Tron Movie Night!

[Scott]

Hey everybody as i'm sure you all know "Tron" comes out this upcoming weekend
and for those who would like to see it i figured we could get a group together.
showtimes aren't released yet to my knowledge but maybe a sat or sun evening showing would work?

well see if it lives up to the hype and awesomeness of the classic!

[Team Gorgonzola]

I am all over this, I saw the "original" at the theater back in the day. I would like to go to Roseville and see it in IMAX 3D. Can't wait.

[youngster775]

Count us in!  Scott, pick the date and time. come on everyone! **calling ALIZARD, I mean ADRAGON...let's roll!  get off the couch and start acting like a retiree!  Alberto, tell me more about IMAX 3D, Is it worth the drive? is it that much more impressive than the theatre out here?

[n10sive]

The Fandango Casino in Carson is all digital and 3d with motion box seats. I would see it there over driving to Auburn. But then again...look at my starting point LOL

[A DRAGON]

The family is in.  Put us down for about 4. 

[youngster775]

The family is in.  Put us down for about 4. 

about 4? or 3 1/2... 

[Team Gorgonzola]

The Fandango Casino in Carson is all digital and 3d with motion box seats. I would see it there over driving to Auburn. But then again...look at my starting point LOL

Is it a 5 story Imax?

[n10sive]

The Fandango Casino in Carson is all digital and 3d with motion box seats. I would see it there over driving to Auburn. But then again...look at my starting point LOL

Is it a 5 story Imax?

Nope...only about 3 But seeing things that big make me nauseous (funny I don't get sea sick though)

[Scott]

Tron Movie Times Fri - Sun

Century Reno Parklane 16
210 East Plumb Lane, Reno NV 89502 | (800) FANDANGO 950#
Tron: Legacy (PG , 2 hr. 7 min.)
11:30 AM, 2:25 PM, 5:30 PM, 8:35 PM, 11:30 PM
Tron: Legacy in Disney Digital 3D (PG , 2 hr. 7 min.)
12:50 PM, 3:55 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:15 PM, 10:05 PM

Cinemark Reno Summit Sierra
13965 South Virginia Street, Reno NV 89511 | (800) FANDANGO 992#
Tron: Legacy (PG , 2 hr. 7 min.)
11:15 AM, 2:15 PM, 5:15 PM, 8:15 PM, 11:15 PM
Tron: Legacy in Disney Digital 3D (PG , 2 hr. 7 min.)
9:45 AM, 12:45 PM, 3:45 PM, 6:45 PM, 9:45 PM, 10:40 PM

Galaxy Fandango
4000 S.Curry St, Carson City NV 89701 | (775) 882-7469
Tron: Legacy in Disney Digital 3D (PG , 2 hr. 7 min.)
11:00 AM, 11:30 AM, 1:40 PM, 2:10 PM, 4:20 PM, 4:50 PM, 7:00 PM, 7:30 PM, 9:40 PM, 10:10 PM

[Scott]

my vote is for Sat 6:45pm at the Summit
that way it2 about 30min from Carson 25min from north Reno and 50min for those crazys from Ferntucky

maybe for thoes that are interested we can get some buffalo wild wings first!

[22SLOW]

I can second the Saturday pick...I'll be off work by then.  Anyone that has seen the 1st film, will the 2nd make sense if I have not seen the 1st?

[Scott]

just a refresher. . .



TRON 1982 PLOT

Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is a young and gifted software engineer. He was once an employee of the software corporation ENCOM, and had developed several video games after hours to start his own company. However, a co-worker, Ed Dillinger (David Warner) took Flynn's code and presented it as his own, earning him a rapid series of promotions. While Dillinger eventually became a senior executive of the company, Flynn was reduced to running a video game arcade, which ironically featured several of the games he had created.

Flynn tries to hack into the ENCOM mainframe to find evidence of Dillinger's wrongdoing, but the Master Control Program (MCP), an artificial intelligence that controls the ENCOM mainframe, blocks his attempts. Dillinger authorizes the MCP to enforce tighter security controls, which inadvertently lock out Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner), an ENCOM employee and Flynn's friend. Bradley asks Dillinger about the lockdown and tells him about his own program, "Tron", a security program that would monitor communications between the MCP and the outside world. Dillinger dismisses Bradley, telling him to be patient. After Bradley leaves, the MCP admonishes Dillinger, saying it "cannot afford" to have programs monitoring it. It reveals its intent to break into the Pentagon, claiming it can run things much more efficiently than "any human". When Dillinger attempts to reassert his control over the MCP, it essentially blackmails him into complying with its wishes.

Meanwhile, Bradley and his girlfriend and co-worker Dr. Lora Baines (Cindy Morgan) approach Flynn, warning him that Dillinger has learned of his hacking attempt and the mainframe lockdown. Flynn convinces Bradley to bring him into ENCOM's laser laboratory, where tests are being done to attempt to digitize real objects into the computer. Lora seats Flynn at her terminal, where he attempts to hack his way into a different security group. The MCP confronts him and takes control of the digitizing laser, firing it at Flynn and digitizing him into the ENCOM mainframe.

Flynn appears in an input/output port surrounded by Programs, which are represented as human figures that resemble their creators. As he is taken to a holding area, Flynn learns that most Programs revere the Users, but that the MCP, through its commander Sark (Warner), is attempting to get them to renounce this "superstitious and hysterical belief". Programs that refuse to do so are forced to play in gladiatorial games, in which the loser is "de-rezzed" (killed). Flynn is sent to play in one of these games, but refuses to finish it. Sark terminates Flynn's opponent and is about to kill Flynn as well but lets him live due to the MCP's instructions: "I want him in the games until he dies playing." Shortly thereafter, Flynn meets Tron and learns of his intent to "take down" the MCP.

The two are then taken to the Light Cycle arena, where they escape into the mainframe along with another Program, Ram (Dan Shor). Sark's troops give chase, and Tron is forced to split off from the group and heads to the nearest input-output tower, while Flynn takes the wounded Ram to safety. As Ram de-rezzes, he realizes that Flynn is a User and asks him to help Tron. Flynn begins to discover the special powers he has within the digital world as he rebuilds and steals a damaged Recognizer, taking off in search of Tron.

Tron, meanwhile, sneaks into an input-output tower and receives instructions from Bradley to destroy the MCP. Tron then joins with Yori (Morgan) aboard a solar sailer simulation program to quickly get to the MCP. Flynn manages to climb aboard at the last minute and, along the way, reveals to them that he is a User. Sark's command ship destroys the sailer, capturing Yori and Flynn. Tron is believed to have been killed in the impact.

Sark takes a number of captured Programs and debarks his command ship, taking a shuttle to the MCP's core. He leaves Flynn and Yori aboard the ship and begins to de-rez it, but Flynn manages to keep it intact and Yori alive. Before telling the captured Programs of their fate, the MCP sends Sark out onto the mesa, saying it feels "a presence". Sark battles with Tron, who had snuck aboard his shuttle, while the MCP tells the Programs that it will assimilate them into itself. Tron gains the upper hand and severely damages Sark, prompting the MCP to transfer its functions and cause Sark to grow to immense size. Tron then attacks the MCP directly, attempting to break through its shield. Flynn jumps from Sark's ship into the MCP's core, distracting it long enough to reveal a gap in its shield. Tron throws his disc through the gap, destroying the MCP and Sark, and freeing the digital world. I/O towers begin to light up all over the landscape as Programs begin to communicate with their Users.

As Tron and Yori ponder Flynn's fate, Flynn is sent back to the real world, reconstructed by the digitization laser at Lora's terminal. A printer next to him is printing out the evidence that he had sought, showing that Dillinger had "annexed" his code. Dillinger arrives the next morning to find the MCP non-functional and the evidence of his wrongdoing displayed on his screen. Some time later, Flynn is shown to have replaced Dillinger as the CEO of ENCOM.

[youngster775]

sat works for us, and last movie night we were unprepared so we got BURNT on the wings! 

[Scott]

yea come down early and we can hit up the gun show too!

[22SLOW]

We're talking about this Saturday...the 18th.  Your poll closes the 20th

What time for the wings feast??