El-Syd's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Firewing]

nice

One thing I like about your stories is that most of them become somewhat complex or entangled and cannot be fully understood without your visuals, and without some deep thought, This story was so surrealistic, and I really enjoyed reading it, it really made me think about mankinds instinctive need to always have more never satisfied and often slaked at the expense of those who had sheltered it.

[Virgil #3 If Only If]

yep

Once again the theme behind this series has changed and once again the character fits well into his role, both in this flash and in his life I suppose, that was a nice poem and one with a very valid philosophy, you really do have to make the most of life, because all things such as money and jobs and imagined security can be replaced, but time really cannot. It really makes you think.

[Virgil #2 The Phoenix]

Nice

A completely different tone than Virgil one, but still in keeping with the similar visual style so as to keep the two animations connected yet unique, I really dug the way the music fit the animation so well, they really gave it a great sense of whimsy.

[Defective]

interesting

The only sugesstion I would have would be to slow down the rate the text changes but just by a bit, I usually read fairly quickly, but at times, I noticed myself looking at the animation a second or so too long and the last line or so of a text box had passed, aside from that interesting utopia story, unique in that the main character was in the end, content with his preformatted life, I did note however the change to color during the last bit representing suzy's potential freedom or what it would have been had she lived, and thought that that was a nice touch.

[Owl (Book One)]

Wow

Very Detailed story here, and it took me a long time to read, but it was well worth it. To be honest though, my eyes are a bit sore from reading so much text from a screen, and I definitely have to take a break and just watch some other animations before I return to view book two. Once again, I am impressed by your gift for story telling, the story vaguely reminds me of a few of the Native American creation stories, but has a pretty unique flavor of its own. The drawing are well done, and although there wasn't much animation, the quality of the sroty more than made up for it. I watch so many cartoons and games here on Newgrounds, so thank you for reminding me of the subtle joys of reading a good story, which until today, I had not done for a couple of months, I'm going to check out some of your other animations before finishing the other two books, but I just wanted to say you did a nice job of this.

Virgilcomic responds:

Thanks so much, man. I see you've been catching up quite a bit. To tell truth there are big parts of this story that falls apart, something I got a little better at but am still learning. Thnanks for all the great feedback as well.

[Retro Preview]

hmmm

It's been nine years and it still hasn't come out yet? Anyway, Nice use of the actual preview ratings screen, and good job converting the R into the R of Redban, that was a nice effect the drawing of the robot was decent, but in all honesty, there was no real animation, and it didn;t really serve the purpose of a preview very well, which is to get viewers psyched up about the movie.

[The Mad Piping Angus Show]

heh

Nice humor and the drawings were pretty funny, the animation was ok, but there should have been more movement overall. Also, the accents seemed to be quite a bit off, but it was still fun to watch.

[Lost PowerAid Commercial]

uhhhh

Sorry, not so great, for one, the drawings look like they were done in a rush and for two there's barely any animation. On top of that the general premise wasn't really funny to begin with. Just spend more time on any future animations though, and they should turn out fine.

[Nike Presto!]

hahahah

I remember those commercials. Whe I first strated watching this I was not impressed, the drawings were somewhat poor and I didn't know if it would be any good, but once it got into the flash, I couldn't help but laugh, so good job on the humor, these are definitely some funny commercial spoofs.