vest816's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Madness 3D Pilot]

As far as 3d goes...

As far as 3d goes, the current standard, what I know people are capable of, and the very degree of independent films, this one's very unimpressive. No lighting. No texture. The camera was all seizure mode. This simply lacked the "feel" that the original madness has. It's slow. It's not funny. It's not oddball. The animation is quirky all over the place, the camera makes me dizzy.

I didn't see a lot to like about this one. Sorry.

[The Count: Raw and Uncut]

Reminds me of a Family Guy gag.

Pretty good for a first Flash. It gets the ideas of layout and scene progression well enough. It's a good gag, too, but it reminds me of a less macabre version involving hookers on Family Guy. When Peter counts the hookers in Cleveland's house.

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven!"
"Seven! Seven hookers!"
"That does it! Peter, you and five of those hookers get OUT OF MY HOUSE!"

I do feel, though, that a lot of it could have been more refined. The Count really stands out against the photographic pixelated background, but not in a good way. It gives it a very unpolished look, and I think that if the style between background and foreground were more consistent, it would give this Flash a more solid delivery.

Some of the voice acting isn't registering. Maybe a take two would be needed on the recording, and a more projected voice.

That's about all, though. As far as early Flashes go, this one's pretty well done. Not so much aesthetically in my opinion, but definitely with that distinct "new animator" smell.

*Sniiiiiiiff*...Aaaaah.

Final Grade: B.

not-well-liked responds:

Hey man, thanks.
About Family Guy, i love that show, I may have gotten it from there, but I think i got the idea before I saw that. I've been sitting on the idea for awhile, just never got around to making the flash. I've still got to do better animations, I'm going back to college to learn more about flash and flash websites, so hopefully you'll see a big change in my submissions over the next year or so. Also, wut do you use for audio? I didn't have a computer mic or a audio booth, so I had to use my Mini DV camera's mic and import it on the computer using Adobe Premiere.

[Why there are no...]

Well, it's true.

I'm going to take a while guess here, and assume that was Maddox who totally dominated? I mean, it looks just like him, no mistaking it.

Very nice animation, too. It has a good pace, and gets the point across. And even moreso, it shows the truth that the only way to get things done is to not pussyfoot around, and just freakin' do it. Love that ending. It reeks with truth.

whataboffin responds:

Glad you liked it :) But who or what is a Maddox?

[+_Eye Candy_+]

Don't know why, but I liked it.

Can't say that it's the kind of thing that I'll be watching over and over again, but it is something that I still enjoyed that one time I saw it. Maybe it's because I have nothing but happy fond memories intertwined with everything Venga Boys related. Ah, I remember the time we blasted Boom Boom Boom Boom in the dumpy hobo section of West Los Angeles, screaming the lyrics at the top of our lungs. Probably the first time the local residents were happy to see a rowdy group of white kids in an SUV cruising through being morons.

Ah...memories.

Well, anyways, it's very n00b, so mission accomplished. I give it a B.

Hoogiman responds:

Yay, thanks. I remember loving this song, can't remember why.

[Xander Dance]

Not bad, but not memorable.

The background is boring, and the Numa song fan phenomenon is getting horribly retarded. But that's about all I have to complain. I smiled.

Not great. Not groundbreaking. But it's not a travesty, either. I mean, come on, dancing baby. DANCING BABY! I give this one approval sans fanfare.

[look for a long time into]

Trippy and cool looking, like a moving Geiger

Man, I hate scary stuff. Especially ghost-themed flash movies, because I'm just thinking "allright, where's the Korean scream, where's the Korean sream?"

Looks like a bunch of simple stuff, but considering the time it took to download, it's not really worth it to me. Probably just not my cup of tea. I do recognize that you probably put a fair bit of time into this, and it does have artistic merit in a macabre sense. I expect this one to do pretty well.

[Snizakes on a Plizane]

Half good. Half bad.

The average user would have been so terribly bored by the text-driven intro that they would have closed the browser. But, being such a large file, I wouldn't put such a bandwidth haul to waste, and fortunately, got to see some cool parts as well.

Shorten that intro. A LOT. Make it a lot less cliche, too. I was able to blurt out the next line before it even showed it, that's how predictable it was. Just, "Good movies, change history, but NOT THIS ONE NEENER NEENER NEENER! SNAKES ON A PLANE!" BLAM BOOM KABLOOEY! It's a humor piece. So nothing should be boring. It should be quick to the punchline.

[How To Win Portal Awards]

Thank you, captain obvious.

I was kinda expecting this to be a sarcastic jab at all the recent submissions. Not like, an actual guide that emphasizes I "take my time" with my Flash so that it's actually good. I think I might have that filed deep somewhere in my "NAWW REALLY DURRRR" drawer.

Here's what I mean. For example:

Here's how you get featured:
-Don't make a button tutorial. Especially if you can't even spell "on(release)" correctly.
-Don't have a lengthy TEXT-DRIVEN intro to shoddy Emo music you recorded through a web headset.
-If your shoddy Emo music takes up 4.999 megabytes in comparison to the file's .0009 bytes of space, please dump in a preloader.

You know, stuff like that. Stuff that makes fun of all the common pet peeves we get from all the young amateurs on the site. That's something new and original. But this...it's just so painfully obvious, I'm half-tempted to check your other submissions to see if you have a presentation on the importance of breathing.

Frenzy responds:

Check my other submissions, review them please.

Oh, and by the way, your more of a n00b than me, so don't be trashing me about Newgrounds.

[Flair 6 - Reação 2]

Strong start, pitiful ending.

It has this really dynamic fight in the beginning, but it doesn't mean anything. Then the fight that does mean something...isn't even close to spectacular. This one isn't bad, it's just a terrible letdown. Looks like you got lazy, decided to wrap it up in the last minute, just so you could upload it and get it behind you. While I'm just as equally guilty of that, it's a bad habit that one has to break. If you're going to go strong in, it better be strong out, too.

I also can't stand the music choice. Just my own taste, though. Blaring death rock doesn't work well when it's so compressed that the sound is all noisy and muffled.

[duck: duck in space]

It's odd

But hey, it's still got parts that made me laugh. Music choice works wonders, as well as a cast of celebrities. The sounds though are too loud in some parts. Some of the timing of the characters could use a little more tweaking, as a lot of their motion is very uniform and take too long. But that's merely technicalities. As a simple Flash done by a single mind, it's okay. Not great, not groundbreaking, but I don't regret downloading it.

I'd give it a C.

boinky33 responds:

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? IT'S VERY GROUNDBREAKING! IT BREAKS MUCH GROUND!