jonthomson's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Road]

Dull, needs worked

I'm quite surprised this wasn't blammed to be honest, but you've got decent animating skills - the backdrop was nice and the man walking looked realistic enough. But that's all there was - there was no story, no sounds, violence, no nothing. It's just one big animation loop, good as it is. Build on this and make a movie with substance next time.

[Resurgence]

Cool Clockday animation

Enjoyable short, nice idea and concept, and it was funny. Not too short or too long, it just worked nicely. Maybe could have used a little more animation, but what there was was smooth and looked good. Nice work!

[Skateboard'n Advanced]

Short and boring

The skater does (slowly) a nosegrind then a flip thing grabbing onto something above the ramp. Then celebrates, gets hit by another skater who then shoots himself. It's dull, short, boring and not very imaginative.

[That guy can break?]

Short, repetitive breakdancing stuff

The animation was OK, and the House of Pain sound clip looked alright. In essence, however, you simply did a very short animation and looped it forever. It didn't look too bad but after ten seconds we'd seen it about five times and we're done with it.

[BEER DEATH]

Funny Simpsons esque humour

That red stick guy reminded me of Homer Simpson a lot, with his sheer dumbness. The random music helped things, and the chase scene was comical. Graphics were below average - basic animation and backdrops, but helped in places (the chase going to the pyramids was funny). Ending was a bit poor - it would have been better if when he said "faster than a speeding bullet" he got shot, for that added irony factor. Fun.

[Bar talk]

Turn it up a bit!

It was OK, but the sound was too quiet and it was very difficult to understand what the two guys were saying half the time. Hence any jokes or anything would have been somewhat lost on me. And since the movie is just a sound clip with a few bits of small animation, that's quite a serious fault.

[How to win a LAN game]

Strangely violent

Rather too much violence on display there, it went from lots of violence to funny excessive violence to not funny excessive violence. The chainsaw noise was awful, but countered by the good music (think that's also used in one of the Madness movies). Nice concept, it's tacky but funny.

[Jed's Other Poem]

Great music video

Grandaddy rule, and the Sophtware Slump is a great album. This is a nice movie to go with the track, very fitting and well made. It may have been better if the audio quality was made a bit better at the expense of the filesize, but it came through well enough to make sense. Nice job, care to do one for Hewlett's Daughter?

[NicNac]

Intriguing short movie

Didn't make much sense at all, but it looked pretty good, and had pleasant sounds and just seemed funny for no apparent reason. Maybe best experienced when drunk, I guess.

[the big fight]

Incredibly poor

Only reason this gets 1/10 is that it's so bad it's funny. Two stick men, not even well drawn, one ball thing which is motion tweened at the other guys head, which then turns into a load of red pen. All 7K is incredibly bad, and not worth watching. And it's on an infinite loop.