blarg1's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mr. Happy Face]

Pure shit.

how did this crap end up on the front page? Aside from being sickening, it has absolutely nothing to recommend it.

[Time of your Life]

a monument of work, but sloppy and uninspired

in order to really work, rotascoping has to be very precise. Here the overall effect is simply one of sloppiness.

The subject was also less than inspired.

I feel bad, becasue the author obviously put in many, many hours of work to create this.

[The George Bush Show 6]

Cheap shots

Why does the American left feel they can take all the cheap shots they want, and be as low as they like, if they call it "humour"?

Cheap shots are never very funny.

[DE_aztec]

nice animation... I don't get it

It's obvious that the author is a fan of the movie The Matrix, and of shoot-em-up video games...

But aside from some solid animation and more or less non-stop gore, this movie really doesn't have that much to say. Was this supposed to be a typical experience when playing the game "Counter Strike", or a plotless scenario set in the game world? The animation introduced a lot of characters, but didn't give me any reason to care about any one of them.

If the author were to combine his obvious talent for animation with some solid writing, he could create something really worthwhile.

This...was nothing but fluff.

[UGLY]

I didn't like this film. sorry.

The technical execution was good. You have obviously been inspired and influenced by John Kricfalusi - who is widely considered a master, even if he isn't a favourite of mine.

However, I thought your writing was horrible. The story was horrible, the premise was horrible, the dialogue was horrible, the tone was diabolical and the humour... was flat.

Sorry.

[LOTR Parody: SE p1]

This might be funny...

...if you were a particularily coarse and stupid teenage boy. Otherwise, it's a waste of time.

[Salad Fingers Episode 2]

Not my cup of tea, but elegant and well-executed

I personally do not find myself entertained by this kind of nightmare filth. It makes me wonder about the mental health of the author when I contemplate the fact that he was trying to create something humourous and conceived this. [hums the theme from the Twilight Zone]

However, there's no arguing that this was beautifully drawn and executed flawlessly.

One reviewer wrote:
"at times this movie draws me to the edge of my seat because I think he's going to do something awful, but he doesn't"

He apparently missed the fact that Saladfingers has absently shut a small boy up in his oven while enjoying the sensation of a rusty nail through his fingertip.

Another reviewer let loose with a rather strange rant about Canada. I'm a little disturbed by his assertion that Canadians "tried to kidnap" his cousin, (apparently without success); but the rest of his rant seems a little unfair to us poor Canucks. The war of 1812 ended a very long time ago, so I think it might be time to get over the burning of the White House - after all, the Americans raided Canada too.

He goes on to say that Canada is full of gays. I guess this is true. I live near the gay district in Ottawa, and I can truthfully day there must be almost as many gay people in Canada as there are gays in San Francisco. Maybe they snuck in from Canada with all the terrorists ;)

[Old but new bottles intro]

Where's the rest of it?

a good start, but the art's lazy, and the intro doesn't say much about anything, aside from affixing immediately forgettable labels to three inegmatic figures who seem to sprout limbs only when needed.

Maybe once you have an episode done it'll allow viewers to get a better feel for your vision.

[Zombies are cool!!!]

Cute - needs polishing

this was cute, but it needs polishing.

1) why are you using imported raster art for Pikachu? It looks nasty. He's simple enough that you should be able to recreate him as a vector and add depth with a few simple gradients. Plus there's one persistent frame that he often rests on with his tail up behind him that needs tweeking. For nearly half a minute I was trying to figure out why there was a spike growing out of his head, until I realized it was supposed to be his tail behind him.

2) buttons are nasty and out of character - they should be remad with nicer art

3) cute audio for Pikachu, but why the nasty CG voice for your character? It's wierd. Record some live audio for that.

4) the interactions need fixing. If you play the game correctly, It only takes 4 or 5 choices before Pikachu eats his stew, but with wrong choices it repeats ad nauseum untill all of the right ingredients have been selected as well. The game should complete after the 4 or 5 items.

You should also make a variety of "bad stew" endings. Any kid who plays this is going to make the right stew once, and then amuse himself by making up nasty stuff for Pikachu to eat. After all, that's half the fun.

[angry chicken]

Looks like you got bored partway through

If you write a script and make a finished animation, I think you'll have something a lot more interesting. THe are was fine and the animatoin was okay.