Tron Ares - Movie Review [Spoilers] - Tech Explained!

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Welcome back to the channel, guys. I hope you're having a great day. So guys, today we're going to talk about— or we're going to review, and it is going to be spoiler-filled, uh, Tron: Ares. Um, and, uh, um, we're going to do something I think no other channel has done so far. We're going to explain the particle laser in the Tron franchise, uh, basically, uh, give an explanation of the physics behind it. And the reason we're gonna do that, guys, um, is because, uh, it just irks me so bad, right? It irks me so bad, uh, that we're at movie 3 in the Tron franchise and Um, you know, up to this point, the technology seems to work just like magic. Nobody really understands it. Nobody really is— it's never really a good explanation for it, and that's hurt many people. So I'm going to do something today to put many of you guys' minds at ease. And when I, um, give the explanation for the particle laser I'm going to do it using hardback science, right? Science that really works, right? And some people are going to wonder, well, where did I get this information from? How do I know that to be the case? And I can only tell you research, right? But in the context and in the confines of the Tron franchise. So we're going to get that out of the way first, and then we're going to go into Uh, the movie, uh, you did it hold up, and I'm going to give my review and a kind of rating or score where it lies within the franchise and so on. So, um, as always, um, you don't want to be spoiled in these type movies if you care and you want to be surprised. Unfortunately, um, I wasn't able to get through trying Ares without spoilers hitting me before I could get— accidentally they came up. I couldn't resist them. I was like, okay, what the heck? And I did get spoiled on some major parts of the film, but it didn't really, uh, harm— it didn't really, um, harm me at all, uh, in it. Um, seeing it play out was still, uh, a treat for me. And so let's talk about the particle laser and then we're going to, uh, get into the, the movie, right? All right, all right. So first, let's get this headache out of the way of the particle laser, right? All right guys, so many of us, if you go back to the 1982 film Tron, right, he gets zapped inside the, the grid by a particle laser, right? And so what this laser does is this— it basically, uh, and I'm going into spoiler territory, right? So of course this is real spoiler territory because you guys know that the programs end up in the real world, right? And so how did it get there, right? We didn't— there was no explanation at the end of Tron Legacy when Quorra and Sam entered back into the real world? How did Korra, you know, get in? Where do her materials come from? And so on and so forth, right? So, um, it was very, uh, you know, very strange. I had some— back then I had strange theories. I thought that it was using the components of, uh, of Kevin Flynn and Sam, and basically Korra was taking up using the, the particles or the whatever store for. And I think that's really what the idea was, right? The, the materials, right? The computer had stored the particles, right? So it was working more like a teleporter. So if I'm not mistaken, that was kind of the idea of it, right? Taking, uh, basically what would be the particles and information of Kevin Flynn, right, to reconstruct Korra, right? And so that's why he couldn't get out, right? Go out with Sam. He wanted Korra to go in his place, right? So I could be wrong about that, but that's basically the idea because you can't get something from nothing, so to speak. So the materials have to come in somewhere. Okay, so how does this work in— how does this work in Tri-Aries, right? So what we get to see in the Tri-Aries film, right? When they're constructing the program's, uh, components into the real world. You get to see something like, uh, this is something we never see in the previous films, but we get to see the particle laser, the Dillinger technology, right? It's acting like basically— it's acting like a, um, it's acting like a 3D printer, so to speak, right? And so I don't think 3D printers was really big when Tron Legacy came out, But several years later, you know, we got to see printers used in Westworld, right? Constructing these humanoid bodies for the hosts and so on. And then people actually started to, you know, purchase 3D printers for the home. And in the home, of course, you know, people were getting, you know, very knowledgeable about, you know, using these 3D printers and using a type of resin, right? To construct, you know, various things. Into our physical world. Uh, so it seems like in Tron: Ares, the way this technology works, uh, we, we get the next step in it where it can do that. It can construct the, uh, materials, um, the raw materials. It could construct, uh, these beings and so on, you know, from, uh, what appears to us to be seemingly nowhere. But is it right? Uh, no, it, it is from somewhere. It's from the physical world. So here's the explanation how it was done, right? So, uh, and this is actually, uh, basically hard science, right, in a sense, right? They're working on right now, and I believe they actually might already have, uh, nanobots, right? You hear ideas like nanites, uh, nanobites. Remember, nanobites are microscopic, like the size of cells, right? They can be as small as a cell and so on. They're basically robots, right? Believe it or not. And so you can inject them in a human body. These are going to be the ideas of the nanobots. But they also can be, uh, basically able to take raw materials from the earth, from the soil, from wherever they are, and they can take these raw materials and they can reconstruct, um, you know, uh, physical objects or, you know, or whatnot, right? Um, you know, whatever, whatever they need, just like a 3D printer, whatever they need to build, you know. Now, of course, in Tron Legacy— I'm sorry, the Tron franchise, right? This is done at a scale that's just unbelievable, right? You know, it's like, it's, it's more, it's more akin to teleportation, right? Um, because it just seems like you're just zapping things out of nowhere, right? But you're actually building up from raw materials from the plane of the real world, right? Uh, let me— let's, let's see if I can find an example of this, right? And then we'll move on to the film, right? Because I just feel like we need to get over this hurdle, uh, before a lot of our minds can be put at ease. Or some people, it doesn't matter, But if you just need to understand the idea and the physics of Tron, this might help put some of you guys' minds at ease. Okay, so this is from a film called Virtuosity. Believe it or not, it stars Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington, right? Uh, so, so many of you probably never seen this film. You probably slept on it. It's one of those type films, but it's a very good film, right? And, um, I always forget about this film, but it should be up there with some of your top sci-fi, you know, uh, I think anyway. But this is like a kind of carbon resin type thing. Just take a look at this, right? Because this is going to help in, in the explanation a little bit.

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Now watch closely at this next scene. Yes, and of course that's a young Russell Crowe. Uh, this is the important part.

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okay, and this is it right now. Look very closely. He cut his finger off, right? He needed to see if he could regenerate his finger, right? And so what his finger does— these are the nanites, these are the nanobots— they're taking glass to regrow the part of the particles and so on, whatever's in the glass, to grow his finger back.

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Okay, so the idea is that the microscopic particles, right, are in this laser cannon, and these microscopic particles are riding the waves of light, right? Because they're microscopic, remember, they're light, right? So they're riding the waves of these laser cannons, right? And as I had mentioned earlier, they're already working on where nanobots, right, can take raw materials out of soil and construct whatever they need to build out of materials that already exist, much like he was able to take the glass, right? This digital being here, this digital being came out of computer. Through this carbon resin or this organic material. And basically the nanobots are able to do this, right? And, um, let's see here. Maybe I can show you a picture of what a nanobot looks like. All right, let's just give you several pictures of nanobots, right? So you got nanobots They're inside the cells, right? Says, um, uh, they're probing individual cells. Remember how small a cell is, right? These things are micro-microscopic. So that means that these things would be able to ride the wave of a particle laser, right? And it could be millions of them. And, uh, basically I see them going through red blood cells, a variety of things. This is a real This is real ideas they have to use in science, right? To have these machines in your body, but they can also, they also have various other properties and abilities besides just, you know, going inside your human body to clean out your cells and a variety of things. They can also just be used on surfaces inside the environment to change the configuration of a wall or building or, uh, create, uh, new materials. Or, or create— or in the case of Trinarys, they would be creating the, the, the, uh, the digital beings, right? These sentient digital beings, right? So that's all you gotta get for that, guys. Let's get into the movie. Okay guys, so we are going to have to deal with some spoilers, as I mentioned earlier, so we can explain the movie and we can talk in depth about it. And hopefully we've given you enough time to go out and see the movie, which I thought was a fantastic movie. I thought it was a great movie. So let's get into it. Jared Leto plays— Jared Leto, right? Leto, Leto, whichever you prefer to pronounce his name is, or however he pronounces it. He's the main character, right? And there's a reason for that, right? So we're gonna go around memory lane really quick, and I'm just gonna talk about how he got to be in this position and who he is really. Now, speculation is some believe he is Tron himself, right? Or like another version of Tron. He is the master controller of the grid, or he becomes that, right? but is he really like a repurposed Tron? Many people think he is, right? It would make sense that he is, uh, but, uh, the movie doesn't explain that, and we can't fully explain that as well. But, uh, he's definitely a Tron-like character, right? So why is he— why are they focused on Jared Leto's character, right, who, who's, who goes by the, uh, the name Ares, right? Well, the historical record of Disney is that during the end of Tron Legacy, right? Second film, right? Middle of the franchise film, which was an awesome film that some people don't like, right? Didn't like, which I thought was crazy, right? It was so many things that movie did so correct. That it goes up there, one of the greatest movies ever, right? And, uh, so I think people who don't like Tron Legacy, they misunderstood what was going on in Tron Legacy. But, uh, we know how that movie ended, right? Quorra and Sam Flynn, Kevin Flynn's son, they exit the Grid, as we explained a little bit earlier in the video. Now, why didn't they just continue and pick up with that? Film, right, as a continuation of that. And we get hints of it in this film. Well, there are many reasons why, right? So let's tell you what happened and it'll make so much sense why they couldn't do that. First part is, remember, they've been, they've been working on Tron: Ares since 2015, right? So why didn't, um, and they were going to stick with the Quorum Sam story, is going to be called Tron: Ascension. What happens is Disney has a big failure in Tomorrowland, right? That's, that's weird, uh, fantasy futuristic city. It's like that when you go to Disney World, they got the Tomorrowland theme park, right? You got that, or, you know, you got where Space Mountain is and all that stuff. They decided to make a movie out there, spent a ton of money. Why, I don't know. Um, and, um, it was kind of crazy too at the point because At that time, they had already, uh, I believe they had already acquired Marvel, right? Um, and so I just thought— and Star Wars was— they were, they were moving toward the first Star Wars, um, Episode 7 had came out, right? Force Awakens. And so, you know, why would you, you know, risk making a film like that, right? So I don't know why they would have done it. I thought it was stupid, but they did it. Maybe they thought it'd be more family friendly. Didn't make sense. They already had the superhero movies for the kids. Um, uh, they were looking for another property, so, uh, they dusted off, um, you know what, they had already dusted off Tron. I'm sorry, the Tron series. But they were thinking about doing a continuation of that. Of course, these Tron films aren't cheap to make, and the last one, although it was, um, I, you know, people thought that was, it was a, um, just an astounding, breathtaking film, right? That I thought should have made a fortune. It didn't, and people didn't quite understand it, and as great as it looked, and, uh, and so, uh, Disney didn't want to take a risk, uh, after they had one huge flop, and they could just depend on the Star Wars and the Marvel as they did, and they did very well with it. They wouldn't need to risk, uh, another flop. Right, and to their bottom dollar. Remember, you know, uh, we're in a Hollywood stage now where everything is about if it doesn't make money, uh, people don't understand the film, that means it's not a great film. So the problem was by the time they turned back to after the Tron, uh, uh, uh, mania, I guess you could say, is growing, right? And people are asking about it from 2015 to 2025. You're getting, you know, remember these actors now are 10 years older. Remember Jared Leto was known as the Hollywood vampire, right? This guy's about 60 years old. He still looks like he's like 25. He takes good care of himself in like perfect shape. It is crazy. Uh, but you know, can you say the same thing for what would be, uh, Olivia Wilde and, uh, Garrett, uh, I forget his last name, who plays Sam Flynn, right? You know, their age, and it don't look bad. They could have still, you know, they could have moved it up, but you also got contracts, right? Uh, you got movie contracts. These things are now 10 years old, right? So what are you— what is the actor supposed to just wait for a decade to, to do a movie locked in the contract? And then they gotta eat. So they got to do other things, right? They got to do other movies, they got to make other obligations. So they probably either weren't available or so on. And then also, if you just use Jared Leto, you get— you don't have to pay two other people, you know? So you're gonna save a fortune there, um, not having to pay Olivia Wilde, not having to pay, uh, uh, Sam Flynn and Garrett Garrett, right? And so, uh, because Jared Leto is a die-hard Tron fan You know, he kind of helps push this idea that, hey, why don't you make me the main character? Since these guys, your contracts are ended, they're going off to do something else. I'm available. I love Tron. And he shows that in the film. I thought he did an excellent job. I liked the film. Now, would I have liked to see Quorra and Sam finish off and explain what happened when they came into the real world? I think that would have been a better movie. Right? Because what they would have done is they would have the— how the technology, what humans did, because, you know, up to that point nobody knew about this technology. They could have went through a film explaining what happened when they got back to the real world. Remember Kevin Flynn was talking about how Korra is going to change the world, and, and this technology was— and I don't know how Dillinger, you know, found out how to bring her back in the real world. I would assume he, you know, he figured it out, uh, he stole it probably from corporate stealing, as you get to see in the film, from his grandson. And so they they use it for war. And whereas the successor to Sam Flynn, they were doing, fulfilling that stuff that Kevin Flynn was talking about. They were growing food, right? They feed the world, right? And doing it in a way that it doesn't derez after 29 minutes, which was the MacGuffin, right? Of course, in the film. All that said, right, philosophically, Tron: Ares is on the level of what you get like in The Matrix films, right? This is really like in that same category, it's on that same level. But I think the issue with Tron, uh, where it just doesn't fall into that, those, that great philosophical film like Ex Machina and The Matrix films, is simply because, um, it, it, it kind of more focuses on being an artsy film, you know what I mean? Like the I, I think that's the main character of, of the Tron movies that you got to put for first, right? The Tron films are like the Villeneuve, um, Villeneuve, uh, uh, you know, the person who directed the Dune movies, right? Before that, he was known as put— creating these great set pieces, and he was known as, uh, creating just films that look very good. And, uh, I, I did like the Dune movies. But whereas, you know, people were saying the Dune films, you know, were, uh, that he did was a masterpiece. I thought they were really good films, right, that looked really good. But I don't, you know, I, I still— and they got, they got as close to doing— I mean, they're almost, they're almost there, they're almost perfect. But I am so hard on Dune films. I feel like Dune, you know, uh, it needs to be perfect. And whereas that got I mean, guys, when I say it's right at the door, uh, I don't know what's missing for me in Dune yet, but, uh, definitely great films. I'm not taking anything away from that. But, uh, but my whole idea was that you got these filmmakers that do these movies and they mostly look good, right? They're, they're all about the, the, the, the aesthetics of the film. And, and Tron: Ares seems to focus on that, right? That, and that makes sense. That all makes sense. But Underlying is a very philosophical-themed film that some people say, oh, it tries to be deeper than it is. But I think it actually is. What I think though is the audience— and this is not an insult on the audience, but, you know, sometimes we just miss things. But I think what Tron is doing is all of those things are there. All that philosophy is there. But it's more so dependent on you to be able to pick it up and understand it and interpret it, right? And so you get a more artsy film, you know, with great music, right? But that's why the music is so, uh, uh, integral to the Tron franchise, the, the music and the visuals, right? And then there is that abstract philosophy you interpret. It's not like The Matrix so much, where The Matrix is, it's just giving you the philosophy pretty much, right? Uh, so that's kind of where I am with that. Um, so of course, uh, another complaint, or, you know, of course what we get to see with Jared Leto is he becomes like sentient human. That's nothing new, right? This happens in the Tron franchise. So a big argument was that, hey, why did he all of a sudden you know, just start going against Dillinger and so on. Well, if he's a— if much like a human being, you know, if you start to experience feelings, right? Uh, yeah. Now the, you know, movies now, you know, it's not like they used to be in the old days where you could sit up, you could watch a movie for 4 hours, right, in a movie theater. You know, they had to cut that stuff down. Now you can't get a movie over, you know, you can't get too far over 2 hours. Now you get like 2 and a half hours, you're pushing it, right? They did the screens, can't be, they don't do that anymore, right? So yeah, you could have went through a whole explanation arc of, you know, how Jared Leto becomes human, right? He becomes central. But do you really have to do that when in the Tron Legacy, right, they do that already? They have the, uh, people like Quorra who just kind of evolve into consciousness because Remember the grid, right, from the first Tron? What happens, what occurs in that film is they're connected, they're disconnected. It's like cut off from the real world, right? And they're just trying to their own system, no longer network, evolving on their own and existing and building cities and infrastructure. And the people, the sentient beings that form out of that, like horror who are slaughtered and killed off, you know, by, uh, a CLU, right, in Tron Legacy. She's the last remaining one. Well, whatever emerged that evolution in the Grid, uh, you know, you could care easily just, you know, uh, you know, explain that to Jared Leto, right? That whatever occurred there, uh, corrupted program, a virus, whatever you want to call it, uh, is in him, right? He's a computer program. So you don't really need a full definition of consciousness to how he got there. All we know is that when he got it, uh, he's his own person now, and that person is going to be opposite from taking orders from Dillinger, right? And so of course you get on with the story, and it's about him now trying to help this, this creator of the, uh, you know, the new CEO of ENCOM, who's doing the proper things with, uh, the technology, right? And, and that's actually explained in the film too, because a lot of people, again, they were saying that why did he help her? Why did he decide to help her? Well, it's explained in Tron: Ares, really, because remember when, um, basically, um, uh, basically Dillinger sacrifices in trying to hack into Income's computers, he sacrifices one of the programs, right? And it's not— it's, it's, it's, it's fully death for them because remember, he can't re-res, right? He can't regenerate, you know, you know, be recreated because of, uh, uh, where he— the situation he has to delete where there will be no per— you know, uh, way to resurrect him, right? Because remember, they don't have the permanence code but they can regenerate themselves after 29 minutes. But now what happens, and, um, you know, they can just keep regenerating themselves. But if your code is corrupted, or this particular part of the grid they're in, right, these wastelands or whatever you want to call it, that the particular situation, uh, when they cut them, they break into the ENCOM computer, he— his code's going to be lost forever, right? So that simulates death for the programs. And Jared Leto was very much affected by that, right? It would be equivalent to a human being losing a friend and your commanding officer, the person in charge, tells you to leave your comrades behind. Kind of like those war movies, right, where you're fighting in a war and within the— in that war, right, you get double-crossed by your commanding officer and he's, uh, you know, he allows a lot of your, um, you know, your fellow soldiers to die, uh, in which you felt they could have been saved. Uh, so this is, you know, so he's turning against Dillinger. That's— I thought that was well done in the movie. Now, uh, my overall review is this was an excellent film, right? We explained the particle laser. I thought that was the most important part. Uh, uh, and as far as the— it's connected to the other franchises, listen, Whenever you have a movie, by the time you get to the third movie in the franchise, right, even if you look at The Matrix films, right, by the time you get to the third movie, uh, that third movie 90% of the time is not going to be better than the second movie or the first movie, right? So I don't know what people were expecting from Tron: Ares. I don't know if they were expecting it to be better than Tron Legacy and be better than Tron, um, the first Tron, but as a complete part of franchise, and it's the third film, I thought it done as well as it should have done, right? And I think it adds a great, uh, element to the franchise, um, in its continuity, all things considered. Because as I explained earlier, you couldn't bring back Korra necessarily, couldn't bring back Sam after 10 years, right? This isn't like a Tron 10 years or a movie 10 years. This is real 10 years, right? People, you know, like I said, you know, they— you know, people can't sit around. An actor can't wait 10 years for a film unless there's somebody like Jared Leto, the Hollywood vampire. And so, uh, you know, I, I hope that makes sense to y'all and they help you give some grace with the film. And then I like how it ends with the grandson basically becoming, uh, the, the big bad villain You know, he escapes because he's— so he's stuck in the grid now, right? He basically zaps himself into the grid to escape authorities, and he overlays himself into his grandfather's program, right? Looks like he's becoming the Dillinger from the first Tron, and he may end up, you know, recreating a Tron much like the first one. And hopefully Jeff Bridges will stop him, right? Kevin Flynn. But then of course, you know, we had the Easter eggs from Kevin Flynn. You know, we had him guiding, uh, giving Jared Leto the permanence code. And of course, we got to see Jared Leto going out to find Quorra and Sam. So for those of you all who want the continuation of Tron Legacy like I did, uh, that next film could be that, uh, and it all depends on, you know, if this film is going to be maybe strong enough to Disney's, uh, bottom dollar. And it could be because it's still a fantastic looking film. Right, it looks great and the music is awesome. Nine Inch Nails, I've been listening to the soundtrack all day, so you guys are probably gonna like that as well. Uh, what would I give this film, right? Okay, the first Tron I give an A-, I give Tron Legacy an A+, and I would give Tron Ares maybe a B+, right? A B+ to a low A, because I do think it's a lot of philosophical things in trying areas, which I thought made it a good, great movie, right? Um, you know, um, also I just found it interesting that— and this kind of made sense to me, this made a lot of sense going with my particle laser theory— and that is when they got ready to— was it called— is it called the rectifier? I think it's called the rectifier. What is it called? The, um, the big, uh, the big, uh, flying machine that is like their, like their ultimate weapon in the Tron world, right? Not tank, not the tank, but they got that big thing. I think it's called a rectifier. I have to look it up again. But, uh, when they're resin that up, right, when they're, when they're printing that out or whatnot, uh, they're saying that's too big to print. You can't print something that big. And that, and that, and that makes a lot of sense because That shows that they gotta have the materials though to create something that big, that raw materials. Like it's not infinite amounts of energy and space that can be done. And if it, you know, and so I just thought that was excellent. And hopefully some of my explanations about how they do this will satisfy you. And if it doesn't, it should. Because I'm gonna have to, I'm going to have to stick with that for my own, uh, uh, uh, sanity because, uh, I need to understand, you know, when they make movies that I really like that are good movies, and I love the Tron franchise, to leave something unexplained is just such a— I know the, you know, back in the early '80s, you know, when they had, you know, it's doing a lot of Twilight Zone type stuff in it. Mostly relied on magic. Now we have things like Black Mirror that it mostly relies on explaining scientific things that are fantastical and that are spooky, right? And so we no longer have to do the magic thing because the magic thing kind of feels lame to a more sophisticated audience, right? But much like The Matrix did a good job of explaining how the technology worked, I just felt like they Could have done that in the Tron franchise, and the best way to have done it would have been to do it at Tron Legacy, right? Uh, the problem with Tron Legacy was it kind of kept that, uh, that, uh, that, uh, type of, uh, uh, format, right, coming from the first Tron. Like, it didn't really want to— other than upgrading the, the graphics and the CGI It just, you know, it just kind of kept the storyline and philosophy. Of course, Trion Aries, that's another reason it gets an A+. We get to see these lasers in use and this feels a little bit more sciency and a little bit more making sense, right? And then, and so, you know, maybe they will expound on that in the future with the future franchise or if they're going to make another one, which they will. They're going to— I don't know how, when they will. It could be another 10, 15 years. Who knows? 20 years, 28 years, but you may see these people again. And maybe Jared Leto will be like, basically be the new Flynn, right? Uh, new Kevin Flynn. But again, guys, that's all I want to say in this, um, in this review. I thought it was a great film. 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