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Accidentally on Purpose (2009)
I think the entire show was an accident
I love Jenna and I had great hopes for this show, but it was tedious rather than funny. Jenna is a great talent and took the show "Because I wanted to make people laugh again." Unfortunately she got stupid material rather than clever humor, which she's so good at. The supporting actors seemed okay too. It was just bad material and the premise is a little thin to make an entire series about. Sure you could develop the human relationships, but I didn't really care about any of the characters...why would I go through the pain of getting to know them?
I blame first the network executives who seem to have not a clue with some of their choices. Then, the producers for poor decisions along the line. The problem is THEY thought this was funny. Figure that one one out! Ether that or they think we'd think it funny which is pure disrespect for the viewer...they must think were all idiots. I quickly removed it from my Tivo list.
The Last Starfighter (1984)
It's a historic film with a great story,
LSF was the first film to use extensive CG. The story was a lot of fun too and the picture was well made. I still enjoy watching it after all these years. BTW Digital Productions (DP), the company doing the CG work, had to employ a double headed DEC VAX 782 computer to feed their massive Cray X-MP supercomputer. The Cray could not be used directly because of connectivity and software issues. DP was also running a separate farm of Evans and Southerland PS300s for the digitizing/modeling and IMI 500s in front of the VAX 782s, to set up the motion sequences. It took more than six months to render the film's 36,000 animation frames! And their lease on the Cray alone was over $250,000 per month! The situation did not foreshadow the coming digital invasion of Hollywood. On top of all that, the render quality of what we generate in real-time today can actually be better than what they were able to achieve with all that heavy equipment and time. this was only a little over 20years ago. Peter Plantec OrdinaryMagic.com