Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.13 $; site iuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt From: apratt@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies.sw Subject: Re: The Last Starfighter Message-ID: <5800012@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 00:27:00 EDT Article-I.D.: iuvax.5800012 Posted: Wed Aug 22 00:27:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Aug-84 00:45:26 EDT References: <157@sri-arpa.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:sri-arpa:-15700:iuvax:5800012:000:607 Nf-From: iuvax!apratt Aug 15 23:27:00 1984 I would like to add something to this excellent review of TLS... The movie gave itself away to me when Robert Preston (playing The Music Man again) was driving the "car", and, for no apparent reason, took off his human mask. It was gratuitous make-up stuff; there was no motivation for the character to do what he did when he did it. That made me realize that the movie was cheaply put together through and through, and it wasn't likely to get any better. Nice graphics, no plot, white bread characters, but boy, that Cray X-MP sure could crank out those frames... -- Allan Pratt iuvax!apratt