The Movie Thread

[Beany]

Tron Ares
Some great visual effects set pieces, and those set pieces are well directed.

Everything outside of those scenes is a fucking embarrassment to all involved.

The main character has nonsensical - even by Tron standards - characterisation, and Leto doesn't have the charisma to even come close to making it work. Not helped by the fact that every time he was threatening a female character, I was thinking "well, he didn't have to act too much".

The rest of the cast are phoning it in, with a couple of exceptions that reach something aproaching adequacy.

Brave of them to pull sequel bait at the end, I can pretty much guarantee that ain't fucking happening.

A complete mess. Soundtrack is alright but it raise the film up like it did in Tron Legacy - neither the film not soundtrack are good enough to achieve that.

They should have just put it together as a visuals reel and stitched it together with screens of text, it'd have been less painful to watch.

4/10 - makes Tron Legacy look like Apocalypse Now and I'm only being mildly hyperbolic with that.

[Ascender]

Tron Ares
Some great visual effects set pieces, and those set pieces are well directed.

Everything outside of those scenes is a fucking embarrassment to all involved.

The main character has nonsensical - even by Tron standards - characterisation, and Leto doesn't have the charisma to even come close to making it work. Not helped by the fact that every time he was threatening a female character, I was thinking "well, he didn't have to act too much.

The rest of the cast are phoning it in, with a couple of exceptions that reach something aproaching adequacy.

Brave of them to pull sequel bait at the end, I can pretty much guarantee that ain't fucking happening.

A complete mess. Soundtrack is alright but it raise the film up like it did in Tron Legacy - neither the film not soundtrack are good enough to achieve that.

They should have just put it together as a visuals reel and stitched it together with screens of text, it'd have been less painful to watch.

4/10 - makes Tron Legacy look like Apocalypse Now and I'm only being mildly hyperbolic with that.

I'd been listening to the soundtrack for a while before the movie came out and love it, so on paper, a Tron movie scored by NIN sounded like perfection.

Unfortunately the movie was a steaming pile of manure. I think I gave up after 30 minutes or so. I did like the style of the visuals, but the plot was nonexistent and the acting was pretty dire - although I'm sure having Leto in there meant I was predisposed to a negative view of things before it even started.

If someone could just make a cut of the movie with no dialogue that fits the length of the NIN soundtrack, that would be an interesting visualiser to have on in the background I guess.

[Beany]

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too.

Apparently Leto was a fucking nightmare on set and that set the tone for everyone elses poor performance - no-one wanted to deal with his stupid method acting cringe. Demanding to be treated as Ares on set, and not listening to the director unless he described himself as Letos 'commander' - and his method acting practise clearly doesn't work as he came over so wooden you could make a fucking coffee table out of him.

Rumours abound that Disney lost near $150m on it.

Good.

[Ascender]

I'm sure he was also called out for some less than lovely behaviour towards women just as the film was finishing shooting.

That aside, he just comes across as an insufferable prick.