hmm....
it was funny
Reviews for "Sock Land"
Goofy and Dull
A video file. . .converted to Flash. . .on Newgrounds?! Oh my god, it's the apocolypse, yaaaaaugh!! Seriously, though. Making a movie, then converting it to Flash just so you can get people to vote for your stuff on sites like Newgrounds is just plain silly. There are video sites out there. Ones that are like. . .well. . .like Newgrounds for the AVI/MOV enthusiast. Anyway, on to the review.
Being that this is little more than a video file, converted with full sound and frame rate, to a Flash file, the graphic quality is, of course, going to be very bad. Not only is it extremely pixelated, but even the lighting, colour balanced, and perhaps even the camera alignment and angling are all very questionable. It's viewable. . .but only to a point of being able to recognize things for what they are. Also, on 16-but colour mode(in Windows), you can plainly see some "hidden text" throughout the video. These would be the ending credits. . .if the video didn't instantly jump back to the Newgrounds loader, instead of stopping.
In addition to the video being grainy and blocky, the sound was also rather bad. It was perfectly coheirent and understandable, yes, but because of they unprofessional way of recording the sound(read "shouting from across the room without microphones"), a great deal of the dialouge is lost to volume issues. Mostly low-volume issues. Which is an issue all on its own, considering if you crank the volume up to hear the lost words, you get yelled at shortly there-after.
Interactivity gets a zero because. . .there was none. No, I don't include the clickable "play" button, or the clickables at the "end".
This video was really random. Extremely. There obviously was no script, and therefore, gets a very low "style" rating. It had its own style, but it's nothing we haven't seen in Flash and movie files a million times before. Ever see the Williams Street line of cartoons?(Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Sealab 2021, etc.)
There also wasn't enough violence to get any "violence" rating worth mentioning. We saw a sock get molested by a sock and a sock slap a sock. . . That's about it.
The humour itself is the highlight of the movie. While it consists of mostly random quips and idiotic behaviour by two people "who were very bored," I'm generally a fan of "stupid" humour. Dumb & Dumber pulled it off quite nicely. So did Bryon and Johnny, here. Still, it wasn't enough to save this movie from a personal Blam and negative review.
Okay, so. . . In short, the movie was too bright and too blocky view properly, a little too random to follow, and too damned goofy to be worthy of a replay. It's movies like this that make me wonder. . .whatever happened to "vintage" Psy productions? The past shall forever remain as such, in the eyes of perpetual downward spiral.
Psyguy responds:
Holy shit, someone that hates me doesn't like my stuff. Amazing.
What... The... Fuck...
This is why you should never do drugs, children. It was pretty funny though, in a "What the FUCK is he smoking??!!!" kind of way.
You guys were high, weren't you?
Seriously, pick up your act guys. And how dare you use Knox's name in vain.
Ummm...
Kind of stupid... and yet, I also sit around bored all day...so I feel your pain. But sorry, I didn't think it was that great...