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| ACTORS: | Odyssey-Mind's Eye |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony Wonder |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Animated |
| TYPE: | Classics (Silents/Avant Garde) |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 074644992793 |
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Customer Reviews of Odyssey: The Mind's Eye Presents Ancient Alien
Appreciate it for what it is, not what it isn't Technological advances being what they are, this made-for-DVD medium was already dated by the time it finally made it to DVD, no argument there. <
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>But this is still a nice piece, essential for chill-out rooms everywhere. The visuals are soothing and, in my opinion, absolutely charming in their cubist simplicity. The music is a perfect match, as well. <
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>The length of the presentation is a double-edged sword for me. Yes, 45 minutes is too short when you're interested in seriously veging out for 1-2 hours, but it is the perfect length to pop in immediately before or after work/school when you have other things to do immediately afterward. The only thing I'm not completely thrilled about is the lack of a 5:1 audio track (who knew home theatre would be such a phenomenon when this was originally produced all those years ago?). <
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>Still, as eye/ear candy, it's hard for me not to recommend it. It's no longer cutting-edge, but if you know that and if it's an old-skool experience you're after, give this a look.
Dated, depressing, pixelated, ugly, short
This is nothing like the other Mind's Eyes, which I still enjoying viewing today. This one looks more like the first DVD of X-Mix: a lot of "flat" looking ancient 3-d graphics that crossfade back-and-forth, and end up being repetitive. Hardly anything in the other Mind's Eyes ever repeats. Actually I think some of the scenes in this (like the white rocks flying to and from the distance) were IN the first DVD of X-Mix from 1994, so I'm not sure why they were reused in 1998 (when this was released). And the first DVD of X-mix is almost 3 hours long, while this is only 43 minutes.
This also has that weird Playstation non-interlace problem (unlike other Mind's Eyes) where only every-other horizontal line on the screen is generated...and thus twice as easy for computers to generate, but which looks cheap. So the horizontal lines are jagged, most things are excessively pixelated, and there is no detail. This would probably look better on VHS actually, because the distortion would make the non-interlaced problem smoother. If there were at least more bright colors (like the first X-Mix), that would be SOMETHING, but so much of this is in BROWN and GREY that it looks depressing and ugly like a rainy day.
Most of the movement is the slowest I've seen so far, so this might be good wallpaper for DJs who play slower R&B. But if you play fast music like I do, then the other Mind's Eyes (and even the first X-Mix) are much better wallpaper.
Good Stuff!!!
I'm glad this title is getting better marks than it did
in the past. I felt it was getting a bum rap. This is
one of my favorite CGI dvds. It does what it's supposed
to do. Entertain. It's one of the best in the Mind's
Eye series.