Respect Authority

I’m hesitant to say that the new Tron Legacy trailer is the latest entry in the dark realm of things nerds inappropriately masturbate to, but only because nerds really never stopped whacking off to Tron in the first place.

Now, due to my ongoing crusade to fill the gaps left in a world without Michael Jackson (which so far has involved far too much babysitting), I decided to share an alternate version of the Tron Legacy trailer instead, which features a perfectly synced up “Beat It” as the soundtrack — making this suddenly much cooler… in a homoerotic digital gang fight kind of way.

Plus, now any overexcited Comic Con attendees won’t even have to feel bad about their dirty little CGI fantasies considering the King of Pop himself is essentially ordering them to “just beat it.” Then again, it is a movie about a video game so… take that as you will. Not everything in life is about masturbation after all. Just most things.

It kind of redefines the concept of an 80s classics mash-up — it’s just as surprising and nostalgically amusing as Girl Talk, but didn’t require nearly as many half-naked hipsters to get there.

However, if I had to choose a classic sci-fi mindfuck to be recreated, I’d go with Total Recall. Unfortunately I think that title has already been reserved for the upcoming documentary about Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger’s career as Conan the Governor.

Yeesh… this post is dripping with so many movie references you’d think I crossed the streams.