Knox used to be so popular on this site that he was even regarded by some as an award thief for having won so many. But that doesn't go without good reason, his movies were funny. Now, he's as scarce on the site as VGDC due to a lack of popularity...? Yes, apparently that's the reason why, because the success he received on Newgrounds was simply not enough.
To those of you were fans of his strictly pertaining to his work on Newgrounds, you may be wondering as since he's left if you've missed anything, if his new work is really to the same quality standard as they are his old ones. Well, not really; they've actually declined in quality.
Oh sure if we're talking about aesthetics, the standard of his work has sky rocketed, 'cept it's not all that funny anymore and has become a stale, dry well. I think the biggest problem is that Knox has everything planned ahead to a T now a days.
Matter of fact hasn't he started writing scripts for these shorts? I understand that he wants the show to be more intelligent but that's not why Klayworld was funny; it was funny because the characters spouted out nonsense while doing nonsense things due to Robert using improve as opposed to a script where as before he never wrote one; he didn't even write one for his feature length film "Klayworld: Off The Table", Now they do nonsense things by using their logic, not impulse; for this reason "Pancake Mines" is debatably the last of his funny material.
I think the reason why people always compare any given work of his to "Glass Of Water" is because the once reoccurring nonsense actions being fueled by impulse is at it's strongest in this movie; people purposely drowning theirselves in a small puddle of water as the only one character with logic and sensibility stands by and watch's the insanity take place before him and even becomes blamed for causing the nonsense when really it's not even his fault.
In his latest short "Poison Juice" it's essentially the same thing; people flocking to their deaths by consuming liquid. The difference between this and "Glass of Water" is that they're dying due to the liquid being poisoned, not to their impulse of self drowning. It starts with four Klaymen about to drink juice, the first one to drink his naturally falls over dead leading to the others accusing one another of putting poison in all their glasses and eventually coming to the conclusion that since the killer would never drink his own shit, the person without poison in their glass was the killer, so they all proceed to drink it and die. Now did this at all sound funny? No? Of course not, they all just died because although they came to a logical, sensible conclusion, they were stupid enough to test it on theirselves. This would have been funny if it weren't for the fact that they used half way intelligent logic to resort to drinking poison but if it were based on nonsense logic and impulse. There is nonsense, but it's not the extreme, impulsive, funny kind anymore; it's the half way logic kind so it's actually more irritating to watch than not.
I dunno, what do you think? How do you think his current works compare to his former works and do you believe they've changed for the better or no and why?
