Sci-Fi Tron: Ares with Jared Leto

[Snow Queen]

Haven't seen the movie, but the trailers sure look cheap as it is. I feel like part of the appeal of the first two movies is the techno Wizard of Oz quality. But who wants to see a Wizard of Oz sequel where a Munchkin you've never met before ends up in Kansas?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Your choice comes down to either making one at that budget or not at all essentially. But if you're making the choice to make one, then you have to invest that money. Tron just isn't cheap to produce by design. I wouldn't have greenlit this movie at all. Even though I like the franchise

That’s pretty much my point, greenlighting this and giving it the same budget as an MCU and a Jurassic movie just doesn’t make sense at all.

For that budget they would have been better off making a Legacy sequel.

 

[zeptron]

No one saw Tron until 2000.

Sadly accurate. Aged well too.

 

[Drizzle]

Sadly accurate. Aged well too.

To this day I'm not even sure if I would have even seen the original Tron if it wasn't for Legacy. Until then the only real familiarity I had with it was Kingdom Hearts II.

 

[zeptron]

To this day I'm not even sure if I would have even seen the original Tron if it wasn't for Legacy. Until then the only real familiarity I had with it was Kingdom Hearts II.

Yeah I didn't even know the original movie existed until it was used as a world in KH2.

 

[Frodo]

The first one came out when I was a toddler.

Tron Legacy came in when I was in my early 30s .

Now I'm a 40 something, middle aged man , with Tron : Ares .

Since Disney seems to revisit this property every twenty years, give or take , I'm be in my early 60s the next time they make another Tron film . .

 

[Sithborg]

That’s pretty much my point, greenlighting this and giving it the same budget as an MCU and a Jurassic movie just doesn’t make sense at all.

For that budget they would have been better off making a Legacy sequel.

The MCU hasn't had budgets that low in a while, despite their claims.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

The MCU hasn't had budgets that low in a while, despite their claims.

But at least the MCU has had mostly sure fire hits to justify the budget. Tron has only had 2 underperforming movies prior years and years apart. Tron is never a sure fire hit. I think a direct Legacy sequel would have done better at the BO though.

 

[Spider-Fan]

But at least the MCU has had mostly sure fire hits to justify the budget. Tron has only had 2 underperforming movies prior years and years apart. Tron is never a sure fire hit. I think a direct Legacy sequel would have done better at the BO though.

I think it may have done better cause Tron Legacy has a nostalgia factor to it now, but honestly what IS better? Probably would have at that movie's ceiling been similar to what Legacy did.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I think it may have done better cause Tron Legacy has a nostalgia factor to it now, but honestly what IS better? Probably would have at that movie's ceiling been similar to what Legacy did.

I think with Kosinski and Murphy's stars rising so much since Legacy, it would have been more successful than Ares will be.

 

[Kane52630]

A ★★★ review of TRON: Ares (2025)

If there's one thing that everybody can agree on, it's that Depeche Mode rules. So... yeah. After 15 years of waiting, we finally got a Tron sequel, and it is almost predictably not as good as you want it to be. By the time it gets to the end, Tron Ares feels more like a clunky side project that...

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[The Caped Knight]

The concept of digital code existing within computers as intelligent beings was done better in the animated series "Reboot" than any Tron film.

 

[Kane52630]

Sure but Tron Uprising did it even better despite ending on a cliffhanger.

 

[Lily Adler]

A ★★★ review of TRON: Ares (2025)

If there's one thing that everybody can agree on, it's that Depeche Mode rules. So... yeah. After 15 years of waiting, we finally got a Tron sequel, and it is almost predictably not as good as you want it to be. By the time it gets to the end, Tron Ares feels more like a clunky side project that...

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So 2 Stars.

 

[Hand Banana]

The concept of digital code existing within computers as intelligent beings was done better in the animated series "Reboot" than any Tron film.

Don’t forget about Digimon!

 

[The Caped Knight]

Sure but Tron Uprising did it even better despite ending on a cliffhanger.

I will never understand how Disney dropped the ball on that animated show. You had Elijah Wood as your star with Bruce Boxleitner very much playing the mentorship role very akin to Terry Mcginnis and Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond. And you put it on the Disney channel instead of Disney XD . Idiots

 

[Lily Adler]

I will never understand how Disney dropped the ball on that animated show. You had Elijah Wood as your star with Bruce Boxleitner very much playing the mentorship role very akin to Terry Mcginnis and Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond. And you put it on the Disney channel instead of Disney XD . Idiots

It wasn't on Disney XD?

 

[The Caped Knight]

It wasn't on Disney XD?

Not originally it was on the Disney Channel

 

[DarthSkywalker]

They finally made a good Tron movie and the co-leads a pedophile.

 

[Lily Adler]

Clever marketing by Disney to use the Popcorn score from RT over the critical one.

 

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"TRON: Ares" Failure To End The Franchise?

Disney opened “TRON: Ares” on Friday to mixed reviews and weak box-office. The film came in with $33.2 million domestically and $60.2 million worldwide in its debut – that domestic figure at least $10 million less than its projected opening gross. That’s not good at all for a film that cost a...

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[Snow Queen]

Saw this earlier today. Score rocks and Greta Lee is doing her best to carry this, but it feels like plastic. I think Legacy suffers from a poorly cast lead and a very underbaked script, but it's got that "it" factor. This just doesn't. Feels like proper nouns slotted into a by the book blockbuster script like MadLibs. It's not terrible, it's just not really much of anything.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[DarkKnight88]

“anonymous top talent agent” = Jared Leto’s agent lol

 

[Lily Adler]

Ryan Gosling has a much better reputation than Leto. Silly agent.