TRON
July 9, 1982 in theaters
When brilliant video game maker Flynn 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. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment.
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"I fight for the users."
DID YOU KNOW?
TRON was disqualified from the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects because judges considered computer-generated imagery a form of cheating.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
A film that arrived ahead of its cultural moment and has been reassessed accordingly. The computer-world visuals were unlike anything in cinema at the time of release, and the film's imagination about digital space -- how it looks, how it moves, what it feels like to inhabit -- retains a distinctive quality that later productions rarely matched. The story is thin by design, but the design itself is the film's argument. A foundational work of digital aesthetics whose influence is easier to feel than to directly imitate.
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