Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!JoSH@RUTGERS.ARPA From: JoSH@RUTGERS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Last Starfighter [no spoiler] Message-ID: <2087@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 01:54:16 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2087 Posted: Mon Jul 23 01:54:16 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jul-84 04:43:03 EDT Lines: 29 From: JoSH Coming out of the theatre from The Last Starfighter, the following conversation took place between my wife and myself: me: Some of the scenes were synthesized by computer, could you tell which ones? her: Of course, it was obvious. me: Well, I guess they haven't gotten to the point where graphics are indistinguishable from live action, but I thought they were pretty close... her: It looked pretty indistinguishable to me. me: But you just said-- her: I was kidding. I have no idea which scenes were generated. Well, now. The review of TLS I read in the newspaper gives no hint that the reviewer knew that the more spectacular half of the sets existed only in the imagination of a Cray X-MP. It has only just occurred to me that a large segment of the viewing public may not realize it either. --JoSH "You're having a terrible nightmare." -------