Evark's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sonic'sQuestForPower3(P1)]

It was good, but

I get the feeling that the reason it is so big in filesize is because you don't really know how to optimise that well. Lower the quality of the sounds you put in there, and make sure they're all in mp3 format, for when flash exports that'll allow them to reduce the filesize and optimize it better.

Good flash though, I liked how you times everything, and you sure got the action parts of it down pat. I'm looking forward to completing it in the other two parts, but I do think if you had optimized this well enough you'd have had no problem fitting all three parts into one flash. You might have gone slightly over, but if that was the case a quick email fired over to Wade or Tom would've probably been able to fix that.

Good luck in your future animations and flashes, and good work on this current one. It can only get better and better, and I enjoyed the mixing of sprites with animation, and different Sonic aspects with other aspects of other video games and TV shows. Well done.

LgdVegetto responds:

lol trust me bro..it's the length of the movie...the ENTIRE movie combined (all 3 parts), is OVER 40 mins long...almost hitting a whole hour. Does that explain enough for ya? ;)

Also, when i DID have the entire movie combined, flash itself could NOT handle THAT much stuff...it actually froze and gave bugs and glitches with the entire movie combined.

[A Boy & His Vision Quest]

B-E-A-UUUtiful!

I thought your movie was excellent. Great use of effects, I liked the transitions between scenes and especially the drawing style.

The only thing I had to comment on was some of the animation. The scene where the eagle is flying over head and he is running through the forest is a little bit weak in the animations department. You could stand to improve that a little, but I can completely understand where you are coming from (It's difficult to animate a 3D effect on a 2D medium). Great storyling, and great everything.

I liked how the flash had a light and happy feel to it. Good job.

PauLH responds:

I am glad you liked, thanks for your review.

Yes, I understand some parts were weak in animation and with more time and more patience I could improve upon it. If I am an old amn and have lots of time I may remake this .. by then people will probably be virtually in the Newground portal within the movies... but oh well.

Thanks agian!!

[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.

[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.

[Bob the Ball - Episode 2]

I can't believe I missed protecting this

I'll just have to be content to give you an outstanding review and add to your review score.

First off, I obviously voted five, how could anyone after witnessing such an obviously genius work not vote five is a mystery to me. Quoting this outside of context would not do justice to the genius of its humor, and would detract from the surprise one gets enjoying this.

Everything was there... and I mean everything. I love the comic book/children's book style employed for graphics and style, and the violence was absolutely essential in telling the bob the ball tale. 10's all around except for interactivity, but... who the hell wants a flash MOVIE to be interactive? I know I don't. (play button and preloader exempted).

This is great, I hope you at least make it into a trilogy, that is all I would ask, any more and the idea may get sour, and you owe it to yourself not to let such a great concept go bad.

In closing, a job well done, and I look forward to many more movies from you, as I will be finally updating my favorites list to include this submission, and you as an author.

mlaskaris responds:

Yeah, I agree the interactivity score is kinda useless for this kind of movie...

And I agree that I would not want to do much more than a trilogy, I only have plans for 3 episodes, and I do agree that this style can get stale pretty fast. I will make two Flash music videos before I begin work on Bob 3. They probably won't score as well as a Bob episode, but oh well.

Thanks for the review, vote, and adds to favorites!

-mlaskaris

[Konstantine]

Good stuff

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.

HotCod32 responds:

Thanks for the feedback man

[Betrayal DVD]

Completely Worthy Flash

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.

Needle responds:

Thanks for the fantastic review. It's always nice to hear that people have arrived to different conclusions than myself - I would rather people develop their own opinions than listen to mine and nod their head. Newgrounds needs a dose of Serious every now and then - it keeps things in perspective while you're wading through SWAT team flashes. :)

PS The music is a Super Metroid remix, but you were close ;)

[fun stuff 114]

You must enjoy wasting space

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.

greydigger responds:

Bingo.

[fun stuff 046]

Fun stuff, eh?

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.

CabbageClock responds:

You're just jealous because i have pubes and you don't.