I saw Tron: Legacy in 3D, yesterday.  It was, in a word, awesome.

I had re-watched the original Tron film from 1982 a few weeks ago, just to bring myself back up to speed.  It isn't really required to understand the plot, since the audience is brought up-to-date in the first couple minutes of the film.  However, it was neat to compare the graphics and special effects between the films, which are almost 30 years apart, both being state of the art at the time.

Anyway, the film was fantastic.  The lighting, graphics, and special effects are second to none, with the musical score clocking in at around the same level (Daft Punk being a no-brainer choice for the musical score).  The plot was mildly interesting, too, and the acting was decent.  The illuminated costumes and bodysuits worn by the cast were done nicely (erm, Olivia Wilde looked great).  It's too bad the film hadn't come out earlier in 2010, I would have liked to see some Tron Halloween costumes!

There was a little blurb at the beginning of the film that instructs the audience to keep their 3D glasses on, even though part of the film is intentionally displayed in 2D.  It turns out that the only 2D parts of the film consist of flashbacks and scenes shot in the real world (compared to scenes shot in the Grid, which are 3D).  This reminded me of, among other things, The Wizard of Oz's use of Technicolor, which was fairly effective in distinguishing Oz from Kansas.

Also, as seen in the theatrical trailer (and the one shown on TV, too, but not as prominent), the terminal that brings Sam into the Grid is apparently a Unix -variant named SolarOS:

Um, SolarOS running on sun4m with an i386 architecture?  And uname output from iostat with a Linux-style top, to boot!  Certainly doctored, but funny, regardless.  At least some of the ps and other commands Sam typed afterwards more closely resembled reality.  I always enjoy seeing screenshots and text from real operating systems in movies and TV shows.  For example, routinely seeing MRTG graphs (via rateup, not RRDtool) and BitchX in 24 always cracked me up…

My only regret is that I didn't see it in IMAX!  Maybe a second showing is in order.

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