TharosTheDragon's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Creaturing : Begins]

Magnificent

I just checked out the Monster Engine, and I must say your work is fantastically better than Dave DeVries'. Here's why.

DeVries starts with the kid's drawing and literally uses it as the outline for his. He takes the shape the kid creates and fills it in with nice realistic shading and applies backgrounds and such. It's little more than a parlor trick. He's going through the motions like he does in his job as an industrial artist, using little more creativity than some street artist drawing cartoony portraits of people.

But the kids don't know anything about perspective or proportion, so why would you count their drawings as an accurate idea of how these things they're imagining are shaped? I remember being a kid and not knowing the first thing about drawing something to really resemble an object from my imagination. You Newgrounds artists have used your own creativity and imagination to figure out what the kids might really have wanted to draw. DeVries looked at a kid's drawing. You looked at a kid's vision.

DeVries may have failed because, despite all his talk, he's forgotten how to really see through a child's eyes. You Newgrounds artists haven't forgotten at all.

RicePirate responds:

I really appreciate the kind words. I did love the idea behind the Monster Engine.

But for a number of the reasons you listed, I thought this would be a fun sister-project. Rather than copying the line art and filling in the gaps, to have artists go the distance of fully embracing their characters and giving them their own life... I thought would be really exciting. And you're right, these artists really did it. I'm so grateful to these artists.

I just really hope it's seen less as "Hey kid, watch me make a better version." and more of a "Your imagination inspired me to create this version."

One of my favorite parts of this whole project (it's still very much in it's infancy), is seeing the variety of styles each artist brings to the table. Variety of style is something that (while I really respect Dave's talent) I would have liked to have seen in the Monster Engine.

[FAUX: Chapter 4]

Wait a minute...

Lacorse doesn't want Mason killed because he's "innocent," yet he had no problem killing those two guys in chapter 1? Doesn't seem consistent.

marsoupskin responds:

Mason didn't get in the way, the others did, same with the cops.

[Cookies, deceit, and such]

Nice job

Sort of the same idea as this, though: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view /555156

Cookie Jar goes wrong. A kid dies.

Emrox responds:

OMG I TOTOLEH RIPD HIM OF I SHUD TAKE IT OF THE SITE BEACUASE COOKIE JAR AND KID DIE!

[The lost and found bagel]

It was so simple

No one saw it coming.

turtleco responds:

lul, comming.

[Joe Finds Money]

Dear sir

Invest in a preloader.

That is all.

No seriously, the Newgrounds preloaders are super easy to use. I'm not kidding.

WaldFlieger responds:

I've got one on there! It didn't work?

[SS - Dimensions]

You kwazy man

Always a good source of insane conspiracy theories. Nice work.

I like how vague you are about what your point is. "It's like there are 13 of this and there are 13 of that! Fill in the blanks." You imply connections and hope that whatever people conclude it's something amazing.

And of course you've become so fascinated by simple geometric shapes. It's like saying "All the planets are spheres! Some powerful force is at work here." Oh yeah, it's gravity. Even fractals show up places, that's just how nature is. And that symbol you have there with all the circles' centers connected by lines is missing a few.

RiverJordan responds:

Well, the sphere is the most sacred form. Atoms are spheres, Leonardo da Vinci proved humans have the perfect circle and square around us. Star are spheres.

And yes, these parts are integral parts of nature, so thats why it's important.

[The Devil's Bones 1]

Needs more nudity.

Seriously? One nipple? That's the extent of the adult content?

Anyway, nice artwork. I like the style.

EDIT 2023: I just wanna apologize for this old review. I'll change it to five stars now

Hyptosis responds:

And the swearing, it's better to warn people about one nipple than to not warn them at all.

[Villainy - P.I. #1]

Very funny

It started out great but then you just dragged out the same joke for the whole thing. It was funny when he said attempted involuntary manslaughter and attempted indecent exposure, but you should've just left it at that. Some people might have missed the joke, but that's the way it is with the best stuff.

Instead you just milked it for more than it was worth, and it stopped being funny. It's like you were trying to make sure people got it or something. It made it look like you have no material and wanted to turn one joke into several, in turn making you look like a poor comedic writer. I think you can come up with more stuff than that.

DonkeysBazooka responds:

i feel stupid for having to ask, but did you intentionally drag your review out and repeat the same thing a hundred times just to be ironic? if your review was a joke, im sorry for not getting it. i'm a big tard.

if it wasn't, then thank you for the constructive criticism

[Hyperborea]

Such a fantastical adventure in but a few minutes

It's somewhat reminiscent of the Last Unicorn, a childhood treasure to be certain. There's even a butterfly.

exotworking responds:

I can´t think of a higher compliment than childhood treasure.

[Halo Reach: Armor Locked]

Cool video

Can you explain what armor lock is for people who haven't played it? I only played 1-3 and ODST.

DoomzDayChikn responds:

the user goes down on his knee like that and his armor "locks up" and he is invulnerable to damage for a limited time, at the expense of his ability to move