Evark's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Takamori Legend]

I was thoroughly impressed

I thought it was quite excellent. Good work on everything. The only suggestions I would have would be to work on the fight scene animation. The comic book style was cool, but it should be either one or the other, meaning either snap shots of the action, or full fighting without the comic effect. If you want to do both, you could have had a full fight scene that took snapshots of it at certain key points, I always think that looks cool.

So overall it was great, the graphics were excellent, the sound was superb, violence a 10, and twas most stylish. Here's a ten for a fractional improvement to your review score.

[Fallen Angel: Teaser]

With graphics this good who needs a storyline?

That was just awesome. The graphics were absolutely mindblowing. I loved the DVD style menu and the action sequences were incredible. The movie was above par in everything, especially the blood and gore category.

The only complaint I have is that you're going to bother writing a story for it. I'd be completely satisfied with everything the way it is. C'mon, that was awesome, adding a story will just make us have to wait longer. You can just do what a whole bunch of other people do and write some sort of story option in the main menu.

Anyways, wicked nice graphics, wicked cool sound, wicked awesome 911 cameo, and wicked nice animation makes this an instant winner. Good job, keep up the good work/other words of encouragement.

[YAAFM 9: Michael Moore]

Bleh

Man, this series reminds me of Retarded Animal Babies, and I hate it just as much. Its always the same, you take some celebrity and find quotes and then pick them apart when you don't interpret their meanings correctly.

Moore's point about being afraid of white people is not that he hates white people, its just that he thinks there needs to be a change in how we think. We are always afraid and always keeping someone else down because they are different than us.

Moore does not hate Americans. Moore does not hate America. He simply wishes to see an America that actually carries through with the high morals and democratic standard it pretends to set.

Enough on Moore, on to the reason I don't like the series and, in particular, this installment.

Reason number 1: It isn't funny. It's just plain stupid. I enjoy clever humor, the kind of stuff your average person just wouldn't think about. Situational comedy is funny too. But commentary is dull. Realise you aren't failing here, I was able to sit through the entire thing because I found your points interesting, I just didn't laugh.

Reason number 2: the formulaic simplicity. Don't get me wrong, it isn't that you don't draw or animate well, its just that you don't draw or animate much. The scene never changes, the characters never change, and the rest is just imported pictures.

Reason number 3: Reginold's voice. It mostly fits him, except it fluxuates so much its difficult to hear at points. Try to make his volume more consistent, because he seems to mumble towards the end of any of his long-winded diatribes.

Reason number 4: Advertising. Its cool to advertise textually at the end to fill the space around the replay button. I think I'd even stomach scrolling ads at the bottom during the entire flash. But putting in an advertising bit that you spent time on at the end with full animation?

Reason number 5 (the least important): I didn't quite agree with your verdict. Michael Moore is pretty damn smart if he can gross 100 mil on a docu-drama, and win an award at Cannes with it-- even with near 50% of the country hating him for it.

In conclusion: I'd like to see more of your stuff in the other styles you use. The Paris Hilton FBI thing was pretty good, I like it when you change the scene and characters for a completely different style of flash. It somehow has more humor when you make what appears to be a completely serious flash out of something funny. This flash wasn't funny, the series is clawing desperately to get out of the cold water underneath the thin ice it trod on, and adding Advertising like that just isn't cool.

[Prowlies at the River]

Brilliant, yet again

Congratulations, you are the best flash artist... EVER!

The art was stunning, the story was excellent, the humor was there, everything was all there. A job well done. The only thing I can think of to work on is to compress a little bit more. I don't really mind how it is anyway, I've got cable.

So, keep up the good work, its awesome, etc.

[The Show]

Well...

It was good for a 2 anyway. I thought it was kind of creative, but I think you just need to improve the graphics a tad before you submit again. The sound quality also could stand some improvement.

Just a little more practice and you can probably make some really decent flashes. Good luck!

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

"Just a little more practice and you can probably make some really decent flashes"

Watch my other cartoons, before you judge.

[The Billy Goats Gruff]

Huzzah!

That was great. I used to love that story when I was learning to read. My second favorite, after Charlie the Ugly Caterpillar. ANYway, the flash was great.

I loved how you redid the story, and it combined excellent graphics, excellent sound placement, and an incredibly well re-written story. Nothing but positive for this one.

You deserve the ten, and I suggest you make at least one more movie that remakes these classic childrens books. I'd be absolutely pumped if you knew what Charlie the UC was and if you made a similar remake of that. Anyway, very funny, but I won't spoil it for the next person to watch it.

[Salad Fingers Episode 2]

That is some seriously fucked up shit...

But this is the only time it is in a good way that I say this. This may be some seriously fucked up shit, but it is easily the most brilliant thing I have ever seen.

The graphics were just awesome. The character you used here was just perfect beyond words for what he is trying to do. The sound was IN-credible. The music set a perfect creepy tone and the voice set a perfect creepy tone.

Interactivity = whatever

Style is so unique and awesome that I just had to have a ten there to match the other two so far.

The Violence and humor also recieved 10's... cooking the kid was ridiculous, and I actually cringed when I saw his finger get stabbed by that point. Some points were just ridiculous so that they were hilarious. I loved when he was singing in the dream sequence.

Overall this ten is so well deserved it is insane. You have created a classic for Newgrounds, and although this creation is nearly perfect as it is, cap it all off with a final episode and then put it to rest. Salad Fingers is the best character ever, so I don't want any bad memories of him and I'm sure nobody else here does.

Congratulations!!! Your flash work kicks ASS.

[Final Fantasy A+]

Scha-weet

I thought it was great. The style is incredible, and everything from the preloader to the story was well thought out and executed outstandingly. The graphics were a treat, the sound was great, I liked that you did all the Japanese voices with the English speech bubbles. The bar at the bottom that allows you to skip to certain parts in the movie (WMP-esque) was great, and made the interactivity as high as it is for this flash movie.

The violence and such was definitely put in well, and I could definitely appreciate the humor in this piece.

Overall I definitely recommend it to everyone, and I also commend you for putting out such a great work. Everything was pleasing to me, and I don't have any problem with any aspect of the flash. A job well done award for you.

[Infanticidal - Censored]

Well, here goes nothin'

Ok, your movie first:

Not particularly good as far as flash movies go. Slideshows are usually deleted not for being against the NG submission rules, but just because they generally take no effort to produce, and are also rarely entertaining. This was certainly no exception. The graphics were used well to get your point across, although I would give point had any of them been your own.

Now for your political opinion:

You think abortion is wrong. Thats OK, believe me. But what isn't OK is forcing your opinion on to other people. We don't need propaganda that shows us the "horrors of abortion" or somesuch. If you think abortion is wrong, simply don't get an abortion. But just because you think abortion is morally wrong it doesn't give you the right to force others to follow your moral path.

The Supreme Court legalized abortion. I think it should stay that way. America is all about protecting the rights of its people. A fetus is not a person. Its developing into one, sure, but it still isn't a person.

Perhaps we should assume that your argument is completely valid. Following that same reasoning, eggs can't be eaten, meat can't be eaten, humans would not be able to eat at all, for whenever we do we would be unfairly ending life, be it plant, animal, whatever.

I am pro-choice. Yea, it kind of sucks to not be alive, but it also kind of sucks to not have a choice. Allowing women the right to choose is essential, because it allows for those who feel their morals don't allow them to do such a thing not to, and those who feel like that is an option to persue it. I'm not a woman, the choice isn't up to me, that is why I would never support anything that would subtract from a woman's right to choose. The problem is that people generally assume that pro-choice is the same as pro-abortion, which is ridiculous. Nobody in their right mind would ever want everyone who could get an abortion to get one.

Pro-choice means, in my case, that I am simply willing to allow a decision to be made by someone other than myself, and I admit that I am not qualified enough to forbid such a decision. Not a single person is qualified to make such a call when it comes to revoking a decision from someone. While I encourage a reply to this review (the choice is yours), I don't really want to read it if you choose to label me based on my stance. (the obvious exception being "pro-choice")

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Anenome responds:

A slideshow can be done right and still be entertaining. Check out my other slideshow "Hall of Freaks", also not deleted.

"...what isn't OK is forcing your opinion on to other people". - I haven't forced anyone to watch this or change their opinion.

"America is all about protecting the rights of its people. A fetus is not a person." - What makes you so sure it's not a person? The only difference between you and an unborn baby is age. And nowhere in the law is there the idea that age is an allowable basis to discriminate by. Even children have full human rights, and so do babies, and so do unborn babies.

"Following that same reasoning, eggs can't be eaten, meat can't be eaten..." - No, those things are not human and do not have human rights. It's not killing that is wrong, it is murder that is wrong. No one can prevent killing, just wash your hands or even breathe and you have just killed billions of microscopic things.

Again, women do have a choice when it comes to pregnancy, the choice comes when you decide whether or not to have sex. Period.

"Nobody in their right mind would ever want everyone who could get an abortion to get one." - Actually, there are people who want others to get abortions, Rush has called them "Femi-Nazi's" and says there's less than 50 of them in the country. Why do they want ppl to get abortions? Because they own abortion clinics and they make a ton of money everytime someone gets one, that's why.