I know I’m a week and a half late on mentioning it, but it’s been giving me multiple nerdgasms and it took this long to calm down enough to type. I saw this trailer in Imax 3D when I went to see Alice in Wonderland Friday before last, and honestly don’t remember much about the movie but damn, that trailer was AWESOME.

Tron happens to be my favourite Disney movie ever and one of the most awe-inspiring from my childhood. Youtube isn’t helping me but my memory has it that the Wonderful World of Disney TV show’s intro had a clip from Tron in it at some point in the 80s, so every Sunday night I would be reminded of its utter coolness and be saddened when instead I’d be watching some educational film about bears or something.

I loved the computer graphics and the humans-as-programs-in-glowing-outfits, and thought that Bruce Boxleitner was hotter than Jeff Bridges because I didn’t have hormones yet. The Recognizer vehicles were scary and ominous, the way they’d hover in the air and wait for the chance to stomp on you. God, I love what the new Recognizers look like (the monstrous glowing horseshoe in the image above). Nice to see they added a bit of detail to the original wire frame version.

When I first heard about this movie I thought, “damn you, Disney, for screwing with my childhood!” but I’m okay with it now, because it looks so sweet and it’s got Jeff Bridges AND a computer-generated young Jeff Bridges (as Clu, who I thought was “killed” in the original movie, but Spock was reincarnated so let’s not judge). Plus, it comes out on the day after my birthday, so I consider it a gift to me from the universe (or perhaps from the MCP?). I may even take the day off and fly into Vancouver (where it was filmed!) to get to see it all Imax’d and 3D’d because Kelowna’s movie theatres are from the stone age and are therefore NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

I already posted this on Facebook, but here’s perhaps the best piece of trivia from the original movie, via IMDB:

Jeff Bridges produced too much of a bulge in the crotch area in his computer outfit, so he was forced to wear a dance belt to conceal it.

See, it made him horny too!