He's got a point about movies growing on people, of course. However, a movie's opening weekend is most likely going to be its biggest. Also, it's generally agreed that Ares is terrible, this isn't the kind of film people will look back on in ten or twenty years and think "this is actually a hidden gem!"

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Idk man, Tron is a weird franchise. For one, I dispute your assertion that the consensus is the movie is bad. By and large, the takes I have come across boil down to, "It's okay...but why is it here?".

Review aggregators (while not the be-all-end-all of a movie's reception, hence Bridges' quote in the article) suggest the critics are about evenly split and audiences are generally higher on it. At worst, the response is mixed.

The reason I bring this up is because, if your comment had a mishap with the Internet Wayback Machine and was sent back in time 15 years, I wouldn't blink an eye at "Ares". I'd have just automatically subbed in "Legacy", cause there's no way I would have guessed the Disney was going to make the same mistake a third time when it comes to Tron.