Trigger Happy
produce an ET videogame, was so confident of its success that it produced nearly six million copies. One fly in the ointment: the game was terrible. Gamers aren’t stupid. Most of the cartridges were eventually buried in a landfill site in New Mexico, where one hopes they will eventually provide some amusement for archaeologists in the distant future.
Films based on videogames are even worse, as anyone will testify who has giggled throughout the truly spectacular artistic abyss that is Street Fighter: The Movie, starring sex symbol
Postproduction computer manipulation of the film image is increasingly common; director George Lucas even prefers to modify his actors’ performances digitally, so that a performer’s frown in take six might be mapped onto his forehead in take three.
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