The Gate to the Mind's Eye

It rocks man! Perfect stuff to put on the tv screen with the sound off and play comething on the stereo! The images seem to go with any music! The city scapes look like Blade Runner. It's better than that stuff in Lawnmower Man! Lots of emryo-like images...

When I looked and saw that this movie had only been rated by 49 people, I was surprised. I mean, the music is genius, the animation was way ahead of its time, and only 49 people in the universe care enough about it to review?

Man, are the people of the world missing out. Thomas Dolby is a musical genius, and the people who did the animation spent loads of hours on their pieces. I think this movie deserves more than what it is getting.

I first remember seeing it when I was in third grade. My mother was the head librarian at that public library, and I was nuts about the 1st mind's eye. She finally just bought that one and this one for me so I'd quit checking them out... o_Ox This is definitely worth your time.

I like this film a lot, only discovered it this year, I've Alysa's had the taste of electronic music and the weird visuals which I love, but not supposed to say because you'll have to Watch it yourself. Thomas Dolby is a musical genius as everybody else may have said, the former mad scientist who composed Hyperactive! and that video was funny, strange, but good and May The Cube Be With You which is also great, I like his music, but haven't the other film he composed which was Gothic, got the album, but never played it. This film was forgotten because most people like proper movies rather than musicals, but I liked it.

For those that remember Thomas Dolby only for "She Blinded Me with Science", you have a real suprise and treat in store. Dolby has moved on and shown how good he really is, doing the score for this movie. Part of the reason I go on about this is I discovered the soundtrack before purchasing the video (and later DVD).

The computer animation for 1994 is very well done. It could probably be done in real time today, but it's certainly very impressive even today at the detail that was done. The journey starts with the end of the world, moving along though the birth of a new world, following evolution and history, with Dolby's brilliant music helping set the tone and the pace.

The blend of music and art makes it a must buy. No extra features, it's not even 5.1, probably one of the first DVDs made. But it's still worth it.

I remember short scenes from this movie being aired on TV1000 (or was it CANAL+?) when I was younger. I had just bought a book on ray-tracing and was wondering how did they do that outstanding animation when it took an hour of my puny PC to render just a simple scene. I never knew the name of the movie - they just aired uncredited parts of it on the TV to fill the gaps in the schedule. Some days ago I found it by chance and I'm very happy - it brought me back to my happier childhood :)

Overall - great music and great animation. Very advanced CGI scenes for the time of its making. And the music blends flawlessly with the video. It's definitely not some random 3DS Max video & electronic sound compilation like the ones creeping around nowadays.