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Jim Van Nest: I think this boils down to age. I grew up at the beginning of the video game age. The beginning of the special effects age. The Tron game and movie were among my favorites. And while you mention Jeff Bridges as not being that much of a draw, for me, hearing his voice two thirds of the way through the new trailer sealed it for me.

I hadn't read a lot about the project, so I wasn't aware Bridges was involved. I'm of the opinion that he had to be, but c'mon, his involvement wasn't necessary to get the project off the ground.

The visuals are fantastic and to me, the original Tron should have been in 3D. This is a movie that HAS to be in 3D. It's perfect for it. Tron is just behind the REAL Avatar on my must see list for the year.

And something you can't discount either is that even though my kids haven't seen the original yet, I'll be taking them to see Legacy, because of how much I loved the original. (I'm sure we'll check out the original before the new one, though.)

Michael Lynderey: David, I sort of understand it now. You're saying it's basically the visuals that are going to be a huge draw here, rather than a massive silent majority of Tron fans just salivating to see a sequel. Fair enough. I wasn't personally much vowed by the trailer, but I'm the guy who thought Did You Hear About the Morgans? was a better looking movie than Avatar (I'll take Wyoming over Pandora any day).

Max Braden: As with Wall Street, on paper I really love the idea of revisiting characters 20-30 years after the original events. The Tron sequel teaser really concerned me because it looked like they just put some actors against a green screen with some average cgi behind them. If any movie called for James Cameron's cutting edge 3D/cgi treatment, it was a Tron sequel, and here this looked like they hadn't progressed much further with the ghost in the machine concept than Lawnmower Man. (Personally, I happen to prefer the rigid frames of the first Tron over this fluid motion in the teaser, but I can understand the update). The second trailer, though, is a big improvement, and actually makes me want to see the movie. I'm not sure the plot of Flynn's disappearance makes a lot of continuity sense since we last saw Flynn getting in a helicopter as the new head of Encom, but I'm willing to see where they go with it. And even if a moviegoer knows nothing about the first Tron, I think the combination of extreme sports and gaming will be enough to get them interested. But that's a limited audience. I see this grossing much closer to $100 million than $200 million.

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