Yeah! can you tell us whats the story behind this movie? Or is it supposed to be a secret? Anyway, one of the best movies ( and movie mechanics) I've ever seen! Keep on! 5/5
Reviews for "Lumberjack Loveshack"
Well, he definitely deserved to die, if for no other reason than his own stupidity.
Here's what I liked:
-Visually this was pretty cool to look at. I'm not usually into tween-heavy flashes but you did a good job here.
-The music wasn't bad. The lyrics didn't seem to go with the visuals much but the beat worked.
-This had a nice atmosphere to it. It was consistent and kept with the subject matter.
Here's what I didn't:
-From a plot perspective, this didn't make much sense. The scientist has many many many many doors, so obviously there's someone or something he desperately wants to keep out. Judging by the number of robot things, they've been around for a while, possibly as a robot army bent on destroying the human race. He builds a powerful wolf thing which, ala megaman, one would assume is meant to fight the robots and save humanity. But apparently that assumption is wrong since, when the robots finally break in (and considering the number of doors they went through the scientist clearly knew they were coming) the scientist positions himself between the robots and the wolf (which obviously you would not do after finishing a weapon you were hoping would save your life). He then seems to attempt to reason with the robots (since he's making no effort to run or wield a weapon, even as he watches them come slowly through the final door). If this IS a robot army bent on humanity's destruction then he should know there's no reasoning with them, so it would make no sense for him to even try talking to them, so I'll assume that's not the case. It's possible that this is very early in the robot revolt or maybe the robots were his own in a separate part of his laboratory, but either way if an army of creatures is willing to break through 700 walls to get to you it might be a good idea to prepare for the worst. And if he somehow didn't know that these robots were coming to kill him then what purpose did he have for building such a strong wolf? Did he see fantasies of himself and his oversized powerwolf playing catch? Underground behind a million doors? And where was the wolf going in the end? It didn't spend much time mourning its creator that it was so obedient to a moment before, and it didn't seem to have anymore robots in the immediate area to give it a target.
-Some parts were way too drawn out, particularly the part where the wolf is running up the shaft, not actually attacking anyone. That "he's going to attack those robots there when he reaches them!" moment seemed to drag on past the point of excitement, then past the point of comical parody, and finally into the point of boredom.
Overall, this is a unique flash music video with strong visuals, but the writing is a bit weak.
I really like the style of this animation, and the idea behind it.
The color palettes and lighting effects were really cool and almost haunting.
My constructive criticism would be that some of the movements seemed a bit more choppy than possibly intended.
Of course I realize that most of the characters are machines, it's just that some of their movements didn't flow with the rest of their rhythms, so it made it look like there could have been a few more frames included.
Not a huge deal, possibly nit picky in fact :)
Oh never mind, good work here!
...I wonder where I can get a clockwork wolf of my own... Nevertheless, lovely music. Seriously, I want someone to make on of those for me.
Damn. That is a great video.
Jedargh responds:
Thanks! You're a real sweetheart.