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Disney Reportedly Pulls the Plug on TRON 4 After TRON: ARES Crashes at the Box Office, Is Jared Leto to Blame? (geektyrant.com)

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How come Star Wars gets a fuck ton of shitty sequels but the first TRON film in 15 years is a flop? I was waiting for this film since I was a child.

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[–] theorychapter@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I caved and saw Ares last weekend. Tron legacy is one of my all time favorite movies so I’ve always been wanting another and would occasionally look up rumors about sequels. When the Ares trailer dropped I was super excited…until the end when it showed Leto. I had forgotten the rumors had mentioned he was involved.

Still, I went and saw the movie. It’s by no means as good as legacy, I scored it a 6/10. Something that I’d rather not watch again, but also something that I felt wasn’t a complete waste of time. But I’m easy to entertain.

What stood out to me while watching Ares was how well legacy holds up today compared to current special effects and CGI. Doesn’t really seem like much difference in that regard between the two movies. Of course, Daft Punk’s soundtrack is second to none, but I think NIN still did a good job.

Guess I’ll just need to continue rewatching legacy whenever I feel the Tron itch, which I’m not complaining about.

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[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago

The original movie was a pretty solid OK. Now we're on a 4th retread of that, why should I care. Plus fuck Disney.

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago

I liked the previous movies but this just looked like another summer action blockbuster. I don’t see a lot of movies in theaters anymore, though.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Disney is to blame for making this crap and screwing an entire legacy for A quick buck.

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[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago (5 children)

It's a franchise built on boomer/Gen X understandings of video games and technology. We are in 2025 now, young people don't give a shit about this stuff, yet they still try to pitch these films to a younger audience. The actual base concept of being trapped inside a video game has been incredibly popular with younger audiences in the last decade or so - look at all the stuff that has come out of Japan. The difference is that those films and TV series used modern video games as their inspiration, so younger audiences intuitively understand and connect with their worlds. TRON as a franchise is like some 50-year-old dad forcing his teenager to play some shitty 2D video game whilst rambling about how much fun he had with it back in the day. Your audience doesn't care and it's embarrassing that you haven't worked this out yet.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Honestly a lot of the problem is that TRON is one of those pregenitor medi that hasn't adapted over the decades. It has a really solid design that could've been updated and adapted with the gaming media as a whole every ten years or so. But unlike say Dune, Mad Max, or westerns/samurai films it didn't have a timelessness to hold it over. If it had taken a multimedia approach like say star wars it could've held up a lot better. But it's calcified and the people at Disney are too inept to do something truly interesting with it.

Imagine a TRON series that follows different genres and settings that have been popular over the years. The RPG boom of the late 90s, the RTS craze of the early to mid aughts, or the shooter take over of the late aughts early teens. But alas that's more likely to come out of fucking SAO than TRON at this point.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, they seem to be stuck between the nostalgia bait of the original and special-effects driven attempts to capture younger, modern audiences. The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a good example of how you can update the look and feel of a multi-generational product whilst retaining enough nods to older fans for them to feel included.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 4 days ago

there was a post on reddit how the frontcover the tron movies always had a woman with the lead male actor, but for jared leto no woman wants to be next to him, so hes alone on the front cover.

[–] SavageCoconut@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Yes.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I lost all interest in this movie when they announced he was in it. He fucking sucks.

Everything I’ve read says the soundtrack is good so we get that I guess?

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

I mean, if a headline asks a yes or no question, the answer is always no.

But at the same time, I mean Jared Leto is a bit of a weirdo, and he seems to only put out movies that tank.

I've never actually seen a movie that he led that didn't tank.

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