"The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer. Ships, motorcycles...with the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day...I got in."
-- Kevin Flynn, Tron: Legacy
Greetings, Programs! My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, we go back to the Grid and watch Tron: Legacy, the 2010 science fiction action film directed by Joseph Kosinski, featuring the return of Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn/Clu and Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley/Tron, along with Garrett Hedlund as Sam Flynn and Olivia Wilde as Quorra!
This time, Xan and I discuss things like Nine Inch Nails doing the Tron: Ares soundtrack, Xan not wanting Jared Leto to be on her shitlist, what Xan enjoys about Tron: Legacy, Sam Flynn being a cynical wunderkind and having a lot of abandonment issues, Tron: Legacy respecting its past but not being beholden to it, Kevin Flynn becoming obsessed with the Grid and becoming a victim of that obsession, wondering why Disney took 28 years to make a sequel and then 15 years to make a third film, dollar store Alan Tudyk, the days when you took home a new operating system in a box, Sam living in the original garage that Walter Gibbs used to create ENCOM, Sam smelling like jail, Sam getting suited up by the Sirens, wondering why Jarvis speaks so strange when he introduces Clu to the masses, wondering why the identity discs weren't upgraded to USB drives, Sam finally getting the opportunity to ask Kevin where the hell he's been for the past 25 years, Michael Sheen chewing the scenery as Zuse/Castor, wishing we could cure medical issues the way Kevin recreates Quorra's lost arm, everybody getting a rising platform, the Tron: Legacy dogfight resembling the dogfight sequence from Star Wars, Rinzler being restored as Tron, Quorra probably regretting being brought into the real world, new Drunk Mail from Dave Proctor and Christine Peruski, watching The Lair of the White Worm on Skinemax, our first movie of Spooky Season, and more!
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Be sure to come back in two weeks as Xan and I enter Spooky Season and watch The Thing, the 1982 science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, featuring Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady, Wilford Brimley as Blair, Keith David as Childs, and Richard Dysart as Dr. Copper!
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