The technology connection held a similar attraction for Bridges, whose New Age guru persona was shaped in Tron long before he became the Dude in The Big Lebowski. However, the recent Oscar-winner for Crazy Heart doesn't tweet or spend too much energy trying to keep up because it's going too fast and "messing with my Zen thing," to quote Flynn.

"With this, one of the things I [was] most concerned about was that it wasn't simply a phantasmagoria of all this visual candy, but was also an opportunity to talk about technology and create a modern-day myth of that," Bridges explains. "I just got hip to the Plastic Pollution Coalition and that this is stuff that is not digestible by the earth. So technology is something we really have to examine because, being who we are, and, just personally, I dig immediate gratification, we don't have this long-term thought about [it]."

Bill Desowitz is senior editor of AWN & VFXWorld.