Tron: Ares - review

Story - stupid.  Explanations not offered.  29 minutes & then bye bye.  How's that work?!?!  Don't say.  Permanence, how's that work?  Dont say.

So if we ignore that glaring oversight, how about the fact Jared Leto keeps breathing / sighing in the grid?  Is there now air there?  Maybe, bc now there's also water.

If we ignore all the liberties with Tron story-line (and 'canon'), the badly filmed fights where you can't see clearly the action, and the 'we can immediately generate things from nothing on the grid or real world' without explanation of how rules of physics no longer work BS, then ...

Also a moment on Jared Leto choice -- ignoring his baggage of being accused of criminal behavior with underage girls -- the guy doesn't represent any aspect of tech or VR or AI that I could see.  The fact that his beard wasn't precisely shaved into crisp lines was annoying, yep.  His walk was awkward, strange.  I'm very curious why anyone thought he was the pick for lead here ...?

I really liked the 3D printing style creation of stuff.  It looked cool.  Would've been great if they had elaborated on the insane cost of that setup or the cost of printing humans...?

The story line is also flawed.  Good CEO grieving vs Bad CEO who's trying to be more daring than his mama.  And the climax is Leto goes to Europe and has a croissant?!?  WTH???

Lastly, if govts could insta-generate armies of sci-fi murdering robots, the Earth would flip.  It would be a nightmare.

Anyway, I love the old neon-glow and the vehicles, just wish they could make a storyline that matched the first one AND not blow the whole thing.

NINE INCH NAILS music was THE highlight.

Entrepreneur vs FEAR

 Fear = False Evidence Appearing Real 

Its so powerful, tangible, physical.  I hate it, its nonsense, it feels like it wins and I lose.

I briefly had a video production business started in 2008 just before economic downturn.  I made more in a few weekends (~$10k) than I was making at my well-paid 9-5 corp job, so I quit.  And then, the econ crashed and so did my baby biz.

During my biz months, I shot & edited 2 commercials, a music video, and a coach training event.  My fees were reasonable.  I hired 1-2 people for each gig, and they were paid well enough.

For two of those gigs, there were hiccups.  

One commercial the producer tried to change my pay.  We fought, and I still had the footage, so she paid my pre-negotiated rate.  That was unfortunate because she and I had been acquaintances for a long time before that, & I never understood why she tried to do that, but that ended that.  (She also later dropped off the map & later re-emerged in a different state, so who knows?)

For coaching seminar, my editor friend got me the gig, and I was to give her the unedited footage to cut.  Customer changed her mind and wanted the raw footage, so I gave her my footage when I got paid -- but I explained it needed pro editing to look & sound great.

She was very disappointed when looking at the raw footage, which was unfortunate -- but clients should never look at raw footage, but instead can preview edited rough clips.

So now I want to do it again, but this time with different focus -- I am not making videos, I want to make things we haven't seen before.  😁

rekzkarz.com is back!

On a whim, I checked if rekzkarz.com was still a Chinese gambling site.

Nope!  Woot!

So I searched cheapest spot to buy domain and got my domain back for 2yrs!  Yay!

rekzkarz.com is mine!

Its always easier to remember this URL over rekzkarz.blogger.com or rekzkarz.blogspot.com or whatever the heck it is!

Anyway, Im happy to be back with my domain again even if the Internet has really changed over the past ... 30 yrs?  😁