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Summary: A big disapointment and a nice surprice.
Review: (The Gate To The Minds Eye) I've been watching the "original" version of The Gate To The Mind's Eye on CDV for a few years and it still is on my personal top ten movie list. However the quality of this DVD is strangely divided into good and bad. Some of the content is perfect and some is really bad. Lower quality than vhs. One thing that this DVD atually have improved is the sound. It is encoded in 5.1 and I found a lot of new sounds not found on the CDV version, but sometimes the music performed by Thomas Dolby suffers when the effects sounds has a greater volume that the music has. Still The Gate... is what it is and I give it a ten. ------------------- (Televoid) This movie is much darker in the compilation of it. The Gate is by me seen as a film explaining one way of destroing the earth and the nature's rebirth of it again. Televoid is more about the dark side of life. Death, skeletons and strange psychadelic artcompositions together with true rock'n'roll makes televoid more an experimental movie than a beautifull one. Quite interresting to look at, but in some places just a copy of The Gate.
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Summary: CyberSpace-Stories mainly in LawnmowerMan-like scenes
Review: A must-see for any lover of Computer Generated Art and stories. The plot is nearly non-existent, in my opinion, though many have said they don't understand how I can say such a thing; the graphics are enough to make up for it. Extremely cool. I would suggest this to people who are fans of animation.
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Summary: Both titles are great for one low price
Review: Am I seeing the price correctly? Two great DVD's for such a low price! Wow, you have got to pick up these classics for the music alone. These are must own DVD's!
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Summary: Can that price be right?
Review: Am I seeing the price correctly? Wow, you have got to pick this classic up for the music alone. A must own DVD!
Rating:
Summary: A winner!
Review: Based on the other reviews I thought I'd give this a chance - and
I'm glad I did. The music is fantastic - I would enjoy owning this DVD for the audio alone. It's not recorded in 5.1 or DTS -
however it you have a Prologic II receiver - the sounds are seperated nicely, and the affect is almost as good as 5.1 audio.
The animation flows extremely well with the music, and like most individuals who enjoy this kind of entertainment - it sends your mind in flight to the heights of imagination. Strongly recommended!!
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Summary: On the Top
Review: Doesn't matter it has some time in the market: It's remaining on top!
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Summary: Certainly This was Hot Stuff -- Once.
Review: For 1994, this might be Something. Actually, if i recall, it's actually a bit behind the State of the Art, even for 1994. The objects, although appearing detailed and free-moving, actually are not particularly so -- like all limited animation forms in the hands of someone who understands what the technique's limitations are, these segments have been designed to play to the form's strengths and conceal (as much as possible) its' weaknesses. Unfortunately, they're not always successful; the early flying sequences, especially, exhibit difficulties in orienting objects preciselyand in being exactly sure where a moving object is. Other sequences show the results of barely-sufficient processing power, which limits how smoothly things can move. (The tiger, particularly, moves like a bad marionette.) If i read the end credits -- which run a bit over ten minutes for a fifty minute short film! -- correctly, this film is made up of a lot of material created by various computer animation experimenters/artists, recut and patched together, with a "soundtrack" of songs composed by proto-techno composer/performer Thomas Dolby to sort of fit with what's onscreen. Mostly it comes across as pretentious and jumbled. Not unlike "Fantasia 2000", most of which is boring, pretentious or just plain silly -- or all three at once, for that matter [the flying whales, for instance]. However, also not unlike "Fantasis 2000", which includes the simply marvellous (and Warner Bros like) "Rhapsody in Blue" sequence, this film contains one marvellous sequence (the title of which i do not know) -- the sequehnce with the eyeballs fighting for the TV remote controls and the dancing money/eagles; even Dolby's music actually pretty well matches up to the action (though the lyric mentions a Lincoln Town Car when the Big American Car onscreen is actually basically an early-60s Cadillac). In fact, while that sequence was running, not having checked the credits, i suspected that i was seeing a sequence written and choreographed by the Residents... All in all, this looks like something that ought to run on a screen behind a Pink Floyd show. Or should have, ten years or so ago.
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Summary: Certainly This was Hot Stuff -- Once.
Review: For 1994, this might be Something. Actually, if i recall, it's actually a bit behind the State of the Art, even for 1994. The objects, although appearing detailed and free-moving, actually are not particularly so -- like all limited animation forms in the hands of someone who understands what the technique's limitations are, these segments have been designed to play to the form's strengths and conceal (as much as possible) its' weaknesses. Unfortunately, they're not always successful; the early flying sequences, especially, exhibit difficulties in orienting objects preciselyand in being exactly sure where a moving object is. Other sequences show the results of barely-sufficient processing power, which limits how smoothly things can move. (The tiger, particularly, moves like a bad marionette.) If i read the end credits -- which run a bit over ten minutes for a fifty minute short film! -- correctly, this film is made up of a lot of material created by various computer animation experimenters/artists, recut and patched together, with a "soundtrack" of songs composed by proto-techno composer/performer Thomas Dolby to sort of fit with what's onscreen. Mostly it comes across as pretentious and jumbled. Not unlike "Fantasia 2000", most of which is boring, pretentious or just plain silly -- or all three at once, for that matter [the flying whales, for instance]. However, also not unlike "Fantasis 2000", which includes the simply marvellous (and Warner Bros like) "Rhapsody in Blue" sequence, this film contains one marvellous sequence (the title of which i do not know) -- the sequehnce with the eyeballs fighting for the TV remote controls and the dancing money/eagles; even Dolby's music actually pretty well matches up to the action (though the lyric mentions a Lincoln Town Car when the Big American Car onscreen is actually basically an early-60s Cadillac). In fact, while that sequence was running, not having checked the credits, i suspected that i was seeing a sequence written and choreographed by the Residents... All in all, this looks like something that ought to run on a screen behind a Pink Floyd show. Or should have, ten years or so ago.
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Summary: Top quality Computer animation
Review: For those who enjoy computer animation this is a "must-have". A surrealistic work of art.
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Summary: just buy it and enjoy!!!!
Review: I didn't know what to expect. To be completely honest, I didn't know what it was when I bought it by accident. It literally blew me away when I watched the 1st time, the 2nd time, the 3rd time, and every time since. I would recommend however that you pause the screen after each segment to give the details a chance to set in. It starts great and ends even better!!!!
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