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All they had to do is continue Tron Legacy's story line with Sam and Quorra.
Oh no. Anyway...
Jared leto is an actor who would get me to avoid a movie I would otherwise be interested in.
Yep he creeps me the fuck out, he's a bad lot and he's not been great in anything I've seen.
Jared leto ~~is an actor who~~ would get me to avoid a movie I would otherwise be interested in.
FTFY.
Lol, thank you!
insiders question whether the self-styled boundary-pushing A-lister can still be counted on to carry a franchise vehicle to the bank.
See this is the problem. Insiders still thought Jared Leto was a good pick.
I don't understand "still be counted on to carry a franchise". I can't recall Leto ever being the main draw for any film, ever carrying a franchise, or even being in more than one film in any franchise (aside from two bit parts as the Joker). That's like saying Robert Patrick carried the Terminator franchise despite only being in T2.
It's always seemed to be the opposite. People excited for the film, and then they see he's got a part and they say "oh no..." To be fair, I think he did well in Bladerunner:2049, but he was just playing himself, I think.
I would argue that “insiders” in this case are the people who listened to Jared Leto directly.
Jared Leto was one of the main producers of this movie, so he was the one selling himself as the star. “My cult will love it!”
Absolutely. This franchise talk is just insanity. 1 of 3 Tron films, 2 of however many now-canceled DC films amounting to like a minute of screentime in total, 1 of 2 Blade Runner films...that's not the resume of a franchise-carrying actor. That's barely the resume of an actor who's been in franchises.
I quite enjoyed Tron Legacy. Shame they couldn't continue that on.
I despise reboots - especially ones that ignore the original (coughfemale Ghostbusterscough)
cough female Ghostbusters cough
Found the misogynist /s
Ha ha. It's easy to make that point just from the text but I remember watching a video comparing the comedy of it.
Here is an evil YT link - https://youtu.be/jsxa2tOWs6w
I really wanted to like it. I did enjoy Afterlife. Was a little iffy on them using kids but whatever. Their heart was in the right place.
I thought Afterlife was solid, Actors were good, plot was believable, cameos were great. The reboot just tried too hard to be funny where it wasn't, and felt more like those SNL skits in years where it didn't click. I's a great example of why reboots should be a rare thing driven by a working plot and not done just because someone thinks it's a good idea or for a cash grab on a franchise.
I'm a pretty outspoken feminist but it was obvious from the trailers alone that the entire hook of the movie was "this time with WOMEN!"
When has Leto EVER "lead" a franchise?
Jared Leto isn't a lead actor. Never has been. Never will be again.
Look like its morbin time again.
Dear Jordan Catalano, Angela is not as into you as she thought.
Also, for Tron Ares specifically, I know that I am instantly turned off the moment a franchise that mostly exists in another world/dimension/etc. decides it's going to do something in "the real world." I know Tron isn't as bright-line as other IPs, but the appeal is still largely in seeing how the inside of computers and networks is anthropomorphized and analogized into an alternate universe that comments on contemporary anxieties about technology. Nobody was asking to see light cycles and recognizers in LA.
This was what turned me away from it, too. I loved the first one as a kid. I enjoyed most of the sequel(?) as an old person.
There’s a shit-ton more they could do in that universe, a place that seems to offer escapism from reality but comes burdened with its own conflicts that parallel ours — conflicts that are solved, largely, if I’m remembering right, through self-sacrifice in defiance of money-grubbing capitalists and power-hungry rogue-program autocrats.
There’s a lot of hope in the two movies; I didn’t get that feeling from the trailers for this one and will probably be skipping it.
It's not all his fault - the script and plot were dire. Nobody came out of this looking good except for the music, visuals, Jeff Bridges and Depeche Mode.
I have a friend who likes to review movies in a similar style to Hideo Kojima, i.e. He refuses to be disparaging but the worse a movie is, the less he says. His review of Tron: Arse was, "It has a nice bassy soundtrack".
I love your auto correct in the title.
I liked the one with Olivia Wilde in tight tron leather