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Jared leto is an actor who would get me to avoid a movie I would otherwise be interested in.
Yep he creeps me the fuck out, he's a bad lot and he's not been great in anything I've seen.
He was pretty good in Lord of war. Ironically also Nick cages best acting. Now that I think of it, whoever directed that should get a lifetime achievement award for getting good acting out of the two of them. But yeah Jared Leto sucks and I'm fairly positive there's some fucked up armie hammer kind of shit going on behind the scenes as well.
Leaving Las Vegas has amazing Nick Cage acting.
Never saw it. But I did like the unbearable weight of massive talent. But he basically just played himself and Pedro pascal was perfect in it.
He was good in Requiem for a Dream but I think everything I've seen him in since then has been dogshit.
Jared leto ~~is an actor who~~ would get me to avoid a movie I would otherwise be interested in.
FTFY.
I was excited until I heard leto was in it.
I'll pirate it later
Meh. Save your bandwidth. I'm sure there'll be highlight/supercut vids soon enough. Those'll do just fine.
insiders question whether the self-styled boundary-pushing A-lister can still be counted on to carry a franchise vehicle to the bank.
See this is the problem. Insiders still thought Jared Leto was a good pick.
I don't understand "still be counted on to carry a franchise". I can't recall Leto ever being the main draw for any film, ever carrying a franchise, or even being in more than one film in any franchise (aside from two bit parts as the Joker). That's like saying Robert Patrick carried the Terminator franchise despite only being in T2.
It's always seemed to be the opposite. People excited for the film, and then they see he's got a part and they say "oh no..." To be fair, I think he did well in Bladerunner:2049, but he was just playing himself, I think.
Jared Leto does a lot of marketing for you for free with the number of girls he DMs.
I would argue that “insiders” in this case are the people who listened to Jared Leto directly.
Jared Leto was one of the main producers of this movie, so he was the one selling himself as the star. “My cult will love it!”
Absolutely. This franchise talk is just insanity. 1 of 3 Tron films, 2 of however many now-canceled DC films amounting to like a minute of screentime in total, 1 of 2 Blade Runner films...that's not the resume of a franchise-carrying actor. That's barely the resume of an actor who's been in franchises.
But.... Why? The only role I can remember him ever being decent in was fight club and American psycho, and that's mainly because it was enjoyable to watch Jared Leto get his shit rocked. Every movie I can think of that he's been in a lead role has bombed.
Suicide squad? Giant turd Morbius? So bad it became a meme Tron? Apparently awful, I'm not gonna watch it 30 seconds to mars? First album was okay, maybe the rest of their music would be better if he'd stop trying to fuck 15 year olds backstage.
Gird your loins and try "Requiem for a Dream". It's a phenomenal heartbreak of a movie and I genuinely think Leto was fantastic in it. It's a flick I think everyone oughta watch at least once.
Apart from that? No clue where anyone got the idea he was a "franchise-leading man". Or an A-Lister, for that matter.
I quite enjoyed Tron Legacy. Shame they couldn't continue that on.
I despise reboots - especially ones that ignore the original (coughfemale Ghostbusterscough)
cough female Ghostbusters cough
Found the misogynist /s
Ha ha. It's easy to make that point just from the text but I remember watching a video comparing the comedy of it.
Here is an evil YT link - https://youtu.be/jsxa2tOWs6w
I really wanted to like it. I did enjoy Afterlife. Was a little iffy on them using kids but whatever. Their heart was in the right place.
I thought Afterlife was solid, Actors were good, plot was believable, cameos were great. The reboot just tried too hard to be funny where it wasn't, and felt more like those SNL skits in years where it didn't click. I's a great example of why reboots should be a rare thing driven by a working plot and not done just because someone thinks it's a good idea or for a cash grab on a franchise.
I'm a pretty outspoken feminist but it was obvious from the trailers alone that the entire hook of the movie was "this time with WOMEN!"
Oh no. Anyway...
When has Leto EVER "lead" a franchise?
He's clearly the lead of the Morbius franchise.
"It's Troning time"
ah yes, the famously long streak of 1
There was a rerelease on cinemas, so I count it as two separate box office bombs
LOL true... I forgot about that one
How could anyone cast him in a main role after that?!
Look like its morbin time again.
All they had to do is continue Tron Legacy's story line with Sam and Quorra.
Has he ever been an A lister? He's always been a B or C list player.
Hollywood is dying and it started long before AI or COVID.
There's a handful of new stars but the old A listers are fading away faster than they're being replaced.
So yeah B and C listers are the new A listers.
Jared Leto isn't a lead actor. Never has been. Never will be again.
I liked the one with Olivia Wilde in tight tron leather
I have a friend who likes to review movies in a similar style to Hideo Kojima, i.e. He refuses to be disparaging but the worse a movie is, the less he says. His review of Tron: Arse was, "It has a nice bassy soundtrack".
Dear Jordan Catalano, Angela is not as into you as she thought.
Also, for Tron Ares specifically, I know that I am instantly turned off the moment a franchise that mostly exists in another world/dimension/etc. decides it's going to do something in "the real world." I know Tron isn't as bright-line as other IPs, but the appeal is still largely in seeing how the inside of computers and networks is anthropomorphized and analogized into an alternate universe that comments on contemporary anxieties about technology. Nobody was asking to see light cycles and recognizers in LA.
This was what turned me away from it, too. I loved the first one as a kid. I enjoyed most of the sequel(?) as an old person.
There’s a shit-ton more they could do in that universe, a place that seems to offer escapism from reality but comes burdened with its own conflicts that parallel ours — conflicts that are solved, largely, if I’m remembering right, through self-sacrifice in defiance of money-grubbing capitalists and power-hungry rogue-program autocrats.
There’s a lot of hope in the two movies; I didn’t get that feeling from the trailers for this one and will probably be skipping it.
The TRON franchise has always been in the wrong hands. Disney is doing the bare minimum with it, to not lose the license.
The first movie was great, TRON 2.0 is one of the best games ever made and I also liked TRON: Uprising (which was promptly cancelled after one season, of course). Everything else is just mid or mediocre.
It's not all his fault - the script and plot were dire. Nobody came out of this looking good except for the music, visuals, Jeff Bridges and Depeche Mode.
I might be in the minority, but, I enjoyed Ares.
They reveal the character in the red/orange hue and I thought it might be ok with him being the bad guy.
Then I see he's producing it and it was pretty easy to see he was going to turn face and this was going to be the movie, that's when I said this isn't going to be good. However, his flat acting played pretty well into an AI that's learning.
All of the Tron movies require a major suspension of disbelief, none of them are going to win awards for plot, but that's not what these movies are for. When I see a Tron movie I just want to be entertained with pretty visuals and a solid soundtrack. If I want a movie that's going to challenge my view of the world I'm going to go somewhere else.
They have all been very plot light. Tron has always been great, interesting visuals, and stunts.
That, and very entertaining music. I felt that the second’s soundtrack overshadowed the actual movie by far.
I despise Leto as much as the next person. But credit where credit is due, I did enjoy his role in House Of Gucci. But that might be his broken clock moment.
Wait and pirate it. At least that way you won't feel too bad when you shut it off fifteen minutes in.
I pirated the borderlands move and I wanted them to refund the data & electricity.
I have a feeling this will be the same deal but not as bad.