On the eve of Joseph Kosinski's newest 30-years-later sequel #TopGunMaverick, let's take a look at the movie that jumpstarted the career of one of this generation's most idiosyncratic and effective action directors.

The Legacy of Tron: Legacy is a complicated one. The film is a gorgeous testament to a singularly slick vision of cyberspace, but it also kicked off a decade of lazy, hollow "legacyquels," a genre that became more about our relationship with a piece of media than it was about the media itself.

But there's something in Tron: Legacy that breaks that mold and manages to resonate beyond the slapdash legacyquels of the 2010s: a thematic core that's surprisingly deep, a forward-thinking style that goes beyond the aesthetic limitations of the original, and a real willingness to experiment in both tone and form.

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