TRON: alive and well

Caught this commercial for the Honda Civic recently, which simultaneously annoyed me and knocked my socks off. Just watch it and you'll get why...

Sock-knocking because it's pretty damn faithful to the look and feel of the original film, with some fair upgrades. Just a little annoying because there was no conflict, y'know? No tank programs. No recognizers. No Sark. No MCP. No red drivers. No bad guys smashed into light walls. Still, it's pretty damn fun. The shot of the two engineering programs in the booth is framed just perfectly.

Question: Will this move cars? I guess the marketing wizards must have done their homework, and if that's the case, you *know* who they're targetting. Frickin nerds. =)

In my search for the commercial on youTube, I came across some crazy Kingdom Hearts (the Disney-SquareSoft crossover game epic) video capture-and-edits featuring the game's TRON crossover episode, in which the player and characters apparently have to save the in-game internet from the MCP by surviving the games and teaming up with Tron. They even get digitized from the real world the way Flynn does in the original. Here's a pretty decent tribute-edit.


And then, of course, there's the very impressive and hilarious FAMILY GUY TRON riff...


Can anyone decipher the messages etched into the game walls? The first shot has "THIS IS YOUR TV" in upside-down in Tron-ese. See it? It looks like it repeats in following shots, but with more words in between as well. I've not taken the time to parse out other messages. Let me know if you can.

Keep on keepin on~