It did suck, but I went because off the novelty then of computer animation. It was eye candy before the phrase eye candy.
No, it wasn’t the greatest movie, but it was groundbreaking.
That’s the thing that I keep trying to impress on my kids - it’s been remarkable to watch the evolution of entertainment. So much has happened in the last 30 years.
Does anyone remember when Jurassic Park first came out? We’d never seen anything like it.
And to think - we’ve gone from claymation and a green screen (Clash of the Titans) to barely being able to tell the difference between real and CGI.
Who remembers watching the lamp play with the ball back in 1990? (Luxo Jr) We knew we were seeing something special then.
I remember watching a documentary on the current status of CGI back in the mid-90’s. One of the geeks said, “The first person to build a program that can make a realistic depiction of hair will be rich. Hair’s hard. That’s going to take another 15 or 20 years.”
About 5 years later I remembered that fellow as I watched Final Fantasy with my kids.
So yes, I pay homage to Tron. we were allowed to see something that we’d never seen before and it was special.