TharosTheDragon's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[SPEEDMAN]

The animation quality is 10/10 amazing. The characters emote and gesticulate so naturally. I'm just pretty confused about the story. During the propaganda segment at the beginning, I thought you were setting up some kind of Starship Troopers-style satire where we later see that they were wrong about the octopus people, but then all we ever see of the octopus people is that they're a bunch of jerks after all. Then we get a setup where Speedman is an old cripple before he gets his powers, but there's no payoff for that because his feelings as a superhero are never examined. And that makes it all the more confusing when he goes berserk and attacks the scientists.

Bowz responds:

Great call out! I think unfortunately the Starship Trooper style intro and the Super Hero genre can preload expectations on how the story will play out.
The goal of the intro was to show the world is at war with an invading force, and there's a call to arms. This is why Speedman was created.
Speedman was meant to be a super hero to save the planet, but he was never actually heroic. All his actions where self indulgent, serving his ego and desires. In the end he lost control and went berserk with no reason to stop. He fully indulged in the intoxicating high of power. They never really knew who they were giving all this power to. Turns out it was a crippled maniac.

As a main character he does leave a lot to be desired. We never really get to know him and I can see how that's unsatisfying. We should have someone to connect with more.

This is going to be a series, so Speedman's story isn't over. It's more of a prelude to the series, and I agree it's not perfect as a stand a lone short.

Thanks for your comment!! I appreciate the more critical reviews.

[Punk Ass Pirate Donkey]

Punk ass = punk jackass = punk donkey
Bad ass = bad jackass = bad donkey

[Ace Soda | FULL Indie Animated series]

Why no voice credits?

lpart responds:

The voices were all done by me, with the acceptation of my wife who voiced Emma

[SONIC GETS TROLLED...]

I like that the boxers have swastikas in the first shot of them and then they have sauvastikas instead in the other two shots

[Wizard beer for the Gamecube]

Ha ha I'm feeling old if GameCube is used to mean low poly rather than N64

[What's In Yo Pocket?!]

What a coincidence, I just played some ToeJam & Earl today!

[BREAK IT]

Did you do the woman's voice?

Spazzzcomic responds:

haha nah I got it off freesound.org

[X-RL7 Episode 25 - The Favour]

Hey it's Chris Voigt! Why isn't he credited on this page? https://sexual-lobster.newgrounds.com/

X-RL7 responds:

It's true! He's been added to the project but hasn't got round to accepting I guess! Thanks for watching

[TO THE UNSEEN PLANET]

Very imaginative, I can see that you have a lot of creative energy

DylanSparano responds:

Means a lot sir, thank you. 🙏

[Hobo_Funnie_Show_3]

Hmm, I think you forgot the profanity when you gave this an E rating