Future Sight Collection

Starring:Paul Mercurio, Harley Jane Kozak, Michael York, Maria Ford, Ed O'Ross, Phil Morris, Amy Beth Cohn, Blake Boyd, Rick Johnson, Rod Arrants, Ed Evanko, John Beck (II), Mark Folger, Karen Mayo-Chandler, Christopher Landry, Sal Landi, Patrick Stewart
Director: Michael Boydstun, Albert Magnoli, Ron Fricke
Studio: Simitar Ent.
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

A classic in computer animation.
Awesome animation DEMO!
A winner!
Boooring!
Certainly This was Hot Stuff -- Once.

Future Sight Collection
Starring: Paul Mercurio , Harley Jane Kozak , Michael York , Maria Ford , and Ed O'Ross
Director: Michael Boydstun , Albert Magnoli , and Ron Fricke
Manufacturer: Simitar Ent.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00003OKR8
Release Date: 2000-02-01

Customer Reviews:

A classic in computer animation........2005-10-01

I was just in high school when a new local video store started carrying animated films including this one and some of the others in the minds eye series. Out of the 4 or 5 different minds eye films I have seen, none comes close to the brilliance envoked in this feature. So much is the fact true that I have obtained it three times subsequently after losing the previous copy. It starts off with an apocolyptic war leading to the eventual demise of a planet. It then goes on into the thoughts and memories of one of its inhabitants making for a nice short story encompassed with the first 10 minutes or so. The rest of the film resembles things ranging from renaissance, cave paintings come to life, ancient civilizations, to the more modern and futuristic visuals of animals in their environments, robots, outer space and the unforgettable comedic performance of a parrot singing about money and eyes. Pair all of this up with Thomas Dolby's spaced out and soothing sounds, and you have yourself a contemporary classic that in my opinion can stand strong artistically 100 years from now when animations have excelled beyond our comprehension.

Awesome animation DEMO!.......2003-08-28

This is a masterpiece of computer animation! A real crowd pleaser! It also has a fantastic soundtrack written and performed by the famous rock performer/composer "Mr. Thomas Dolby". You will be consumed by the picture and sound of this video. This title looks terriffic on a large screen. A MUST for your collection!

A winner!.......2003-07-22

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!!

Boooring!.......2003-02-25

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."

Certainly This was Hot Stuff -- Once........2002-10-27

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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