kospas's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sunburst Island]

Ok

Only reason I protected this was that it wasn't some cheap stickfight.

[Knoxs "The Matrix"]

I hate to say it...

But I'm acctually starting too enjoy your work... It's against my flash principles too enjoy imported videoclips in flash... But this thing is just so funny! Well It's acctually your clay I don't like. Goddammit I was small chuckling all through the movie. The first scene and "Order Pizza"- scene was so fantastically classic.

[One Ring to Rule ThemAll2]

A fair review.

First scene starts pretty cool. Good fitting music that really gets you in the movie . Kind of dull though when you realize you just have the same theme as One Ring 1, the "Too Rule them all!" joke that Is not fun for smart people over 15 more then once. Voice acting is at this point very good and accurate.

Then It's credits time, and for the 1000nd time you let us know your name is Joseph Blanchette and you like to call yourself "LegendaryFrog". I'm cool with that. Really nice text BTW.

Then the movie goes on. Nice character design of both Sam and Frodo. I'm not into that kind of humor though but still pretty kewl. The theme sometimes, at least for me, gets a little too corny and just kind of comercialized really. I do think that that the conrny characters of Sam and Frodo are funny though. Great both voice acting and timing allthrough the movie. I don't like the scene when Sauron are chasing them in the room though, It so typically corny LF-cartoon. The end is really cool. "I need too get BroadBand!" :)

The movie is overall pretty good acctually, very thoughful with a bunch of qualities listed above.

[Ask Jerome #13]

I laughed my ass of.

Its really fun the picture slideshow- this one? or this one? HAHA Its a really good series you got there Jerome.

[Ask Jerome #2]

Akjoroem

Hehe. That was pretty funny. I think yor a highly underrated arist.

[The Ten Commandments]

Your flash kind of suck...

But still there is somthing new and interesting in your movies- and most of all they have a meaning. Most other flash on NG are just commercialized bullshit... seriously.

You could maybe work a bit more with your graphics, have different scenes, zoom, change view, just to make the toon funnier and pleasure us viewvers. ^_^. Good voiceacting and lipsynching though.

[Knoxs "Resident Evil"]

I'm gunna give you a fair review

The first thing I see Is an Imported videoclip. It gets extremly pixelish. Almost so pixelish I just can't see one damn thing. Then some sort of narrator talking with some retard voice trying to be funny. Interesteng... I don't really like it though, pretty bad voice acting. It aint funny. I get bored after about 45 seconds.

For some reason I continue watching, and I can't belive it, but It aint really that bad. The jokes still aren't very funny but They still are ok listening too... The jokes acctually seems to have a meaning... Wow- I haven't realized that until now.

I just hate that you don't draw yourself. To me it's much an indication that NewGrounds is less and less about the most important thing in the world- Art. It makes me sad though, that people having other styles, like serious movies, often gets their stuff raided just becuase of the prebubes at NewGrounds don't understand them.

Another reason that I don't fancy your style that much is, sadly, becuase I think this will die out pretty early. You can make a comparasion with popular music, the music made by bands like the Beatles, Eagles, Rolling Stones and so forth-people still consider their stuff as fricking masterpieces.

The stuff made today Hiphop R&B- It's commercial bullshit that will only last for the day. On the other hand stuff made by metal Bands like Nightwish or Dimmu Borgir still have more of a melody. Do you see my point?

The same you could say about you art- yes I will call It that way. A Knox work, I think, will never be compared with stuff by Michelangelo or Rembrandt or Leonardo DaVinci. Maybe something made by a great artist called CharlieZero will. His pieces are unique and they contains one of the most beautiful work in flash of all time. Real artists are in my opinion the ones that have dedicated their life to their art- not buying a 50$ webcam.

I guess you got something new though ... Left me with an overall ok impression.

Knox responds:

ha ha..well.anything can be art,not just drawing...maybe you said that but my eyes hurt from reading,and maybe the serious stuff on newgrounds gets low scores cause it sucks?um..this inst rap or music,this is a stupid site with people who make little flashs.
by the way.. the $ gos before the 50,not after ;)
what else...yeah.. dubbing can be an art,anything can be an art!...my eyes..really hurt from readin and i got people lines before my eyes,from your review,from staring and reading.
but thanks! :)

[Mario vs. Sonic 46 (VGDC)]

Hehe

Wierd shit man. Atleast Sonic featured and It made me surprised so I give you an overall ok.

[Random Violence]

Magnificent

Great animation. Really smooth, frame by frame animation that needs great talent to look this good. Kind of reminded me of a vastcool or synj cartoon. An original, cool and fun story, Too god damn short though.

simon-himself responds:

thanks for appreciating this animation :) I very much like synj's animations, and whilst no where as good as his i tried to go with that smooth simplistic look.

[Enya Africa]

cool

I liked It. Nice tunes and a good video. It looked like you had had some sort of reference to some of the pictures, hedn't you? I know it's hard to draw on the computer, graphics definatly needs cleaning up, especially the ones of the wild animals. Would look alot better if you just had different tones of the colors (like shading and brightness), otherwise they look a bit pale.

The last scene, when you say africa and the clouds was a bit long and It really didn't happen much, maybe you would wanna fix that for next time...

Still a good Job.