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Beef2Taco

Great...now Spiderman is turning into something Tron-ish

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:30 pm

serenosaur · Boot Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 64 Location: Chicago

WHUT.

It looks like even Spidey is jumping on the Tron bandwagon. The glowy suits don't fit him though. :/

As we get nearer to the movie's release, I wonder what other things will suddenly take on a Tron-ish bent...

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:42 pm

Beef2Taco

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:56 pm

ifmnetzwerk

even though since tron is starting to be a huge franchise hype, new generations of "nerds" are catching up on the series of other characters that can possibly fit into such circumstance.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:01 pm

degravedi

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:07 pm

serenosaur · Boot Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 64 Location: Chicago

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:09 pm

ifmnetzwerk

not only that, but there's been a lot of remakes nowadays.

but Batman is exceptional, cuz C. Nolan is recreating him.

old generation, new generaton. doesnt matter who we are, Tron brought us together for a reason! Very Happy

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:13 pm

Beef2Taco

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:38 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Pop culture and fashion have a ~20 year recycle period. The TRON thing is actually somewhat overdue. And as someone who was around as an adult when it came out and a dyed-in-the-wool Trekkie, working a tech MOS in the Army with a ton 'o geeks, I didn't hear anyone going crazy over the film when it came out. It was just okay. It was no Star Wars (No such thing as ANH at the time) or ESB.
Just one of those cult things that grow on people because aspects of it are before their time and the story is engaging. The video game popularity never seemed to wane, though. Everybody always respected that.
I found out recently, that my family still isn't ready to respect these older classic efforts, though... If their inability to sit through even a single DVD eppy of Tom Baker is any indication.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:47 pm

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Euchre · uF Game Warden Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 3342

Maybe because I wasn't, um, 'old' when Tron came out I remember many of my own contemporaries liking it quite a bit. Maybe its because my contemporaries were the generation taking up video games like mad. I was a fan of Tempest, and and played many others, so a film that was inside the game world seemed pretty cool to me.

I don't think the cultural phenomenon that Tron has become was the result of just a very slow adoption, but a fairly strong undercurrent of a generation that was too young to be readily heard back then, but is in its full power to assert itself now.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:54 am

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Rogi Ocnorb

Yay, Tempest! One of my favorites. That and Tailgunner. Both had that place you had to go to mentally in order to do well.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:33 am

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Greystone · Unfettered Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 373

Well we have been seeing this morph out of cartoon characters for sometime now. Just look at the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fast forward"
and "Yu gi ho 5D" which not only has tron like tattoos but they even fight on cycles in a light maze.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:22 pm

Vector53 · Boot Joined: 31 Jul 2010 Posts: 19

Spider-Man=Tron

eolith · Unfettered Joined: 23 Jun 2007 Posts: 623

if we get more Tron out of Disney as a result, so be it!

also, tbh, glowing light up suits hasn't exactly been completely out of mind through the years.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:25 pm

FilmEdge

Re: Spider-Man=Tron

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:10 pm