Gate to the Mind's Eye
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Movie Reviews of Gate to the Mind's Eye
Movie Review: Top quality Computer animation
Summary: 5 Stars
For those who enjoy computer animation this is a "must-have". A surrealistic work of art.Movie Review: Love this
Summary: 5 Stars
The Gate to the Mind's Eye is a wonderful way to spend a visual/audio hour.Movie Review: Better at the end
Summary: 4 Stars
The animation is technically of good quality but some of it is there just to show off how nearly realistic computer animation can be. This is all well and good but has the flavor of the early days of the Moog synethesizer, which tried to imitate real instruments and eventually only mocked them. There is a waterfall in particular which is stunning, except that it really isn't a waterfall, and so what is the point? A picture is better. When the synthesizer started being an instrument in and of itself, things improved, and this DVD improves dramatically at #6, a 20s jazz rehash featuring a chorus line of silver, mechanical parrots. Very definitely worth seeing. There is some message to it, I fear, but it seems to be about the level of a midnight conversation with a barkeep in a faded and empty hotel bar. The music is good. The music in #7 is good too, the sort of thing that urban music ought to be. Mr. Dolby doesn't present a theme and then repeat it 7 or 15 or 31 times; he does us the favor of considering that we might be sensate. Like all of Mr. Dolby's music, nothing grates, one is fantastic, and the rest is electronic noodling. But my congratulations to him: after "She Blinded Me with Science" and our Fred Astaire parrots, he is now a two-trick pony.Movie Review: Early CG Effects Still Fun To Watch
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an "odysessy through time" via computer animation, supposedly th ework of over 300 artists. Made in the late '80s and released in 1990, this was cutting edge stuff for the day. Almost 20 years later, I still thought it was good and quite interesting in spots.
Most of the short scenes made no sense, just forms evolving into other forms, but that was fun to watch. This is all about visuals, not really about any kind of a story. There were some strange sequences in which odd-looking men/creatures would dance around with birds overheard. All of it is computer animated which was brand new back then.
It's simply a chance to show off this new technology in short bits of cartoon-like happenings with beautiful colors and imaginative scenes. There are no words, just pictures with electronic music. Oh yeah, the music is pretty cool, too!
Movie Review: Boooring!
Summary: 3 Stars
I've seen this piece of work on the laserdisc, and although the graphics are better than "Beyond the Mind's Eye," which is the only other one that I've seen, overall, it was quite a letdown. I expected better music from Thomas Dolby. This could work well as a background piece, but it's definitely not as entertaining as "Beyond."