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<\/p>\nDisney has never really known what to do with Tron, but now they don\u2019t have to. Tron: Ares is a franchise killer, a movie so bad that no one will want anything from Tron ever again.<\/p>\n
Before Ares, if Tron was anything, it was a vibe. A unique aesthetic set to some of the most interesting and exciting music possible.\u00a0Ares looks like a boring pile of nothing on screen, and the soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails sounds like it\u2019s made up entirely of electronic fart noises played in various tones.<\/p>\n
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Greta Lee as Eve Kim in Tron: Ares<\/p>\n
It\u2019s led by one of the worst actresses ever to lead a major movie, and her hiring is one of the great mysteries of the universe. She brings nothing to the table. Her name is Greta Lee, and before Ares, she\u2019d never been the lead in anything good. She still hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a reason Ares\u2019s trailers tried to pretend Jared Leto is the movie\u2019s main hero. Every moment Greta\u2019s Eve character is on screen, a little more life is sucked out of the audience.<\/p>\n
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Maybe she could have been better if the movie had a script, but it doesn\u2019t.\u00a0Instead, the plot is a series of generic corporate politics mumbo-jumbo bullet points mixed with a few platitudes and some hand-waving about technology. None of it means anything.<\/p>\n
There are other characters in the movie.\u00a0There\u2019s her Mexican sidekick, Seth (Arturo Castro), whose only personality trait is that he likes burritos. There\u2019s also her Indian male helper, Ayjay (Hasan Minhaj), who, like our lead, has no personality.<\/p>\n
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Arturo Castro as Seth Flores and Greta Lee as ENCOM CEO Eve<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve made it a point to describe these characters by their ethnicities because that\u2019s the insulting and racist way the movie uses them. They\u2019re beta male diversity props and nothing more. It\u2019s despicable.<\/p>\n
The other key player is Jared Leto as Ares. He\u2019s the most interesting thing about the movie, which is like saying the taste is the most interesting thing about paste.\u00a0Leto poses, looks pretty, and convincingly delivers terrible dialogue about nothing.<\/p>\n
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Jared Leto as Ares<\/p>\n
The look of Tron: Ares is divided into two halves. There\u2019s the real world, which is a basic, generic city and an office building with some cubicles.\u00a0It\u2019s so blandly shot that when light cycles leave the game grid and appear in the real world, a moment which should be exciting, they suddenly seem stupid and boring.<\/p>\n
The other half is the computer world, which, for this movie, is limited to some vague black and red vomit off in the distance and a single red room in which Jared Leto stands around, while a floating head shouts at him.\u00a0\u00a0There is a single action scene in the computer world, but it involves a jet ski chase on a river, which is basically the last thing you\u2019d ever want to see in the computer world, especially when it looks like it was shot in front of a bluescreen leftover from the nineties.<\/p>\n
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The only visually interesting scenes in the entire movie happen when Ares briefly enters the 1980s version of the Tron computer world.\u00a0It looks exactly as it did in the original movie, and compared to the garbage look of everything else in Tron: Ares, it\u2019s a beautiful and welcome respite from the film\u2019s movie-by-committee look.<\/p>\n
A Funeral For Tron<\/p>\n
In 1982, I stood in the back of my Dad\u2019s pickup truck at a drive-in and peered over the top of the cab to look at the screen behind us.\u00a0My family was there to watch Snow White<\/a>, but on that second screen across the rural Texas darkness of the drive-in parking lot, was Tron.<\/p>\n Bruce Boxleitner as Tron in the 1982 original movie<\/p>\n I was transfixed. At the age of five, it was the first movie I\u2019d ever seen on the big screen, and it\u2019s what made me fall in love with movies.\u00a0Eventually, I turned that love of movies into this career, so in a sense, I owe Tron my entire life.<\/p>\n Thank you to everyone involved in that first movie.\u00a0Stephen Lisberger, the brilliant writer and director.\u00a0Wendy Carlos, the movie\u2019s genius composer.\u00a0 Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, two of the most charismatic and interesting actors of their time, giving it their all despite not always understanding the plot.<\/p>\n Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges, and Cindy Morgan in the original 1982 Tron<\/p>\n And thank you to everyone who made Tron: Legacy, a movie with an imperfect script, brought to life by talent so rare that they managed to overcome it. Their hard work gave Tron a brief second wind set to a once in a life time Daft Punk beat.<\/p>\n But f**k you, Tron: Ares.\u00a0And double f**k you, Disney<\/a>.\u00a0I never want to see another Tron movie again.<\/p>\n![\"Bruce](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1d3b8902443d6a011c78e7f9f525beca.jpeg\"\/)
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