Box Office: ‘Tron: Ares’ Stumbles With $33.5 Million Debut
Box Office: ‘Tron: Ares’ Stumbles With $33.5 Million Debut
For reference, this is lower than the opening weekend of Morbius.
That's... bad
I'm refusing to pay to see it solely because of Jared Leto.
So are many, MANY people I know. They really shot themselves in the foot with that decision.
Well, you're losing a lifetime opportunity to watch probably a movie where the best part is when he says it's tronning time and he tries to tron all over those guys, but he can't and then he realizes he has to be more than a Tron, he has to become a symbol, a legend, he has to become an Aries.
For the Aries part: The horoscope suggests focusing on domestic matters and seeking comfort, as the Moon influences your emotional state. It's a good day for mental clarity, but be cautious of impatience later on.
It wasn't really a decision, Leto was a major producer on the film. ig that's the only way he can still get work, by financing the movies himself.
Must be nice, being rich enough to pay yourself to "work". 🤢🤬
What's wrong with him?
Aside from touching on people he has a cult and a bunch of other weird shit this guy is no good
IRL he's a weirdo and a jerk. Pretty sure he's running a sex cult. But that's just what I've heard. I've also heard other actors loathe working with him.
Not a fan of his acting. I was OK with him in Blade Runner 2049 because he was playing a megalomaniac and he was suited for the role.
Tron? Yes! NiN soundtrack? Interesting but sure! In present day LA? N... no.. With Jared Leto? NO
Took all the cool cyberpunky/futuristic things out of it, and slapped Jared Leto as the poster boy.
Tron Legacy let's remember what was good about it. Everyone has new 1080p flat screens they wanted to show off, so in the Grid was awesome. Sickass Daft Punk soundtrack. Olivia Wilde was hot as hell. Jeff bridges was, well Jeff bridges and the plot was unremarkable.
It's like they were like "no need to retrospect, we'll make it cheap and they'll love it!"
The original Tron is hard to spend time with; the plot is convoluted and the graphics, for all they spent on them, have not aged well.
Eighteen years later, Tron Legacy is a lot like Avatar. The plot is nothing but it looks extremely cool. Every weeb I knew had a light cycle as their desktop wallpaper for a few months there. I've heard it described as an awesome Daft Punk album that came with a movie. As an audio/visual experience it's spectacular, and landed at a time when slick glowy tech shit was actually in vogue, but the story isn't compelling and the characters aren't interesting so it had basically no cultural impact.
Fifteen years later, they made another one for some reason. So per this pattern, expect another one in 2037.
Hey now Tron Legacy also had a pretty fucking solid tie in game. If I could rip the light cycle mode out and make it an indie game I would, but alas I know no programing.
NIN was 30 years ago.
Sure, but Daft Punk was "past their prime" when they did the soundtrack and killed it. NiN might not be the cool new thing, but they're still good and I could see them making a good soundtrack. I don't think I'd pick them for a Tron soundtrack, but I can see it working potentially. That part isn't something I'd just write off.
Serves Disney right for cancelling that Tron: Legacy sequel.
I feel like I was the "target" for this movie. Tron's retro futurism/ cyberpunk style has always been interesting. NIN doing the soundtrack! I've listened to it at least 5 times already. Jared Leto? Well I'm not a big fan but he was good recently as a detached psychopath villain in Blade Runner 2049. But is that really a compelling lead? Joachim Ronning directing? Uh oh. A Disney journey man just making the same soulless films. Bottom line is I absolutely despise Disney/Marvel/ new Star wars movies. I don't trust Disney to do anything remotely new, interesting or meaningful. If they do I consider it a fluke now. I'm assuming this will be like 90% modern Disney movies where they worked on "cgi action scenes" 2 years before they wrote the script and everything will feel like it was scenes pasted together for the trailer advertisments without any interest in world building, plot or characters. Just a bunch of over dramatic dialogue to get to the next "cgi action spectical". No thanks.
I saw it and this is an accurate review. I just zoned out and enjoyed it as an elaborate music video.
This. I went to see it on opening night and there were four of us in the cinema. Four.
Everyone said “NiN music video with some cool Tron throwbacks”
Pretty sure millions called it long before it was even an elevator pitch. Any "sequel" to the previous music video would, logically, also be a masturbatory product with a candy fan-service coating and a hard-on for edging like mangas' got issues. 🤷🏼♂️
Paying to watch this isn't dissimilar to buying a front-row ticket to a truckstop donkey show. Everyone knows there's no excuse for what you did, and no you're gonna have to get those stains out yourself.
The 180 million USD budget is the relevant context here. Morbius was considered to be doing well until its 2nd week but it only cost 75-82 million (production budget only of course)
Most likely this will be a much bigger flop than that
I'm a huge Tron fanboy but I mean it's always a surprise when they bring the franchise back. Lets face it the first two films flopped, the tv series was cancelled, the games never sold well and they were all great.
but I mean setting the film in the real world simply because of the ending of the last movie wasn't it. they COULD have had Quorra and Sam in it to see how it's working out for them but instaed you just a couple of pictures of them both. that's it. in the last film you literally have the revelation that Rinzler is Tron and then in this film, called Tron Ares, there's no Tron what so ever.
Legacy set up a third film beautifully and the writer/director for Ares was all "we're not having that". How do you have a Tron movie without Tron. why even call it Tron?
I fucking love Tron, but fuck this, get Jared Leto the fuck out of movies. The only good cult leader is Cult Leader.
Edit: Also, a Tron movie set in the real world, get fracked.
Leto is a hack, and a guarantee for a flop.
Hollywood should have axed him after American Psycho.
Tron Legacy is one of my favorite movies of all time, an endless comfort watch. I saw it twice in theaters and easily 100+ times since then. I was so excited for a new Tron movie and then Jared fucking Leto and I dropped it off my watch list entirely. I'll pirate it at some point, I don't know how much I'll be able to enjoy it. Fuck Jared Leto and fuck everyone that thought yeah putting this guy in our multi hundred million dollar project is a great idea.
How was it supposed to make money? It's got Jared Leto in it.
But don't worry kids! They will absolutely NOT learn their lesson, and will put megacreep Leto as a main actor in yet more $200 million-budget blockbusters to come!
It's like Leto has blackmail dirt on Hollywood suits or something, they just keep. On. CASTING. Him!!
It's like the gods demand an intentional box office disaster sacrifice every season, and the Hollywood corporate Ferrari-and-suits assholes MUST abide!
Maybe they can do a $400 million-budget extravaganza with Leto AND Ezra Miller!
Face Off reboot
I feel this same way about Dakota Johnson. How can anyone watch ANY of her previous work, and then they CAST HER AGAIN???
Why are you blaming Leto for shit writing and directing? BladeRunner 2049 was awesome.
I’m sad they dragged Reznor into this
The music was awful in it, aside from one of two pieces. Nothing remarkable, very generic
It's like Reznor is a washed up 60 year old, or something.
Challengers and Ninja Turtles are their best non-fincher sound tracks. (Including fincher, I love to listen to The Social Network when cleaning the house/upgrading computer)
Leto can fuck right off a cliff. 🤦🏼♂️
I'm a pretty big Tron fan, since I was a kid. But this movie kinda feels like it's just wearing the corpse of Tron around. Legacy was cool, no idea why they wouldn't just continue with that story. And going from Daft Punk to NiN is not winning me over in the slightest, never been into NiN. This doesn't feel like it was made for current fans, and it doesn't feel like it was made to attract new ones either. I haven't seen it yet, highly doubt I will see this one in theaters.
Apprently Disney's goal was "Gen z men" based on various reporting.
Doesn't seem to have took.
Yeah the original Tron was filled with a sense of wonder and spirit, I suppose it was a different time and all that tech was shiny (or rather grey) and new and not being used to oppress people quite yet at least on a massive scale, but it seems like they just went so cliche cyberpunk with it. I've been a fan of NIN since Pretty Hate Machine but tbh their soundtrack work sounds all pretty dark and foreboding and samey.
I guess you have a point. In the very words of the President of the United States of America: "Everything's computer."
I was impressed at how Leto could almost act like a real person. The soundtrack was good though.
See you all in a decade when they try rebooting this franchise again!
It's almost comical at this point how Disney just refuses to learn from their mistakes.
Of course it did. Both of the other Tron movies were flops.
I, uh... I liked it.
I am sorry.
it's okay, i found joker 2 to be somewhat enjoyable
Ohhhhhh you kiss your mother with that mouth?
Yeah, I don't think superhero movies will do good for a while.
The current climate of the world is in people realizing that superheros and hope doesn't exist and good guys don't win. So when you see another superhero movie where the good guys win .... it rubs you the wrong way when you know that this isn't the reality in the real world.
weird take considering tron isn't a superhero movie and superman/fantastic 4 still printed money this year
Superhero movies do well because real life is so shit. We need that escape.
I saw it yesterday only because it was BIL's birthday pick.
It was... Not good. Soundtrack was a banger though. Literally the only positive thing I have to say about the movie.
I found the soundtrack to be incredibly boring and generic
Ah well, no accounting for taste!
I saw it yesterday at a morning IMAX showing. Jared Leto is gross to me, and he's in this movie a lot—roughly equal time to the other lead, Greta Lee (who did a good job).
That said, Leto plays a very low-key role throughout, which somehow made it easier, like a lower dosage. I was able to sit through his performance. Hasan Minaj was also randomly in this in a supporting dramatic role.
The harder thing for me was the constant work of suspension of disbelief required for this movie. The trailer had done nothing for me and I straight up didn't like the idea of "Tron in the real world," despite the ending of Legacy.
I found the entire thing incredibly silly, which kept me at an emotional distance from the movie, but there was an extended sequence in act 2 that I actually did quite like. The story was a bit too simple: there wasn't even really much of a B-plot until partway through act 2. There were some non-crucial plot holes, so just don't think about anything too hard.
Basically, the visuals were great, the soundtrack was good/fine, and the story was silly but serviceable. This will be no one's favorite Tron movie, but it's watchable.
That's like twice as strong as I thought it was going to be.
It's weird they keep trying to give Jared Leto a chance when every comment ever written ought to let them know no one wants him to get another chance.
Lol
Ha ha!
I seriously wonder what blackmail Jared Leto’s agent has on producers in Hollywood.
Suicide squad
Morbius
Tron
Fourth time is a charm for that douche surely, lol
He's producing this movie.
I bet it’s similar to the Epstein list.
See, Jared was smart enough to traffic 18+ year olds (based on what I’ve heard about his cult). So he was in the inner circles without actually being a pedophile.
IDK either but I bet it's a beautiful lie