Of course... I do disagree with this...

"Tron was a box-office flop. Though the concept was brilliant, the story was shaky, the script was predictable, plodding, and emotionally flat, and the acting, with the exception of Jeff Bridges, was stilted. The female lead, Cindy Morgan, was particularly awful"

I think the story is fine. The script was fine. and not flat and the acting was great for this film. The thing about Cindy Morgan is pretty harsh.

I applaud your efforts but bad mouthing the film was unwarranted.

The Michael Fremmer article was an excellent read!

I already knew about many of the troubles the production crew went through on the visual aspect of this groundbreaking film, but I had no idea the audio end of it was just as hectic (and perhaps even more difficult to pull off in the given time frame). It's true - more often than not the audio end of film (occasional exception of the music) goes pretty much unnoticed and un-rewarded... and almost always un-thought about by the audience... that is unless the audio was not up to par, in which case the audience will indeed notice it because it will be something they are unhappy with or find distracting if it was not done right.

Having dabbled in production work myself, I know how difficult it can be to get simple things like dialogue properly captured live. I had no idea they had to pretty much scrap all the on-set dialogue of the inside the computer shots. They really did a great job too, because there were only a few moments in the film I could tell the audio was dubbed (which ALL films have some dubbed audio).

It's too bad that there was pretty much no mention of the audio workings of TRON on the DVD set too. I would have really enjoyed that part.

I'll echo the already mentioned points by Boingo_Buzzard and redrain85 with the exception of the fact that TRON was indeed (and very unfortunately) a box office flop.

Stating that fact does NOT at all detract from the incredible film it is, to this day I'm still not sure how this film did not have the same impact Star Wars had on audiences. It should have been one of the biggest films to hit the screen... but it just went nowhere. I was 11 years old when it came out and clearly remember how excited I was about the film... and also how no one else seemed to be. There wasn't much about it on TV. Only a couple of my friends saw the film, most didn't even care to go see it and looked at me like some kind of weirdo for enjoying it as much as I did. TRON should have brought down the house and amazed the WHOLE world... but instead there was only a small bunch of us who really loved the film back then. I vividly remember wondering "what's wrong with everyone - this film is the BEST!". No sooner than the film came out, than it seemed to just fizzle out and disappear. It made no sense to me then, and only a little sense to me now. I guess the world just wasn't ready for such a fantastic journey.

An excellent feature.

Totally understand his grievience regards not featuring on the DVD. In the Star Wars DVD's, there's a large amount of time dedicated to the sound elements in the film - why not Tron?

For me, the music makes up for 50% of my enjoyment of the movie, and is still, today, one of my most favourite and prized collections of music. In the Tron DVD I was expecting to hear about how the sound was devised for the lightcycles, solar sailer, recognizers etc. And that is one of the most disappointing aspects about the DVD for me.

I'd also like to track the author down so he can answer some of my questions about the scoring. He seems willing to talk. He does seem a bit bitter about the film, but I suspect it's the truth.

If anyone can offer an explanation into the disappearance of commentry of the sound on Tron on the DVD, do let me know.