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Tron: The Original Classic Special Edition
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| Genre | ACTION, Fantasy, LIVE |
| Format | NTSC, Subtitled |
| Contributor | Barnard Hughes, Bonnie Macbird, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, David S. Cass Sr., David Warner, Jackson Bostwick, Jeff Bridges, Michael Dudikoff, Peter Jurasik, Sam Schatz, Steven Lisberger See more |
| Initial release date | 1982-07-09 |
| Language | English, French, Spanish |
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Experience the original landmark motion picture that inspired a new generation of digital filmmakers and became a favorite of fans and critics across the world. Relive the electrifying thrills of TRON with an all-new, state-of-the-art digital restoration. When a brilliant video game maker named Flynn (Jeff Bridges) hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing. Complete with hours of never-before-seen bonus material, it's an epic adventure that everyone will enjoy!|The idea for TRON grew out of director Steven Lisberger's passion for computer games. He and producer Donald Kushner spent two years researching the technology to make the film, which was the first to make extensive use of computer imagery.|Although computer imagery previously had been seen as an effect in motion pictures such as STAR WARS and WEST WORLD, TRON was the first film to use the technique to create a three-dimensional world.|The "electronic world" in TRON was shot on the soundstages of the Disney Studio in Burbank. Photography for the real world took place at locations around Los Angeles, and at the U.S. government's futuristic Lawrence Livermore Laboratory outside Oakland, California.|The Mathematic Applications Group, Inc. (MAGI), was the film's single largest contributor of computer imagery, using a transcontinental computer hookup to speed up delivery of its work to Disney Studios in Burbank. The link allowed filmmakers to cut the amount of time it took to create each scene by two and a half to five days.
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.20:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.6 x 5.4 x 6.7 inches; 3.04 ounces
- Item model number : WD10658200BR
- Director : Steven Lisberger
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 36 minutes
- Release date : April 5, 2011
- Actors : Barnard Hughes, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, David Warner, Jeff Bridges
- Dubbed: : French, Portuguese, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Language : English (DTS-HD High Res Audio), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : WALT DISNEY PICTURES
- ASIN : B004KPLVW2
- Writers : Bonnie Macbird, Steven Lisberger
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,058 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #171 in Kids & Family Blu-ray Discs
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Customers consider this movie a true classic that they can watch repeatedly, with impressive picture and sound quality. They find it entertaining, particularly as a fun romp into the digital world, and appreciate its beautiful visuals and groundbreaking special effects. While the storyline receives mixed reactions, with some saying it's even better than expected, customers agree it's worth the price.
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Customers love this movie, describing it as one of their favorite films that they enjoy watching repeatedly.
"Great movie, the technology at the time was mind blowing, the story was cool, but it was obviously a tech movie, and it filled the bill." Read more
"...I'd seen it years ago (1982) and liked "TRON". Good movie, at good prices." Read more
"I loved it. It is a very good movie. Even my 4 year old loves it. Sure the effects aren't as good a Tron: Legacy...." Read more
"The quality of the Blu-ray is great! Great classic movie. I would recommend to anyone who is thinking about buying it." Read more
Customers love this movie for its nostalgic value and consider it a Disney classic.
"A classic movie and an important part of American movie history, a must-see in my book!" Read more
"...It's a classic, it's beautiful, and it's even better with knowledge of computer science. CS majors, this movie is required to get your degree...." Read more
"This movie is a classic And I would like to add why didn't Disney make a Blu Ray Tron Uprising it would be another classic please in the future...." Read more
"A timeless classic hands down and if you are a gamer you should have this in your collection Tron Legacy is a joke but this is not highly recommended" Read more
Customers praise the picture quality of the movie, noting its cutting-edge imagery and graphics, with one customer mentioning it's available in 4K resolution.
"I love this movie! The graphics, though not as appreciated by many these days, were incredibly advanced for the day...." Read more
"The quality of the Blu-ray is great! Great classic movie. I would recommend to anyone who is thinking about buying it." Read more
"Great print at a great price. I got to enjoy my childhood classic with my little boy. What could be better?" Read more
"Product arrived on time. The quality of the DVD was excellent. I've always enjoyed this film, but seldom does it show on TV...." Read more
Customers find the movie entertaining, describing it as a fun romp into the digital world that they enjoy watching with their children.
"...you want the back story to Tron Legacy, you need to the original... Fun to watch but probably should have just rented it because I will probably not..." Read more
"The first trip into the grid. A Disney classic on many levels, a fun, quirky soundtrack, characters that range from playful to seriously driven, it..." Read more
"...A great and fun movie to watch. Just loads of fun. Definitely, a great movie to visit and re-visit many times over. I recommend it for sure." Read more
"...be a family friendly film with fairly simplistic characters and an interesting, if somewhat dated and perhaps unimaginative plot...." Read more
Customers find the movie visually beautiful, with one customer noting how the 4K remaster is absolutely gorgeous, while another appreciates how it serves as a wonderful look at the beginnings of computer animation.
"...I remember a critic praising the movie for its stunning, ingenius effects in 1982 when it came out...." Read more
"...It's a classic, it's beautiful, and it's even better with knowledge of computer science. CS majors, this movie is required to get your degree...." Read more
"I don't really have anything of value to say except that this movie is beautiful and I love it." Read more
"...But what a saving grace they are! This film looks GREAT...." Read more
Customers praise the movie's special effects, noting they are good for their time and truly immersive, with one customer highlighting the fantastic use of back-lit animation.
"The special effects are great in this movie especially on blue ray I grew up watching this movie great price got it fast here. Thanks" Read more
"Great special effects considering the age of the film." Read more
"Still a classic. Special effects are limited but creative. Watch it for the story which is well told...." Read more
"Still a very good movie. The special effects were great at the time it came out...." Read more
Customers find the movie worth the price, with one mentioning it comes in a great 2-Disc package.
"...you how many times I've see it, was glad to see it for sale at a great price. It arrived ahead of schedule too!!..." Read more
"good price and movie my son really love it" Read more
"...Nothing beats the original. Worth the price just for the behind-the-scenes bonus disk!" Read more
"...Great value, five stars!" Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the movie's storyline, with some praising its visionary approach and noting it stands the test of time, while others find the plot lacking.
"...Good story and Jeff Bridges looks good at the beginning of his long career." Read more
"Writers Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird had a great visionary story, and as a director Steven knew how to bring his imagination to life through..." Read more
"...The plot is silly, the CGI is nonexistent, and the acting is smphhhh...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2025classic
- Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2025If you love old school movie and want to relive the 80's here a great option. The graphics and story make it a timeless classic.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2025Excellent vintage movie on blu ray
- Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2025The 4k remaster is absolutely gorgeous.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2011If you were amongst those who saw Tron: Legacy in theaters or on DVD, you may be curious to see its predecessor that came out 28 years earlier. Hard to find a few months ago, the original Tron was finally released again by Disney back in April to coincide with the DVD release of Legacy. So how does it hold up?
For starters it has a pretty good cast. Leading the cast is Jeff Bridges as computer programmer turned arcade-owing hacker Kevin Flynn whose attempts to prove that his work was stolen by a rival programmer leads to him being sent into the digital world of the movie. Bridges gives Flynn an eccentric yet everyman quality that, while perhaps not serving the character best in the opening part of the movie, works perfectly when the character of Flynn ends up trying to make sense of the digital world he finds himself in. Bruce Boxleitner plays computer programmer Alan Bradley and his creation: the heroic security program named Tron. The two are very different characters and at times it is hard to believe that are being played by the same actor because of the huge differences between them. Aiding them in both the real and digital world are Cindy Morgan (as Lora and Yori) and Barnard Hughes (as Dr. Walter Gibbs and Dumont) who, like Boxleitner, find ways of making each of their characters different from the other. Opposing them, and perhaps giving the best performances in the movie, is David Warner as program stealing executive Ed Dillinger in the real world as being both the digital world menace of Sark and the electronically distorted voice of the the dictatorial Master Control Program. Put all these actors together and the result is that they give this digitally set movie a human grounding.
Which brings us to perhaps the most iconic part of the movie: the digital world the majority of the movie takes place in. Given that the nearly thirty years that have passed since the movie was made have seen a true revolution in special effects, one might expect that the effects (including some of the earliest CGI effects) would look rather passe now. The truth of the matter is in fact quite different: the digital world of Tron is a truly immersive, and highly original, one.
The production design, costumes and effects all go towards creating that unique world. The production design imagines a digital world that is both alien and yet familiar with its take on tanks, ships and perhaps most famously cars in the form of light cycles. Then there are all of the unique costumes of the digital characters with their stark whiteness contrasted by the illuminations of the apparent circuitry on them with a truly unusual look being the result. Last but not least on this list is all of the effects work. The effects would seemingly be the most dated part of the original Tron and to some extent this is true on the surface. But if you scratch below the surface you'll discover that those seemingly dated effects are surprisingly effective. Two perfect examples can be found in the light cycle gaming sequence where there is a point of view shot that gives the viewer a true sensation of speeding along a maze of lines or during the chase sequence that follows directly on from it when the "camera" follows two ships that are pursuing the escaping light cycles. If you are however looking at the effects of the movie cynically from the viewpoint of today's CGI here is another way of looking at them within the logic of the movie: the film is set and uses early 1980s computers and therefore it makes perfect sense that the digital world reflects the technology of the time rather the more advanced and evolved digital world seen in Legacy. Back to the main point though: the result of all these elements put together is that the digital world setting of the film remains both unique and immersive almost thirty years on.
No review of the film though would be complete without a discussion of its script or storyline. The basic plot of Tron are quite simplistic: in the real world Flynn is trying to prove that Dillinger stole his programs to further his own career while in the digital world Flynn and Tron end up on a quest to save to free that world from the tyrannical reign of Dillinger's Master Control Program and its minion Sark. The dialogue too is more often then not as simplistic as the plot and can be at times either corny or cringe-worthy. Yet Tron's script and story are full of fascinating ideas: Programs acting as avatars of their programmers with deletions being their literal death (or derezzing), information and programs being sent along by incredible vehicles with energy or light used as paths, and even religious undertones to the relationship of programs to their users which features throughout the film is various character discussions and is best illustrated in the scene where Tron communicates with his user Alan Bradley. As a result Tron on the script and story level is very much driven by its ideas rather then its own plot.
While it may be lacking in plot, Tron makes up for that in other ways. That includes the cast which makes the most of the duel roles that most of them have. Where it does that mainly though is in the immersive digital world it is set in and the ideas that lie behind it. Tron therefore is perhaps more a triumph of style over substance but it more then makes up for that fact.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2025Best movie of all time!
- Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2025Tron is an brilliant 80's Disney film and the special fx is brilliant. 😀👍
- Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2025Tron classic very great classic movie for all ages of any timeline
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E. M. HoboReviewed in the Netherlands on June 1, 20244.0 out of 5 stars Maakt een aantal interessante voorspellingen
Grappig weetje is dat TRON en TROFF een commando subset zijn in QuickBasic die staan voor Trace On en Trace Off. QuickBasic wordt niet genoemd, maar de uitleg van wat het commando doet zit wel in de film.
TRON als film maakt een aantal voorspellingen:
(1) Het misbruik van het World Wide Web om ideeën/programma's te stelen door met wat in de film een Master Control Program heet gewoon mensen hun harde schijven af te struinen.
(2) De moderne mythologie omtrent de counter-hacker als God-entiteit die het computerachtige systeem met alle 1984 trekken van dien weet te bevreiden.
(3) De big-data hype waarbij een schaakprogramma door reinforcement learning niet enkel optimaal leert te schaken, maar zelfs buiten de eigen functionaliteit leert te denken en de controle overneemt van gebruikers.
Met name het derde punt is nu zeer sterk aan de orde met door AI gedreven search engines in plaats van de correct werkende bibliotheek systemen zoals we die eerst hadden. In principe betekent reinforcement learning zoals die hier toegepast wordt het indexeren van toestanden gecombineerd met de statistische waarschijnlijkheid dat je die toestand als positief ervaart.
De meerderheid beslist in principe voor het individu welke schoenen deze moet dragen en welke film deze moet zien. Dat is ook wat je in de film ziet als het Master Control Program (een voormalig schaakprogramma) de volledige controle heeft en uitoefent.
Ik heb in principe twee kritiekpunten op de film.
De animaties zijn vaak gebrekkig doordat de gebruikers van de computers om te animeren niet over voldoende creativiteit beschikten om hun computer te doorgronden en optimaal te gebruiken. We hadden met gemak in de jaren 80 de animaties van het niveau dat we nu hebben moeten kunnen hebben.
De karakters zijn geschreven met de mentaliteit van kinderen die net de eerste hormonen door het lijf hebben gieren, maar met het inzicht van kleuters, zodat ze geen flauw idee hebben wat liefde en een relatie inhoudt. De "volwassenen" in de film gedragen zich als de ongeïnteresseerde kinderen op een lagere school, die vinden dat ze het toch even allemaal wel kunnen, alsof het allemaal een spelletje is.
Dat laatste is ook te zien met het gebrek aan inzicht van Flynn in hoe levensbedreigend de situatie voor hem eigenlijk is. Wel een leuke film om te zien, maar als volwassene erger je je gewoon aan een aantal psychologische dingen.
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DiegoReviewed in Italy on June 7, 20195.0 out of 5 stars Il Mitico TRON
Bellissimo rivedere un film che ha fatto la storia degli effetti speciali e bellissimo steelbook da avere assolutamente!
Timothy LehmannReviewed in Australia on August 16, 20184.0 out of 5 stars It's nice to know amazon can get all the old movies i like.
I haven't seen this since I was just a little computer program. I never thought I could get it on Blu-ray.
Davey66Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 20255.0 out of 5 stars Definitely the best version.
Maybe not the up to date computer graphics of today but an excellent film all around.
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Pedro LedezmaReviewed in Mexico on November 1, 20255.0 out of 5 stars Gran película
La película que inició todo un hito en el cine por la técnica de colores usada para resaltar los trajes de luz y el uso de cgi en un tiempo en que era prácticamente impensable! Todo un clásico!



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