myTHself's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Archers Sense]

sounds good!

just to counter the bloke who said you need more sound ... you don't! your film was tight as. more background and we wouldn't have got the 'sniff...' you built good drama in that little film. your graphics were fine if a little dull... but you excelled at the character expresion and the way you built the movie up in cuts, close ups etc. didn't much like your opening shot, town and country... found it a little confused... but you know... pretty good work.

[Comfortably Burning]

colour with in the lines... narrrrr

you pick a song and illustrate the lirics.... colour by numbers.

but it went up to 100 and you stopped at 37... your 'illustration' of the lyrics was unimaginative (thats not at all to say your illustration wasn't accomplished),,, if you start with a song don't end there also... use it as a 'starting' point... oh yes its harder... but if you use a song like this and develop a storey board from your excursions,, trips if you like!,, you'll soon have an orignal movie and not just an illustration... the song will accompany the pictures and not vice verser... draw what the lyrics don't say... and
oh, with ref title,,, you want to edit the site... apply for the job... democratic stuff is more often populist but populist gives access to viewers... theres lots of private clubs, newgrounds may not be too select and maybe there should be a room where all music video and game character driven tedium should go first only the best getting to sit with wholey origanl content... along with movie action homage but start splitting up the house to much and the oportunity to reach big audiences for independent and original film makers is also fractured... or well...

[8mm project: Me]

sentimental

sent I mental?

what a lovely family you have. which is nice. erm... isn't it all wonderful... and isn't it all awful... lack of contrast. i don't know,,,
you made yourself a pillow and 25,000 others lay their heads upon it, including me - good job i washed my hair this morning... errr maybe i got to wash it again now... watching your film didn't make me reflect up on much or my self... but it was technically adequate... hmmmm mythself.

[Noah - A Short Film]

nice original storey...

i liked your storey... quiet, thoughtful... giving critique - the dailogue of the fellas in the bar after the hero left was a little clumsey... in fact all the dialogue was a little clumsey... and maybe they said a bit too much... but i liked the raining boxes final scene... unfortunately i thought your animation in and out of the box and the animals them selves let the film down a little... but you got your storey over well ... and i liked the message. thanks

Siard responds:

Thanks! I aprreciate your comment:)

[The Parental Mask]

facing up to it

liked the heresy stamping machine, but i like factory metaphors.

your film made good use of tv ad parody... your graphics were expedient, communicating imediately,, my favourite sort... the smiley mask itself hasn't got me ringing up but as a cog in the larger workings of your film,, its adequate. i'm a bit lost with the expressionist reference, i figured your mask to be a kind of smiley... not somthing linking back to early 20c expressionist... theater?... but you're right they used alot of circles too but i think the smiley reference is the one that stands forth and works on my mind - and the mind of others?... (and i've done my bauhaus homework- [maybe the smiley icon 'has' expressionist origins....?]) any ways its all POPular art now,,, especially on new grounds...!

oh, and your script was tight and delightfully dry...

look forward to seeing more of your work.

HeresyInc responds:

I use the term exressionism a little loosely. TO me it means any art that expresses the artist thoughts, feelings, or emotions.

[Painless Agony]

chopped scenes

i wouldn't have finished it either... errr or started it.... but i liked seeing your outakes along side the actual... i figure the whole set of scenes gave some insight into the construction and so deconstruction... the main cartoon seemed set in the country and the cop car so urban it had me puzzled from the off... then on seeing your out takes i see another context... what i liked about it was the overlaying of all these film snippits you enabled my head to do by presenting them as separates... the experience was novel evan if the cartoons storrey wasn't... as to your intension (?)

oh and i delished in that horizon change thing from cop car on-coming to axe man looking-out-toward... lovley effect...

Killjoy-popsickle responds:

Thanks heaps Yeh It was going to be almost completely to music without sounds so the scene changes were intended to make it smoother.. ANyway thanks lots