jonthomson's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A quickie...]

Some good bits, some bad bits

The stick walking looked very poor, jerky and unnatural. But the first car to run him down looked pretty good. Music was OK, not sure how you could improve the stick walking - I guess try looking through a few tutorials and other similar movies to get ideas.

mighty-max23 responds:

whell thnx for the review

[John's Arm 3]

Brilliant comedy

This is another great installment of John's Arm, continuing with the same madcap humour as the previous episodes. A good plotline, having two separate plot arcs which were both funny in their own ways. Great drawings and animation as usual, but I thought the sound was a little quiet. It doesn't get much better than this.

mikethepod responds:

Once again you have made my day sir! Thank you very much!

[Mission: Final Fight 2]

Decent stick movie

I was torn between giving this a six and a seven overall. It's got a decent storyline, lots of action and violence, and some of the animation is good - but I kept thinking that the movie is trying to be lots of other movies all in one, and not doing it hugely well. I didn't really like the style of the sticks, in places the animation wasn't that good and the backgrounds were rather plain for the most part. All in all it's better than average, but it's nothing spectacular.

millix responds:

You should of gave it a 7... :).. glad you liked it... You're cool... unlike Eddie Gaylin.. Peace out!
PS: Thanks for actually pointing out the problems instead of just saying "BLOW ME GOD DAMMIT!!!"... I will make the Mission: Final Fight 3 much better than this one... Thanks for the review.. :D

[Kung-fu 8-bit fight]

Gotta love kung fu

I love it when people take 8-bit classics and remake them in completely mental ways. Like Kung Fu on acid, this is ultra violent, with a couple of random influences keeping you on your toes. Another fine video game parody for NG viewers to enjoy.

DarkDisguise responds:

Thanks maaaaaan!!!
Another to enjoy?????? naaaaa your kidding me right :D
well saionara Jonthomson

[Newgrounds Jam #1]

Christ that's good

Wow. When I thought it wasn't possible to come up with an original idea on NG, you've all gone and proven me wrong. Each of the five segments are hugely individual in style and content, and are all very good, yet they all stemmed from the same cool piece of music. This is a fantastic piece of flash work. The only small gripe I'd have is that due to the nature of the project, each of the movies seemed a little short, probably because the music wasn't that long in the first place. But that's a very minor quibble. The best thing I've seen on NG for a long time, nice job all of you.

T0MMY responds:

Well, I wanted us to each do a stickman movie featuring Matrix and Dragonball Z parodies, but it's a good thing we came up with something a little more original ;)

The segments do run a little short. The file size is large despite that, but luckily we got in all 5 megs worth.

Thank you for the review!

-T0MMY

[Newgrounds Museum]

Brings back the memories

Great job with this Pox - sure brought back a lot of memories from the days where Assassin was Newgrounds, when Cat Dynamics was updated and Club a Seal was still popular. Very nice drawings, shame the sound isn't looped that well as those are some nice clips. Also contains a surprising amount of NG information which is pretty useful. One for the older users to enjoy and the newer users to learn from, good stuff!

poxpower responds:

Yeah, good times. My only regret is to not have visited the BBS sooner. I sure missed on a LOT :(
Now the BBS kinda... sucks. Its been going down the drain since 2002 it seems. oh well.
I know, those sound loops aren't tp notch, but its all that was available at the time. I SWEAR!! they forced me!

[Zman]

Great for a first go

I liked this - it's cute but sad at the same time. Nice little story, simple graphics but they work with good smooth animation, and the music was great. You ought to try and make a series with this character, I thought it was good. Nice job!

TheBoob responds:

thanx for the review and input and thanx for the reply in the forum, i guess my movie will forever be lost in the portal after now, but who knows. I am planning on making a series w/ this guy but adding other characters and working w/ a good friend of my for artwork, thanx for the help

[Bud Bonanza EP1: Trailor]

OK trailer

Saw your request for reviews on the BBS - it should be an interesting series and one to watch for, but just make sure that the final movie has a coherent storyline and makes sense. You've got ideas, the visuals look OK and you've chosen some good music (that Manu Chao track is great, even if it doesn't fit in really), just make sure that the end product has a point to it basically.

swaenK responds:

ya, the end product will be much better, its just i have been workin on it for about a month, and I didnt have anything to show for it. So I submitted a couple clips off the movie for a trailor. Kinda stupid, but I guess tahts what impatience does to you. Thx for the review.

[Jim The Slug (#1)]

OK short

Not a bad short, the character has potential and with some better storylines could go places. This story was simple and fairly funny. I liked the music which suited the film, although I agree with sk8boardclock that the background scenes could be better. If you do another, try adding a couple of characters to create some plot progression or something.

XwaynecoltX responds:

Well this was just the start, and it was abit dry with the story, i was going more for the different views shots, and the backrounds i thaught they were just fine, and in any series there has to allways be more then one character thats a must, anyways thanks for the review...

~X~

[(junk)VG Life]

Not very good

If that was your "most humourous" submission, I'd hate to see the others as I didn't find that funny at all. It's just a random collection of sprites interacting with each other in a tired, predictable and boring way. The sprites move well but that's to be expected as an absolute minimum in a sprite movie. If you do make the next 75%, please make it interesting.

TheComet responds:

The next 75% should bring the humor, by then the plot will have been developed and you'd get some good humor...that and because this movie is going to feature over 30 different VG characters :P