[PIGMI] TRON the game

[Simon Wittber]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:37 AM, George <gt at crunchyfrog.com.au> wrote:
> Would you buy the Tron Movie Soundtrack? If not, why not?

Yep, I plan to, it is already bookmarked in iTunes.

> What is the value of something that cannot withstand scrutiny? Not that I
> was concerned with scrutiny at the time of watching....I recall being
> alternately bored or boggled by sheer mindlessness.
>
> However this is a quarter of a billion dollar production - why not subject
> it to scrutiny or judgement?

I'm talking about scrutiny from the programmer/technical point of
view, with our special knowledge. Eg, If programs are defeated in
games, won't some user miss them? Why do programs need light cycles to
get around? Why do they all play the same game? How can an old
sun/unix machine run those hundreds of thousands of programs all the
same time? Surely that old hardware couldn't have enough RAM! :-) If
someone made a film about computer life forms and stuck to reality...
gee that would be fun.

I don't believe Tron is a great movie simply because of it's
soundtrack. The sum of its parts make for a great experience.

Perhaps we should just agree to disagree. :-)