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I blame him not saying "It's Tronning time" in the movie.

Mostly yes.

I might stream the soundtrack someday, but I'm just not going to pay to see Jared Leto sleepwalk through another performance...

As someone who loves sci-fi films and the Tron aesthetic, and who generally enjoyed the two previous films, a sequel should have been an easy sell to me.

Unfortunately, the whole "Tron bikes" and "Tron jets" IRL was - to me - such a huge red flag I skipped opening weekend. It gave the feeling of big action set pieces in the real world where the least amount of creative work would be needed and I had no desire to watch the military or the rag tag group of heroes fight computer programs IRL.

My favorite part of Tron was going into a new world and seeing the digital landscape. I want the lore, I want the "computer program's are people and mechanics" vibe, I want the fantasy portion of the sci-fi. I do not need another boring ass marvel / Star wars movie with a Tron paint job.

We need an actual trilogy, an actual story with actual arcs, we need actual stakes. This movie convinced me from its trailer alone that it would say nothing, fail to surprise me, and play out in a safe and predictable fashion and do it in such away that it wouldn't even be fun. I'm all for repetitive dime store movies, but they have to be compelling, well paced, and self-aware. I doubt this movie was any of those.

I think the bigger problem is that it's just moved away from what Tron is supposed to be about. Like the whole point of Tron is it happens in the computer world what is the point of bringing it into the real world. Then it's just a weird sci-fi movie with sort of but not really aliens invading, and the market is saturated with sci-fi films with alien invasions.

Disney pulls the plug on Tron after it bombs at the box office.

Disney puts future Tron films on hold after Legacy disappoints.

Disney cancels Tron Uprising after one season due to poor viewership.

Disney cancels Tron 4 after Ares underperforms…

I’m pretty sure the problem is Disney.

I actually enjoyed this movie. They needed to do marketing, but it came out and I only found out because I get emails from my local indie theater.

Honestly, can they just sell or license Tron to someone who cares about the franchise?

I haven't seen it yet, but have heard the plot wasn't good either. So while he didn't help, many films have shown even having great actors can't rescue a bad movie. He's just the rotting cherry on top of the melted sundae.

Creativity at disney is moribund and nothing can fix it without getting rid of the old dead growth. Get rid of iger and similar execs like kennedy. They degrade any project. They dont love the products they produce. I remember one time kennedy commenting on star wars that there wasn't enough source material. Her problem was she would have to pay for it and thinks the writers are not important. That kind of weak thinking is stagnating disney. It will continue until these fossils are gone.

I 1000000000% didn't and won't go see this movie because of him.

And after cancelling D+ and Hulu last month because they fucked up the Kimmel thing, it may be years before I see it, who knows!

But, initially, when I saw Leto in the trailer that was a quick "nope" from me, dawg.

Short answer: Yes.

Longer answer: Yes, because they made it all about him, and not about any of the previous characters.

I'm not a big Leto fan. He's not the worst actor, but he's by no means great. But Gary Oldman couldn't have made this movie work. The problem isn't the acting, it's the script. The movie felt like it was designed and written by a marketing committee. Everything about it is formulaic and hollow.

I myself was hyped until I saw Jared Leto, i just don’t wanna see him in anything

Tron never was a thing and Disney keeps trying to make it a thing. The concept was cool in the 80s but no one has cared since the property.

I'm just glad Hollywood hasn't made remakes of Flight of the Navigator and Neverending story.

I hate Jared leto. Still went to see it because I like every other aspect of the film.

I was overall disappointed. Theres loads of good stuff in it. Like lots. One part I audibly went "oh wow that's cool" involuntarily. However, the dialogue absolutely ruined it. And the actor for the main female was somehow more wooden than leto.

When usually, for me, Leto is the worst part of any movie he's in. This time he was fine in it.

Also it ends on cliff hanger. I knew Disney were never going to continue it though like they never properly followed up on legacy. Disney are just too risk averse since to try hard enough to make something good. It's irritating because almost all of the pieces were there, even with leto.

Yes. let's start with that.

After that we can go and have a look at the people green lighting new movies these days.

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.

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

I mean, I loved the first film, and the second one was the second best daft punk music video (it's not close though) but who really cares? Why did anyone feel like we needed endless shit Tron sequels?

I went to the cinema to see the original and loved it. It blew my mind. It's iconic.

Then I went to the cinema to watch Legacy and I really enjoyed it. It's not as good as the original but it still had great aesthetics and the music is brilliant.

Then it was "oooh, they are making another one?!! Yes! I can't wait to...what? No, wait. Leto? Really? Oh well, maybe if I'm alive when the next one comes out I'll go see that instead"
The guy, to me, is just plain unlikeable. He's ok in very small bit parts in films, but when he's the main character then I can't watch it. When I go to the cinema I want to be entertained for a few hours, not annoyed.

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

Something Tron fans seem to forget, and Disney forgets it every so often, the first Tron was a significant failure as well. Yeah, flashy effects and a cool concept, but it wasn't as relevant to a wider crowd yet. And Legacy wasn't exactly a success in the box office either. Many forget that Tron appeals to a smaller crowd and isn't the blockbuster franchise it should be.

TIL we all hate Jared Leto now.

Disney didn’t know wtf to do with Tron. I thought Legacy was a great addition to the universe, but this time around it was nothing more than skipping to the end of the Marvel universe with the Boss Battle bent on world domination with flashy CGI characters. It added nothing. Plus a controversial actor like Leto might be an indication that nobody else wanted the gig for the budget or the poor writing. Couldn’t have possible chose a worse or more boring addition to the franchise. Ruined it, IMO, and I have been a Tron fan since forever.

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.