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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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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Disney has more than enough money to own all the popular IP in the world. But cannot do a single thing with it. I am old enough and fan enough of the original that I still have an original Tron action figure. The original was wildly stylistic and visually appealing. But even the story on it wasn't all that stellar, just serviceable.

The second was a big upgrade on the style and visuals. But the story was its weakness, setting up so much, paying off so little. It still had promise if they had continued on with those storylines for another move or two. But Disney got cold feet and chickened out.

From what I've heard of this one, there wasn't an upgrade to the style. Nor hardly any tie-ins back to any of the original storylines. Just McGuffin for the sake of McGuffin. Oh, and Morbing Time. At least Morpheus now no longer holds it's nefarious title. Even if Leto does.

The truth is, this property could have a lot done with it when put in the hands of even a good fan-fiction author. There's so much to explore. Unfortunately, Disney's lost the interest of all the original actors at this point, I think. Well, Bridges might be back for another I suppose. But today's Disney is not the Disney that green lit the original. Far too risk averse just a grand dragon sitting on its massive horde as it rots beneath it.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

I didn’t even know there was a second and third one. And don’t use question marks in a headline..

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not always Jared Leto's fault when his movies bomb. Easy scapegoat for the everyone else involved, fron the writer to director to producer, to just blame him and pretend no one else fucked it up.

[–] Panron@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Given some of the bad dialogue (e.g., Ares talking about why he likes Depeche Mode), my impression is that Jared Leto used his role as producer to push the production in certain directions that appealed to his personal preferences. I went in wanting to like the movie (I love Tron: Legacy and NIN so I was definitely excited by certain aspects of the movie), but the movie felt too much like a Leto vanity project. So yeah, I think that, in this case, it's fair to blame Leto for the movie's failure, even though, like you say, there were failures across the board, from many people involved.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Seeing how much of an egomaniac the dude is, and straight up like psycho levels of self absorbed, this rings true to me as well. When I saw the poster in theaters I was beside myself as I LOVED Legacy, but the second In started to see the posters with Leto I noped the fuck out. I still had lingering hope, but the lashback from opening week makes it apparent I should wait to stream it.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck Jared Leto.

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think Red Letter Media summed it up best. Each movie has a great concept and looks fantastic for the time, but the overall story is not very compelling to larger audiences and therefore needs to build up a cult following post theatre release before they can justify making a new film. Sounds about right to me.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

I keep hearing that there was no marketing for the movie but I'm not even interested in the movie and I saw a lot of marketing, I assumed it was going to be popular

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

yes! but Disney won't learn the right lesson

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

I know everyone is focused on Leto but bloody hell, the film news sites all seem to be jumping on the lets bash Tron bandwagon in the last few days.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

They’ll probably revive it again as a TV series (animated, CGI, or live action). Gotta have something to fill up the empty spaces of their streaming channel.

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean no one likes him but if it was good that wouldn't be a deal breaker.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

They should've never stopped with Tron Uprising. That was peak cyberpunk.

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