ThaScientist's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Madness: Deus Ex Machina]

Ups and downs.

Your use of lighting, sparks, and gradients was amazing, but it really detracted from the experience not to have traditional madness bullet holes and gore. They just fly apart; it looks a little bit lame.

[Madness Manufactory]

POWER: 300%

Madness on a grand scale. An epic of destruction, insanity, and general awesomeness. Your 'special effects' like Jesus' face in the lightning and his giant death ray were outstanding. I especially loved when the whole building goes origami on him. This is like some of the better things that come out of hollywood; I salute you.

[Evo lution]

Here

Dig the music, but I hope that morphing tree wasn't all there was to it. If it was, I don't know that this is worth watching. I know what "experimental" people are like, whether it's avant-garde music, abstract art, etc. I know experiments sometimes show good ideas. However, you aren't gonna get onto a democratic site like newgrounds unless you can make people "get it". I'm an 'academic' myself, and I didn't get it, so if that was just a trailer--fine, but if that was the whole movie, I think you have a lot of nerve. We're supposed to vote based on it's value to the average person, so you will have a hard time not getting blammed.

Pachira responds:

Well, it didn't.

[Madness Antipathy]

OH TEH NOES!

Totally, bloody awesome.

[Madness Depredation]

THE CLOWN HAS BEEN ENGAGED!

Still better, especially the new camera tricks and Hanks awesome gunslinging. I loved the part where he spars with Jesus using pistols as guards.

[Madness Apotheosis]

OWNAGE: 100%

The ominous club music by Sean Hodges is an instant plus, and the style is even better than Avenger.

New weapons, altogether faster pace, and awesome zombie mode. Love the end.

[R E D]

Good in concept, but swerves off course.

This review will be brutal, but the reason I will be so lengthy is that I think you are talented and skilled, and therefore would benefit from this advice. I think you are good, but need direction. Please read the whole thing before you judge it.

I found the main problem was that the setting seemed too modern. For example, in America during the fifties you would have a hard time finding a guy with long hair and stubble--the guy looks like a member of Nirvana, rather than a plausible communist or liberal of the day.

Although things like your use of the colo0r red over black and white and fighting with conservative henchmen who vaguely resemble Richard Nixon, It seems to call for a chase scene and/or an inquisadorial style hearing before a blank-faced courtroom, and that just never seems to happen. It descends into chaotic violence too often, ignoring the roots of communism in labor unrest, not giving attention to the identities of the red-hunting conservatives, and being politically ambiguous.

I can't identify with the protagonist once he takes up his weapoin and simply joins the meyhem. Unless picking up the weapon demonstrated the tenancy of people to to turn to communism when capitalist America shuns them, it seems politically wrong.

Think about whose story this should be. Are you telling the story of real communists who suffered in America? pure communism died during the 1940s in America, and afterwards you could hardly find a real party member. The people who suffered were those who weren't communists, but were radically liberal and therefore targeted by red-hunters labeling them as such to make them feared and hated. almost none of the targeted were actually communists. You seem to imply the protagonist is a real communist, and make him an anti-american fighter. The real people who killed the red hunters were reasonable people like Edward R. Murrow who revealed it was all just a hoax--the communists in america were just made up; the real authoritarian communists were at work in Russia where they had always been, and America was distracted.

The historical background is flawed, but on the other hand you are a superb artist. What you do get right comes to life in stark colors, and I'm sure your future projects will put your contemporaries to shame. Don't lose hope because you've been critisized, and please don't think I'm just an asshole who doesn't appreciate how hard you've worked. I just hope you will consider this as a reminder to stay on course so you can give your work all the things you have to offer.

[weebl and bob - paper]

A-HA

Love that song, Love this video (A-ha was a good band). This is REAL funny!

[Albuquerque: THE MOVIE]

Glorious

I've seen Wierd Al perform that live, all eleven and a half minutes of it, and I think you did it justice.

To begin with, you had such courage to commit to making such a long flash. That is the longest flash I've ever seen I'm sure. But your animation technique was perfectly fitting to the song in its exquisite zaniness, and that's somethiing I really want to stress. I've seen higher quality movies in terms of the animation quality (but that were shorter), but this sure was high quality for something that had to stretch on and on for eleven minutes. A lot of work I assume.

You have my ultimate respect.

[Robot K15]

Hey, I took your advice!

Pandoryk, I'm impressed! I'm the guy who sent you that "peace offering after a misunderstanding, and I followed your link. It's interesting how this was inspired by a song by that guy Snayk. I'm a beleiver now!

Taken as a whole, that was a very artsy, metaphorical statement about the cruelty of being forced to conform and leave yourself behind by the shadowy entities that seem to run everything. The part where he discovers his humanity at the end and kills himself was very poigniant, and the general atmosphere was austere and haunting.

Keep going, you're doing a wonderful job stylistically and substantially!

Pandoryk responds:

I'm very glad you watched this movie, and even glader to see that you like it ;)
Thank you for the review! ^^