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Tron Legacy (Movie Review)

Went to see Tron Legacy on Friday (Opening Day, ah geek in me).   I liked the first Tron.   The new Tron was done even better in the visual department


Here's the stuff I found most notable:

The visuals were top-notch. I really thought the "updated look" to the light cycles, and the ribbon trails they left behind them where done very well. The multiple cubes effect of people getting de-rezzed was amazingly good too. The traditional Walt Disney castle logo at the beginning of the movie was very cool with its Tron like look.


I never heard of Daft Punk until I heard the soundtrack in the movie and it seems to fit the theme of the movie.


There really wasn't much Tron in this Tron. He practically made a cameo appearance! Since he's many people's favorite character of the original, I thought he deserved a little more screen time.


Overall? I enjoyed/liked this movie (7.5 out of 10), and I think they did a good job of trying to respect the original, instead of stomping all over it, like SO often happens when they sequel a movie that was made so much earlier. In the end though? Given the original's whole premise, I'm not sure how this could have been re-made to have a fully believable story-line or deep plot/message? Much of the "magic" of the original Tron came from the fact that back in the 80's, computers were still a brand new and fascinating thing for a lot of us. As kids, we saw Tron and said "Wow.... that's a pretty cool way to imagine what the inside of a computer would be like if you could really become a part of one!"

Now, almost 30 years later? We've all progressed far past the extent of computer games being things as "basic" as a light-cycle or person vs. person battle with throwing discs, and computer have become as much of a commodity item as our washers or dryers. We've all seen plenty of movies covering more expansive concepts like the entire Internet (The Matrix, etc.), too. So in a sense, the magic has evaporated with time -- and the best they could do is try to give back a little with the visuals and some nostolgia.


 

Windows 7 32bit, Jessica Blue

To start with, a security unit built in a virtual drive under my Ubuntu 10.10 32bit install.   The total hard-drive partition size on my linux section of the machine is 300GB.

Of that, Jessica Blue will occupy 40GB of virtual hard-drive space and a allocated share 2GB of RAM.

Enough to run any simple security program.

Part of the idea of this exersize is to be virtually virus and trojan free with a responsible installation of Linux and run a virtual machine on top of that to add a layer of security.

I am giving a side by side comparison of Windows vs Linux vs Mac

To date, the 64 bit Windows 7 is down and can't even deal with Word suite 2007 (32bit).

My Christening of Alice, Mark II

I created a new sub-system, a windows 32bit virtual device, with 2GB of RAM and 40GB of harddrive space (I originally did 20GB but it got crowded fast).

The total available RAM for the actual machine is 4GB (slightly less for 32bit operating systems).   Which is why I have a Windows 7 64bit installed on its separate 250GB partition.

As far as bugs go, Ubuntu is suprizingly stable, there are a few quirks from the window rendering for the GUI, top three shrink/expand/exit are missing and I have to rebuild the package.

I have wine, the windows software emulator but am finding very little use for it with a VirtualBox with Windows 7, speed is the only thing that gives it any edge.