Tron, Again
Apparently the latest TRON movie is bombing at the box office and with reviewers. Not really a surprise, I guess. Movie attendance in August, September, and October is always low, and producers schedule crappy movies to open during those months. Why take up valuable blockbuster weekend space in November and December for a dud? Tron was doomed before it even opened.
I have to say that the trailer woke in me no interest in seeing the show, despite the fact that I'm usually first in line for a big SF movie. I'm not even sure why this film was made. Tron was an early 1980s hit video game, and the first movie was made in 1982 hoping to capitalize on the game's success. It was a crappy movie and it failed. Then, more than 25 years later, they tried again. This one didn't have the video game behind it--no one had played Tron in decades, and anyone under the age of 30 had never heard of it. Not that it would have mattered. The movie was awful anyway, and it bombed. Now, after 15 more years, they're trying AGAIN. Bomb, for the same reasons.
The problem is that there's no good way to make a Tron movie. The concept of the game is ridiculous, even silly. Blowing it up onto a huge screen with advanced CGI doesn't improve the concept one bit.
It always amazes me how the institution that's intelligent enough to create brilliant works of entertaining art can be stupid enough to make a third movie out of a property that already bombed twice, with the three movies spaced decades apart. I suppose I'm easily amazed.
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I have to say that the trailer woke in me no interest in seeing the show, despite the fact that I'm usually first in line for a big SF movie. I'm not even sure why this film was made. Tron was an early 1980s hit video game, and the first movie was made in 1982 hoping to capitalize on the game's success. It was a crappy movie and it failed. Then, more than 25 years later, they tried again. This one didn't have the video game behind it--no one had played Tron in decades, and anyone under the age of 30 had never heard of it. Not that it would have mattered. The movie was awful anyway, and it bombed. Now, after 15 more years, they're trying AGAIN. Bomb, for the same reasons.
The problem is that there's no good way to make a Tron movie. The concept of the game is ridiculous, even silly. Blowing it up onto a huge screen with advanced CGI doesn't improve the concept one bit.
It always amazes me how the institution that's intelligent enough to create brilliant works of entertaining art can be stupid enough to make a third movie out of a property that already bombed twice, with the three movies spaced decades apart. I suppose I'm easily amazed.
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