T0MMY's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[FF6 Quest part 3]

Review for "FF6 Quest Part 3"

There really wasn't much this movie wanted to offer to the viewer. Just some tweening of sprites to a rather vague story.

It wasn't terrible, but it looked like you needed to spend a lot more time with it. Make a complete story-- work out a conflict and a conclusion to the episode, otherwise it's just not going to be interesting.

You picked out some nice music, but, like the sprites, you didn't really do anything to make it. It also did not fit well with the story, it was the kind of music that needed to go with a very dramatic scene... and although you may feel that your movie was dramatic, I don't.

Keep working and you'll improve a lot more.

-T0MMY

[Kirby's Kalamity 1.1]

Review for "Kirby's Kalamity 1.1"

First and formost you should get that button working in the beginning. I think it just needs:

on (release)
play

The preloader seems to be just an animation of a loading bar-- it'd be better to use an actual preloader. If you don't know how to make one yet, Newgrounds offers a free preloader.

The graphics are pretty good, but the audience needs to see more animation. The frame-by-frame you did have in there was nice. Make sure the words are easily read, some of the text colors were hard to see against the background. My suggestion: use bubbles or boxes to place the text into.

The SFX and music fit well with the movie keeping it true to a Kirby theme.

The story needs to be more interesting to a Newgrounds audience. But over all it was a decent job.

Keep working.

-T0MMY

[Marcus Peblo!!!!!]

Review for Marcus Peblo!!!!!

There truly was something magical about this movie. There was very little story to it, but I could follow it as though it were part of something much bigger. I see there's more episodes, so I will make sure to watch every last one of them.

The graphics were very pleasing most of the time. Some of the animation was really pleasing, though I wish there were less tweening and more frame-by-frame.

Not funny, not violent, not very interactive... all of which has no bearing on a good movie.

Overall, I really enjoyed watching this short.

-T0MMY

[Grimace is Dead]

Death to the Fast Food Industry

The graphic elements and animation were decent. However the topic and message this movie was conveying was good and well executed. On top of that I very much agree with the message: People are eating too much fast food.

People think eating that junk makes them happy. When they get older they'll realize just how bad off they are. There's a difference between growing old and growing unhealthy.

One problem, which is trivial, but I thought I'd bring it up none-the-less. Fat contains 9 kalories per gram opposed to carbohydrates and proteins which are 4 per gram. By my calculations if the character consumed 67g of fat then he should have had a total of 603 kalories instead of 1549.
Hee hee hee.

-T0MMY

Maurizio responds:

Tommy, lemme just say...I am inpressed. Not only have you left a respectable review, but you are the only one who actually noticed the mistake I made with the carbs/kalories. It'd be nice if there were more intelligent people on this site like you...it just feels good that I know I can get a review without someone saying 'Fuck' ; )

[Vacuum cleaner depression]

Review for Vacuum cleaner depression

I enjoyed the abstract artwork, but felt that there was symbolism that wasn't exploited (or exploited weakly).

The animation was rather timid, but some of the artwork was nice for Flash (eg the hand).

And about Blackmage69: don't bother even reading his review, he knows nothing about art if he thinks all movies need to be funny.

Overall this was a good movie, thanks for bringing it to Newgrounds so those of us with taste can enjoy it. Keep working and you'll produce some very nice movies.

-T0MMY

[Sonne]

Review for Sonne

The movie for Sonne features some of the best work by a member of the Clock Crew - a club notorious for bringing low-effort movies to Newgrounds (I'm not biased agains their movies, I've just seen way too many bad ones). But once in a while some of their movies shines above the rest - this is one of the few that does, unfortunately its shine of glory isn't as bright as a lot of other movies here.

Sonne features only the most rudimentary of character animations: motion tweens. There is no incredible display of movement here, just simple keyframes that has Flash do all the work.

Even though animation and movement is only part of what makes a good movie good, the artwork is almost as abysmal. Aside from the clocks, which are designed by other members, the guards look like gingerbread men cut out with cookie cutters an otaku would own. On top of this I was wondering if the characters were being shot by paintball guns or if those little red dots were actually supposed to be bloody bullet holes. The backgrounds were by far the most impressive artwork - being very stylistic... or maybe just laziness.

But effort put into graphic design and movment of said graphics is still only a small part of a story...

Now, if I knew nothing about the Clock Crew I would have thought this was one weird foreign movie some angry German guy made when he got his hands on Flash. I would admire the symbolism used in spend long days trying to figure out the motif behind fruit and clocks... Germany is famous for clocks... maybe that has something to do with it... Instead I know that all the author did was immitate the Rammstein video, with the "clever" twist of sticking in some clock characters.

The best part of this music video was the music. There's something I really enjoy about Rammstein's work. Unfortunately, I can't rate you based on someone else's work.

I don't know why this movie has captivated such a large audience, but it really didn't amuse me much. Still, one of the better clock movies I've seen, not the best, but I'd have a decent outlook on their work if more were like this movie.

-T0MMY

[It's Turbo Time!]

I <3 Frame-By-Frame

It's always nice to see hand drawn, FBF animation.
The sounds needed some engineering, they sounded too cut. The phrases barely made any sense making the story moot.
But it's got a nice style, even though it's just two stickmen (that's the only reason why I rated graphics low - could have been an easy 10 if it were anything but lines for graphics).

-T0MMY

[The Return of Ganondorf]

Movement was mostly just tweens. I didn't much care for the rehashed Austin Powers humor.
This one was better than most of your other movies.

-t0mmy