Review: Tron

Okay, so I didn't expect to be posting again so soon, but I saw Tron today, and thought that it was nerdy enough to talk about here.

Review: Tron

When I first saw the preview for Tron, I was thinking it would be a cheap sequel to an old movie. Then, one of my friends, who is a big fan of daft punk (you know who you are), said he wanted to see it because of the music. Eventually, when I saw the movie novel in a store, I decided that my friend might be right. (After all, he was one of the ones who introduced me to Minecraft, but that's another story.)

Long story short, I ended up buying it, read it all in one day, and then I got mad because it cut off before the end.

So basically, I had to see the movie.

I'm not going to spoil anything for anyone but basically, here's how it breaks up:

-I loved all the mission impossible style gadgetry at the beginning.

-I hated all the sci-fi technobabble, because, as someone who actually knows what quantum teleportation is, I can tell you that THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!

-My biggest problem with the movie:

A brief list of technology in Tron:

-Some way of transporting organic matter into a virtual reality. Not just controlling a character with your mind, actually being inside the game. (You just lost)

-Fully functioning AIs that act like humans in every way.

-A way to bring programs into the real world.

And yet it NEVER occurred to ANYBODY to add more colors then black, blue, and orange?!

The good news is the 3d. What used to be just a gimmick to make things pop out at you is now used to make the movie more realistic, by adding depth.

Speaking of 3d, has anyone heard about the new 3d DS coming out soon? Supposedly they're working on one. The good news is that if they do it right, you won't need glasses to see the 3d effect. The reason you need glasses for movies and 3d TV is because you aren't always looking at it from the same angle.

With a handheld system, though, you'll pretty much always be looking at it from the same angle. So, they can integrate the red/blue (or possibly purple/green) into the screen itself.  ♪ This is a triumph ♪

I was going to talk about coding and a book about coding, but it's getting late, and this post is getting long, so I'll save it for another day.

Unrelated Awesome link: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ The Hilarious blog that inspired me to give blogging a shot.

Final Note: If you've seen Tron, what did you think? What do you think about the 3d DS? What else should I talk about? Please answer in the comments.