[ethbr1]

Well said. It's amazing how often people dismiss computer visualization in media (< ~2005) as "unrealistic."

That's not the goal!

It's intended to be representative of the process of interacting with a computer, not the interface itself. At a time when most viewers had little or no first-hand experience with a computer.

If you showed a CLI then, maybe 1/20 people would understand it, and they'd be bored because they used it everyday at work.

[necrotic_comp]

That's exactly right! I didn't see hackers until I was in my mid 30s, but when they had the initial flyover of the city representing tables in a database ... I had a moment where I said "my goodness, this is the closest representation of how I think of data".

It's like when you're reading a book - you don't think about the words, the concepts and people come to life in your brain. I feel like this is the only movie to get that that happens with computers, too.

[chromaton]

"I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day, I got in..."

[secretforest]

Tron Legacy. Such a good film. My kids and I watch it a few times a year. I tried watching the original from 1982 and it just felt so... dated? Perhaps I'm spoiled like most people from all the great CGI and effects.

[ethbr1]

Would recommend reading a background on how they made Tron 1, then rewatching.

If nothing else, it's fascinating from a special effects technical standpoint, for when it was made.