ThaScientist's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tissie Bear]

Sweet, but not meant for Newgrounds

I can appreciate that you love your wife, and praise your craftsmanship with paper cards, but this flash is not something the newgrounds public will be interested in. You basically created a flash animated slide show using only the most basic capabilities of flash, rather than an actual animation. It does not have storytelling content. In a private and personal capacity it's good, but it's not competitive. You can share it with your wife and family, but this is not the kind of stuff we look for on newgrounds, with all due respect. I hope you will continue to use flash and eventually submit a solid, sophisticated animation that other people cann identify with.

zergtillian responds:

I respect your imput, and know that I know all you say is true. This is something I made for my wife, more just for her, but thought of the idea of seeing if this would hold up to newgrounds, and had my wifes support to put it on, otherwise I wouldn't dare to put it up. So just so you know, I know exactly what type of things should be up on newgrounds, and I have been working on one for sometime now. Had one up awhile back, didn't hold up, seeing as I didn't know how to add sound, otherwise it would have did good I'm sure. But I now know how to add sound, and its already good so far, but has a long time before it will be up on this

[Madness Tribute by Garbi]

Least you're honest.

Anyway, it was very short and the action took place too slowly. None of the characters expressed emotions like fear and suprise, and there was not much range of motion. Just not very sophisticated. If you want to get better, practice more complex movements and learn to vary the pace of action.

[One Last Heil]

Edgy.

I think you meant this as a joke, or else tell me otherwise, but it's not a joke I'm comfortable with. A madly nationalistic and xenophobic murderer of millions is someone who is dangerous to joke about if you are not squarely humiliating him. The fact that you have a sympathetic obituary to him in the Stars and Stripes may be construed as evidence this is satire, meant to reflect on the unfortunate nazi-like tenancies of some maladjusted Americans, but it leaves too much room for doubt. This is insensitive at best, inflammatory at worst. Also, your workmanship is not spectacular. I noticed you spelled "morn" wrong. That's just tacky. I have no idea what kind of person you are, and I can't tell if you're evil or just an uninhibited joker, but the joke does not appeal to me.

Grumio responds:

Oh no, I'm super serious here.

[Easy Way Out]

Props.

Ii know you never read it before in your life, but I am going to bring up Owl Creek--just to tell you that you do it proud. You should read it sometime. Anyway you didn't copy it at all. Except for the framing device of a man who has a long fantasy about escape in the instant before the noose tightens around his neck, it's totally original. You made it your own by making the story about crime, consequences, and temptations, whereas Owl Creek is more about war, duty, home, and consequences resulting from choosing to stand up for something.

Anyway, you animate with great style and give it meaning. The whole "deal with the devil" thing is pretty cool as a metaphor for selling one's soul to save one's miserable life. Shows that it's not worth it to keep running away from consequences forever. No sound fx made it harder to keep attention once it had been going for a while, but the background track was good and made that matter less.

Munglai responds:

Thank you. I'm fine with being compared to Owl Creek really, I just don't like it when I look through my reviews and so many of them are exactly the same.

[tftfggrrgtrgrggrgrgrgrrgr]

Fair?

I am voting fair. I hope you won't take it personally if I criticize your work, but you could have made something a lot funnier, or better yet something that had a story or a message. I can't give you a passing grade just because you ask for it.

EDUCATIONALWAGON responds:

i wasn't asking for you to vote high, i was asking you to vote on what you thought of the movie, i don't wnat some fag coming in going "OMFG THIS MOOVIE IS TEH SUXXORZ CAUSE IT DONT HAVE POWER RANGERS IN ITTTTTTTTTTT"

[Shockwave]

All well and good, but it's all been done before.

Your stick animation is better than most I've seen (stick animation that is) and show some prospect with backgrounds, but until you give it a plot--a story--you are no different from a million other animators competing for our attention. Stand out. Do something bold and sophisticated. Then you will be a real animator.

[Lycan Complains EP1]

Pretty funny, not so technically good.

It would be so much better if not for the annoying 360 guy's voice.

[Flush II]

One suggestion

not cool, not funny, not important. I have to respect the fact you worked to make it, but you just missed wherever my funny bone is. Also, your text sequences are a bit wierd because they are broken up into clumps of like two words when it would be better to group them into large and small groups depending on the meaning, Example: (in which "..." indicates where the preceding text fades out and what follows fades in)

What if you were flushed?...Could you choose to...come back?

Otherwise, it's hard to teach humor. You're on your own there.