Tron (1982) – Filmsack Show Notes

INTRO

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This week on FilmSack we are just minding our own business at our ex-girlfriend’s corporate workstation terminal trying to change our Disney Plus password (and prove that John Lasseter made Toy Story 3 suck), when suddenly … when suddenly, we are dematerialize with a laser to the back and TRON-Sported into the Matrix…ummm the grid… where we are forced to participate in the digitized dead sport of Jai Alai (high-a-lie) with a chubby guy…NOOO!… he ded and it was mostly not our fault! Nooo, Well, how about a multiplayer game of life sized snake on light cycles until one of us becomes a hole in the wall for us to escape through? Not for you.. alight then … why don’t you just take a big thirsty scoop of source water with your strap on frisbee and enjoy this Classic SciFi adventure from 1982. It’s not a frisbee? It’s a disc? Whatever movie. I don’t pay a monthly subscription fee to use my imagination. End of Line. I said End of Line!

Anywho, Greetings programs, I am the user known as Brian and I am here to save you from the giant spinning head and to pass judgment upon those who do not have the proper pleasing body shape that is required to pull off wearing a full body suit for an entire movie. Chubby guy. I love you. But no. Go join the guards with all the shoulder pads. Old guy. I love you. But no. However, are you okay with being covered up completely … except for your wise old face. perfect! Hey, Hey you! Flat ass! yeah…How do you feel about being a total Sarking-A-hole? and remember folks it’s not body shaming if nobody should be wearing it.

Randy, if programs drink water…do they pee? where randy…where do they pee. Thank you Master Control.

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BRIEF

When talented computer engineer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) finds out that Ed Dillinger (David Warner), an executive at his company, has been stealing his work, he tries to hack into the system. However, Flynn is transported into the digital world, where he has to face off against Dillinger’s computerized likeness, Sark, and the imposing Master Control Program. Aided by Tron (Bruce Boxleitner) and Yori (Cindy Morgan), Flynn becomes a freedom fighter for the oppressed programs of the grid.

Rated: PG

1982 Sci-fi/Action ‧ 1h 36m

LINKS

IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/

WIKIPEDIA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron

Rotten Tomatoes – https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tron

TVTropes – https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Tron

WHERE TO WATCH

Disney Plus – https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/details/4MFq1JeXEe1z

MORE WAYS TO WATCH – https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/tron-1

TRAILER/CLIPS

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SHOW NOTES

Get on the grid. Beuno Vista!
Pieces of the Tron Puzzle
Love this intro…with the music…and the flying through… Hello Matrix.
Meanwhile, down at Flynn’s Arcade… LIGHT CYCLE!
vroom…Damn… Arcade Light Cycle Snake Sucks.
You are getting brutal Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic. Thank you Master Control!
I’m old and those guys are young punks…suck it. Also, what the hell am I wearing? A SciFi Snuggie? I like how there are landing arrows pointing to my crotch.
Sure… lethal.
Why you keep sending me accountants…I want military people.
You guys are going to my user very angry…he’s a full branch manager.
Do you believe in the users?
I’m Ram…
I’ve been stuck here for 200 microcycles.
Who does he calculate he is?
Meanwhile…in the real world.
Clu..get on it clu.
I wrote you….no buts clu…that is for users.
Hey bit… yes…
Get a Clu.
Come on you scuzzy data…be in there.
Clu is a goob..
bit is yes or no. I like it.
There is too many of them.
Clu Tank… being chased by recognizers!
Clu screaming is hilarious.
Clu detached… get a clue
Got a pirate program here.
Get me Dillinger!
Encom.
Red vs Blue
Password for Master Control is Master…that is bad.
The boy detective… it felt like Flynn.
I put that file in my memory.
There is a 68.7 percent chance you are right.
Tron program unavailable! Ain’t that some bullshit.
Access suspended. Report to Dillenger.
Tron is a security program…that even bypasses Master Control.
Laser Bay 2 please. Thank you elevator.
When I am not programming my independent security program or balancing my checkbook at home with an abacus I am taking the elevator to Laser Bay 2 to get lucky with Lora…or digitized.
Put on your goggles and leave the bay.
Dematerialize…. digitizing.
More bugs than a bait store.
Some programs will be thinking soon…
Flynn had group 7 access..
Home of Space Paranoids.
Reco.!
It’s all in the wrist. 999 points.
Excuse me while I undress. Arcade work is sweaty work.
Now you will see why his best friends are 14 years old.
Sherman set the Way Back machine.
You invented Space Paranoids?
No so young. Not so bright.
Dillenger stole my video games… he was just a programmer…now he is senior exec.
He was working on company time and someone stole it.
Group 7 access. Cut ’em off.
I need a direct terminal…can you guys help me out?
That MCP is the problem. It is efficient! The old guy started the thing in his garage…I wish I were back in my garage… Walter.
Our spirit remains in every program.
Religious discussions … vs a single dictator?
Now that is a big door..
I programmed you to want too much.
I’ve gotten 2,415 times smarter since then. I’m bored with corporations. I’m better than humans.
VDT of the times. You wouldn’t dare!
Stay off the top floor… Dillenger will never suspect a thing.
Flynn is a big kid.
Gort, KLaatu Brada Nikto. ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still” – Philosophy professor Aeon J. Skoble speculates the phrase is part of a fail-safe feature used during diplomatic missions, whereby Gort’s deadly force can be deactivated in the event the robot is undesirably triggered into a defensive posture
End of Line
This laser is my life’s work. Don’t spill anything.
Stop please. Answer a few unsolvable problems.
I am going to have to put you on the game grid.
You just got lasered zapped!
weeee! The Matrix… I mean.. The Grid.
This laser also changed my clothing…
Vacant Entry Port program.
Hey… not cool bruh… if this is about those parking tickets… suck it.
Let him hope for a while. Then blast him.
He is not any kind of program… he is a user..
What’s the matter Sark… you look nervous..
Users wrote us…
Want me to slow down your power cycles.. noooo.. oweeee
End of Line. EOL
Another free program offline.
Just so I can tell my friends what this dream is about… where am I?
No Sweat… I play video games better than anybody.
Oh I think I am having a little program panic attack
The Master Control Program.
The Standard Subtstandard training.
Renounce the users…get cool shit.
If you lose your disc… you will be subject to immediate DE resolution!
The disc keeps all you learn.
Who dat? Tron. Written by your good buddy who is dating your girlfriend… he fights for the users.
I am Tron you bitches.
Look at my frisbee skills.
This program is financial.
Wait… let him fight one of his own kind.
Digital Lacrosse?
He’s good at programs… but is he any good at athletic shit?
What has this program been eating? Other programs?
Finish the game. NOOOOO!
This is a defiant program… I am about to push the button.
Alan.. that is the name of my user… I am TRON!
I was disoriented in transport.
Everybody after the MCP
We have transport.
One of these teams is playing zone and the other is playing one on one.
Exit out of the wall hole.
Greetings programs. This is an illegal exit.
haha… pacman on the start wall.
I should have never written those tank programs.
Oh balls… you knocked my tank.
CGI tanks vs light cycles.
Ram, Tron and this user.
We made it… qualifier… this far.
We better null unit. Whatever you flat ass program.
Well why don’t you just go check in with Alan.
Do programs drink? If they drink…they must pee…and if they pee… they must poop…and where does that go?
Water straight from the source. Obviously energy based… here… drink with this frisbee.
Alan One… I can feel it…
Suck right from the source… ahhhh
oh no! I done go shert. Ram.. Flynn. Go Tron.
I always thought Tron was Flynn.. turns out Tron was the other guy.
That is one flat ass program.
Man…don’t I know that feeling… Ram has a critical error.
Put this program to sleep.
You shouldn’t be able to do that.
This is just like the old arcade grips…
I recycled a recognizer from the bin.
Is he going to make out with Ram?
Oh my user…ahhh yeah… are you a user… hell yeah. Flynn…Help Tron.
I’m going red… Ram out! hit the Pram… cleared.
T-Ron. like A-A-ron
Damn Recognizer.
Got to get to that I/O tower bitch.
ohhh lady data…. talk about your I/O port
Bit… yes.. yes… no… yes.. no…
Another mouth to feed… You are my bit. Shit… I don’t remember nothing about that.
Inoperative Data Pushers… weirdos.
no no no no no no
He has been using controls like a chump… when he can just use gestures.
Team change. Red.
I love / hate this movie. It makes me feel uncomfortable and is occasionally absurd but it also impresses the hell out of me.
Reminds me so much of Ralph Bakshi and Wizard of Oz..
They hate this tower. Tower of power.
Make this a free system again.
And no MCP looking over.
The Establishment. The guardian is the guardian. You may pass my friend.
Bring in the Logic Probe!! More power!
Who me? Just hanging out with the guardian.
I have charged up your frisbee… this code means freedom. The freedom code. Thank you Dumont! the elder. This is totally the Wizard of Oz meets Bakshi… meets retro future
what program?
No Tron. I will take care of myself.
Let’s get on the space boat…go go go… full sail ahead! Suck it big block chain ship.
Commander…
In a stolen simulation.
Yeah… greetings program.
Hey, where is ram? He didn’t make it.
I’m what you guy calls a user. Keep your hands off my Lora program.
You just keep doing what it looks like you are supposed to do.
No, bit brain.
Stranger and stranger.
One more thing… don’t do anymore thinking. I do the thinking around here.
Prepare him for the inquisition.
The MCP was a chess program. Started small and will end small.
MCP has a fat face.
weee… I created a junction using my man hands…
Did we make it? Hurray for our side.
Are we there yet mommy?
Set sail on the digital beam.
Digital space shit scoop surprise mofo
Tron? Tron’s dead. We named the movie after the dead guy?
Tron is dead… and your digital shower cap.
You were derezzed.. not me.
A lot of shoes on digital floors.
Catch a transport beam to the game array?
I spin my head around really fast…that is how I do as MCP
We are only going to fail if we give up.
Why did you bring me back?
Taste my digital frisbee you Sarking a-hole.
Another warrior is on the mesa…
All programs have desire to be useful…. soon you will be a part of me.
I’m also better than you…oh my… you spilt my digital sark brain.
Sark…all my functions are now yours…Sark…
Giant Sarking deal. Your user can’t help you now program.
Don’t … you will be derezzed… kiss me you fool!
Don’t worry… I always get the girl.
Dead eyed sark
Flynn Brain Freeze! It was the old man all along!
Reverse polarity… we did it!
Now she gonna kiss Tron.
oooh… I get it… it is a DISC… not a frisbee.
End of Line. Priority One.
Hey! I have a print out that says a thing. Can’t nothing stop me now.
Aww… he got busted…but the world didn’t explode.
Greetings, Programs! I’m rich!