Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Beneath the Sheets]

This should be on YouTube... LOL

Not a bad little offering here - much better than your Hay Wars submission, as the video quality has improved a lot - moving the camera around less has helped this a lot.

I like the way that you added the extra footage of the ghost moving around after the first few pieces of footage. What I would have done is a quick trace and put a barely noticeable image over the top of the video, so the really eagle eyed viewers could see that you were actually putting a ghost in there. What you need is to make it almost imperceptible, just like they do in things like 'Most Haunted' or any of those other fake ghost shows.

Punchline was nice as well - will we see a sequel to this at all? Dammit, someone's drunk all of my beer again! or something along those lines...

[Review Request Club]

Fro responds:

Believe it or not the video quality was worse, but we got rid of that by making it darker in the house and not having too much light around. It was so dark that you couldn't tell that it was bad quality. A sequel? Not anytime soon with us going to different colleges in about a week. I was thinking about how to make a sequel just in case though and I think it would turn out good. It won't be for awhile though. Anything coming from me in the near future will actually be flash. Thanks for the review.

[When I'm Running]

Nice work

I think that this piece definately needs a voice actor to make it better.

The animation is good, but it will improve with practice, as the movement of the running man looed a little odd. Watching people running will certainly help - concentrate on the broadcasting of the olympics, as the long distance runners can really help you there.

I wouldn't mind seeing other scenarios that you've come up with, as it provides something else to let us look at in a sort of mini-series for your jogger.

[Review Request Club]

OxSox responds:

For the first time in three years I regret not having regular access to a TV. As you can tell I'm a runner (or was before I met Mr. Achilles a few weeks ago) so I'd love to watch the long distance runners just on principal. But the olympics rock and I can't watch them... very sad.

Anyways I can't really see myself making this into a series I mean the whole surprise and humor of the movie would be nullified by repeating the joke in other circumstances. I mean, I suppose if I came up with really clever variants it'd be good, but it's much easier to just make new things ya' know? Thanks for the review though.

[Secret To A Long Life]

Funny

Great animation, proving that the old ones are the best ones. I think that this proves that the whole world is trying as hard as it can to push through evolution, despite the fact that we have no natural predators (Genocidal maniacs aside, that is)

Survival of the fittest is maybe a lie, but it fits in well with this flash, as the symbolism is clearly there - keep yourself from the bad stuff and you shall have yourself a happy, fulfilling life - unlike that chap there :P

Great little animation, well drawn and the expression of shock was awesome.

[Review Request Club]

[Newgrounds: A History]

Not bad...

It's an informative little flash, but it does have a few issues that you could attend to to make it a much better flash. First of all, I'd break down the narrative that you've given, as it's just far too monotone and boring. You sound like a professor, already resigned to the fact that the students are falling asleep in his lectures.

Given that there are good natural breaks for the progress of Newgrounds, you could break it up and put a scene selection in for ease of use.

I'd also be careful of how much you zoom in with the screen shots of the site - it can compromise the quality of the images.

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Insanimation responds:

K, thanks for the review!

I was thinking of doing a scene selection, but I decided against it because...well..I guess I couldn't be bothered....

[The Last Hour: Chapter 1]

Short Chapter

I'd have preferred 'preview' or 'teaser' as the title of the flash, but if that's the way that you want to play it, fine.

I'd suggest that you get yourself a ghost writer, or at least a friend who can look over your writings for gramatical errors, just picking up on how much you wander about with the details on your introduction text. It should read at the front 'A Jaiba Production' or 'A Jaiba Productions Flash' for example.

As for the drawing, try zooming in a little and giving us better detail to the drawing of your spaceship - smaller tools and bigger zoom make the detail pick out a lot better and the result is much more professional and pleasing on the eye.

I'd also give the viewer an excuse to come back and watch the next part - show us things like what these mysterious Jaiba are. Show us some of the plot, without giving too much away and then you'll get people coming back to look at and hopefully be impressed with your work.

[Review Request Club]

Jaiba responds:

thanks but you should watch and review chapter 2 and 3 those get longer and better.

[Crane Game]

I love those games

Especially when certain rubes don't win on them - you know that they're rigged ;)

Still, kudos to Jim for trying his damndest to get what is rightfully his back. I'd have thought that this joke would prove too much for certain animators, but with your style, it really works nicely.

I think you could do with making an anthology of your older flashes, remastered for the curent state of your animating skills - particularly including voices for them, as it would bring it all into line ;)

[Review Request Club]

Jimtopia responds:

I've thought about remaking some of my older flashes, and, if I ever made a DVD of them, I probably would.

[Stuck in the Desert]

How far you've come

At least the humour started off as you meant to go on and proved that anything is possible with determination and plenty of time. I'm glad to see that the original imagery of Jim hasn't changed a great deal in the two and a half years that we've known him.

Stick to it, you're obviously onto a winner :) I've very glad to see that youv'e come on with the addition of extra characters and of course some more developed plotlines and other characters.

[Review Request Club]

Jimtopia responds:

I've been trying to make Jim a winner for 3 years and I think I'm finally on the right track.

[Star Fox: Loopy Battle]

Hmm

Not as funny as the short animation about SSBB, but still amusing and well animated. I think that StarFox sounded a little like Luke Skywalker - was that intentional, or does he actually sound like that, with Wolf sounding like a redneck hick?

Decent drawings of the ships, but I would question the tactic of getting DK off the ship, as Gravity doesn't function the same way in space, so you wouldn't be able to shake him off as easily as that.

[Review Request Club]

[SSBB: Pit's Wii Remote]

Short and amusing

Nice graphics - you really should come up with longer flash, as this one was really nicely drawn and animated.

I think it would have worked better if Mario had caught the Wii Remote and got Kirby to do all sorts of wierd stuff, before kicking his little pink arse all over the ring.

Still, that's just my sense of humour, which differes from this Monty Python style piece.

[Review Request Club]

MCYoshi responds:

Yeah kept this one short, so I could get it done in a reasonable amount of time. Also just trying to see if anyway would be interested in my work before making a big project since this was my first submission. Glad you enjoyed, and thanks for the review

[Hay Wars]

Well...

A couple of parts that you got from watching Naked Gun and of course the Star Wars parodies that have been used here. I think that it's a little too short, has no plot and few laughs, to be honest.

The graphics for the shooting were nice, as were the sound effects. I think that you really need something better for the video software, as without it, it does look nasty.

Still, for your first attempt with video, you've done well, so keep trying.

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Fro responds:

Yeah, I got these ideas from something, but I don't exactly know what. Ever since I started making films I always used cuts like that back and forth. I know it's short and it has no plot, but actually we just made a movie last night and it was like 15 minutes, which made it over 100 MB. We have to compress it so yes it looks bad, but it fits. Thanks for the review.