scrubbles comments on Disney Reportedly Pulls the Plug on TRON 4 After TRON: ARES Crashes at the Box Office, Is Jared Leto to Blame?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Perfect summary. "Nobody knows why they did". Spot on. Literally there was no point for this nothing of a story. No one wanted this premise, no one wanted Jared Leto, no one wanted Tron without the sickass graphics.

Not only that but apparently they were worried about if it's too sci fi it'll scare away people. Well congrats, by making it a bland action movie now not only did you make it not worth seeing for the general populace, now the few of us who actually liked Tron are so annoyed with it we aren't seeing it either.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

There's not going to be any actual sci-fi movies ever again. There's going to be movies with computers and space ships and lasers in them, but there's never going to be a movie that asks questions, because movie executives are too stupid. They've been stupid for longer than I've been alive. Remember the movie Enemy Mine? Which does have actual sci-fi in it? There's the whole rescue from a mine sequence because the executives thought audiences would be too confused if there wasn't a literal mine in the movie.

Hell, Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The Earth, the movie you suddenly become very interested in when your testicles turn 30. The enemy ship in that movie is...a Yankee-built...French heavy frigate? Yeah no, that was supposed to be USS Norfolk, a sister ship of the USS Constitution. Why are they French? The studio thought that American moviegoers wouldn't be okay with Americans being the enemy. In a movie set in 1804.

Studio executives are rock chewing stupid and they think everyone else is too.

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