sharpnova's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Real World]

lol as soon as he admits his dad lost his job i laughed so freaking hard.

awesome comedy good job man. perfect timing

omg and now he's all like "i'm a MAYN MEN AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED" i see what you were going for. like the mr. garrison stuff. "i'm a MAN mr. hat"

10/10

please make more like this

Sanbles responds:

Fiiiinnne, just because you said so, I'll do more I guess.

[KAFEEN]

I'd write a longer review, but everything that needs to be said has been said.

I also feel that the last shot of the girl in the tank was out of place.

Overall this is a really great submission. I'd even say underrated. And as of this review it has a pretty darn good rating

TaraGraphika responds:

Thank for your review. Yeah, the end scene was kinda taking the happy ending away. It's just a gateway to open up a few ideas if I ever continue this as an episode or a sequel. Hopefully. But, the ultimately it is open to interpretation.

Thanks for your awesome rating!

[Third Law]

I don't get the point of this. Nothing interesting or new is said...

And really even the first time something like this was said, it was pure rhetoric.. and had no meaning or substance to it whatsoever.

The animation is good. The art is too minimalistic to be judged. I would lean towards not great.

And the voice is annoying. It has that "hardcore liberal vibe" to it that annoys me.

Britbau responds:

I'm sorry you find my voice annoying ;_;

[Wild Fur]

the art was good..

the animation was stiff.

the music did not fit at all. very inappropriate

and it had this idiotic.. "humans are evil but all animals are kind and pure and even animals like leopards and owls which are completely at odds with each other irl are somehow allies against the big evil humans" message which just made me want to puke.

HowardWimshurst responds:

Well you're the first person I've noticed to say my animation was stiff so that's.. interesting. I'll try harder next time to stay loose.

Music is always a tricky thing because everyone has different tastes in music. I liked the pace of this track and I just generally enjoy listening to it. I think that's important if you're spending up to 10 hours a day for 2 weeks editing a video. Maybe it wasn't appropriate. I think next time I'm gonna consult someone else for the music and sound because I make poor decisions. Maybe it's because i'm focused too much on the visuals. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

I don't completely disagree with your interpretation, although I think you could have said it in a less blunt way. The video tells a fictional story, rather than making a statement about humankind with nature, but since you looked at this philosophically, let's examine it that way.

let's see.. "Humans are evil"- that's quite a polarized view and it wasn't my intention to show that ALL humans are evil. "some humans are selfish" was more what I was trying to show. Since you brought it up; yes I think there's some truth that wild animals are pure. Nature is beautiful yet deadly and there is a kind of purity in this. Without the presence of humans, it would remain balanced. Animals like the Snow leopard kill other animals on a regular basis, but out of survival and this maintains a delicate eco-system. Then we have the skin trade. Leopard skins are worth a fortune on the black market and people buy them as a status symbol. That to me IS cruel and it disrupts the balance of nature. Therefore in my eyes, the poaching trade IS an enemy towards nature.

But yeah I totally should have given the "bad guy" some more depth. Killing animals for some messed up sense of satisfaction is lazy writing and so he should have had a better motive.

I like this discussion. Thank you!
But 2 out of 5 stars? Aw man

[The Wind Waker Tribute]

Did you do this all by hand just looking at the source? Or is it some kind of filter/tracing over the frames of the original.

It all looked really like.. accurate. In a good way.

Makes me want to play Wind Waker. Wii U version is sitting on my shelf just haven't gotten to it yet.

Rustyhound responds:

I traced over the frames, this was a way for me to get a ton of mileage, while allowing me to work on a worth-while video. This is due to the fact that the majority of these scenes have the frames drawn entirely from scratch, per frame.

I'm glad that this made you wanna play it.
You should definately take some time to play the Wii U version, you won't regret it, that's for sure!

[TUMOR: A broken nightmare]

very weird and very well done.

love the aesthetic.

ClockworkPixel responds:

thank you very much

[The Tragic Trilogy]

really stylish. pretty original.

could have done without the voices though. pretty bad voicework.. and the thing is.. and this is basically a compliment: your art/animation/music/soundfx style is such that voicing isn't even necessary. the story can be told without dialogue.

the whole theatre navigation thing was really good and definitely original and clever.

Merol responds:

Thank you for the compliments, and I do believe that some stories can be told without dialogue, like the Piggy bank one, but the other two (three?) movies were conceived with the dialogue in mind so I don't think it would have worked otherwise.
Thanks!

-Merol

[Greener Grass]

the art/animation was great..

but my god the acting/story was the most childish thing i've ever seen.

i'm just goign to give you a 5 for the former and a 0 for the latter

averaging out to 2.5

rounding down to 2 because i don't believe in non-integers

SteveRoberts responds:

Thanks for being so generous! ;)
This was created as a uni project, and was intended for a younger demographic. I just thought I'd share it here as well so my work could reach a wider audience.

[Darkest Souls]

absolute toilet humor

great art and sound but the whole idea behind it was just stupid.

there were actually some aspects of the art that i hated as well. the terrain/landscape had a great look to it. but the characters/monsters looked stupidly cartoony (especially the main guy's face) in a way that broke artistic cohesiveness (the style was just completely different from the style of the landscape/terrain/architecture/etc.)

i really hope you don't make aything else.

btw i didn't just give you a 0 star review. i voted 0 as well.

Nordpunch responds:

Wow man, you're edgy. I'm sorry we offended you with cartoon-looking faces, I firmly believe we will quit making anything starting from today. Just for you.

[Beyond The Glass]

very cool. are you planning on making more in this series/vein?

i know it's not as simple as just "making more" since this probably took several months of hard work, but if so i look forward to it. if not, at least this was awesome.

SamoStudios responds:

Thank you, and I would love to do more, but it's just not worth the work involved. I can't afford to spend all my time doing this stuff for free when I can barely afford just to survive as is :(