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[War of 2004]

Not too bad for a stick movie.

Still, some problems. 1) The audio is pretty much incomprehensible. It needs to be louder and clearer. 2) Using other people's detailed vehicles or guns is a really, really bad idea, because your own vehicles, objects, backgrounds etc. look ten times worse next to them. 3) The secrets... Jesus. An animated gif that's not by you, another animated gif that's not by you, a bunch of porn... It would be nice to have some secrets that actually have a relation to the movie, not to mention actually being your work. Besides, being rewarded with tits makes me feel like a twelve yeard old.

On the plus side, the animation's reasonably long and there's kind of a story to it. It's still kind of random.

TvP responds:

Well I wanted to try something new with the secrets, I've never really done something like that before. As for the sound, I actually did lower it so voices could be heard, I guess I didn't lower it enough for the last part. But you know, its sound WAY better when your working on the .fla, when its a .swf on NG is sounded worse. Thanks for the review anyways.

[Foolish Immigrants]

Merde sainte!

I love your graphical style. Reminds me of Picasso. It's too bad that the audio is very hard to understand. Not all that funny, but very cool in a ski-bi-de-bop-bow way. I hope to see more of this.

[Evil Cat Sketch]

Not bad, but...

...not very entertaining either. I don't think this is bad enough to get blammed, but it's not really something out of the ordinary either. At best it reminds me of the Steven Seagal show pt. 1 (removed from NG by request of the author, I think), where Seagal accidentally punches an old man through the head and then spends the whole day with the corpse stuck around his arm. This is short, it's not excessive enough in violence to be funny, and while I guess you intended a surprise in the ending when the cat's still stuck to the guy's arm, it's very predictable.

If you want to redo this, I'd recommend you make it somewhat longer, and add a real build-up in violence from the guy trying to get the cat off his arm - starting with hitting it, maybe pulling it, and then just snapping to different scenes where he does increasingly crazy stuff to get rid of the cat. Right now, he just shoots it in the head. That pretty much establishes straight off the bat that he's not going to get the cat off his arm, if it can survive a gunshot to the head. I think there's two directions you can go with the ending, and eitherway it should be longer; 1) the character goes on with his life and spends the rest of it with the cat on his arm (you could show stuff like graduation, his wedding, a desk job, children or grandchildren who also have cats stuck on their arms - nonsensical, but funny), or 2) he gives up on trying to remove the cat from his arm, and something stupidly funny happens so the cat lets go after all. Just some personal brainstorms.

Your work isn't bad, but maybe a little unimaginative.

The-Silent-Bob responds:

I know exactly what you mean. I was going to make him do all that crazy stuff, like putting his hand with the cat on it at the side of the road, waiting for a car to come and crush it, but it crushes his arm instead, stuff like that, but you know when sometimes you spend a while on something, and you just want to get it over with? Yeah, well that's what happened with this :) I won't re-edit it, or make a sequel or anything, as I am in production of a Halo thing, much better than this :P Thanks for the ideas and review.

[The True Super Marrio 2]

Fish bushes. Sweet Jesus.

I appreciate it when someone can take Flash and a microphone and just let himself go. I'll just go ahead and vote 4 to try and beef up the score a little.

[Pencilmation #1]

Really nice.

Not ha-ha funny, but it still makes me smile in lots of parts. The animation's very good and stylish. I could imagine this being cut up into smaller pieces and broadcast during commercial breaks. Great job.

[Outwar Hater]

Aw yeah.

I wouldn't vote high on this just because I hate Outwar links so much, but the stick figure animation was very nice (kinda like squigglevision). The violence could've been a little more over the top, in my opinion... I can think of worse things to do to Outwar spammers than set their house on fire and watch them cry. The ending was a little too abrupt too, maybe you should've shown the building collapse or something. Still, good work.

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[Punch Out: Chapter One]

Cool piece of work.

I think it could've used a couple more jokes, for the most part it was a little too serious for me (I just can't take Punch-Out too serious, I love it for its humor), but it was quite a piece of work. If the follow-ups are as good, I hope this ends up in a collection.

You're probably going to hear this from now to infinity, but Little Mac's coach is actually called Doc Louis. I don't know if you purposely called him Carl ("Doc" could just be a nickname, after all), but just FYI.

AngelnX responds:

Oh yea i know his name is Doc Louis, but have you ever seen that show called Family Matters? The fat cop guy, Carl Winslow, thats what all our friends thought he looked like. But anyhoo, thanks for your comments, i really appreciate it. i just wish there werent any assholes giving this movie a zero just because for nothing ya know...

[Tweening at its Finest]

No. No. NO.

NO. Tweening, and understanding the timeline, are the basics of using Flash. This is as pointless as making a tutorial about starting up the program. Aside from that, FLASH COMES WITH TUTORIALS TO LEARN STUFF LIKE THIS. There's plenty people out there too lazy or stupid to do the tutorials, but this isn't going to help them. If you want to make a helpful Flash tutorial that includes tweening, at least do more than that. You can teach them about all types of frames, dragging and dropping, the library, the three types of symbols, maybe even few basic actionscript commands - but not JUST tweening.

luminousnerd responds:

I make many tutorials, this is one of them. Tweening is a large subject and needed its own tutorial to be covered. Had I included more, I would have worsened those who are already upset at me for having a slow load time. Therefore none of your arguments are valid.

[Mutant Clone part 1]

Pretty, but too short.

Cool looking movie, and the rhyme was a nice touch, though a bit strained here and there. Good thing you used subtitles, cause the voice wasn't always too clear. The moment when the mutant clone got smashed by the car seemed kind of inappropriate. Up to there it seemed serious, and bam - slapstick.

And, I keep saying this, but quit it with the "to be continued..." crap. If you don't know how to end your movie, don't submit it until you do; if you really want that "to be continued" end, give at least some form of closure. Every other movie on the portal right now seems to end abruptly on that type of screen, it's incredibly annoying.

[Resident Stick]

Pretty decent, for a Stick movie.

Good character animation. The truck kinda stuck out since you used that detailed motorcycle, but nice work overall. I recommend that instead of the "next" button on dialogue, you just try and see for yourself how long you need to read the dialogue line, and incorporate it into the animation. It might take some practice to get inbetween too short and too long, but it makes for a more pleasant viewing.

However, people really need to cut it out with these nonsensical "to be continued" cop-outs. Nobody 'runs out of time' to finish their animation. Nobody has a deadline to get it up on NG. If it's not finished, don't submit it. The only reason people end their movies in "to be continued" is because they run out of ideas to finish the movie, or possibly just because they're too eager to get it online. I'm guessing it's the former for you, since your movie IS decent.

Sorry that I happen to pick your spot to rant, it's just happening too much. Again though, quality work.

Twisterman responds:

...kay