Fuck Jared Leto. Sole reason myself and many others refuse to pay for this movie.
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I have no idea what the movie is supposed to be about, which is the first two strikes. But even if that weren’t the case, I won’t watch anything with a lead rapist.
Is it Tron’in time yet?
Is Jared Leto to Blame?
Jared Leto is always to blame.
When I saw the teaser trailer, I was excited. I’m a massive TRON fan. I have lots of memorabilia, and I love seeing them every day.
Then I saw the first full trailer, and I saw that Jared Leto was going to be in the movie. I got worried, I’ve never liked a role that Leto has played. He’s just creepy and awful.
I hope this isn’t the end of TRON, but I hope it’s the end of Leto. However, I hear he’s playing Skeletor in the new He-Man, so I guess he gets to kill another franchise.
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liked himthought he did a good job in WeCrashed because he was playing a weirdo the audience was meant to hate. As always, he brought a certain I-can’t-stand-this-man energy to the role
Give fans the Tron movie they want, without an actor they hate, and they might just go see it
That’s the thing, legacy was the perfect setup for a sequel, and they just dropped it.
I never know whos coping more, executives who think they can make a successful Tron movie or Tron fans who insist there’s potential in the franchise
Like most of Hollywood right now, if executives and producers stopped trying to make everything into generic action franchise movie, then it might be good. Tron was always a cult movie. Small loyal following who dragged countless friends family and living spouses to go sit for 2 hours to watch it.
If they would have kept it an ultra sci fi movie truly for the fans - it could have done moderately well. But they don’t want moderately well, they want ultra blockbuster so tried to make it appeal to everyone. So it appeals instead to no one, and here we are. Another franchise on the fire.
He’s the reason I didn’t go see it 🤷♂️
Same.
He was the worst thing about Bladerunner 2049.
Isn’t he like some weird fucking cultist? Why can’t they just hire normal people.
He was also the producer of the movie.
Yeah, he’s got an underage rape cult and should be in jail.
I didn’t even know it was a thing until a couple days ago. I think it didn’t do well because it’s Tron. Tron just doesn’t do well in the theaters.
The original Tron was very experimental. It had an out there concept (which I can really respect for sci-fi), it had a pioneering synth soundtrack, and pioneering visuals. It was kind of novel but a lot of people found it boring and convoluted. It found a cult fandom of nerds like this guy and to the rest of the world it became a punchline for a weird flop of a film. Even the Simpsons took a shot at it.
Decades later they made a sequel that nobody seems to hate. Tron Legacy was actually well made, it’s got decent cinematography to it, they built sets, the CGI looks great with the possible exception of a de-aged face that does not hold up, and Daft Punk’s soundtrack is universally acclaimed. Most moviegoers agree that the plot of Tron Legacy exists. It was a success; it made more than its budget, it sold some tie-in merch. The weebs I knew around that time had pictures of either Olivia Wilde or a light cycle as their desktop wallpaper for a few months, and then the world moved on. It wasn’t bad, but it’s still a niche fanbase compared to The Matrix or Pirates of the Caribbean or Star Wars.
And now they’ve made another for some reason. It’s got very little to do with any of the original characters, Tron isn’t even in it. It’s about virtual characters emerging into the real world, released at a time when people are worried about AI and the effects it’s going to have, and it stars an actor basically nobody likes. I’ve heard mixed reviews about the NIN soundtrack.
Perfect summary. “Nobody knows why they did”. Spot on. Literally there was no point for this nothing of a story. No one wanted this premise, no one wanted Jared Leto, no one wanted Tron without the sickass graphics.
Not only that but apparently they were worried about if it’s too sci fi it’ll scare away people. Well congrats, by making it a bland action movie now not only did you make it not worth seeing for the general populace, now the few of us who actually liked Tron are so annoyed with it we aren’t seeing it either.
There’s not going to be any actual sci-fi movies ever again. There’s going to be movies with computers and space ships and lasers in them, but there’s never going to be a movie that asks questions, because movie executives are too stupid. They’ve been stupid for longer than I’ve been alive. Remember the movie Enemy Mine? Which does have actual sci-fi in it? There’s the whole rescue from a mine sequence because the executives thought audiences would be too confused if there wasn’t a literal mine in the movie.
Hell, Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The Earth, the movie you suddenly become very interested in when your testicles turn 30. The enemy ship in that movie is…a Yankee-built…French heavy frigate? Yeah no, that was supposed to be USS Norfolk, a sister ship of the USS Constitution. Why are they French? The studio thought that American moviegoers wouldn’t be okay with Americans being the enemy. In a movie set in 1804.
Studio executives are rock chewing stupid and they think everyone else is too.
I’m sure they’ll try to reboot Tron again in 15-20 years and the exact same thing will happen, as is tradition
NOTE: Ares died on the way back to his home planet.
Here’s a signed affidavit that we will never here about Ares ever again
“An infortunate training incident…”
When I heard they were bringing Tron out to the real world. I lost all interest personally. I’ll watch it streaming when it comes to that, but skip the theaters for this one.
They first did that “real world” thing in Legacy, though, with Quorra. I will say they did a good job with the concept in this one.
Personally I sought it out in IMAX because this is one of those big special effects and sound movies that makes theater worth it. It looked and sounded great.
That was fine. The fact that it looks like 90% of Arse looks like it’s in fucking LA for what we all know is cost savings makes me 0 interested
It’s in Vancouver* for cost savings.
I don’t know much about Tron, but it seems you have to be 50+ to appreciate it.
I think if any of your childhood was in the 1980’s and you were a boy, and a bit of a nerd you’d appreciate.
And yes I do still have my tron record album /comic book.
I mourn the loss of my original movie poster weekly.
How do you keep losing it every week? Just hang it on the wall. 🤷♂️
Between shit like this and all those articles about Trump that are like “Is Trump breaking the law?”, Betteridge’s Law of Headlines is officially fucking dead.
