Tron (1982) | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

[@RMBittner]

The Wayback Machine is named after a time-travel device in a children’s cartoon, “Peabody’s Improbable History,” which was part of the “Rocky and Bullwinkle” show. The “Klaatu” phrase is from the 1950’s SF movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”

[@kebernet]

Yeah, he said, "Sherman, set the wayback machine." Sherman was Mr Peabody's kid sidekick.

[@neptunusrex5195]

Thank you for explaining this! 🙏 I’ve heard those references so many times but never knew what they were from 😅

[@TC_Smitty]

Yep, Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman.

[@MarkSlavin]

Klaatu is also a character in Return Of The Jedi, as a reference to The Day the Earth Stood Still (not Tron)

[@terrylandess6072]

My childhood. It's why I tend to avoid today's filtered imitations.

[@CaptainRetroStation]

I was 10 when this came out in theaters. What a time to be alive. "Star Wars" in '77, then "Superman" in '78, then "Star Trek", "Empire Strikes Back", "Raiders of the Lost Ark"... it was like, every time you'd go to the theaters, your mind would be BLOWN! Then, 1982... "Tron", "The Thing", "Blade Runner", "E.T.", "Poltergeist", "The Dark Crystal", "The Wrath of Khan"... what a year for special effects! What a year to be a kid!

[@LoDoFilmUnlimitedMedia]

Yes! I was there too! Great times! I was also 10! :)

[@shirak23]

@@LoDoFilmUnlimitedMedia Same!

[@bjgandalf69]

I remember seeing all those films back then. Btw, I was 13 in 1982.

[@PuppyMonsters]

I too was 10 in '82. I got dragged in to seeing "Poltergeist" by my older cousin. I think he was 14. Of course the movie theater had no problem with us watching it because it was rated PG. Not nearly as fun as seeing "Star Wars" on opening night (my 5th birthday). I think I got to see all of the movies you listed on the big screen except for "The Thing" and "Blade Runner". You left out the amazing journey for a 9 year old of watching "Time Bandits" in '81.

[@timmooney7528]

When I went to see Tron, my sister and brother went to see ET instead. I already saw ET with some friends.

[@fusionaddict]

The technique used to create the look of the computer world was actually groundbreaking and incredibly difficult. They filmed the actors in black and white on all-black sets, with the parts they wanted to glow marked with paint or tape. The film was then blown up to large cells that were duplicated, then hand-painted layer-by-layer to expose certain parts of the image on each pass...one for eyes and teeth, one for the faces, one for the costumes, one for the backgrounds, one for colors, one for glow, etc. Then the elements were optically combined. The original plan was to use retroreflective tape, but it was determined to be unreliable for the glow effect, though they did use it on Dillinger's helicopter to make it look computerized. The CG effects took months to complete despite their simplicity because all the coordinates for each shape had to be input by hand from a spreadsheet. They didn't have modern real-time animation software like today. The effects in this film would take just a few days to complete on even a modern high-end desktop, but they were working with supercomputers back in 82. Just goes to show you how powerful modern consumer computers are compared to the highest-end, state-of-the-art supercomputers back then!

[@80Jay71]

It's like when I started teching Photoshop V 3.1. Back then it was a massive amount of channel-trickery to achieve a special effect. Nowadays it's almost a rage quit if it can't be done in 10 sec with a filter or two.

[@imagedocray]

I can confirm that you are correct, since I spent the better part of a year of my life working on the special effects for this film!

[@CrazyInWeston]

If you want another perspective, your mobile (cell) phone that you have has more computing power sitting in your trouser pocket than those large room sized super computers that helped send man to the moon in 1969.

[@MagsonDare]

The "Corridor Crew" channel re-created the lightcycle scene in an afternoon using off-the-shelf software a few months back. It wasn't perfect, but was close enough that if it'd been used back then everyone would have lost their minds.

[@neilbiggs1353]

@@MagsonDare This is a great thing for sci fi TV, so much more is achievable now on modest budgets

[@curtismartin2866]

Here's a fun story. While Tron was being edited, a young man working across the hall would stop In to see what was going on. He was working as an "in'-betweener" on The Fox and the Hound. But he was absolutely captivated by the computer animation of Tron. In fact, he would not shut up about it. He even put together a proposal for Disney as to how they could move to computer animation. He was absolutely convinced that he had seen the future. Disney was absolutely convinced that he should shut the hell up. They actually fired the guy. Fortunately, he was able to hook on with LucasFilm. He did some work and things were fine, but the division was sold. The buyer? Apple. While part of Apple, he produced computer animated shorts to demonstrate the capabilities of Apple's Renderman computer. In fact, these shorts did so well, that the division he ran was tasked with producing a feature film. That film was Toy Story, the division of Apple was Pixar and that guy who would not shut up about computer animation was John Lassiter!

[@trekkiejunk]

You know who else worked in the animation on Fox and the Hound? Tim Burton.

[@JayH-tz4ip]

The guy who sexually assaults women? Awesome.

[@aprotosis]

Apple didn't buy Pixar. Graphics Group spun off to their own company. Steve Jobs helped fund it and was a majority shareholder - but not Apple.

[@oscardiggs246]

The specific person at Disney who had Lassiter fired was Ron Miller, a man who had the superpower of being wrong about everything except marrying the bosses daughter. It was special when Disney bought Pixar and Lassiter was given the job ofchief creative officer or something like that.

[@AutoPilate]

Can confirm. For, you see, I was the Fox.

[@davidparkerguitar]

"I can't imagine what it was like to see this in 1982-" It was effin' AWESOME! And then there was a Tron arcade game that had lightcycles and other film elements as minigames. I was 16, would go watch this at the mall theater and then walk out, walk into the arcade, and play the game.

[@notconcernedwriting]

Couldn’t make it past the fourth level.

[@rickanderson9360]

Yep, mind-blowing for a kid. as with Star Wars, I have no chance to look at this movie objectively :) The soundtrack is amazing, especially Ending Titles.

[@trekkiejunk]

The "other film elements" weren't mini-games. All the games in the Tron arcade game are equal in average length and complexity, including the light cycles. You choose which one to play when you put your quarter in. If you complete one game, you move to the next.

[@greenpeasuit]

I am convinced the weird animated spider bot scene was only shoe horned in to the movie to justify their part in the video game.

[@Fluffykeith]

The first game I programmed into our Amstrad CPC 464 (color screen & tape deck) was the Tron Cycles game

[@bg7893]

Useless factoid: When this came out we were using TRS-80 computers in school. When debugging in BASIC the command Tron stood for TRace ON so you could follow the lines of code being executed. TROFF turned it off.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

I had stacks of games for the VIC-20 Datasette. Some were quite good.

[@Easy_Skanking]

I learned to type and program on those old TRS- 80's!!!

[@MikePerigo]

The most unbelievable thing is that the writer and director claim (both in interviews and on the DVD extras) that they had no knowledge of the TRACE ON/OFF command and simply plucked the cool name out of thin air and used it for a program that coincidently performs the same monitor and report functionality! REALLY!?!? I can only assume Micro$haft must have hit them with a big lawsuit for using the name without permission and they had to agree to stick with this BS statement if they wanted to release the movie.

[@shirak23]

Ah, yes, the Trash 80😄

[@bg7893]

@@shirak23 We called them Gacks, short for Garbage Radio Shack,

[@HauntSlider]

"klaatu barada nikto" is from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" .. Awesome movie.. The original 1951 version. You didn't notice that "Ram" was riding in the red bike. He was the Tron Red Shirt. ;) Also all the "neon" effects were done. The movie was shot in black and white with all white costumes on a black backround. Anything they wanted to "glow" would be a black void line on the costume. This allowed them to apply an old style "backlight" animation to it. It was intensely labor extensive.

[@gishgali8354]

George and Simone would know the Klaatu phrase from ARMY OF DARKNESS. Raimi reused the phrase as the magic word Ash screws up when trying to reclaim the Necronomicon.

[@MysteriousMrL]

There's another reference to it in Return of the Jedi, though never actually spoken in the movie. There are background characters in Jabba's palace named Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto. I only knew about them because of trading cards and action figures and I definitely didn't get the reference until much later.

[@Skrubb_Lord]

The modern one with Keanu Reeves is good but the original is way better. Along with the original 'War of the Worlds.'

[@synaesthesia2010]

It took 18 months to animate each frame as there were multiple layers. In fact, the guy that played Ram ran into a guy at random who told him that he hates his nose. Turned out he had spent 18 months on the film as an animator just animating his nose

[@lublinmetalhead5547]

It's also the quote that actually summon demons in Evil Dead ;d series (that came out year before this movie)

[@alexthorpe6583]

Ah, Jeff Bridges, 26 years before he tried to kill Tony Stark. Also, Bruce Boxleitner and Peter Jurassic 12 years before Babylon 5.

[@cobaltplasma]

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain." - Obadiah Stane, former ENCOM CEO

[@Raptchur]

And Disney before they got trapped by ideals and identity politics that nobody wants.

[@arong4906]

Also David Warner as Dillinger / Aldous Gajic in the B5 episode Grail.

[@ThreadBomb]

Following his appearance in Tron, Bruce Boxleitner was cast in the light-hearted spy thriller TV series 'Scarecrow and Mrs King' (1983-87), and for a long time that's what he was most famous for. His co-star in the series was Kate Jackson, who had come to fame as one of Charlie's Angels in the 1970s.

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

Dude, no way ..

[@AztecConsulting]

Tron (82) and Wargames (83) are really the why I'm a still software developer oh so many years later!

[@emeyerls12]

Mine were Tron (82), Short Circuit (86), and Reboot (94).

[@martinrayner6466]

I echo you, from Australia. _(The lesser known "HIDE and SEEK" 1983 computer movie also had an influence on me.)_

[@ChettMichael]

@@emeyerls12 omg. Reboot is why I'm a dev. yes!!!!!!

[@Billis75]

Tron was the reason I got my first computer in 82 - an Atari 800XL with 64 kilobytes of RAM.

[@martinrayner6466]

@@Billis75 That was a great machine at the time. I had a commodore PET 4032, and learnt 6502 assembler and machine code on it. _The beginning of a long journey._ Out of nostalgia, I recently put an emulator on my modern system. Amazing what could be done in 32k. At about 1984, I think I had the "Sanyo MBC-555". Cheers.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

I never realized until right now that the old man is the Grandpa in The Lost Boys. I've been watching this movie for decades and only got that now. Also, the look of Tron is amazing because nothing like it had existed before, and nothing like it existed for much longer after as CGI evolved.

[@81OH4Z4RD]

Relatable. I just realized Lora / Yori was Lacey Underall.

[@ThreadBomb]

I knew the old guy from the TV series Mr Merlin, about a young guy who starts work at a garage and discovers that the owner is the literal historical Merlin.

[@vincegamer]

I hope you recognized Captain Sheridan

[@vincegamer]

One thing I never could stand about the Tronverse: all the damn vampires

[@ThreePointOneFou]

Two of this film's cast members, Bruce Boxleitner (Alan/Tron) and Peter Jurasik (Crom, the poor fellow who ends up dueling with Flynn) would go on to co-star on _Babylon 5_ (John Sheridan and Londo Mollari, respectively).

[@punchthedog]

To answer George's question @11:49, the building used was the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Tron is the only movie to have shot scenes there.

[@EVAUnit4A]

_Begrudgingly,_ I must mention that the LLNL was also used for Main Engineering for the _Enterprise_ in -Star Trek Into Darkness- (2012) #WithoutRespectWeReject , primarily for scenes showing the _exterior_ of the Warp Core. However, the _interior_ of the Warp Core was filmed on a set. The Warp Core itself was not a prop, but the actual physical experiment used to create nuclear fusion for the first time ever (which they eventually succeeded at in 2022!). Some "gribbles" like control stations were brought-in for actors to stand at and interact with, and additional lighting was added in post-production, to make it look more 'futuristic'.

[@MartinBeerbom]

The laser lab was a real, active lab at Lawrence Livermore National labs. The door was also real. Behind it was the target area of a particle accelerator, so it needed to be that thick for radiation shielding, but they also needed to sometimes put larger experimental set-ups there. Cindy Morgan accidentally stepped into a radioactive spill (which says how active the lab still was) and needed to be decontaminated.

[@robertcampbell8070]

The Lawrence Livermore lab is still in operation today. They're essentially a defense contractor now, nuclear deterrence, laser weapons, that sort of thing.

[@clearsmashdrop5829]

At the last Family day for Lawrence Livermore there is a sign in one of the bldgs showing where the stairs scene with the security guard was filmed. Its pretty cool, its just a 2 story building but you can recognize it right away.

[@motodork]

Saw this film opening weekend in 1982 as an eleven year old, and it changed my life. A couple of months ago I traveled to Los Angeles for the first time ever, then went to Culver City and visited the location for Flynn's Arcade and it was a religious experience.

[@Marshall_Thompson]

11:15 "Klaatu Barada Nikto" is a line from the film "The Day the Earth Stood Still", which is another "greatest film ever made" that you guys will probably watch.

[@oneopinion6806]

Also a phrase not to be misspoken by rough-around-the-edges folks named Ash.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

The face of Gort is tucked away on a Creedence Clearwater Revival album cover, too.

[@TheOldest]

Was just about to point that out 👍

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Did you speak the words?! Yea, well, mostly.

[@DanielLopez-ks9eh]

Referenced repeatedly everywhere

[@Tampahop]

This is for George. I worked as a network admin for a long time (lived the Y2K fears), and our company had normal developers and software creation processes as you described, but we also had what we called "scientists" who pretty much did what they wanted. They were the idea people. Several of us had come from a smaller software company that had been purchase and the first Christmas of the combined company we had a nice company Christmas dinner. We were seated at a table with one of the scientists. The HR lady that came from my old company asked the scientist what they did, as scientist was a new term for us. He said, "You know that the Hubble telescope was initially producing blurry images, right? I helped write the software to sharpen those images." You could hear a pin drop.

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

Oh right, there hadn’t been a term or job called Computer Scientist before. Or Software Engineer.

[@Tampahop]

@@ariadnepyanfar1048 In my 30 + years in the industry, I had never heard any other software company use that term. If you had, congratulations. We used it as a title of respect for a level of proficiency far beyond the average programmer.

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

@@Tampahop maybe it’s a country difference? I’m in Australia and always been a nerd groupie starting from the days of Commodore 64, Zork, loderunner, and online BBSs. Mid 80s to early 90s. Computer Scientist was a job you could aim for in the 80s when choosing high school subjects and University degrees. My partner did a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

Can’t seem to edit comments. Bachelor of APPLIED Science (Computer Science)

[@Tampahop]

@@ariadnepyanfar1048 And I started with a TRS-80. What's your point? Once again, congratulations for your personal experience... not my experience. I came from an engineering background. And yes, it was called com sci in school, but I never heard of programmers being called scientists before. Oddly, I heard them called software engineers rather than scientists. By your logic, they couldn't be engineers because engineering wasn't in the name. I still don't understand why you are arguing against my personal experience though.

[@TrackZero]

To answer George's question, yeah, back in the early 80s coders would often go off and do their own projects, either because they had enough spare cycles (management wasn't good at realizing how long things took back then) or because the company was encouraging them to just come up with the next big thing (that the company could sell). Aside from IBM, those people are and always have been clock punchers.

[@curtismartin2866]

IBM famously sold the rights to produce the operating system for their computers to two scruffy looking kids. The money was in hardware, not software, right? Those two kids turned out to be Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

[@samworf6550]

Without the demand for 100GB of AAA assets and complicated, well-balanced game systems, things were so simple back then that it wasn't uncommon at all for entire video games to be written by just one programmer

[@StCerberusEngel]

Yep. A bunch of code-monkeys just trying new things and overcoming hardware limitations with innovation. No engines, objects, skins or textures. Just direct, line-by-line coding of hardware functions and some spreadsheet data. If condition a, then memory address b, at value x-y, etc. The best and worst of times in many regards.

[@iampotsataja]

So the management not knowing how long things take thing hasn't changed, huh? 😅

[@keithlangmead4098]

Yeah, for example if you check out the "Dave's Garage" channel is an ex-MS employee. Some videos he talks about the parts of DOS and Windows that he initially wrote himself on his own, since back then those programs were relatively simple compared to the complexity of modern software.

[@brianegendorf2023]

In the actual arcades there were two versions of the Tron game. One was the regular standup that was a multiple challenge game with the tanks, the racing bikes, and a few other challenges. Later, a new game came out that was revolutionary at the time. It was called "Disks of Tron" that was similar to the disk games..it was a standup game, but had a cabinet that allowed for surround sound speakers to be behind you. The screen was a type of hologram that allowed the disks to appear to be floating in space. It was pretty revolutionary for its time.

[@seanyoung9014]

I remember that! If you saw that one, you knew you were in a good arcade.

[@alexthorpe6583]

I remember a Discs of Tron game, I only saw it at Six Flags over Mid America, in the 80's. I don't remember speakers behind you, but you were standing on rings and throwing discs. The controller looked just like one of the ones in Flynn's arcade in the movie.

[@Johnny_Socko]

Discs of Tron was so much better than Tron, or at least I thought so. Tron was fun enough, but the difficulty was pretty high, and it was essentially a collection of minigames. Although Discs of Tron lacked the variety of Tron, it was a much more polished experience, and honestly it made you feel kind of badass when you played well.

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

The only time I saw that game was at Disneyland.

[@coronaTick]

Discs of Tron had a deluxe version that you would get into the game (cabinet) with the surround sound, but they also just had a cabinet version with no surroundings. Also as the levels progressed, the platforms would go up and down, so the second controller (round spinning knob), you would have to pull up on to hit the people if they were above you on their side.

[@paulhammond6978]

Your Academy award trivia reminds me of the fun fact that the electronic score for Forbidden Planet was not allowed to be called "music", and could not enter for consideration in the music category in the 1950s.

[@MyargonautsJason]

others have pointed out that the "Klaatu" phrase is from an old 50s sci-fi movie, but you might recognize it as the words Ash has to say when he wants the Necronomicon in Army of Darkness.

[@macronencer]

I came here to say that too. It was quite funny how George said "did we just summon a demon?" afterwards :)

[@Mr_Incognito113]

There were 3 characters on Jabba’s sail barge in Return of the Jedi called Klaatu, Barada & Nikto.

[@pablom-f8762]

Klaatu... barada... mnh-huh-hu

[@petercofrancesco9812]

The Day the Earth Stood Still

[@MrKawika64]

Seeing TRON in the theaters was mind blowing! Star Wars & TRON were game changers

[@alolkoydesigns]

The passing of "RAM" is based upon the Ten Commandments scene where a slave passes in the arms of Moses telling him he was promised by God that he'd see the "one" before he passed.

[@Macknzie]

The first program Flynn fights and who falls through the floor is portrayed by Peter Jurasik. He and Bruce Boxleitner (Tron/Alan) would eventually be reunited on Babylon 5, and Peter Jurasik absolutely chews the scenery in that show. You should add that show to your list--I guarantee you'd both love it.

[@NicoAnimation]

The Wayback (or WABAC) Machine was Mr. Peabody and Sherman's time machine from the 1960s Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon :)

[@moldy13]

imagine seeing this in 1982 when you're 12 years old! this movie blew me away. one of my lifetime favs. so fun to watch y'all experience it.

[@duckprints7]

I came home from seeing this movie and I became obsessed! To this day I can't hold a Frisbee without pretending it is a Data Disk. If Jared Leto ruins Tron 3 I will.spend the rest of my life talking trash About him and haunting him after I pass 😂

[@John_Locke_108]

I'm going into expecting to hate it. That mindset worked out great for Tron Legacy which turned out to be an amazing film.

@@John_Locke_108 I call that "cautiously pessimistic"

[@nluna75]

If anything else Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are doin the music. The trailer was pretty cool too.

[@midnightblue6668]

I was 7 years old when I saw this in the theater. It was absolutely amazing at the time. Still is, but we hadn't seen anything like this back then.

[@kermitlacock5930]

There was a Tron arcade game. It had multiple missions per level. A Lightcycle battle, a version of Breakthru using your disk to eliminate bricks, and a game where you had to make it to the exit while avoiding Grid Bugs.

[@darthkronical3390]

There was a console game for Intellivision called Tron Deadly Disks where you just ran around throwing data disks at enemies.

[@thomasmartin8227]

Yeah, I never ever could get past the Breakout.

[@vincegamer]

It also had tanks

[@GinkoYoki234]

David Warner: the triple threat. He portrayed Dilinger, Sarc, and voiced the MCP.

[@geoffeep]

"You would not have a programmer doing their own thing and no one knows what is going on" - You are clearly a good manager who has worked at good companies :P

[@John_Locke_108]

😂😂😂 My life in IT would be easier if this was actually the case.

[@Stefi-P]

My first job after university was at a small company making prototypes for defence projects. Ha ha ha ha, the sheer number of hard coded backdoors I put in so I couldn't be locked. Turns out when you put a prototype sonar into a nuclear sub and password protect it, having my hard coded access is immensely useful when they've forgotten all their access. "Yeah, we'll remove them, don't worry..." not my problem, I left when I moved to get married.

[@geoffeep]

@@Stefi-P Wild :P

[@shawnmiller4781]

In the 1980’s a lot of managers had no idea about computers or programming because the technology was so new

[@ronweber1402]

@@shawnmiller4781 Ya computer programmers back then might as well have been Dumbledore,Merlin and Gandalf walking in the building. People had no idea what voodoo they could do and then you got movies like War Games that made the mystique even deeper.

[@peridot1706]

The glowing effects were done with a process called backlight animation. The movie was shot in black & white and the set was a solid black background with the actors in white suits. The lines were done by an army of artists. One frame at a time, by hand. Each frame was enlarged and transferred to large print, high contrast photography paper called Kodalith sheets. Clear cel overlays were placed over the sheets and the parts to remain dark were masked. The frame & cells were then positioned over a light box and a camera was mounted above all of this. They then made multiple separate passes with the camera using different color filters each time. It took them months (and months) to do what could be done today in less than a day.

[@SWOLEX_1]

There's an amazing Episode by the corridor crew about this and they did also use reflective tape

[@imagedocray]

@@peridot1706 You’ve got it mostly right. Kodalith is a graphic arts film, not photographic print paper. Disney placed a custom order to Kodak for 1 million sheets of 10”x20” pin-registered Kodalith for this project. The photo processing of those sheets initially became one of the more pesky technological hurdles of the production. Initial scene run tests failed due to the discovery of the extremely tight tolerances that were required to achieve consistent densities in the Kodalith in order to avoid any flicker and/or strobing effect to occur in the final composited frames. Luckily, extreme emulsion batch management and some creative engineering overcame the issues relatively quickly, but it was daunting for a bit. BTW… I was the person who installed and setup the identical twin pair of Kreonite GA film processors in the Disney Special Photographic Effects Department that were purchased exclusively for this project.

[@johnabbottphotography]

@@imagedocray I should have known it was lith film. And yeah, those are tight tolerances. I can't fathom how much film passed through those processors.

[@kenevanchik4478]

I saw this in the theatre back in '82. It was really cutting edge for its time. As I'm a computer guy, a lot of the technical terms made me smile, although many of them were lost on people, as computer use by the general public wasn't as ubiquitous as it is today. Interestingly, this movie's sequel, "Tron Legacy" made more use of practical effects for things like the program costumes. One issue with Tron Legacy some people noted, was that CGI advanced so much since the first film that the Tron world didn't look digital enough.

[@jasonbeatty831]

Not cutting edge, bleeding edge.

[@stiimuli]

That's the issue I had with Legacy too. The original Tron made a computer world that looked completely different and amazing but most of the computer world in Legacy just looks like a night club. Also the de-aged Jeff Bridges looked terrible.

[@logandarklighter]

@@stiimuli It was early days for the de-aging software. But - fortunately - I think the uncanny valley issue WORKS for CLU in that film - since he's supposed to be somewhat insane anyway. You SHOULD be slightly disturbed, looking at him! (We'll try and ignore the brief shots of de-aged Jeff Bridges in "the real world")

[@vilefly]

Looked like a bunch of people in glow wire motorcycle suits and helmets. Needs more lighting, instead of making it look like midnight at a neon bar. The writing needed work, as most of the characters were single purpose only and the ending was anticlimactic.

[@alansevern290]

George thinks this looks amazing in 2024 and how it must have seemed way back in 1982...well, I can tell you from personal experience as I saw this in the cinema in '82 when i was 12 years old it was better than amazing as its all practical effects and no CGI as in todays movies, we were all blown away as kids! Now youve definitely got to watch Tron:Legacy, love you guys.

[@Cadinho93]

"Some programs will be thinking soon." "Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop." When this movie was submitted to the Academy Awards for a Best Visual Effects nomination, the Academy rejected it because they thought CGI was "cheating". Also, TRON Legacy is a sequel to this film. Not only is it worthy of the original it takes it so much further and has one of the best soundtracks of all time.

[@dxrebel]

Yes, excellent point. I freaked out when they got DP to do the soundtrack. Als one of the smoothest, slickest looks a movie has had.

[@alucard624]

@@dxrebel Tron Legacy is one of the few sequels made years later that was worth the wait. It was amazing in IMAX.

[@dxrebel]

@@alucard624 Ooh IMAX would have been nice. In all honesty, my love for the original made me highly skeptical about the movie despite the soundtrack announcement and visuals. Happy to have been completely wrong. Doesn't take anything away from the original, only expands. As it should be.

[@simonfrederiksen104]

Idiocracy next :)

[@Benjamas-]

Man I so love Tron Legacy, I was so worried when they announced it, in that time when they were doing those “we are out of ideas let’s bring back something anything” movies that were disappointing and instantly forgotten, but it did it really well, gave enough nods to the old, expanded it a ton, and gave tron to a new generation with an amazing sound track and modern effects. I still listen to the sound track and the reconfigured one as well.

[@senorelroboto2]

The big industrial facility is actually the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's old SHIVA experiment, a laser driven nuclear fusion project. Which, ironically to George's comment about how companies wouldn't let a film crew in, is a site where Top Secret research was performed.

[@BRUXXUS]

I THOUGHT it looked like the National Ignition Facility! How cool!

[@kebernet]

Also, "tron" (tracing on) was the gdb of 80s home computers. A lot of this movie is written for the kind of computation a nerdy 80s kid would be expose to.

[@inhumanmusic1411]

No. It was not from trace on. The company that did the effects had a demo reel of a "Electronic" man that looked a lot like the characters in the movie.

[@llamallama1509]

Yeah, tron / troff were early debugging commands

[@Parallax-3D]

@@inhumanmusic1411- Yes, it IS from “trace on.”

[@inhumanmusic1411]

@@Parallax-3D No. It's not. "Lisberger elaborates: "Everybody was doing backlit animation in the 70s, you know. It was that disco look. And we thought, what if we had this character that was a neon line, and that was our Tron warrior - Tron for electronic"

[@ericv7720]

I saw this in the theater when it came out. I was 8. The one thing I remember was how my eyes hurt when I got out of the theater, because of the bright lights contrasting with the dark backgrounds.

[@januzi2]

I've heard that they've painted every single line by hand, in every single frame of the movie.

[@MINKIN2]

The technique is called Rotoscoping. Used in many movies back then.

[@gregsteele806]

Yeah, they had to paint masks for the areas where the glow would be. Thousands of hand painted cells. They outsourced it to Korea, if I remember correctly. Trouble was, they inked so quickly that the ink didn't have time to dry. Lots of the cells ended up stuck together. Also, the emulsion on the film plates they used wasn't consistent. The batches were numbered so the gradual change in luminosity wouldn't be noticed. Unfortunately, the people exposing the plates just grabbed boxes at random. When they watched the early results they noticed sudden spikes in the illumination. No way to go back and fix it, so they just added sound effects to make the flashes seem intentional. ;)

[@synaesthesia2010]

​@@gregsteele806it unintentionally added to the feel of the movie, you were inside a computer so there could have always been the occasional burst of static in there

[@MartinBeerbom]

The film was shot on 70mm to get a larger negative (for instance, all the actors were shot in B/W, and hand-colored by hand, so they wanted as large a negative as possible). That's why the movie is relatively static since the cameras were essentially priceless collectibles, bulky, and they were hesitant to break them if they moved them too much. The insurance representative nearly freaked out when they mounted the camera at an angle on the ceiling for some of those shots of Dillinger's office! I got lucky and saw the movie in a 70mm print, and it looked amazing!

[@imagedocray]

@@MartinBeerbom Actually it was shot in 65mm, then enlarged to individual 10”x20” Kodalith sheets for the inking and painting and then composited back down to a final 70mm negative.

[@Ghost8386]

RIP Barnard Hughes, Cindy Morgan, and David Warner.

[@John_Locke_108]

The one thing I could never stand about Santa Carla is all the damn programs.

[@slimmccoy8863]

@@John_Locke_108 lol, never made that connection, but now I can't unhear it

[@81OH4Z4RD]

Wanna tie me up with some of your ties, Tron?

[@2old4gamez]

The words 'Klaatu barada nikto' are from 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' (1951). They were also the 'magic words' In 'Evil Dead: Army Of Darkness' that Ash confidently makes a mess of. The story of how the CGI elements were created and animated is well worth checking, it's incredible to see the work that went into this film. Graph paper, manual calculations & trusting that the finished output looks good when it was finally rendered. The fact that Tron was denied a visual effects award because 'using computers is cheating' is criminal. End of line.

[@MightyDrakeC]

Corridor Digital recreated a couple of the scenes with modern software. I think they challenged themselves to finish them in a day. And, of course, the spent a few minutes discussing how the original was made

[@VorpalBunnysRevenge]

People in on-line chats will sometimes say hello with "Greetings, Programs!" ...guilty as charged.

[@mblackwl]

We have a hockey announcer here in town who does the same at the beginning of the game.

[@davegnarlsson4344]

This was the first movie with computer graphics blended with live footage. I saw it in the theater in '82. Most folks weren't impressed.

[@captainchaos3667]

I have two words about Tron: Legacy: Daft Punk.

[@peteturner3928]

stunning sound track!

[@renegado8588]

Yup, enough said!

[@Ramsiusthx]

And they will be blowing your brains out for the duration of the movie

[@3DJapan]

Another word: visuals.

[@EndlessNameless5]

More like two words: "Tron: Legacy: Daft: Punk"

[@Piquet2]

I was 7 years old when this movie came out. I was totally blown away by the visuals and it sparked my interest in computers and games. Been my hobby ever since and it’s all because of this movie. I love it so much that I have a framed Tron poster in my living room.

[@nullunit]

Really happy you guys not only enjoyed it, but GOT it. I know none of the themes are super subtle but I am always surprised and disappointed many folks are seeing it for the first time are very reductive in their views of it. I believe it went crazy overbudget and didn't make a lot of money for Disney but for GenXer's like me, it was really a big deal. I have no doubt this movie is why I am a lifelong gamer but also why I went into Tech. I wish I could be as cool as Flynn, Alan, Cindy, or Barnard or their programmatic doppelgangers. Many films that came after like the Matrix and Wreck It Ralph are riffing on the same themes but I still think Tron probably did it the best and 20-ish years earlier. Tron Legacy is good, but I think it squandered some chances to expand upon some of the themes introduced in this film. It is a banger. The visuals and soundtrack/score are amazing and contrary to some folks opinion, even my own at the time, it is actually a solid sequel. I am hyped for "Tron: Ares" next year as it looks like a good follow up to Legacy. If you have the time, I recommend the animated series "Tron: Uprising" It was a really good show. It only got one season and deserved more but I think is more successful at world building "The Grid" and the life of Programs that Legacy. It is kind of how the Clone Wars cartoon did a better job of fleshing out the Star Wars prequels than the movies.

[@PeggyV69]

I have always loved this movie, I remember watching this back in the 80s & thinking this was so futuristic. :)

[@RMBittner]

So glad you enjoyed this. I was blown away when I saw this in the theater, but I wasn’t sure what you’d think of the look/effects in 2024.

[@plutoniumcore]

I agree. I like how they appreciate they visual effects for 1982. I've seen some other reactors crap on it. Saw this when I was 8 and it blew me away.

[@ThreadBomb]

@@plutoniumcore It still looks good, because it's so well designed. But some young viewers think that any special effect that doesn't look like CGI is "bad".

[@RMBittner]

@@ThreadBomb While sometimes I sit through a barrage of digital effects and think, “Enough with the CGI, already!” (It really soured me on the kind of all-CGI finale fights that have typified a lot of the Marvel movies.)

[@O_Towne_Bear]

We flocked to the theaters, got high and freaked out. This movie was legendary even then.

[@mojoshivers]

Growing up we called it a frisbee too. In fact, when they came out with glow in the dark frisbees I feel like they were trying to copy Tron. But for me the light cycles were the coolest part of the world inside the computer. I wanted a light cycle when I grow up but sadly they still don’t make those. Lol

[@nathandc]

You aren't the only one, light cycles still seem amazingly cool to me all these years later. :-) End of Line....

[@terrylandess6072]

I laughed when George called it out on the 'cover' for looking drawn instead of being physical - when it's a representation of the digital - non real - world :D

[@mojoshivers]

@ I always liked the blend between graphics and real actors and environments. At the time I thought it was all movie magic and had no concept as a kid how they could accomplish any of it.

[@DR_DOOM_3298]

I saw this in the theater when I was 12, it was pretty mindblowing stuff at the time & obviously way ahead of its time and super influential.

[@MGower4465]

3:33 reference to "scuzzy data", an Easter egg for hardware nerds. SCSI, pronounced "scuzzy" was a high speed (for the time) data storage platform used in file servers. Ssince Flint is looking for a data file on a server, it would be "SCSI data".

[@rocketeer3667]

@ 11:18 THAT is a renowned saying from the great classic sci-fi movie: THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)

[@thepudgyninja]

You guys should check out another 80s classic with very early use of CGI - The Last Starfighter. It's cheesy, but I love it.

[@shawnmiller4781]

It’s one of the first Arguably the first was Superman III which had one scene programmed on an Atari 800

[@colsanders4036]

I saw this in the theater when I was 8 and it blew my mind. It was not until I was an adult that I realized how accurate to basic programing this was.

[@dwightgruber8308]

I'm astonished you haven't seen this movie before now. It was the freshest thing on film when it came out, your unabashed enthusiasm has brought tears to my eyes. I'm surprised at the media references you didn't get, if you follow up there are wonderful things ahead.

[@candicelitrenta8890]

I saw this when it came out and there was a real Tron video game in the lobby of the theater

[@ChickenPhilosophy]

My favourite movie, of all time, in the world. When it came out, and I was 4, people would sometimes ask me, "What's your religion?" I'd say: "My mom is Christian, my dad is Buddhist, but my religion is TRON."

[@John_Locke_108]

So you believe in the user?

[@ChickenPhilosophy]

:) My program: www.youtube.com/@sonnet1program

[@FlyingTigress]

Back when this came to theaters, a group of students - myself, my future fiancee - and a number of master's program computer science majors went to see it. They remarked after the movie that the script was written only by highlighting the cool words in one of their textbooks. 8:30 Chicken or egg? I mean, the iPad was bringing Star Trek: The Next Generation PADDs to the real world. Ditto, Communicators from the Original Series as a basis for flip phones. @9:21 The WAYBACK machine is a reference to a device in a 1960s cartoon with Mr. Peabody (an intelligent dog) and his boy "Sherman" as they visited historical events.

[@incogneato790]

One of the things I've come to appreciate about TRON is the writers did their research. Real computer science terms are used, and used properly. A logic probe is a real tool, cybercrime and corporate IT foolishness' etc. are all pretty spot on. Back in the early days, programs were largely the work of a small group of brilliant minds rather than large teams of programmers.

[@Codametal]

I can't wait for them to watch the next one Tron Legacy. George nailed it on the head. It was ahead of its time. I watched it in the movie theater and became eventually majored in Computer science because of it. Just an AWESOME movie.

[@VendettaProduction01]

I’m glad George got the South Park joke

[@ph8429]

“I DESIRE… MACARONI PICTURES!”

[@shadout]

Wonder what the time gap between him seeing the episode and seeing this movie was.

[@RobertDPore]

"Another warrior is on the mesa... AND HE DOESN'T HAVE MACARONI PICTURES! HE MUST DIE, SARK!!”

[@The_Dominic]

Trust me…. this was literally JAW DROPPING in the theater when it came out. Tron was ground breaking.

[@markcarpenter6020]

The glowing lines are hand animation drawn on the film. The warer was electricity, a stream of electrons.

[@longfootbuddy]

when i went to see this with some friends back in the 80s, we were so shocked by what we saw, one of my friends just died in his theater seat, another went insane, and i never saw him again, and i thought that demons had taken over the theater, and i joined a cult for 5 years because of this, because we just hadnt seen anything like this before, and it was so ahead of its time.. many of the people in the theater were screaming, and others just sat with their eyes stuck open, like zombies.. some peoples eyes started glowing white, and they went blind, because eyes back in the 80s were a lot different than they are now days

[@paulshaw9953]

Dan Shor who played Ram, was Billy The Kid in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, super nice guy

[@MrLovegrove]

Thank you! I never see anyone mentioned Dan Shor when they're pointing out roles for the other cast members.

[@donkfail1]

"Klaatu barada nikto" was a phrase told to a robot named Gort in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). It was also used as the magic phrase Ash was *supposed* to say when he grabbed the book in Army of Darkness (1992).

[@cesarvidelac]

That Klaatu password is the phrase to deactivate the alien robot, Gort, in the movie "The day the earth stood still". I totally forgot that they used it here, I watched this movie in 1983, I was 12. God I'm ancient 😸

[@MetastaticMaladies]

They should know it from Army of Darkness, where Ash screws it up and creates an evil clone with the necronomicon. Seems they forgot, but George knew he’d heard it before and Simone was pretty spot on, summoning a demon lol

[@jasonweible2834]

Don't say that! I was born the same year ;(

[@SJHFoto]

I'm right up there with you-just 5 years younger

[@starman6280]

The phrase was, "Gort, Klaatu beraada nikto", and it does not deactivate the robot. It means, "Gort, Klaatu needs help".

[@ThreadBomb]

@@starman6280 No translation of the phrase is given in the film. Various people have speculated as to its meaning, but there is no definite answer.

[@LoDoFilmUnlimitedMedia]

I saw a lot of movies in 1982, sadly this wasn't one of them. However, when this came out on VHS, a few years later, my parents rented this movie for me and my younger brother to watch over the weekend. I was 11 and my brother was 5. We watched this movie OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER ... and never got sick of it. To this day, I can watch this on repeat and never get tired of it. One of my favorite films of all time. The arcade game is one of my all time favorites too! I dropped hundreds into that machine!

[@Lil-Britches]

This movie is amazing while stoned. And amazing not stoned as well ❤ True classic

[@jscan4442]

Saw this movie in the theater when I was 8 years old. I was totally confused, but thought the light cycles were awesome. At the time, my dad said this movie was "ahead of its time", which I also didn't understand until about 25 years later. And yeah, I loved the video game. The music will live in my brain forever.

[@Patriiiiick]

The way they actually did the effects is crazy. They literally had to write it all in code and wait a silly amount of time to eventually see what the results were.

[@bknsty14]

George, I saw it in the theater. I was about 9 years old and it was amazing. So was the arcade game. I wasn’t very good at it, but my neighbor was great at it.

[@streaklines]

1982 was when the commodore 64 home computer was released. It had a whopping 64Kb of RAM.

[@John_Locke_108]

Some of my games were on tape and they took over 10 minutes to load. Good times.

[@Jumpman67]

I remember playing games on one of those when I was a kid.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

VIC-20 with its two-step loader program and then the data! I remember the commercial _Frogger_ I got was superb!

[@shawnmiller4781]

Our families Atari 800 was fully kitted out with 48k

[@derekhauffe7197]

I saw this when it came out, age 10 or 11, depending on when it came out. It was incredible!

[@DoppelSkumm]

I'm sure someone has gone over this on the Patreon page but just posting it here... 21:37 The filmed everything in black and white with very high contrasting set design and then HAND painted everything over the top. All the reds, blues and other colors were added by hand. The little zippy lines of light in the background were added because after painting they noticed that there were occasional discrepancies in the light values and it made the screen "flicker". They got over it by adding a reason for the flicker.

[@TSIRKLAND]

5:50 - George noticed the endless cubicle room. That far distant cubicle landscape was a plain old-fashioned matte painting. This film really used the most cutting-edge computer graphics of its time, as well as the old tried and true standard effects of the day.

[@MatthewPettyST1300]

The Wayback Machine or WABAC Machine is a fictional time machine and plot device from an American cartoon television series in the 1960s called the The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends. Each episode of the cartoon series included a short segment "Peabody's Improbable History" in which the Wayback Machine was used by the segment's main characters, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, to travel back in time to visit important events in human history. The term has acquired popular or idiomatic usage as a way to introduce events or things from the past. I'm now 70 and watched this all the time

[@VeritySnatch]

Simone and I said "magic water" at the same time i watched this in the cinema when it came out. i was pretty young and unimpressed with the computers at the time but it was pretty mind blowing. we knew we were watching something special

[@bigsarge8795]

This movie was HUGE when it came out. No one had ever seen something like this before.

[@SJHFoto]

I loved it, but a minor correction-it WAS huge to a niche fanbase (like me), but it didn't do well in the box office sadly

[@ThreadBomb]

It wasn't a flop, but neither was it a big hit (this period of the 80s saw a flood of great genre movies, so some iconic films got lost in the shuffle). According to Wikipedia, Tron grossed "$33 million in the US and Canada and $17 million overseas, for a worldwide gross of $50 million, which was Disney's highest-grossing live action film for 5 years. In addition, the film had $70 million in wholesale merchandise sales. Despite the gross and merchandise sales, it was seen as a financial disappointment, and the studio wrote off some of its $17 million budget." Regarding Tron being "Disney's highest-grossing live action film for 5 years", it must be remembered that Disney was in a big slump at the time, so "highest-grossing" doesn't necessarily translate to "hugely profitable". The Disney slump is generally regarded as lasting from 1966 (the death of Walt Disney) to 1984 (the appointment of Michael Eisner as CEO).

[@SJHFoto]

@@ThreadBomb This and Condorman were 2 of my favourite movies at the time, and both were disparaged (from what I remember) Either way, I am still hoping Condorman gets half the love this one gets nowadays

[@MoviesatGrandmasHouse]

It's so much fun going back through older movies and getting a modern take. Great video!

[@tr0nb0y]

Given my moniker, I feel compelled to comment: 40+ years and I'm still watching out for those "grid bugs." A throw away scene that should have been edited out, but the animation was so nice they decided to keep it in there anyway.

[@wrorchestra1]

"Gort Klaatu Barada Nikto" is from "The Day the Earth Stood Still", the archetype Sci-fi movie from 1951.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

When UNIX ruled the world. Yes touch screens did exist at the time of making the film. They were very different to how its represented here though.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

I remember touch screen kiosks in malls in 1981. Complete encyclopedic database.

[@ejtappan1802]

This movie came out when home/office computers were just starting to be a thing. So much fun to see this on the big screen! (My favorite character was Bit .... Yes, yes, yes... No, no , no!)

[@KevDaly]

TRON is from an old debugging keyword, I think used in some versions of BASIC. TRON = Trace On and TROFF = Trace Off. As for programmers doing their own thing - how do you think there came to be a flight simulator in Excel 97? You'd get fired for that now. "Klaatu barada nikto" is from The Day The Earth Stood Still.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Remember everyone had _Lander_ ?

[@maverick4151]

It's really nice to see someone react to this movie and appreciate the effects and graphics for what they were at the time. I have come across several reactors who could not get into the movie because of how dated it looks today. I grew up with this movie. It was one of 3 movies an aunt of mine would always let me watch on VHS when she was babysitting me in the mid 80s. I must have watched it at least a dozen times over a span of 2-3 years. Watching it today gives me a similar feeling as watching one of the movies with the Henson puppets like Labyrinth or The Dark Crystal. There is just something charming about it, and it takes me back to my childhood every time.

[@bekindandrewind1422]

20:41 -- Hey George... Think about Clu being derezzed next time you delete a program or file.. :P

[@mpccengineer]

TRON was filmed in my home town of Livermore, CA. The laser lab is the NOVA laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories that was once the largest and most powerful laser in the world used for fusion experiments. It has since been replaced by a much larger laser called the National Ignition Facility. My father worked at LLNL at the time, and I got to tour the lase lab before it was decommissioned and dismantled. The big door is the neutron shield door at the neutron fusion research facility at the lab.My eldest brother now works at the lab.

[@Slythe01]

Will some of their patrons please recommend the old movie Brainstorm for them to watch? also The Dead Zone. Would love to see reactions to those old sci-fi classics.

[@localroger]

Definitely Brainstorm, probably the best movie about how scientists work and how science progresses ever made. Although the only available way to see it now, the VHS / DVD 3:4 release, blows because in the theater the regular movie scenes were shot in normal aspect ratio but the "brainstorm" scenes (projected into the characters' heads by the brainstorm thought recording machine) were widescreen 70mm so they would "pop." In the video release, the regular scenes are full screen 3:4, and the brainstorm scenes are letterboxed so they're smaller, exactly the opposite of the intended effect.

[@ThreadBomb]

Dead Zone is okay, but there are probably more exciting David Cronenberg films to watch first.

[@AdamCSmith]

You have no idea how good it makes me feel to hear you say, "this is awesome!". I saw this in the smallest theater in a town called Concrete, Washington. In 1982. I was a Commodore 64 power user and nine years old! A pirate! It blew my mind! And then there was nothing nearly as good for 20 years! The love and carrot must've taken to create this and have it looks so good is amazing. I'm 51 years old now and I'm surprised how easy it is to get pissed off at people who look at old stuff and say, "this sucks!". As if we've had a 64 bit processors and 8 quart processors forever. Thank you for giving it its due! Hail 8-bit!!

[@halhortonsworld5870]

I was in high school in 1982. You cannot imagine how insane this movie was at the time. We had never seen anything even remotely like this. There was always a line for the TRON arcade game. You should react to 'The Making Of TRON'.

[@seanyoung9014]

I was five years old when this came out. For the next few years, Tron and The Empire Strikes Back were the only things I cared to watch on VHS. I'm still amazed at how well both of those movies hold up today.

[@rx7dude2006]

Saw it on opening night!Blew my mind back then amazing film.

[@nicktechnubyte1184]

This movie is a complete masterpiece! I watched it so many times on VHS as a kid! Still got the disc of the Tron 2.0 killer app game! Loved the light cycle levels!

[@heatsinker_5517]

I have the game too, do you still play it? And are there still servers up to play against others in the game?

[@incogneato790]

This was the first movie every to use CGI and it was truly mind blowing. This is the movie that launched a million IT careers.

[@Gavrev]

This WAS amazing to see in theatres back in 1982. Prior to this the only CGI we'd really seen was the opening credits in 1979/1980 for another Disney movie THE BLACK HOLE and the month prior to TRON we had STAR TREK II's Project Genesis graphics sequence. CGI was a very up and coming thing when this came out and paved the way for its acceptance 😶 As a side note the whole world of TRON is very meta.. so long as the filmmakers craft the movies with cutting edge CGI then they can be said to truly represent the world as it exists in the time frame when the movie is made. Back then this was the state of the art inner world. When TRON LEGACY came along, that world is similarly a product of its time.. I find this to be a very beautiful balance.

[@rbrtck]

Back in the day, as now, I got a kick out of how this movie makes a big thing out of a term like "end of line". All it means for computers is how lines in text files are terminated. For many operating systems, such as Unix, the end of line character or byte value is 10 (decimal), which is defined as a linefeed control character (that tells the printer to feed the paper by one line, which makes sense). But some other operating systems used the value 13 instead, which is defined as a carriage return (tell the printer to return the printing head to the left, which also makes sense). And an operating system that was gaining a lot of popularity and traction at the time, MS-DOS from Microsoft (PC-DOS was the equivalent from IBM itself), required both a carriage return and linefeed character to represent the end of each line in text files. While it was important to know what represented the end of line, for the sake of compatibility, it was a pretty minor, mundane sort of thing. It's just funny to hear the Master Control program use this term to end conversations. It's kind of random but very nerdy. I guess this rampant AI considers every conversation as being on a single line (like of a text file).

[@RetroRobotRadio]

Tron ended up inspiring a short lived TV series called Automan, where a computer being is brought to the real world by a police computer expert where he fights crime.

[@ThreadBomb]

From the same people who brought us Manimal!

[@cobaltplasma]

I got to see this in theaters as a kid and it became one of the core formative experiences of my life going forward and why I got into games and design. Loved it then, love it now :)

[@d4mdcykey]

This is one of those films seared in my memory; it was one year after I graduated high school, and on the very same day my gf and I had broken up I visited a dear cousin I'd not seen since we were kids, and we ate a HUGE does of shrooms then went to go see this randomly having no idea what it was or what it was about. I can recall nearly every moment vividly during that trippy night 40+ years ago, and I cherish all of it.

[@CraftsWithCrafts]

Trivia - the helmets the male character wear are variations on the Cooper SK-2000 hockey helmet...