Jack of Harts

Tron has been a story I have long loved. As a techie kid growing up in the 80s, it was my jam. A human caught in the computer grid fighting against a great evil computer intelligence that wanted to take over the world. And the idea that the programs we created could take on the identity of the user who made them was so very intense. That what we put into it is what we would get out of it. And it is an idea we should all remember now, thirty years later, as AIs are becoming a reality. What we put into them is what we will get out of them.

Tron Ares just came out in the theaters and I watched it. It is a good movie. My cousin was in town, and we wanted to go see the movie together, so we watched Tron and Tron Legacy the night before. Both amazing, beautiful films. Then we went to see Tron Ares and it is a fitting part of the franchise. It is amazingly beautiful. The cinematography is top notch. The attention paid to angles and light was truly stellar. They kept to the red and blue themes of the previous stories, and it very much built on the legacy, pun fully intended, of the previous movies. It feels like a natural evolution of Tron and of the ideas behind it.

I love it. It is my jam. I recommend it. I know it is Disney. I know many people boycott that entire studio. And I understand why. Even through that, I recommend this movie. I think it is worth crossing the boycott line to see. I saw it in Imax and it was truly amazing. It was absolutely worth my time to see, and I will buy it on blu-ray when it comes out.