joeneato's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Passage of Time]

Awesome

Normally I'm not a big fan of the use of textures in clock movies, but you've got a real handle on it. They work with the other elements of the flash to a great effect.
The cinematics are also nothing to sneeze at.

Awesome presentation, overall. Worse movies than this have made front page.

TremcladClock responds:

Normally if I were making a humour driven Clock movie, I wouldn't use textures or nearly this much detail, I was going for something a little different with this film. Thanks for the swell review :)

[~norotical jumbly~]

I don't know how to stream audio clips in flash

It's an event sound, so the lips don't match.

[:: Restaurants ::]

Work on this.

Eventually people are going to stop coming back if every week all they hear is "I don't like public places and I'm a complete shit-faced dick head about it boo boo boo."
Give your characters some depth and consistency. I noticed a call back to the first Foamy's Rant. That's nice, but it's not enough. Foamy shouldn't be defined as "a squirrel that talks and is an asshole," but that's where he's at as far as character developement.
There's no spirit. He conforms to whatever the situation calls for him to. If you're writing on a whim, think about where you trying to take Foamy, and if it doesn't suit him, use another character. Pillze and Bagelly both have well-defined personality traits. They're very shallow, but you've spent some time developing and characterizing them. That's a nice direction to take. Foamy is all over the place, though. He needs something to tie him down and make him more than a thinly veiled mouth peice. He's the center of the entire series, but he's got no soul.
You can't think "what do I need my character to do?" You have to think "what would this character do in this situation?"
Let your character drive your narrative, and you won't be limited to merely reaching into the depths social commentary.

Your animation needs work. What does the back of Foamy's head look like? Does he have a snout? How round is his head? Where do his body and head connect?
You have some drag for in-betweens on the hands, but it's a deformed mess, and it's very distracting to the conscious eye. His hands seem to become a mass recalling white noise for a fraction of a second, then reform in another pose a frame later.

Take some pride in your work. Put some thought into this.
You're selling t-shirts for a character with no motivation or consistency. It hurts your integrity.

[CC-How Jason Got His Mask]

good

I liked the part where he got the mask.

peyoteclock responds:

me too :D

[Exotic Chocolates]

Well, shucks.

I was extremely disappointed upon my initial viewing of this here flash apparatus.

There were no problems with the process viewing it, and I was receptive of the courteous warning forebearing the movie.
However! I must express my reluctance to extract enjoyment of a movie when the main characters have such oddly shaped necks! This flash was a most distasteful side-show of people and creatures with bad necks. I counted two in total from the moment the movie began. You can imagine my disappointment as the situation did not improve! Well into the movie and nary a neck shaped in the way god intended was in sight! Quite controvertible, if I say so myself.

Furthermore, the creature in this short did make any particular display of bearing claws! How are we to differentiate between animal and man in a surrealist state if you do not provide us with a visual depiction of teeth or claws? Most distasteful!

The bespecticled harpy in the black half shirt displayed a rediculous contraption of a hat, consisting of two-toned purple tubes, coming to sharp points in the back of her head. Now, I don't know what province you're hailing from, but I've never seen a female don such an outlandish garment. The metallic objects enshrined in her ears leave the impression of a tribal woman from yestercentury, but the devilish hat upon her head only left me with the feeling I was witnissing a racially biased interpretation of these historical ladies. I'm not accusing you of anything, but maybe you ought to clean up your act a little before you start to draw attention from the wrong sort of people.

Now, the little dickens of a creature that spoke in fine english I would hav initially said was most enchanting, but I was again disappointed, in this instance by the color of his eyes. Such a doleful looking thing could never be properly sewn and stitched into a suitable bonnet for my granddaughter, and my disillusionment was most alarming.

Now as my poor old grandfather use to tell me over a bottle of Kentucky's finest whiskey, fore he moved on to greener pastures, no man'll redeem himself unless it fits his pistol.
So I had a word with my kin about this, and I'm most pleased to inform you that I am not the only one who feels this way. It'd fit you kindly to fix these aberrations and get on back here with a new case to pitch, cause I ain't going nowhere.

Oh, and the flash was pretty bad.

[Justice League: Countdown]

Oh god I miss Blue Beetle.

That was awesome.

Your style is unlike 99% of the other flash on Newgrounds, and your jokes are consistantly funny. It's rare that someone's animations are, above all else, entertaining. You da best.

[151515]

well fuck you let's get the fuck out of here

I was not expecting that.
gg Grey

["Death" of an artist 2]

Your ideas intrigue me

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PowerRangerYELLOW responds:

Thanks good citizen.

[Bitclock Interview]

Nineteen hundred and forty-six.

Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

[Foamy: Hurricane Special]

Bland, in the worst connotation of the word.

The author acknowledges it's simplicity, and says he's not shooting for ratings, so what are we supposed to review? This movie has 3 keyframes. Preloader, screen, end credits. That's a zero. Take the audio into consideration and it's still a zero.

Part of the audio track is spent ripping on people who put their lives on the line to spread information from ground zero. Talk shit about the media all you want, but field reporters are a different breed. It's not their fucking job to pull bodies out. They put their lives on the line to go down there and give a professional word about what it's like down there, which is more than you're doing, bitching about it behind the guise of a cartoon character.

Facinating that you complain about Hurricane Katrina being a hot button issue that will pass in a few weeks, when you make it a point that you shat this out as fast as you could so that it would still be topical.