Day #26 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #26 of 30 Day Film Challenge

The prompt is A film that is visually striking to you - and you haven't already picked in a prior category, or was picked by me in the category before this one. (Not that I think anyone is going to pick Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Akban).

Err...I don't know. I'm drawing a blank. Visually striking films? I thought Gone with the Wind was a visually striking film, but I have "issues" with the film, so don't want to pick it..

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Say what you will about the above film - it is visually striking, one of those films you kind of have to see on a huge screen.

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[cactuswatcher]

I'm going to pick TRON (1982)

It was interesting to watch at the time partly because the world of computer graphics was changing so fast that it represented a moment in time that was already past on high end computers. Still very striking and unique because no movie was ever made to look like that again. It probably had more computer generated graphics than any movie before it. It was not up to what was available even on home computers in very few years. Quite impressive visually then even so. It was not such a great story.

In the computer section there were limited colors on a black background reflecting late 1970s arcade game graphics. Actors in "the computer" wore weird costume suits, that have morphed into today's live action recording suits.

Warning: the "remastered" version is very different from the original. Cartoonish vivid colors instead of the original's more grey-scale like muted ones.

The original trailer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtyHX7z8fi8

[cjlasky7]

I loved Tron--and I even enjoyed Tron: Legacy. Lisberger has supposedly been working on the capper to the trilogy, and who knows? If Mad Max can come back, why not Tron?

[shadowkat]

I remember seeing Tron in the theater - it was the Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner's film. I rather liked the first film, innovative and at the start of the tech explosion.
Now it's kind of dated...but it was brilliant back then.

[cactuswatcher]

It was funny, I did not know who Bruce Boxleitner was then and it took some time for me to associate the character Tron with the guy talking with Jeff Bridges at the start of the film. I wasn't very observant. ;o)

I enjoyed watching it then, too.

[shadowkat]

I didn't notice or connect the two either - until I saw the trailer. (Or I did not remember it.) But I did know who he was - Western fan, remember? Boxleitner starred in "How the West Was Won" in the 70s with James Arness.

[cactuswatcher]

I never saw any of that mini-series. Looking at his Wiki page he was in things I saw, but really never knew who he was till The Scarecrow and Mrs. King after Tron.