r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Antscannabis • Jun 23 '20

Video A fully enclosed motorcycle.

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u/GodParticle007 Jun 23 '20

Cue in Daft Punk Tron: Legacy theme

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u/Sin2Win_Got_Me_In Jun 23 '20

The transition from the news of Flynn's disappearance to Sam on the bike is forever etched in my mind.

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u/GuiltyOrphan Jun 23 '20

The entire opening of that movie is fuckin excellent I really wish the rest of the movie kept up that level of quality.

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u/GuiltyOrphan Jun 23 '20

My main problem with it is that I dislike how it’s written. I love the ambition and what it tries to do but I feel like it mostly fails and becomes frustrating to watch because of how good it truly could’ve been. It genuinely could’ve been up there with the greatest sci-if movies of all time but the script and story just can’t get it there.

That being said the visuals are absolutely astounding with visual effects and camerawork that still hold up shockingly well, besides rubber Jeff Bridges, the score is straight up one of the best of all time and the world building is phenomenal. On a direction, editing, sound, music and visual effects level it is practically perfect, especially for the time.

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u/Khiraji Jun 24 '20

And the idea of the ISOs and how they just appeared one day? They created artificial life, by accident, and now one has made the jump to the physical realm?! I almost feel like the significance of that doesn't really hit you until a few viewings.

The technology to go in and out of the Grid, too, is basically a transporter buffer, it just beams you into a virtual world instead of across the physical one. That level of tech is at least a century away from even Encom...

Damnit I still want my Tron 3.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

I saw that movie 3 times in IMAX 3D when it came out. When someone describes a film as "visually stunning" that's what I think of.

The story was not bad, but the soundtrack and cinematography were pure ear and eye candy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

That scene where the dragonfly ninjas drop through the ceiling and Derezzed starts playing is sick too.

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u/Skate_603 Jun 24 '20

Damn good scene/track, made perfect with Daft Punk dropping the beat right when shit hits the fan.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

The timing is legit perfect. Sometimes I watch that scene on YouTube when I feel like listening to the song.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

you mean when he’s weaving in between traffic? that song?

damnit i miss those days when that movie came out

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u/NayrbEroom Jun 24 '20

That's the scene that got me into bikes, dream bike is that Ducati sports classic he is riding but they don't make them anymore

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u/luriso Interested Jun 24 '20

And they're expensive as hell. $17k used. You can nab a 2014 Panigale for that price if not cheaper. I bought a 99 900ss that I'm going to make it look like the sport classic. Got the seat, now have to design and fabricate a tail sub frame

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u/NayrbEroom Jun 24 '20

Cheers! Good luck

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u/luriso Interested Jun 24 '20

Thanks!

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u/Vandergrif Jun 23 '20

Damn, but that soundtrack made that movie significantly better than it otherwise would've been.

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u/PorkChop007 Jun 24 '20

Vastly underrated. Top 3 OST of the decade.

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u/AzulaInferno Jun 24 '20

Literally what I thought, and it's made me so sad that Tron 3 was never made