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TRON ARES
Review by Pierre MaertinDecades ago, the world of entertainment was changing, radically, rapidly, especially in developed (albeit wealthy) nations such as Western Europe, Japan, Taiwan and the USA. The world of entertainment was increasingly more stereo, AM was dying as FM radio stations started taking over, Dolby Sound was slightly out of its diaper days and The Dolby Pro Logic system was about to launch in 1984.
Dolby in movie theaters was still a decade away but in 1982, after a massive pop culture storm of Star Wars in 1977, Alien and Star Trek The Motion Picture in 1979, Tron was a Johnny-come-Lately to the science-fiction genre that focused not on the space race or the rise of robotics, but on an entirely new genre driven by the evolution of electronics from transistors to microchips.
The world of the arcade games littered with pinball machines was beginning to slowly be transformed into the world of video games with Pac-Man and others taking over from Pong. What some falsely claimed to be a major gamble by Disney, TRON of 1982 would herald the dawn of the virtual computer-made world, the Cybernet, in the form of an adventure, where a computer programmer ventures inside the computer on a quest-style adventure. The film starred well -known faces at the time in the form of Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, supported by David Warner and Cindy Morgan.
As alluded to in Tron History and Failings, Jeff was popular not just because of his work, but because of Lloyd Bridges, his father, a figure already highly popular (“powerful”) within the rank and file of the Hollywood system. Both Bridges and Kurt Russell were part of a big rising House of Mouse generation.
The new Tron Ares brings back Jeff Bridges in a brief exchange with star Jared Leto (you have seen him in 2017 Blade Runner 2049 as the face of evil corporate doers and in 2016 Suicide Squad as The Joker, Batman’s Ultimate Arch Enemy.) Both are high concept big budget tentpole movies that faltered badly but at least made Leto a familiar face to some moviegoers who were not avid fans of My So-Called Life (1994 TV series with Claire Danes where Leto made his career debut).
“ARES GETS WAXED ON BY STAR TREK,
AND WAXED OFF BY THE MATRIX”
Pierre MaertinContrary to his persona in Blade Runner 2049, where he portrays a cruel mastermind, and contrary to many critics that blew his performance away in Ares, I liked Leto’s portrayal of Ares, how could you not?
WHY IS ARES SO LOVABLE DEAR AYE EYE?
He is the most decent piece of deadly machinery every created, a roving war machine that is more decent than decent humans, there is no way on Earth you wouldn’t feel his character tugging away at your heart strings. Why?
All of a sudden Disney Corporation, a behemoth investor-fueled global media and hospitality empire, a major promoter of current big business tech companies who flock to EPCOT to showcase their wares, needs to sell Artificial Technology (dubbed Aye Eye) to everyone and anyone worldwide, so of course this movie crafts Ares as the kind of harmless protector of those who protect the Good Earth (think of pronouncing it like Trump does “Rare Earth”).
In Tron Ares the duties of the bad guy, “the heavy” fall on the shoulders of Peter Evans, the lighthearted speedster Quicksilver (aka Peter Maximoff) whom we met on X-Men with Logan and Beast, the dude who has the most crucial scenes that upturn the fate of the world when they break out Magneto. His portrayal of Quicksilver in three X-Men movies and his cameo on Deadpool 2 have made him a bigger, more recognizable celebrity than Leto, especially since his recent return to Marvel with WandaVision, tormenting his sister The Scarlett Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), but this cache of good superhero persona and his general “nuthouse airhead at the right time saves the day” charms are wasted, are poorly applied when he plays Julian Dillinger, grandson of Ed Dillinger (David Warner) in the original Tron.
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