'Tron Legacy' trailer impresses with quiet confidence

Big day for trailer premieres, and the difference in approach between the recent "Iron Man 2" trailer and this first "real" trailer for "Tron Legacy" is night and day.

We love the new "Iron Man 2" trailer precisely because it basically kicks in the door, swaggers onto your monitor, and dares you not to have fun.  It's packed with money shots, and it is aggressive in the way it introduces characters and storylines.

This "Tron Legacy" trailer, on the other hand, is the very definition of a soft sell. The Daft Punk cue, written for the trailer, is all gentle dynamics and slow build.  Even once the action switches from the real world into the world of the game, it's still just suggestive.  There are a few beats showing action, but we get a feeling all this is supposed to do is suggest tone and mood and the look of the movie.

We do get our first looks at Olivia Wilde and Michael Sheen in the game world, and there's a particularly creepy shot of Academy Award-winner Jeff Bridges as Clu, the young digital version of himself, and seeing just that one shot,  we're absolutely amazed at how authentic it looks.  It's nothing like that effect in "X3: The Last Stand," which felt artificial.  Here, it just looks like they found some footage of a young Jeff Bridges.

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"Tron Legacy" hits theaters on Dec. 17.

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