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    11 months ago

    Give fans the Tron movie they want, without an actor they hate, and they might just go see it

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    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.

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      I’m sure they’ll try to reboot Tron again in 15-20 years and the exact same thing will happen, as is tradition

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        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.

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    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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      I liked him thought 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

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    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.

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    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

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      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.

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        If attaching a poorly thought through plot onto a unique sci fi premise with stunning visuals, a unique score and mediocre acting isn’t what the cult following of Tron were after, then I don’t think people ever really liked this film as much as they claim.

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    11 months ago

    Side thought: gauging whether a movie is good or bad based on opening weeks in theaters is stupid. I have never gone to an opening weekend and don’t think I’ve met anyone who has.

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      Opening weekend doesn’t tell you if it’s good or bad. It does give you a good idea if it’s going to make a profit. This one is going to be a big money looser.

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      Of course you have. You just haven’t talked to them about it.
      Odds are good you’ve even met a murderer and didn’t know it.

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      This is the most absurd post….

      Opening weekend is all that matters when it comes to a movies success. It has always been that way. There are very few movies where the financial success does not come from opening weekend.

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    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.

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      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.

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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.