Egoraptor's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bowling Alley]

Just great.

I really love your animations. I feel like you have such an overactive imagination and it makes me wish you did some more of your own writing instead of using existing clips; not to say that the animations you do from existing clips aren't really swell, but I just feel like that's more to you than that.

Anyway, it's particularly your facial expressions that make me laugh. They're really over the top and funny in their own right, just how they're drawn. I've always thought that was the sign of a good cartoonist. You also do a good job at keeping it simple, never over-complicating the animation, but at the same time you incorporate all these really different and unorthodox camera angles which is really refreshing considering all the tweened comedy on Newgrounds.

I like you RWappin, then again so do so many others.

RWappin responds:

Thanks. :]

[My New Grounds]

Cool!

That was pretty sweet! I liked this a lot, it was creative and entertaining. Thanks for the plug too! ;D! Time to check out your other stuff!

AllenWAwesome responds:

'tis an honor! I'll plug you any day. wait....eww! :|

[Awesome Grounds]

Haha.

I actually thought this was pretty funny, but I don't know what that FLCL thing was all about.

AshfordPride responds:

Eyebrows, Egoraptor.

Eyebrows.

[How 2 Succeed on NG]

Woo!

Thanks to your How 2 Succeed on NG movie, I am living the good life, getting up to 5 PMs a day! Wow! I never thought it could happen to me! Thanks Biff!

[Metropolis Circuit]

Surprising.

I say surprising for several reasons.

First of all it's surprising how many negative reviews there are of this movie. No plot = 0? Wow. C'mon, geez.

I've already told you I think this is a great display of animation physics. Weight, momentum, all that stuff, it's pretty stunning. What's surprising to me is that there are flaws in a lot of the animations of the skating in particular. I think the act of skating in real life is really exaggerated and intense looking on its own. I think that instead of making up your own way of skating you should've used references for the skating movements. I think it was the jumping and aerial movements that really made me go "wow," but when the characters were actually skating I didn't feel like there was anything interesting about their movements. They looked very stiff.

Another thing that was surprising was your lack of any plot/character development. I know you're hearing this a lot, and while I think it's a personal preference mostly, I do remember you telling me in-depth character backgrounds and what not which was mega intriguing. Sure, I was excited about seeing your animation progress showcase, but I was really much more interested in seeing you develop this dynamic idea and I was really disappointed to see it in the form of a long winded text-based synopsis. I do have the next episode to look forward to, I'm sure, but I really hope that these deep concepts don't just back up some dazzling faceless display of raw animation skill.

And please, I'm not talking about The YuYu. I never mentioned it, so stop hiding behind it. I could care less about what is in the top 50 or what has a 4.29 rating or some bullshit. I want to see this series kick ass, and I think that your animating ability at your age is damn near prodigy level. Whether at number 1 or dead fucking last, I don't care and neither should you. You should just continue animating and tell your story.

All you do is mock me and all I do is give you support, and it pisses me off sometimes, of course, and there are times when I just fucking hate you, but when you show you have this incredible ability, this raw talent just waiting to be unleashed, it just depresses me to see that you seem to care more about some petty, flawed, biased rating system than your own progress. My point is, I seem to be the only one here who gives a shit about what's really important, about making your creations really fucking shine. I hardly kiss your ass, I do my best to critique your works so that you can improve, I thoroughly listen to your ideas and your stories and am inspired by them, and yet I'm probably the last person you'd want to listen to.

That, to me, is surprising.

And I think with this review I'm through trying to communicate with you and I'm through showing my faith in you. Unless you show me that you can get off your godamn cloud and show some respect to fellow human beings, I really don't want to have anything to do with you anymore.

And maybe you're happy to hear that.

rtil responds:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Cuboy Ep.1]

Brilliant.

This movie was simple incredible. I don't really know what to critique about it because it was so utterly unique in every way that it was presented that any conventional advice in movie-making I think would distract from the charm of it.

I want more Cuboy!

[The quest for AWESOMEep.2]

Masterpiece.

I'm totally flattered guys, haha. I wouldn't call you faggots though. lol

[The quest for Awesome!]

Woah.

Holy shit guys, this is fucking AWESOME.

Quest over.

Kairace responds:

WOW! THANKS EGORAPTOR! XD No the quest isn't over.

[Throwback the Duck Ep. 1B]

'eh.

It's not funny, and as a result, it's not entertaining.

Of course, the art is wonderful. Shading in a flash movie with traditional animation? Amazing. I can't imagine how much time you spent on those sequences.

However whatever goal you were trying to achieve, whether it was to be this "tongue-in-cheek" humor you keep mentioning, a parody of 80's/90's cartoons, or whatever, you didn't achieve it. One of the concepts of parodying something is to poke fun at it by pointing out its flaws and goofiness and then making it apparent how flawed and goofy it is. This cartoon doesn't do that. The whole "bad acting on purpose" thing doesn't work, because instead of the viewer saying "oh I see, they're making the voice acting bad on purpose haha," he or she instead says "... the acting is bad." There's no indication in the movie that the acting is poor on purpose, and even when you know that, the way its done does nothing for that theme. The acting is just bad. It's not funny bad, it's just bad bad. There's a point where you still need to establish personalities for the characters, and dialogue alone won't cut it.

The premise of this series has insane amounts of potential. When I saw the zero episode I remember thinking "well, it's kind of boring but I can't wait for the real first episode." I could imagine how many jokes and situations could arise from digging up old has-been video game mascots and seeing how their situations apply their relevance to video gaming. Instead I was met with boring, clichéd situations. Bubsy working at a minimum wage job and is the target of assassination attempts? Why Bubsy? Why not any other washed up mascot in existance? His situation has no relevance to his character except for that solitary catfood joke. I can hope that episode 2 will individualize Bubsy's situation from anyone else's by the unveiling of the assassins and their reasoning, but from how it's going I can't imagine it'd be anything that has to do with his character at all.

You could have so much material for Bubsy. He was obviously a huge ripoff of the Sonic games, but the SNES didn't have any of the speed to match Sonic. Plus the game engine was horribly made. Not to mention all the Bubsy related injokes from the game itself.

This series just seems like the epitome of wasted potential. You've got this hard work ethic, incredible flash skills, a really funny premise, but the execution of it all is really lame. Please work on it, find some co-writers or something because I really want to like this series. It's just, at this current rate, I can tell I'm just gunna hate it.

[- The Nail -]

Man.

I was really excited when I clicked on this and saw it was by you, rtil, 'cause I thought you were finally submitting something from Project Freetown or something similarly cool, but then it was about Foamy and I was disappointed because you told me you weren't going to do this kind of stuff anymore.

I guess if it's that important to you then it's not that big a deal, but I just think it'd be better to work more on your IP's than on these hateful videos. I would say if you want to make people realize that parodies are stupid, you should be working on your IP's and showing them off so people would be inspired by them, 'cause man, your original characters are fucking cool. Making these kind of one-sided attacks just seems like it's giving people reason to be defensive of parodies instead of just making the decision that original material is much cooler by watching original material.

I'm just saying if you wanna do something about these problems with Newgrounds, you should do it with your awesome skill, spirit, and originality instead of with flame wars.