jonthomson's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[psychedelic static]

Don't really see the point of it

I suppose some people might find this fun for a few minutes, myself not included. It's just a load of static, the fun is in what your mind does, not the actual flash. Different and original I guess, but not enough for me to like it much.

Psykloak1 responds:

"...the fun is in what your mind does" thats the point. ^_^

[The Beefy Animation #1]

Eh? What the hell was that?

All it was was two people talking very very quietly at a bus stop and not being very funny at all. And I don't know what you're "half dozen people who saw the first Bus Stop" reference was about. I've seen it and there's no relation to it whatsoever. Dull and pointless.

Beefy1 responds:

uh, my first Bus Stop flash (which I don't think is even on Newgrounds any more) had my 2 characters saying the same kind of thing.

[Battle for the Portal Pt1]

I don't have that bad a computer, surely?

OK, there's no question that a lot of work went into this. The 3D graphics look very good, people clearly love it and the idea of a NG battle as it were is an excellent one. But I couldn't really enjoy it as for me it was only moving at about a frame per second. On low quality. I don't exactly have an awful computer (it's about a 1.3ghz), but surely it would have been better to sacrifice some quality to improve the framerate. I really couldn't enjoy it very much considering that on my machine it ran worse than a dodgy movie downloaded of Kazaa. If it's my computer it's my computer, I can only rate what I see.

SecretAgentBob responds:

Hmm... very odd. Did you have any other windows opened in front of the movie (not actually overlapping, just active, like a pop-up ad)? Sometimes that can slow things down.

Anyway, sorry it didn’t play right for you.

[Megaman: Vengeance]

Just a trailer really

From what I can tell from the comments, this has been posted effectively as a trailer. What'd I'd say is that it's a much better than average sprite movie - there's a lot of action on the screen at one time, and it all runs well and has some good background music. The finished version, if it carries on as good as this, should be cracking.

S-c-r-a-t-c-h responds:

Well it's not really a trailer, cause it doesn't have scenes from all the parts of the movie. It's actualy just the first 1/3 of it. But yeah, I'm hoping the finished result will blow this out of the water...!!!

["Last Man on the Moon"]

Cool music video related randomness

Starts off as not a bad music video, and that's decent on it's own. Then the clock based comedy takes over and gives the movie the little bit extra that makes it special and saw it win a daily feature award. Funny ending, adding some cartoon violence which always seems to work. Each of the segments would be fine on their own, put them together and we have a winner!

AsthmaticHamster responds:

I like to juggle with white cats
(Traduction : randomness rulz!)

[Get Ur Check On]

Really bad

That wasn't funny in the slightest, indeed in someways it was so bad it was disturbing. Short, below par in the graphics and sound departments, doesn't appeal to me at all.

JGold responds:

"In the slightest?" Who the fuck talks like that? And as for your other comments, why don't you watch it again or actually make a damn movie before you judge my graphics and sound.

[lll_NG Tribute_lll]

Not a bad tribute

Tribute seems a bit of an odd word for it, but I suppose it's sort of suitable seeing how you're using the Pico characters. Not too bad, OK comedy with a cool twist at the end when Tom arrives. You might want to not have the sound playing while it's loading, not a big problem but it does annoy me slightly as I can't just mute the flash without muting Winamp playing MP3's at the same time. The actual music was good though!

alexsmolik responds:

Ok, I'll reconsider that for my next flashes. I will start the sound when you press the PLAY button, when it's finished loading. Ok, I can do that ! Sorry if it bothered you.
Yeah, maybe Tribute is a big word, but I couldn't come up with something ...
Thank LT for the actual music !!! ^^
Thanks for the nice review man !

Alex

[Ghost Motel 3]

Best in the series so far

Although this episode featured less interactivity than the previous two, it's probably the best of the bunch so far. The movie continues with the plot of the first two Ghost Motel flashes, and has a fair deal of interesting and funny moments. A little bit of violence, and it's possible for GM4 to go in many different directions. The voices still weren't great and were quiet in places, but overall it's a good job.

Violet-AIM responds:

I wanted this one to focus more on the story part, thus having less interactivity. Thanks again.

[Ghost Motel 2]

First one was a bit better

Personally, I think the first one was a bit better. This episode carries on in the same vein as the first, and has a bit of plot progression and the same interactivity which made the first Ghost Motel cool, but it just didn't seem as interesting. Still above average and worth looking at, but you need to watch the first one before seeing this.

Violet-AIM responds:

You're right, it's better to watch the things in order, just the way you're doing right now, since it's a continuing story. :)

[X A Stick And A Clock]

Well, it was better than stick man

Kind of makes a point, then chucks in some violence for good measure. The sound was good, although I suspect that took up a large chunk of the filesize. Nothing great, but it's better than that stick man thing you did ages ago and it's better than anything I could do.

XwaynecoltX responds:

Ok well thanks for the review, yeah it was from along time ago, you might want to check out some of my new stuff like P-Bot which is in the dress-up series page aswell, or mine and violet-AIM's work of ghost motel series 4 awards out of 5 movies in the series isnt tobad...

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