Tron (1982) Master Control Program Screentime

[@mumu-d2i]

for this time great 😊👍

[@AmericaLexicon]

I desire..... Macaroni pictures

[@cesarespinozaspain]

And pop corn necklaces

[@deadlypotatoes]

Thank you 😊

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

And soap sculptures

[@rorysmith559]

MWAAAAAHHHHHHH😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ThePSmoke]

This was the comment I came here to find

[@purefoldnz3070]

the phone in your pocket is over 10,000 times more powerful than the Cray supercomputer used to render this film.

[@BOBMAN1980]

The irony is that, even with all this CPU power, no one is creating anything as creative, comprehensive, and visually stunning as Tron.

[@purefoldnz3070]

@@BOBMAN1980 yes, very true.

[@jeffgordon6355]

@@BOBMAN1980I guess we all got this in our feed

[@jeffgordon6355]

@@BOBMAN1980Although, I would disagree, there have been some recent movies that were absolutely stunning. Interstellar, Blade Runner 2049, Dune, Into the Spider-Verse (I don’t care about the MCU, but still a visual masterpiece), and many others. What I would agree with is that despite the insane amount of rendering we have today, VFX is extremely inconsistent in quality with the uncanny valley more often than not ruining the experience.

[@BOBMAN1980]

@@jeffgordon6355 My remark was more about how the resourcefulness and creativity needed to make Tron manifested in both how they utilized the tech in ways it really hadn't been used before, and the stunning way in which they put it to script & film. Here the medium (CGI) and the message are basically the same, at least thematically. (Even the soundtrack is electronic.) Also, it was about how even though people have more computing power in their hands, they're not really using it. And, yeah, there's a lot of films that look good these days and present things in cool ways -- 'photorealistic' or not -- but that's, uh, well. . .alright.

[@Michael-kb2jz]

When this movie came out I was obsessed with it. I was working at a chip fabrication lab in Baltimore. All the tech stuff was brand new. It was an exciting time.

[@DemianKaos]

You were lucky to live in those times.

[@mjg1544]

I hope like me, you left that place. (Baltimore, not the chip fab place). Left at 18 and never looked back.

[@Angie2343]

As it is now.

[@michaelhartzel5855]

I’m gonna guess there’s no chip manufacturing left in Baltimore… Good story though

[@praisebeskiddly]

I thought kingdom hearts 2 was being weird when they rendered the early Tron characters like that, but no, they actually looked like that

[@rcschmidt668]

Who remembers playing the Tron game at the arcade? I had fun and spent a lot of quarters.

[@nodak81]

I remember it but hardly ever played. I sucked too much at it.

[@butchs.4239]

Which one? I liked Tron well enough, but put a lot more quarters in "Discs Of Tron".

[@rcschmidt668]

@@butchs.4239 I liked the actual Tron game with Light Cycles, tanks, spiders, and MCP breakout. Discs of Tron was too repetitive, and I wasn’t good at it.

[@bdpickett]

My uncle's friend had one. I played it a couple times. There's also one at the local arcade.

[@generalzod7959]

Great game!

[@briannewman532]

The sheer strangeness of the effects (due to the limitations of technology at the time) have somehow made this age better than I thought it would.

[@Darhan62]

Relatively little of the film was actually rendered by computer. Much of it was done with a combination of techniques to make it look like it was done by computer. Computers were massively expensive in 1982, and CGI was still in its infancy. And the results they achieved with both the visuals and the sound were fantastic!

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

Better than the new one.

[@bettyleeist]

I didn’t know that the new one wasn’t very good?I’ve seen parts of it,so….it was hard to judge 👩‍⚖️ it on its own maret.But,I think 🤔 the original movie 🍿 was pretty,dang,good!😊

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

@@bettyleeist saw the first one on the big screen, it was great. The second is more dark, less like the 1st one.

[@SerBallister]

@@Darhan62 I imagine on top of the digital CGI a lot of analog technology was used to composite things together, this has a quality of its own.

[@sonicguyver7445]

This is such a cool movie. Special effects may look outdated, but I still see it as the amazing cinematic achievement it was for its time. Kind of like Ray Harryhausen stop--motion, this has a unique look. As a kid my dad had taped most of this of one of those public broadcast channels during their fund drive. He missed part of it, so it came in just a little before the first light cycle battle. I carried that tape with me on every vacation so I could watch it wherever I was. And did anyone else hear imagine their bicycle was a light cycle when they rode around the neighborhood?

[@angeliquaserenity5009]

...at the time the effects were beyond state of the art

[@digafox]

I did many times!

[@digafox]

I also used pretended my Frisbee was a data disk!

[@nielswil]

@@digafox You too?😁

[@GraemeGunn]

I can watch this movie over and over and over and over. It's such a good work of art.

[@misterturkturkle]

Fun fact Almost none of the actors got to see what the special effects would look like before arriving at the premiere for the film. Bruce Boxleitner (tron himself) was convinced that the weird tricks they had to do with costume and makeup would look absolutely reduculous on film because he never saw the cgi or what it looked like when the coloured sfx were layered on in post production.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

Cool, thanks. I'll go now to look for some video about this. It's time since I had the internet 15 years ago.

[@RAAM855]

What was his reaction after the premire?

[@emilianoborselli9787]

@@RAAM855 shocked and pleased like everybody back in those days

[@aaronmehaffey6251]

David Warner elevated every movie he acted in. Just a phenomenal supporting actor.

[@daigriffiths399]

And a terrific voice actor. He played Jon Irenicus in 'Baldur's Gate II' which has been consistently voted one of the best CRPGs ever.

[@Progearspec]

@@daigriffiths399 Don't forget ra's al ghul for batman tas 😉

[@Darhan62]

He was Evil itself, in Time Bandits.

[@Lemonidas75]

@@Darhan62 He's also the only actor to have played in two movies about the Titanic, far as I know.

[@strongheart8]

Thank you for this comment. A great movie is more than just special effects.

[@jc6059]

I liked the part where Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Tron came together to fight Saark and delete the MCP.

[@jamesvach6698]

Kingdom Hearts 2 was my introduction to Tron. I must say, it was enjoyable to watch the movies years later and gain some more context.

[@cagedcoco1681]

IS THAT THE BEST A USER CAN DO---OOOUUGGGHHH!!!

[@jamesvach6698]

@ The MPC really is quite overconfident both in the movie and in the game given how he seems to really almost entirely rely on Commander Sark to both defend him and carry out his will.

[@zaphodbeatlebrox4906]

Now I know where Matt and Trey got Moses, from South Park.

[@RedheadMetalC]

"I desire.. macaroni pictures!"

[@MrAmc1291]

@@RedheadMetalC I desire...popcorn necklaces!

[@Zkeleton969]

I thought it was vice versa for a minute

[@bildo1977]

“And popcorn necklaces.”

[@jaodasilva7993]

i thought it was a Zordon reference.

[@BrockLee3]

Jeez! Imagine going through all that trouble just to get macaroni pictures.

[@ddb5736]

People walked out of the movie theater in the middle of the movie because they did not understand anything. The movie was very good, but not for the time it was released as most people in those days had no clue about computers. Only those who knew about computers and electronics liked the movie. Today, is just a classic.

[@domb2NY]

I remember seeing this at a drive in with my parents in the 80's. Everything about it was cool to me.

[@RAAM855]

You'll never see Disney take a risk like that again

[@emilianoborselli9787]

I bet, it was 1982... but just few more years later it was one of the most popular Disney VHS around, exactly because people like me wanted to rewatch it and understand a bit more, having read tech magazines and learned what means "programming" and "main frame". Gosh it must have been so out of context when it came out the first time.

[@ericw1314]

This is also true for Bladerunner. Both movies ahead of its time.

[@Thornbloom]

Without Tron we wouldn't have had ReBoot.

[@christopherthorkon3997]

When I first saw this when it was first released, it was mind blowing. And, quite frankly, it is still quite a trip. Instead of realistic graphics that mimic reality, you have this wild, primitive, retro glow that is pretty wild.

[@Alaninbroomfield]

I love even the background\electronic sounds.

[@tsitracommunications2884]

RIP Dave Warner

[@clockdva20]

As young Computer Geek kids we would say imagine the day when your home computer can render graphics like in the film. I was 17 then now I have just turned 59, yesterday. Tron was ground breaking at the time now any PC could destroy those effects ,but it still looks good all these decades on a well written story and good acting with good practical CGI is still as good or better than the most CGI over kill that we are overloaded with now.

[@Tiparium_NMF]

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and it still holds a place in my heart.

[@Angie2343]

RIP David Warner. You will ALWAYS be Ras Ah Guhl and Nergal.

[@seatspud]

And the Archmage.

[@Angie2343]

@@seatspud Agreed.

[@Hahnfruh]

3:30 hey look it's Moses!

[@James-cn7hl]

I desire..pop corn necklaces

[@seansilv25]

Let all debts be forgiven, and all slaves freed *MWAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!*

[@ToJuRacing]

I was the state champ of the Arcade Game when this movie was released. I still love this movie. I had a Tron machine for a long time. Had to see in my divorce, sadly. Fortunately I did sell to a friend and get to play it now and then. thanks for posting!

[@INFJ-ThaneTr]

Gay

[@reidboggs4344]

It just amazes me that the futuristic look is in fact a black and white film.

[@rnrgks4569]

OMG, I always thought South Park's Moses was a Tron parody until now! LOL 😆

[@richardwild76]

Massively underrated film

[@SSorrens]

Saw this movie as a kid, and tbh I remembered only the bullet points. Seeing this and seeing just how much character the Master Control Program has is cool! Very different than the expectations you'd have of an all-powerful computer entity nowadays.

[@actioncom2748]

I miss David Warner.

[@JohnWasinger]

I first watched this movie at Steven’s Elementary school when I was a kid. It had a great influence on me to become a software developer.

[@develynseether4426]

This and Lawnmower Man scared the crap outta me as a kid, those creepy digitised faces

[@Jolis_Parsec]

Job’s still creepy to me at times, as his cyberspace appearance screams uncanny valley. That being said, I still count that film as a personal favorite.

[@aildriktquetzel5385]

A timeless classic. I watched this movie so many times as a kid. They did such a good job of portraying the computer world as cold and alien, in a far better way than the newer Tron sequel.

[@jeffvanmeter1330]

Only the light cycle scene is CGI. The rest is some of the best hand drawn animation ever produced.

[@michaelmartin9022]

There was another film that used "wireframe computer graphics", back when even getting those done took huge mainframes and millions of dollars. How'd they do it? Bright green electrical tape stuck to blackcardboard boxes!

[@diverguy3556]

​@@michaelmartin9022 the wire frame building fly throughs in escape from new York?

[@blockmasterscott]

This movie was so dope when I saw it in the theater, there had never been anything like it before.

[@Alaninbroomfield]

Watched in in the theater. Good, ground-breaking film. Something like 11 years before Jurassic Park came out, as I recall.

[@mrbrent62]

This and 2001 are my favorite movies. I saw this when I was 20. I was obsessed with computers in 1968 when I was in grade school.

[@rideshareog]

I worked at the UA Skillman theater in Dallas when this debuted. We had the video game then, too. Good times, Mr. Lebowski.

[@ABoyd1852]

I saw this movie 2 or 3 times at that theater. Saw it once at Richardson Square Mall too.

[@christianwheeler5920]

Imagine being ten years old and seeing this for the first time. It absolutely blew my young mind. There was nothing else quite like it. Flaws and all, it was a huge breakthrough in computer effects with some incredibly iconic moments.

[@dale3852]

Way ahead. This film is like a good wine getting more credit as it gets older

[@andybassman99]

As someone who has never seen Tron… it’s really cool to see the things that I remember from playing Kingdom Hearts 2 18 years ago!

[@bridgecross]

I never appreciated it before, but the sound design on this film was great! 3:00 those squeaky little zaps.

[@Laveda-Jones]

Pretty damn impressive for 1982 - games programmer

[@Alterego912]

"Is that the best a user can do?"

[@taterwaffles9613]

He’s so goofy looking but he will always have my heart

[@Knaeben]

He wants macaroni pictures. Sprinkled with glitter so they look nice and sparkly.

[@rufuspipemos]

I wonder what people might think if they saw this movie on the huge screens in theaters it originally played on? A lot of detail is missing when you see it on this small of an image. I saw this movie 6x on release. The visuals, the plot, the soundtrack... all top notch.

[@Darhan62]

The MCP's real world incarnation was cool too. He was more humble and soft-spoken than the version we see in the computer, until he decided to blackmail Dillinger into doing his bidding.

[@jimpatrick5918]

I don’t care how primitive it looks compared to today’s movies, or how simplistic the story line was, I still love this flick. Better than the sequels by far

[@kateargent5750]

People give the sequel a lot of hate but it was very solid.

[@jimpatrick5918]

I didn’t hate the sequel but it seemed cold. I just didn’t care about the characters

[@MrScaryPasta]

I’m glad that the OG cast returned to reprise their roles for KH II.

[@SirChristian100]

Very good edit! Makes me rewatch the movie!

[@Salisbury2015]

Really high quality upload. Thanks!

[@enigmagenesis7341]

Tron's graphics had an otherworldly quality simply not seen in today's age of hyper-realistic CGI.

[@maxshade2935]

This film has not aged at all. An incredible movie

[@LuciliusIunior]

Vraiment fabuleux. Même aujourd'hui on fait encore des jeux très intéressants avec cette esthétique. Ils étaient vraiment très en avance sur leur temps.

[@knightofarkronia9968]

RIP David Warner

[@scottfitzpatrick1939]

Film is a master work. So beautiful. I feel like it really holds up, rhe graphics are dated but they have a sort of atyle that i can watch again and again.

[@fredlast4547]

Seen this at the movies when I was 12. Hated it. Went over my head.

[@JMYaden]

These effects are superb. A bizarre world that we accept, notwithstanding the extraordinary CHI of today, because none of us have ever gone inside a computer program to see what it would look like with digitized eyes. Who knows?

[@civilwildman]

R.I.P., David Warner. You were amazing in this and (above all else) Jon Irenicus in the legendary video game Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn.

[@Dragon359]

End Of Line.

[@jonwilson3821]

what a great movie, still to this day

[@ericspuck6569]

END OF LINE

[@Gukworks]

"Thank you Master Control", I love it... "Nice..." To think, this is all going on inside our phones on an epic scale every microsecond. "Why are you spinning?"

[@ReaverLordTonus]

It kills me that Disney bailed in making a third Trin Movie. They hinted the MCP would return, and the battle would be beyond the grid and inside the internet. Technically, we got a taste of that with Wreck it Ralph 2, but it would have been awesome in the Tron universe.

[@justoandres4951]

Tron : Ares has already been announced, now idk if It looks good...

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

They'll find a way to make computer programs have gender, skin color and sexual preferences.

[@ronaldmcdonald8303]

An awesome film, I remember this being on TV back in the 90s.

[@alkaline3mc]

The voice of the cyclops in Subnautica is definitely channeling this guy

[@LegitMan335]

MCP, a formidable foe in the Space Paranoids .

[@cyborg.nation3026]

love this movie

[@clarkside4493]

Nice to see the KH2 Boss Battle was pretty accurate to the source material.

[@benschulz9140]

This is more relevant today than ever.

[@Bethlehem-su8qv]

😊

[@smithjones3548]

I had just joined the US Air Force when this movie came out, had never seen anything like it in my life.

[@JoshuaOrro-MustangPrinceOR-YTB]

Years later Terra-Xehanort would resurrect the MCP into Ansem The Wise’s copy of encom’s system

[@theyearwas1473]

Omg thats where moses comes from!!!!

[@edwardmcdermott6701]

I remember when this movie came out. I was 8 yrs old. It was in the early 80's when the sifi movement was on. That and all the horror movie's like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm street.

[@oscarseveriano2351]

And the childrens of the corn!

[@jonathanc.gillespie4897]

In 500 years they’ll still mention this film like Metropolis or Toy Story, as a landmark.

[@alexanderk.3838]

3:29 This is South Park!

[@alexcooley1665]

Seeing the MCP for what he really looked like, that frail elderly man. It always got me.

[@krashlyboo]

MCP needs to be what we call the first full time functional Quantum computer.....

[@erikkeever3504]

I still can't break the Tron association with 'MCP' when looking at parts from Microchip corp, all of which use the prefix... MCP.

[@tron3entertainment]

I approve this video for the obvious reason.

[@maulekuul]

"I'm worth millions of their man-years." That's what ASI would say.

[@alexoblivion9295]

Bro, I forgot about Tron 😆 I saw the thumbnail and all I thought was Moses

[@Maxx_XIII]

Cool to see Moses from South Park had a movie career.

[@kingbugs3558]

I feel like I got this in my feed for recently playing System Shock.

[@ThomasHoward-yj3te]

I keep thinking of south park.

[@MetalPersonJ]

Me too

[@jaco5187]

"Ah, the child of Bhaal has awoken."

[@NodDisciple1]

I am still amazed this character is the inspiration for G1 Shockwave in the cartoon.

[@DrLeroyGreen]

You know, once he understands digital watches, video cassette recorders, car telephones, and computers, HE will be the supreme being!

[@edgarbeat2851]

King over Slugs

[@DrLeroyGreen]

@@edgarbeat2851 SLUGS!!! HE CREATED SLUGS!!!

[@MarcEsadrian]

Time Bandits

[@cryptidsgaming1518]

I can't believe I've never seen this movie, and I'm 32!

[@Streifi]

The only thing Legacy lacked for me where more abstract programs like the MCP or things like the bits. I knew, Flynn shaped the new grid and he had no need to introduce abstract entities but it still felt like a missed opportunity. I still hope that one of the future movies might show a bit of a more abstract, digital ecology somewhere on the fringes of whatever grid might be featured in that.

[@nodak81]

One of very few Disney films I actually enjoyed.

[@_ArsNova]

Fun fact: David Warner played both Edward Dillinger, Sark, and the MCP!

[@sdwone]

Man! We GenX had it GOOD didn't we!!??? Growing up with all this new, innovative tech... Music... Art... And films like these were simply ahead of their time! And they STILL bang today!!!

[@MrSAMISSERIOUS2]

You said it everything from movies, music, cartoons, and the rebirth of video games the 80’s was truly the best. If someone were to think it wasn’t they definitely need a piss test cause they’re tripping 😂

[@JohnKoenig-db8lk]

I always wondered how Google began.

[@DemianKaos]

MCP always scared me when I was a kid... even more so now because I understand the references.

[@mikesilva3868]

Love this movie 😊

[@FirstNameLastname-nv2kg]

GREETINGS PROGRAM!

[@shoyo4ever15]

state of art

[@Xizyx]

Pretty sure Triple I re-used the Adam Powers model from their Juggler test reel for the MCP's facial mesh. Also, there's additional material that was cut from the movie on the Tron laser disc in the "Computers Are People Too" extra. (Which was originally a promotional television program that aired in 1982 before the release of the film.)

[@tackontitan]

Damn, Moses is terrifying AF

[@gadaadyn8190]

Oh my God, you killed Kenny

[@kovlabs]

masterpiece

[@navyreviewer]

I was today years old when I realized there had to be a moment after he jumped into the cone that Flynn landed in front of the old MCP guy and started punching him in the face before he was spit out.

[@TeddGCM]

The glowing parts of the uniforms were hand painted directly on the film, frame by frame.

[@mark6302]

fantastic movie.