers jacked up their prices. You’ll notice that Amazon is not selling this particular movie; they are just providing access to other resellers who are.Actually I think Disney is being very short sighted and greedy itself in trying to prevent sales of this movie because they think it will negatively impact their revenue from the new Tron Legacy release. It they were really smart, they would have done a digitally remastered Blu Ray version and promoted that to drum up additional interest in the new movie. That way they would have made even more money off both products. I know I certainly would have bought a remastered Blu Ray version and also gone to see the new movie.Bottom line, just don’t buy this movie until the prices come back down to a reasonable level. I think that after the new movie has been out for a few months, these prices will come back down to a reasonable level, especially if no one buys from these greedy resellers until they bring the prices back to down to reasonable levels.
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