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From: good@pixar (No, that wasn't me with Markie Post on the cover of the Star.)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: The Trouble With Twilight Zone
Message-ID: <2582@pixar.pixar>
Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 00:22:54 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 16 00:22:54 1986
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In article <160@daemen.uucp>, boyce@daemen.UUCP writes:
> 
> The special effects in TZ are fanastic when they use them, (i.e.
> their time travel episode, and the "three wishes" episode.)
> 

	While I've enjoyed *most* of the segments, I've found most of
the FX to range from "cheap" to "cheesy".  It's all to obvious that they
are all done in video.  The arrows in the Cupid espisode were a happy exception,
and the hologram of Kennedy's motorcade was a clever application of an
inexpensive effect, and they were equally clever with the "three wishes".  But
the planetary fly-by in the season's worst episode, "Quarantine" was a prime
example of just how bad video effects can get.

	Maybe I've just become spoiled by good effects in movies.  I'll leave
you to guess why...

		--Craig
		...ucbvax!pixar!good