Score: 4

"It was a pretty blah movie"

submission: Stick War

date: May 27, 2004

I couldn't give you a decent vote, not because the music was bad, but because it was just loud. The way it fit in with the movie and the sound FX it was more of a war on the watcher's ears than the stick figures with each other. The action was pretty good, but a very tired concept executed in very similar fashion to what's been done a million times before.

Not a very stylin' movie, stick figures fighting a war is older than newgrounds.

Not graphically incredible either, but not horrible, at least this stick figure movie had backgrounds, action, lasting movement, and an actual idea.

I'll give you points on the violence though, it was definitely a violent movie

Since I just took the SAT, I'd have to say the best word that describes this movie is: cacaphonous. if you don't know what it means look it up

Score: 1

"Yes, you have submitted something to Newgrounds"

submission: ttttttttttttttteh

date: May 2, 2004

now for step two: make it good

Flashing screens are usually there to hide a flash artist's inability to animate something well. It is a nice touch that you included reviews in your flash, now if only you would heed them.

Yes, stuff moved-- graphics: 1

yes, there was sound... it hurt-- sound: 0

horray for looping pointlessness-- interactivity: 0

Can't say I've seen anything quite that obnoxious in a long time-- style: a generous 2

This flash is as funny as AIDS-- Humor: 0

violently annoying, but not quite violent-- violence: 0

Overall: you get a 1, cherish it well, its a generous score for this steaming pile of an .swf file. Making this flash is probably not at all dissimilar to taking a shit, molding it into a mug, and then drying it out for daily use. I'm sure you can pass it off as the real deal, but its still just a piece of shit.

Score: 3

"Meh"

submission: Why Windows Sucks

date: May 2, 2004

Not all that great a flash. You do have a point about pop ups like that, but the problem with those is not that windows makes them, its that windows comes with IE, and nobody bothers to download antivirus and popup blockers for it. Another solution is to download another browser, there are some pretty cool ones out there.

I'm not exactly defending windows, it does have some bugs in it, but I'd say it works well enough for me to use every day, and obviously well enough for everyone else to use every day (how else would they view this submission, and in your case make it?).

Overall, I give it a three for a review, and a 1 for a vote.

the graphics weren't good, mainly because they were windows graphics (they aren't the most incredible things you ever saw)

It was interactive... kind of.

Not overly funny, just as annoying as when those types of things actually happen.

Not stylin' all that much (again, because it was the windows style, not yours)

no violence

Only had the annoying windows bleep noise, nobody in their right mind can give you a good score for sound on this one.

Finally, if you want to do a good flash showing how much windows sucks, you ought to show some of the real error messages you can get. I swear I've seen a window that pops up and says something like: Error: Windows has encountered an unspecified error.

Score: 6

"A solid 6"

submission: The Big Red Button

date: May 2, 2004

I liked it, it was pretty cool

All the scores are pretty self-explanatory on this one.

A note to everyone: there is a white button, but it isn't all that interesting, it just takes you to the original green button one. I don't remember which screen it was on, because it takes you directly to the webpage that changes when you click the button without opening a new window. A rather amusing flash, but I could have sworn I saw another one very similar to this a little while ago, I don't think it was the green button one, but oh well. Kudos for having that many messages and I'm just curious, did you actually write anything where the text was supposedly white? Or did you just leave it blank for a couple of frames?

Anyway, good job on this flash, although next time I would suggest more secrets including some animations and funny bits. This is one of the few flashes I would actually vote to keep on newgrounds despite the real lack of ability required to make it. (you've already got like 8 flashes on NG already, so at least I know you have tried in the past)

Score: 6

"Good stuff"

submission: Konstantine

date: April 6, 2004

I really like Something Corporate, and currently I'm working on a video for "She Paints Me Blue." Anyways, on this flash, the graphics were pretty good, they fit with the sound quite well (excellent song). No humor... there didn't need to be any so don't worry about it.

No real interactivity save for the play button, hence the two. I really liked the still image style of the flash, the pictures weren't that bad. No violence either, not quite sure why I put a two there.

Overall, a solid 6-7. I chose to put a six because it isn't exactly the most outstanding piece of flash work ever, but it is definitely a good work.

Score: 10

"All my 5 R belong to Luis"

submission: NG Time Trial II B

date: March 8, 2004

BWA HA HA HA HA. Luis, that was the best thing ever. I like the Newgrounds Time Trials, they usually provide outstanding flashes, and authors shortcomings are made up by the outstanding abilities of other authors.

Graphics: 9 because they were really good graphics on all of them.

Style: 10 because of the style of all the flashes being unique and good, plus the overall style (the Time Trials concepts is really cool)

Sound: 10, especially for Luis' flash, the sound was just perfectly synced to the short.

Violence: 10, mainly because of Az3r's flash, not too much to explain here.

Interactivity: 9 because each flash was interconnected well and all included back to main as well as replay buttons and anything else they wanted to add.

Humor: 10... Luis' was hilarious, and the others were good as well.

Overall a definite 10 and a 5 for the vote.

I'd love to do one of these things someday, but I've just started to really learn how to do flash, and none of the movies I have are finished so I haven't submitted anything yet, or even begun to be good at flash.

Score: 9

"Excellent"

submission: LA MAQUINA

date: March 4, 2004

HA HA HA, best... preloader... EVAR!!!

I thought this was a quality flash. I happen to like how the La Maquina sounds (I take spanish) and the story, I thought was very original.

graphics: loved the graphics, well drawn, obvious effort.

Style: great style, I've always been a fan of this jumpy style.

Sound: good, the spanish music sets the mood well, especially with the title.

Violence, not really violent, other than a man being sucked into a machine.

Interactivity: it had a start and replay button, I liked how it was a button similar to arcade game buttons, nice touch.

Humor: I found it slightly amusing to have a child's machine sucking people in and turning them in to dolls, but maybe I'm just wierd.

Overall, 9/10, and I really enjoyed it.

Score: 10

"Completely Worthy Flash"

submission: Betrayal DVD

date: March 1, 2004

I only review movies I absolutely love, or absolutely hate. This is a case of a movie I'm smitten with.

When I first saw this on the TT, I was amazed at how you produced that in 30 hours, truly incredible. Anyways, on to the point:

graphics: Amazing, loved the simplistic animation that used the camera to save time so characters didn't need to move much. Also, the creatures just look really cool.

Style: Great style, the look and feel of the movie is unique, and highly original, I loved the symbolism of the entire film.

Sound: Perfect sound for the flash content, I really enjoyed the background music as it set the tone beautifully (StarCraft... booya)

Violence: Perfect amounts for the movie, and used wisely to convey your idea.

Interactivity: Good, the only thing I would recommend would be a preloader that went directly in to the DVD menu after loading is finished, I'm lazy, and that clicking twice to play the movie bothers me slightly.

Humor: Not exactly a light flash, although there is some irony present which allowed for a better than zero score there.

Overall is a 10 cuz I enjoyed watching it, and really like movies that make you think (Check out Pustota)

My interpretation was a little different, as they all must be, I thought of it as not so much that the first lizard pushed the other off his perch, but that he fell and instead of recieving help he was devoured. I guess, simplified, this is a sort of golden rule flash--do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Score: 0

"You must enjoy wasting space"

submission: fun stuff 114

date: February 25, 2004

because that is clearly all this is. Its a bunch of random stuff, with no good graphics, horrible sound, and overall, blammable material. Just stop submitting stuff like this, if you put this much effort into making a good movie, I might actually enjoy it and not review with all zeros, and vote zero.

Score: 0

"Fun stuff, eh?"

submission: fun stuff 046

date: February 10, 2004

If by "fun" you mean, "not good at all"... Then yes, this is "fun" stuff. And if by the "long awaited sequel" you mean "an afterthought to the first crap," then yes, this is indeed a "long awaited sequel. I'll be sure to "protect" such a "worthy" entry into the flash community. Graphics were "unsurpassed" and sound was "superb." Originality was nonexistent. Humor was nonexistent. violence and style... also nonexistent. If only this flash didn't have such a large group of morons voting it higher, then it would also follow along the lines of this flash's plot, originality, humor, violence, and style.