Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Week 1]

Ah, confidence issues

Standing there, practising his phone voice, only to have the phone ring unexpectedly and the confidence flutter away, like a rare bird from an ornithologist.

I think that there is a good basis for this piece, but you really could do more - the joke with the phone ringing was pretty good, but perhaps have a little more stuff going on in the background. I know you paid attention with things like the fish food, but something going on out of the window could be a nice bonus to this piece.

[Review Request Club]

[The Seafather]

So... what's the link?

I'm not sure I get the link between the two pieces - the fish with legs, standing on a beach of some sort and the lines from The Godfather, aside from the mumblings, but at best this is a poor impression of Marlon Brando, to say the least.

The fish itself was reasonably well drawn and the lip sync does need some work to get it all together well. From the outset, there is no real background to speak of - if you're going to do a scribbled picture background, do one like that, but zoom out, to give more of an impression of detail in the piece, that way it looks a lot more effective.

[Review Request Club]

[Duality Complete]

Shame it wasn't longer

Ah, a nice refreshing piece to view after such a melancholy day. I love the way that you've constructed this world and have given both sides of the piece an avatar of some kind, to give some sort of personality to the metaphors of Machina and Natural effectively living at odds with one another.

The pencil sketched piece was great for the portrayal, but the video quality did let it down a little - not necessarily your fault, perhaps something to do with the conversion software or compression. Perhaps you need to ask Tom for a bigger allowance to upload these files to Newgrounds? Going over 10 meg would give you better quality and allow you to really push the boundaries with pieces like this.

I really would love to see if this story leads somewhere, as I do feel strangely unfulfilled by watching this piece, as if it is leading into something bigger...

[Review Request Club]

Weenog responds:

Thanks for the review, Like you said it's the conversion software that made it all pixelish. But you can check my profile for a youtube link if you like. I should familiarise myself somemore with flash in order to make larger movies and do something about that quality and lack of preloader, and i will...in time ^^

[Night of the Living Clock]

I wish you'd animate them...

Fortunately, this is a while ago, with your animation resume, so there is still hope! Get out there, draw some good images and animate them properly. From here, you'd be able to capitalise on the effect of the zombie flick and at least have a little combat, before CorpsegrinderClock knows that it's too much and he blows his head off.

I'm hoping that you're able to come up with something for Clock Day this year, as it would be nice to see a very well thought out piece that really does give us a feeling that you care about what you're producing. I like the additions to the images, like the blood and the wounds, but it's not quite there. Drawing a watermelon is simple enough, followed by putting a clock face on it. The clock animation style is one of the easiest, so keep working at it and show us what you're capable of!

[Review Request Club]

[this movie is about robot]

Sort the sound

You need to get a better quality sound recording for this, as it's quite loud and there seems to be quite a bit of static coming from the speakers when this goes on.

As for the animation, you're just moving still pictures and it looks like you're making no effort to make them seem animate - the robot slides along the floor, with the same pose and doesn't have anything else to make it look like a legitimate animation. The backgrounds are pointless scrawls of colour and you really have made no effort at all.

If you wanted to make an effort, get the plot going, which I would assume is about the robot learning human emotions? From there, develop a story and get it all worked out, before making a decent attempt at a flash.

[Review Request Club]

[FutureShock]

Ah, psychology!

The idea of someone getting freaked out by a radically different time is nothing new, but the way you have done it works, with a practical joke gone radically wrong.

I think that you need subtitles across the bottom of the piece here, since it seems that the sound is muffled for certain lines. With the way that everything else works, it does make up for it a little, but the discussion at the front door was a little muffled. Perhaps have the one clock start the other laughing and they both laugh together and then calm down before Patriot returns?

The other think I'd suggest is that the pieces move while they're talking, instead of the speech indicator. That would make your piece work well.

[Review Request Club]

PatriotClock responds:

Thanks

[Dont Shave Pubes On Plane]

Well...

Shouldn't it have been a "Pubic Service Announcement"?

With the way that you started this piece out, you've got a balance of satire, sick humour and some interesting effects to make the film look older. I love the use of Troy McClock as well, as that makes for some interesting comparisons with the Simpsons.

Sure, it was an 11/9 joke, but we could all see it coming and there was a groan from the audience, mainly for the fact that we knew it was corny, as opposed to being offended. I did like how you'd doctored the CNN footage (Clock News Network?)

[Review Request Club]

PatriotClock responds:

Haha thank you

[Bahamut's Bday Card]

Happy Birthday, Bahamut!

Well, it's a simple concept and the way that you've expressed a lot of good feelings for the Wi/Ht members for their favourite dragon. A shame that no-one here actually gave him a present of any description.

The program there is simple and all I really need is for Bahamut to give us a password to get in to the secret letter, though you could keep it a secret and petition Tom for an NG Secret Medal to get the secret password figured out, before moving on from there.

[Review Request Club]

ThePigeonMaster responds:

Thanks for your review and for your time in writing something special to our favorite dragon.

It means a lot for me, and of course, Bahamut :P