I don't know why I find it kind of funny to see the 80s sets and video games of TRON covered with a thick coat of dust at the beginning of this trailer, but I guess it was a long time ago (1982) when we enjoyed the original TRON with Jeff Bridges.
Synopsis:TRON: Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garret Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.
It seems as though the sad news out of Hollywood is neverending these days. Today we say goodbye to Merlin Olsen, better known to some of us as Jonathan Garvey on Little House on the Prairie. Olsen died at the age of 69, of complications of mesothelioma, a form of cancer.
Like Garvey's friend Pa Ingalls on the show, played by the late Michael Landon, and like Dan Haggerty's Grizzly Adams, from the same late-70s/early 80s TV era, Olsen's character of Jonathan Garvey was both an inarguable man's man, yet was a gentle, kind, and thoughtful person. He wasn't afraid to get teary eyed when the kids had to put a wounded animal down, or if someone died in fire (those kinds of things seemed to happen every week on these shows). He could make the tough decisions, build a house with his bare hands, and hug a child. These shows seemed to have such a nice moral center without being preachy, and even if I had met Merlin Olsen as an adult, I probably would have wanted to give him a huge hug, just like I did when I met Dan Haggerty a few years ago.
It just feels like another friend from childhood has passed away, and I know I'll miss knowing that this gentle giant is out there, somewhere, helping children and small woodland creatures:
"I'm in love with you. And I want you to pick me instead of him." Uh... were there really such blatantly cheesy lines in the book version of Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse? No matter, since fans are going to eat up the movie anyway!
SYNOPSIS: In The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between Edward and Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse opens on June 30, 2010.
