I had heard about this back when Tom Hanks did that one Christmas animation movie.

However, I did feel it a little bit this weekend when the rugrats and I watched TRON: Legacy. Not to spoil the movie, but a minor plot point is that Jeff Bridges created a clone of himself in TRON so that when he was in the real world, he'd still have some influence on the computer one. So they kept that as a version that looks like he did when the original TRON was filmed. It is obviously new footage in there, but it looks computery -- it is kind of scary how much it resembles him, but still looks off slightly, in a way that is hard to describe.

The interesting thing is that it really didn't kick in full bore until I saw the real Jeff Bridges in his current day state. Then it seemed like the younger version looked really bad. I have to say if that was full CGI, then they did an awesome job of making it look like him. I'm inclined to think it was because there were a couple of "robotic" scenes, but I guess it could have been Bridges in facial makeup and then they masked that on a younger looking body. They also made the voice sound a lot younger.

Anyway, this isn't a movie review thread, but the movie was pretty good and stands on its own with the younger kids. Plot is very predictable and all of that, but the special effects are really nice and it is nostalgic to visit the TRON world again.

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Go figure that in that wikipedia article Doctor Who managed to come up with the best description for the phenomenon:

"In the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death, a similar concept is referred to as "Grimwade's Syndrome" which is described as a psychological condition among people with frequent contact with robots, attributed to the robots moving like humans, but without any of the characteristic human body language. In the mind of those afflicted, they appear to be, in the words of the Doctor, "surrounded by walking, talking dead men."

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You can use whatever theories you like but the truth is much more obvious: you don't make a light hearted kids movie centered around a kid being mean to his mom and then her being abducted.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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the children's book it was based on was rather successful, i think.

you can explain things and comfort kids as you read a book. You can also put in your own editorial to guilt them about being better to their parents.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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