Infinity's Child
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Movie Reviews of Infinity's Child
Movie Review: Good but Definitely Could Have Been Better
Summary: 4 Stars
This CGI movie is not for anyone looking for a movie with meaning. As the artist pointed out in the interview, the images "do not have any meaning" and the things are just imaginary images. Also, the movie starts with a commentary that the fleet is moving out to a location which is believed to be a "gateway to realities beyond",.... "a bridge to a shift in consciousness gateway world"... Well, does this make sense? Don't try to make sense, any sense of this movie. This is what this movie is about---simply an imaginary exploration of worlds in space, fancy images, eye-catching colors and reflections... right up to the end of the approx-40-minute movie. The commentary at the end of the movie is just a commentary... try not to make any sense of it... Certainly do not try to debate about the statement that "everything exists".What this movie suffers is perhaps it should have held the idea of travelling more closely than at times producing scenes which doen't quite look like scenes but say, a pattern tesselating at a fixed position on your computer monitor. The effects could be better if the artist make the scene more like a scene---for example moving within or across the tesselation. Unfortunately there are quite a number of scenes that do not seem to be so, only more than tesselating patterns at the center of the computer monitor. Some images look rather 'flat' and nothing of a virtual world in space. These should have been taken out or improved.
But on the whole, the imagery was great. Great artwork... lots of reflective surfaces and also "fluid" stuff... The music was nice and suits the images and changes in scenes.
Greatly appreciate the work being done but I wouldn't say that it is good to the point of being described as stunning... but it is a good piece of work.
The interviews with the 4 persons was a plus. Here they talk about the issues related to the production, etc... and I share the same view as the artist's that the computer is capable of showing an artist's imaginary world and his enthusiasm in CGI.
As a final assessment whether you might like this movie, download and watch the trailer at www.inifinityschild.com (over 19 MBytes) which contains quite a number of the better scenes in the movie. If you are not a great "fan" of Computer Graphics Imagery, this sort of movie would be rather boring to you.
I would like to give this DVD 3.75 stars... almost 4 stars.
Movie Review: the daydreams of a moody supercomputer
Summary: 4 Stars
This DVD is all computer generated video in the same manner as "Planetary Traveler" but with much higher image complexity and quality. Planetary Trav was said to be the visual flight logs of spacecraft surveying eight worlds, but in "Infinitys Child" a much larger number of survey craft scan several superdimensional realms having mile high liquid metal tidal waves, colored chrome moving mountains and transparent morphing icebergs. The soundtrack is less musical and more "musical sound effects" than "PT" and the voice of the opening narration is not as good. The soundtrack is most impressive for use of low frequency transients, which are best heard and felt through the powered subwoofer of a good home theater system. Many of the sounds were deeper than the THX intro on DVDs of digitally mastered movies. Infinitys Child is a good reason to own a DVD player and a good powered subwoofer!Movie Review: Not as much of a story as Planetary Traveler
Summary: 3 Stars
I was sort of disappointed with this one. In Planetary Traveler you got the visual flight logs of a star faring race called the Phleig and their search for a world from which they could leap to the next level of existence. In this movie a ship has found it so the others come to explore and in my view the story starts to slip there. You get a short view of mother ships and small exploratory craft leaving them to head for the new world. They very quickly cross over into another realm, it's just a picture show from there on out. Technically Infinity's Child is a great improvement over Planetary Traveler, everything is much more three dimensionally rendered, the colors are great and the fluid effect in some scenes is amazing- too bad it's just a picture show.Movie Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I love computer graphics and bought this DVD looking for something interesting to put on in the background when I've got people visiting. Unfortunately, although there were a few scenes that were pretty cool the majority of the graphics were boring.Movie Review: 60+ Chapter stops of useless video
Summary: 1 Stars
Let's get something straight, animation is a lot more than moving images on screen! How could Jan Nickman been allowed to produce such a vapid foray in computer animation, let alone win awards for it. First some details: it's about 40 minutes long, includes a Dolby 5.1 Audio soundtrack, it's Full Screen (4:3 aspect ratio), not much af a menu to speak of and very few Extras.Where is the character development? Where is the plot development, beyond the poorly written and equally poorly annuciated voice over track in the begining? Where are the award winning aminations and score worthy of a Grammy nominated composer such as Paul Haslinger? Where is the magic from animation wizard Rodney L'Ognion? Oh wait, they don't exist. At least not in this film.
As for being a "trip film", it's a trip best missed. All told, this film is yet another example of some half baked idea sold to those who need to be fully baked to watch it.