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Re: Why not wait
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:59:33 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Dave Schuler writes:
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> > And what was with that stupid big-mouthed, big-toothed
> > singer they added? The CGI was terrible, at least as bad as that insipid
> > "Blarp" in Lost in Space. Every second that thing (the singer or Blarp) was
> > on-screen, the quality of the effect was sufficiently poor to distract from
> > the scene.
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> The running joke among my friends is that the Stupid Little Spacemonkey
> ("Blarp" from Lost in Space) should have had a meter over his head, ringing up
> the number of dollars from the SFX budget that were going to animating very
> second he was on film, as opposed to going to something useful.
Watching the previews or end credits or something (I don't remember -
I *tried* to put that movie out of my mind), you see that the Spacemonkey
grows up to be a big monstrous space monkey when they cross continuums.
But either they ran out of money to animate the larger version of it,
or they just decided it was a stupid subplot, and, with that left on
the cutting room floor, the monkey was singularly useless. He was
supposed to have SOME utility to the plot, later, as a threat.
--
jthompson@esker.com "float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| (...) Ran out of time is most likely -- I know they certainly were frantically rendering scenes for it on the supercomputer here at BU only three weeks before it was in theatres. (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) The running joke among my friends is that the Stupid Little Spacemonkey ("Blarp" from Lost in Space) should have had a meter over his head, ringing up the number of dollars from the SFX budget that were going to animating very second he was on (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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