Every week, Kristopher Pollard from Milwaukee Film and Radio Milwaukee’s Dori Zori talk about movies — because that’s what you do when you’re Cinebuds.
Have you ever played a two-player game where the other person keeps getting in your way, inadvertently knocking you into the nearest lava pit or spiky enemy? Anyone who has ever played any of the Super Mario games knows the phenomenon. Well, this is the podcast version of that — except nobody rage quits.
To clarify, our hosts didn’t exactly see eye-to-eye on Tron: Ares, Disney’s latest attempt to breathe some life (or put another quarter into) the franchise that started way back in 1982. In fact, one of our hosts was so “out” on this movie that she didn’t even bother showing up for this episode!
OK, that’s not exactly true. Dori couldn’t quite make this one work with her schedule, and fortunately we had a very able guest ready to step in: local Milwaukee filmmaker James Tindell! In addition to knowing a thing or two about movies, he’s a self-described “Tron superfan,” which means he was either going to REALLY like the latest installment or REALLY not like it.
It turned out to be the former, with the caveat that you need to go in with the expectation that you’re about to see an action-heavy, sci-fi/cyberpunk movie — and that’s about it. No deeper meaning about the perils of A.I. No super-strong connection to the original, although there are several callbacks. Just cool stuff zipping around on screen and blowing up.
Then we have player two. Kpolly felt … differently about Tron: Ares. We won’t get too into the details because his reaction makes for a solid listening experience, but we will say that his main critiques focused on the script and the acting. Which covers a lot of ground.
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