I think some people just can't get past the idea of their little baby getting rewired with a new coat of paint. I feel like this is just another example of some jaded old fans getting a chance to take a little jab at it. That seems to be the crux of a lot of adult cartoon humor anyway.

I enjoyed Legacy, but I have a lot of older friends that did not. When old properties get "reenvisioned", lots of the OG fans like to moan about it. I'm a big horror guy as well, and I can't think of a genre that gets rebooted more than old horror movies. I was pretty butthurt when a reboot of Fright Night was announced. Even though it had little to do with the original re: story, feel, and aesthetics, it turned out to be quite fun! And guess what, IT DOESN'T CHANGE A THING ABOUT THE ORIGINAL. I feel the same way about Legacy.

I'm still bothered as hell about the Evil Dead reboot, but hey - it might be fun. But even if it is, there will still be people like the Futurama guys to make fun of it no matter what.

I once heard a radio host refer to "Tron: Legacy, the unwatchable."

My only thought was, "even if you're not a fan, you canNOT tell me you can't think of a lot of movies that have come out recently that are TONS worse..."

Honestly, I can't see what's to dislike (and I can be very critical of stuff, movies included). It might not be your cup of tea and so you might not actively like it, but to say it was horrible? Hardly. Except for stuff we nitpick here, the storyline mostly made sense; the acting wasn't awful; it had good action scenes; it had fun CGI; the score was nifty; it had eye-candy. So what, exactly, was the problem?

Discrepancies from the original? Sure, but that's a fan nitpick, not something the general public would find fault with, since most of them probably hadn't even seen the original; hell, some might not even know it WAS a sequel.

I haven't watched Futurama since they made that joke...seriously! I watched it all the time then they crossed the line so no more support from this User!

I hate to say it, but it's just Fry being Fry. Leela mentions an opinion on something and Fry over zealously jumps onboard. It's hardly a joke. It's like whenever Family Guy wants to comment on Barbara Steisand having a big nose. There's no joke, they're just stating something they claim is a fact.

It's kind of the main reason I've stopped watching television. Why waste my time listening to people make humorless references to pop culture when I can actually be entertained by watching a movie…like, TRON: Legacy!

how sad, well. His loss

BigE73 Wrote:Just a thought on this; I simply think Matt Groening is not a tron fan at all. in the Simpsons episode, Treehouse of Horror VI, they take a jab at tron too. Not the original video, but the original audio is in this youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFfHP8zmQY

NOPE, that joke is just a playful jab at the fact that everyone loved CGI animation in the 90s, and few people had watched TRON, the movie that started it all.

Yes, that futurama joke was stupid, but they can't all be good

Let's face it guys, Tron series & Tron fans are the black sheep of the sci-fi world. Don't you feel that way? We are the underdogs. We are lucky to get media coverage, our "parent company" Disney doesn't seem to fully support us....yet there we are.

If Thor 2: The Reckoning is coming out the same year as Tron 3, it will get more exposure and backing from sci-fi / comic mainstream. But, Tron....quietly....will eventually outperform whatever "flash-in-the-pan" franchise is on everyone's radar at the moment. Twenty years from now, people will still be talking about the Tron series, regardless if any new movie is made.

I don't mind the underdog status, I kinda like it.

Can't say that I'm disturbed by anyone's opinion of the film. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, I'm just explaining what I took from it. Considering that it seems the only characters from that episode that have seen Tron are Homer and Chief Wiggam (the two "stupid" characters) it seems to imply that only the stupid people would have seen it, while everyone else didn't give it a chance, or just don't remember watching it.

Seems like a dig on Tron to me. Not that I could care if people don't like the film, but if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... you know the rest.

Honestly, I like Futurama, not so much the Simpsons anymore, as after so many seasons, it just got old for me.

I can take a joke, trust me. You read too much into my opinion on the subject at hand. I believe Groening is simply not a tron fan. Simple as that, and he's free to love it or hate it in that regard.

I tend to side with 82's opinion that the Tron franchise is viewed as the red-headed stepchild of sci-fi, which is no problem with me, since I'm into all kinds of bad Sci-Fi films, although I think many folks don't give the Tron films enough credit, since in many ways, the film was ahead of it's time, and the sequel was way better than many like to admit. In several aspects, Legacy was superior to the original in my opinion (plot was less confusing, VFX were great,, etc) all done without totally trashing film cannon for fans, yet appealing for a wider audience at the same time.

Still, some people just don't like it for an array of reasons. No skin off my nose, as I have a 3D Bluray of Legacy, Fry didn't destroy it, soooo......

Hell, I liked John Carter too (But I was a fan of the Mars stories from Edgar Rice Burroughs as well; It's an aquired taste I suppose)

Overmind Wrote:This "joke" just fails. See.. I wholehartedly hate Titanic, but I would never say it is a bad movie. From the bottom of my soul I hate TMNT. My guts hurt whenever I se some clips or when anybody endorses it. But I would never ever say it is a bad movie. For that "joke" to work they must target a film where there is an universal agrement that the film sucks. TRON is just not in that targeted area, whatever anyone might think of that franchise. If I were to pick a movie to hunt Down any copy of it would be X-men 3

A TRON fan that hates TMNT?????????? MADNESS.

How do you feel about Transformeres, Ghostbusters, Back the the Future,?

Honda Enoch Wrote: Overmind Wrote:This "joke" just fails. See.. I wholehartedly hate Titanic, but I would never say it is a bad movie. From the bottom of my soul I hate TMNT. My guts hurt whenever I se some clips or when anybody endorses it. But I would never ever say it is a bad movie. For that "joke" to work they must target a film where there is an universal agrement that the film sucks. TRON is just not in that targeted area, whatever anyone might think of that franchise. If I were to pick a movie to hunt Down any copy of it would be X-men 3 A TRON fan that hates TMNT?????????? MADNESS. How do you feel about Transformeres, Ghostbusters, Back the the Future,?

I grew up in the 80's so I love all those But I could never like TMNT. Its just the way it is, some likes the mother, others prefer the daughter But I would never claim it is a bad franchise.

BOUNTY: They had a variation of that same joke on the Big Bang Theory. It was even more missplaced there.