I watched Tron when I was a kid and I always enjoyed it’s imagination and the whole unique world it created. It was a fun high-tech adventure, even though it’s CGI was technically outdated by the time I saw it on VHS, it didn’t matter because it didn’t show its age. The limits of the technology were made into its own style.

I bought the DVD in 2002, and I loved the movie even more since the quality was so much better, and the colors just popped. But over the years, I haven’t really watched Tron much, and I always took the position that the story and characters were shallow, and it wasn’t really a great movie or anything.

I watched it again recently in order to prep myself for Tron Legacy, and boy was I wrong. I don’t know why my opinion changed without having watched the movie to confirm it, but I always like being impressed by a movie when I watch it, instead of the other way around.

Tron really did impress me. Whatever flaws it had, mostly that the story of going into a computer was utter nonsense, didn’t matter because that nonsense made the story so much more entertaining. The Master Control Program still looked like a crappy spinning Kool Aid Man at the end, which is strange because earlier in the movie he looks great, but overall there aren’t a lot of complaints. It creates a unique and compelling universe, which is rare.

Judging by the trailer for Tron Legacy, they do seem to be taking the first movie seriously, which is a very good thing. It’s almost absurd that it took Tron 28 years to get a sequel, and now, apparently, it’s going to have additional sequels. God, I hope they don’t suck.