Making movies, especially Ihe science-fiction variety, will never again be the same after Tron premieres this summer. As "2001: A Space Odyssey" was the futuristic film for the Sixties, and Star Wars that for the Seventies, Tron is the film for the Eighties. It marks a watershed in film history — regardless of where the box-office figures may end up — because Tron jolts film a quantum leap forward and into the Age of the Computer.
"Here we are walking on the moon," laments Richard Taylor, supervisor of the film's computer special effects, "and we're still making movies using Nineteen-twenties technology. It's absurd. But Tron is going to help change that. We're going to melt the Naugahyde on the Lazy Boys of America." […]
