Goatlord's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Raditz]

Uninspired, repetitive, generic.

The backgrounds were decent and the manner in which the scenes were played out wasn't half bad, but this movie is boring and the concept has been done to death. If you bothered to put so much detail in the backgrounds, why make stick figures with hair? And with no explanation to anything going on, including who any other characters are or what their purpose in the movie is, or why the fight takes place, you become bored rather quickly. The fight scene is just as uninspired as any other stick fight or DBZ ripoff. Honestly, if you want to make a movie, come up with an ORIGINAL idea, or if you're going to base your idea off an existing media, try to make it seem obvious. Plan things out with more thought instead of just making random stick characters fight for no apparent reason. I'd also suggest NOT using Linkin Park in the background, both that song and band are used far too much in Flash movies, and it doesn't fit the atmosphere of this movie at all. Please also use traditional text dialogue instead of your own, it's very sloppily written and nearly impossible to read.

[Kegel T2MASET]

A realy change of pace for Kegel.

I wasn't aware this was the sixth episode, so now I'm going to have to watch the previous five! Even so, this was amazing. The visuals were very colorful and stylized, the storyline was original, humurous and interesting...this really just hit the target in every way possible. It's hard to complain or even make positive comments on movies of this caliber. This is very profressionally made, very well thought out, with clever humor, great voice acting and memorable dialogue.

[Clown Tech Support]

It's like Fox Trot meets Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Does anyone else see the resemblance between Kegel's voice and that of Conker? Anyway, this was great. I hadn't seen any Kegel movies in a long time and this recent one is excellent. The animation is a bit choppy, but that's easily forgiveable. The way this was executed was perfect--the rather absurd manner in which tech support was satired was great. I loved how for some reason the technician was a (judging by the background music) a French clown who nearly splattered his brains upon learning Keg's a Mac user. This was brilliant. The voice acting was also top notch, as was the cartoonish but not generic music that followed.

[Captain Lou]

This is one of the greatest videos ever.

What more can I say? The visuals went along so perfectly. This wasn't just random images flashing every few seconds. Neil finds a way to make them interesting and funny, animating them in just the right manner to go perfectly to the beat of the music. His warped sense of humor also made for some of the most hilarious scenes ever, including mandatory Colin Mockery cameos and a creepy talking green-haired pirate thing. As for the music itself, it's completely nuts. It's like nothing I've ever heard, it's silly as shit and it's extremely catchy. This is a hell of a video.

[Drug Comercial]

Extremely poor attempt at satire.

Come on man, this was awful. I'll try to look past the lazy, terrible visuals, but I cannot excuse the very poor execution of this movie. While it is amusing to see a fake commercial advocatin the use of weed instead of condemning it, this was done with little or no though or effort. The humor was extremely crude, especially when you tried to poke fun at celebrities. This simply wasn't funny and should have been blammed. Despite how short it was, it felt long and drawn out. The concept behind this had potential, but I don't think you have the skills to make it entertaining.

[Killing The Fly]

Can anyone say "juvenille"?

Sorry, but this is just childish. It is absolutely dripping with "corn factor". This is obviously one of those movies whose target audience is 10 to 15-year-old boys who think it's the coolest thing in the world to watch crudely drawn sticks in crudely drawn backgrounds mindlessly kill while crappy nu metal plays in the background. It's uninteresting, inane and compeltely pointless. This brand of "entertainment" is rarely entertaining, because most don't stop to realize that watching random people kill other people is well, boring.

[In The End]

Despite the "effort", I still voted zero.

And not because I can't stand Linkin Park, but because this was a very poor band/song to make a video out of. Granted, it's well compressed, and the visuals compliment the music well, with some nice fading transitions, but come on. This song is so overused, not just in popular media but also on the NG Portal. Making a video out of an extremely popular band is very unoriginal, and using sticks (that, admittingly moved with some fluidity) as the main visual draw wasn't a great idea either. While I can't ignore that some effort was put into it, there's just no creativity. Whether you want to believe it or not, most mainstream bands including Linkin Park aren't exactly original and don't make for very good Flash videos.

[Pico Gets Transformed]

Really damn sloppy, but interesting.

It may have been crude but it at least wasn't mindless. The author tried do something interesting by having Pico and his friends shrunk down to hamster-size, but the already directionless movie jsut sort of fell apart when Pico suddenly returned to normal size. It reminded me of the randomess and disorientation of a dream. I felt compelled to blam it, but it managed to retain enough coherency not to be a pain to watch, and unlike some authors who make subpar movies, this one has potential. I think if you work on a solid idea and really plan things out in advance, you'll have something more profressional and interesting on your hands. You really need to work on the lack of sound, however. The captions are tolerable but the movie was mostly silent. Jibbery nonsense to sub for voice overs (like in the Banjo Kazooie games) could work.

[fun stuff 999]

Possibly the laziest thing I've ever seen.

This is just beyond sloppy. You inserted a movie clip on the top right corner and just had random things pop in and out of the empty white space that is the Flash Stage and ocassionally added some really, really, really awful attempts at tweening. It should go without saying that it doesn't flow with the music in the least. Awful. The fact that it didn't get blammed shows how ignorant you people are for voting above a "zero" on it. And don't go trying to bash my opinion, because you know damn well there's not one redeeming element in this trash.

[The Feud]

Very slow and assinine.

The tweening is extremely choppy, the frame rate is way too low, everything feels as if it's going in slow motion, and only a few frames of the animation routines from the sprites were used. Visuals do not a movie make, but when you're trying to recreate the look and feel of old school Mario, it's important to learn to tween properly and keep the pacing faster than what was presented here. The music was also repetitive and completely out of place. My real beef, however, is with the extremely poor storyline. It, along with the dialogue, feels completely random, as if the author just added things as he went along, without planning anyhthing out in advance. This is particularly evident by the abrupt ending. To be honest, it wasn't a very good concept to begin with.