Read much more on the ugly subject of tron in this story – Disney’s ‘Tron’ Remains Pinnacle of Hollywood Convergence

Awards Watch Roundtable: The Actresses Amy Adams, Natalie Portman, Annette Bening, Hilary Swank, Nicole K… For the last few days, MTV News has been taking you inside some of the coolest aspects of “Tron Legacy,” from the creative process behind Daft Punk’s violins-meet-synthesizers soundtrack to the generation of the film’s neon-pulsing motorcycles and warships . Now we’re going to take you behind the creation of the film’s single-most jaw-dropping visual effect: turning Jeff Bridges from 60-something Oscar-winner into the Bridges of 1984’s “Against All Odds.” We caught up with visual-effects supervisor Eric Barba, the driving force behind the CG work on “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” for which technicians both aged Brad Pitt into an old man and turned back time to capture the actor’s 20-something look. It’s been twenty-eight years since Tron, which of course means it is the perfect time to release a sequel. What they managed to accomplish was nothing short of astounding, and Barba won an Oscar for his efforts. Sure, the plot was lacking a lot of critical parts, character development was nowhere to be found, and it certainly hasn’t aged well.  But it holds a special place in my heart; the effects were revolutionary for the time and the world it created captivated thousands to create a cult classic to last for decades. But you can’t argue with one thing: TRON is one of the strangest movies ever made. Sequel offers little in the way of substance, but lots of pretty special effects. But it’s not all bad: He also lives with a smoking-hot babe in a body suit named Quorra (Wilde, from TV’s “House”).

Twenty years after his father, Kevin Flynn (Bridges), disappears, Sam (Hedlund) gets a message from him and enters the digital world known as The Grid. Keith Staskiewicz : I’m pretty sure we both enjoyed this movie a lot more than we were expecting, seeing as it pretty much perfectly fits the mold of a movie that you wouldn’t think would age well, i.e. special effects-driven, about technology, made in the Eighties. Sam must fight to find his father, return to the real world, and defeat CLU, a computer program his father designed that has gotten out of control. The original film, released in 1982, was at the forefront of technology at the time—and our smartest computers were still the size of our apartments. More specifically, he has turned into a geek-chic version of the Dude, the laid-back slacker character Bridges played in “The Big Lebowski.” Flynn spends much of “Tron: Legacy” meditating – he calls it “knocking on the sky and listening to the sound” – and addressing everyone as “man.” The best way to fight, he says, is to “do nothing, be still.” All that’s missing is a white Russian in his hand. When I am not in class I am working on videos or just being ridiculously geeky.

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