Tron: Ares

I took my son to see Tron: Ares last week and we both absolutely loved it.

Visually, I’ve never seen anything this stunning before. The trip into the original Grid from the 1980s was especially a visual delight - I started binge-watching Halt and Catch Fire the night after we saw it because I needed MORE 80s.

The soundtrack was KILLER. Look, the Tron: Legacy soundtrack is my favorite of all time, and I’d take Daft Punk over a thousand NINs any day, but even I need to admit the Tron: Ares soundtrack was amazing. It pounded through the screen and right into your ears, head, chest - to the point you were getting physically hit with it. Might have been jarring otherwise if the visuals didn’t merit such high levels of aural assault.

I went into it ready to be disappointed - anyone who’s been near the internet the past week knows why - but I was blown away.

I was so blown away I even sent an awkward LinkedIn message to someone I worked with years ago who was the VFX Supervisor - which I never do, but I genuinely wanted him to know.

I’m so happy to see fans coming out in the subreddits and preaching “don’t believe the hate, it’s so good” - I hope it gets the status it deserves and the Tron universe keeps moving forward.