lai@topo.UUCP (08/31/87)
I have had the pleasure to see the movie "Disorderlies" starring the
Fat Boys and Ralph Bellamy. Needless to say I found the music def, the
storyline stupid, and the acting ill. However the big surprise is the
use of the AMIGA computer (sans Mouse) in many of the scenes. In one scene the
AMIGA monitor animates a heartbeat, in others it is being used on the
desks of various business executives. However the best scene shows the
Fat Boys accidently destroying the AMIGA and causing everything to
short circuit in the mansion (Perhaps the AMIGA can be marketed as an
expensive fusebox :-( ). Their last movie, "Krush Groove", didn't get
any nominations for Academy Awards... I expect this movie to do just as
well. If you've never seen the Fat Boys (or heard their music) than I
highly recommend seeing this film. If you've heard Fat Boys music
before, you probably want nothing to do with them, but go see it for
the AMIGA. If you've seen it already, go see it again, 'cause I said
so. Disregard all other movie reviews, I rate it ****.
PS. Does anyone know whether Disorderlies made it to "Dog of the Week" on At
the Movies.
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The above views are products of my sick mind, and not of GenRad's.denbeste@bbn.COM (Steven Den Beste) (01/08/88)
I just got back from seeing a movie called "The Computer Animation Show", which was a compilation of computer animation. (Hence the name.) Amongst all the animations produced by a thousand Apollo workstations, or Cyber 855's, or Cray's, or Synthavision, there in the middle was almost four minutes of animation called "Dance of the Stumblers", by Steve Segal. The credits say: "Done on an Amiga 1000 in Steve Segal's bedroom, using Aegis Animator". By the standards of the other things in this collection this one piece was pretty crude - it didn't even approach the sophistication of some of the better things we all know and love. (I suspect this was intentional - by using very stylized images certain very nice transformations were possible that more realistic images would have prevented.) However, it was amusing and moved fast and had a catchy ending. Loosely, it consisted of some bluish stick figures and some reddish stick figures ostensibly dancing and doing acrobatics, but ultimately they began to fight. At the end after lots of carnage, one of the blue figures shakes the hand of a red figure in peace... ...and a large red Guru box drops out of the top of the screen and crushes them both. I almost died. I bet not one person in ten in that theater understood the true symbolism. Another vote of confidence by the professional animation community: The Amiga was the only "affordable" computer represented in this show. [And what were the best crowd pleasers? Uh, er, "Red's Dream" and "Luxo Jr." by Pixar got the most applause. (ACK! Hide under the table before they start throwing things at me!)] -- Steven C. Den Beste, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge MA denbeste@bbn.com(ARPA/CSNET/UUCP) harvard!bbn.com!denbeste(UUCP)