Sekky's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[.GiD.]

Shoddily Presented

The introductory menu I think was the best presented part of this. The rest was awful. Let me run it down.

What actual art was there was barely animated at all, and the real animation consisted of a whole load of raster images you collected and flash in front of my face in a random order. That's not animation, that's a slideshow.

The voice acting was quite possibly the worst I've heard in a long while. Stop slavering into the mic and learn some live audio techniques. It was more painful to listen to, especially coupled with the terrible overused sound effects and background music which was badly levelled.

A film this short shouldn't have 'acts'. 20 seconds of pictures does not constitute an 'act'.

~Rhyth~

inevitability responds:

You have a valid point about the animation. As to the acts, as I have said before... it is my movie, my message, my concept... I do what I feel to do with it.

As to the sound. Thats a matter of perspective.

Thanks for watching.

["Megaman" (1/3) -Short-]

Awful

The art was simplistic, I did like some of the perspective techniques you used, but apart from that, it was all terrible.

Firstly, the animations was lacking, there was very little and what was there was not impressive in the least. Although some of the best immersion comes from pieces with little animation, it needs to have a good plot, which this didn't.

This I found to be extremely childish humour, generic jokes with no original twist to them, and that toilet scene was unforgivable.

And we'll move on to the crowning touch, the audio. Artificial reverb only sounds good if you know what you're doing, if it weren't for the subtitles (which were very ugly), I wouldn't have been able to understand them. Music also nothing special, annoying actually.

This film confirms my theory that megaman fans are some of the most boring people alive.

~Rhyth~

Eric-S responds:

Hmm, i really didn't put very much effort on this, i already know about the toilet scene (read the comments from the back), isn't most of the movies aimed at little kids?

Subtitles? WTF did you wanted? A Mona Lisa on each letter, dude, they are letters! not Art!

im very new to animating, don't be so hard on me, im trying to improve as much as i can, the script for this one sucks, the next one is much better and no toilet humor, i promise.

and, you aren't that much of a flasher either, Krin did most of the work on Sinjid (if you are pretending to use that as an argument).

Hah, you seriously don't like Iron Maiden?, plus i didn't really use music at all, i just used a part from lynyrd's intro and a IronM loop, what's the big deal about it?

so, just because i didn't use your music style you didn't like it?
Bah.

Boring people alive? Megaman Fans? You are boring, you think its Hilarious to make games?, nah, you got no moral to critique me.

You = Fail.

[The BlooKat]

Mellow And Entertaining

Ok, there was really no plot to this movie at all. If there was humour there, I missed it. I think this just passed as an example of your drawing techniques which I like quite a lot, some good lowlight techniques there.

The animation however was lacking significantly. Mouth movements and subtle character movements were there, but sparse. I did like the perspective changes accomplished by foreground tweening though.

Although there were no sound effects (perhaps a plus, I've yet to decide) the funk beat was very fitting towards both the drawing style and the atmosphere of the movie itself. It sounds as if you could have composed it yourself but there were no credits to suggest so. Kudos if you did.

On a more technical aspect, there was no replay button or end screen, it just stopped black. I think this should be fixed.

The originality is there, the concept is there, I think this could prosper.

JamesLeung responds:

There is no Plot its all Random.
Thankyou for the advice.

[Behind the Portal: B]

Saying What Now?

Ok, this was short for a start. It had an original idea which I don't think you executed very well.

Virtually all your graphics were traced to vector horribly, even the bitmaps themselves would have had a smaller filesize than doing that. You drew little more than a few pictures, because the StrawberryClock wasn't your's either.

You must use the worst TTS program on the earth. It was far too fast to hear without the text being there, which was often out of sync and started either too early or too late, usually the latter.

The humour and the idea where both there, and the method of how he created B made me giggle, but then you spoiled the entire humour with the unnecessary swearing. You don't need to swear for a movie to be funny, and often it kills the rest of the humour surrounding it which was the case here.

Put a little more thought and care into your work instead of rushing an idea which would have worked much better if you'd taken a little more time developing it. There's no point to humour if it isn't presented well.

MacintoshClock responds:

1) I'm not the only one who uses traced bitmap backgrounds. Many other users, including fellow Clock Crew members, use this sort of background all the time.

2) I purposely made the voices a little speedy to make it funnier.

3) This is Newgrounds, not elementary school. If you have a problem with the swearing, I suggest you leave this site. Most of the movies here are intended for mature audiences who won't get in trouble if their mommies catch them watching a movie with potty language in it.

4) B is so cool.

[Knoxs "Mortal Kombat"2]

Unimpressive

A lot about this movie irritates me. All you did was simply import an movie file and dub over it with our own voice acting. The screen size was far too large as the actual graphics only took up a small portion of the screen. There was no need to make it so big. But rather that than enlarge it to the size of the window and create even worse quality than it already was.

Although the humour was there, and it was a fairly well thought out parody, it doesn't justify such a large filesize and doesn't show any graphical skill, or skill with flash itself besides being able to synchronise some speech in the timeline.

Perhaps I may have found it a little funnier had I actually seen the film, and I may have appreciated it. Films made from games are rarely any good to begin with, so parodies are obviously going to be limited. There were points I think you may have been a little desperate for humour simply to find something that would fit with the order of play.

You really shouldn't make any more of these, try and show you have a little talent in using Flash.

Knox responds:

at least you admited it was funny,ha ha....but still......SCREW YOU,just kidding,ok..what ever..but im not gonna take your advice..i mean you gave me a 2!...and you expect something in return?

[Incarnation part 1]

Fast Paced

When I watched the intro scene a couple of things caught my attention. Your strange style of graphics made the perspective of the movie skewed and most graphics such as the file cabinet and the desks just looked well out of place because of the angle you drew them at.

I thought that this did allow your loop animations, like that of the bouncing movements whent the clocks spoke, to be much smoother but weren't boring or repetitive to watch.

The intro music was annoying on so many levels. Although I'm not familiar with the song you used, it was out of key, time and was of extremely awful quality and unbearable to listen to.

The rest of the music didn't get much better, but you used a TTS program which had a lot of fluxuation in the pitch of the voices which was enjoyable to listen to and kept the movie running at a fast pace with no irritating stops between different people's speech.

The dialogue and storyline were well thought out in my opinion and kept the story interesting. The "artist's renditions" with your intentional misspelling and crayon style drawings were an original idea. The dialogue and graphical humour cooperated with each other well throughout the movie but it ended pretty boringly, even though it was supposed to be a cliffhanger of sorts.

I really want to see what happens in the next episodes.

MonkeyClock responds:

You're the first person who didn't like the music =O

[Floor of Mist and Rain]

Showcase

This just seemed like a showcase for your anime art which was good, but there was little animation in it besides some perspective tweening and a few facial changes. One piece of animation you tried, specifically the kali-yuga clip, was fairly jerky but managed well.

You seem to concentrate a lot on highlights and lowlights rather than shading in your graphics, something I liked to see. You also used little or no vector lines, using the pencil and pain tool to achieve all your graphics.

The music was fitting and created a background atmosphere, but the very little vocal content you put in there was of extreme awful quality.

The cliche white text on black background was a little irritating, because I've seen it used so many times before, especially since there was only one word used per blackout, something also overused but still a fair device.

If you do decide to turn this from an art clip into a movie I would support it and view it.

maxmao2002 responds:

that's a lot for me to consume, but that's a very sincere review. but in counter of the lack of animation, i really spend a lot of time on the guy spinning the pole, even though it breezes through in a second