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Okay, to give a real answer, the first one isn’t bad really, but not great. As a child I remembered watching parts of it whenever I came across them, but couldn’t remember the whole movie. When I rewatched it as an adult, I was surprised how fondly it’s remembered for the 20 minutes of good movie that was crammed into an hour and 20 minutes of tedious movie.
You're not alone. My only memory of the original was that it was boring and it never grabbed me in the years since, where other classics have.
Only watched Tron: Legacy because Olivia Wilde is hot.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
The Guardian throwing shade at everyone's favorite actor/musical artist/philanthropist/Reddit funder/cult leader/accused sex pest, a true Renaissance Man:
Regarding Tron: Ares -
Pointless threequel delivers a leaden cameo from a white-robed Jeff Bridges and an irritating turn from Jared Leto as a hipster-haired humanoid.
I'm far from the Guardian's target audience with most of their content, but their movie reviews I tend to find agreeable.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
One of the reviews I read for TRON Ares said:
'makes you wish AI would hurry up and destroy hollywood'
And my favorite:
'To get the review you just have to reverse the last two letters'
Oooo, its Jared Leto! Maybe this film will reveal the blackmail material he has on Hollywood execs. I reckon they think people writing about him is engagement and all good...
I've loved Tron basically all my life, in all its various incarnations (including the one I made up), so... I guess I'll be the one to go down the station and identify the body.
I've loved Tron basically all my life, in all its various incarnations (including the one I made up), so... I guess I'll be the one to go down the station and identify the body.
Brave Daia T’Nara, light of the forums,
Steps forth where critics dare not tread...
Into the neon maw of Tron: Ares,
Where Jared Leto’s ego feeds, unfed.
No popcorn can soften the sorrow,
No synthwave can cleanse the pain...
Yet still, you go, our digital martyr,
So others may never suffer again.
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Automatically Appended Next Post: Someone could get the license to my favourite Viz strip “Raffles The Gentleman Thug”, and I still wouldn’t watch it if Leto was cast as Raffles, Bunny, or indeed the insouciant vulva inevitably lapidated about the cerebellum by Raffles.
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Starring Jared Leto.
Jared Leto in Mass Effect scares me, since it's just the kind of thing he would wind up in. Right in the old Uwe Boll goldilocks zone of being dirt cheap since the rights holders don't give a damn and will sign on the dotted line for anyone who offers them a fiver and a voucher for a free coffee, just enough fame in its heyday that they can dig up old 'game of the year' articles and photos of people lining up outside the store on launch day (there was goddamn torrential rain, as well) to wave in the faces of investors who don't know better to convince them they could be buying in on the ground floor of the next Star Wars, and the studio execs who'll push that through are the same kind who'll think Jared will give the project 'credibility' because he's 'a real actor', so they'll get enough momentum to push it over the line to where the execs can siphon off their payday and leave somebody else holding the bag.
The only saving grace is it's sci-fi not fantasy, so you can't just film it for peanuts in Romania with local prostitutes as extras (I'm not judging, if appearing in the Bloodrayne movie is what you've got to do to put food on the table...), and my personal canon is Femshep, so Jaredshep wouldn't be stepping exactly on my toes. So that's something. Could always just pretend it's the in-universe Risa Uvarsen movie.
Tom Cruise has done some of the best sci-fi action films our there (Edge of tomorrow, Oblivion, Minority Report). Why is he even on that list? He would be the stand out choice.
Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
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