Misteroo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[All NG Fads Die!!! 3!!!]

Disappointing.

At first I wondered why you would bother to slam the 'popular flash characters' yet skipped over most of the REAL losers on this site. Let's just go with 'putting in well-known characters everybody likes MIGHT make others enjoy our movie.'

Seriously. Throwing in a bunch of popular characters and mixing them with excessive violence is what terrible NG authors do best. Rather than coming up with a CLEVER insult or anything entertaining, you've resorted to lots and lots of poorly animated death and borrowed characters to throw onto the garbage pile known as NG Collabs. The only part I liked in this entire movie was the part where the epic kiss sequence got fast-forwarded and the two characters bumped their heads together. THAT was good. Throwing in a bunch of Barneys tweening around awkwardly for YET ANOTHER MATRIX PARODY was not.

All that you really did was indulge in the most prominent and irritating cliche on this site, and that defeats the purpose of making this movie in the first place.

MACception responds:

Yes...yes we did... :-D

-LP

[Naruto - Go !!!]

Sprite movies are sad abominations

Popular characters + predrawn graphics - originality = SURESHOT SUCCESS AND FUN FOR ALL

It's a good use of spritework, but that isn't an accomplishment. It's by far the most unoriginal trash you could've come up with. This video only offers the same stuff that could been found on the website you took the sprites from--or the imagery that was traced. From what you've said, the choreography was taken from the intro you were copying, so you can't even be given points for that.

But this is Newgrounds, and the viewers (and apparently, flash authors) don't understand the concept of quality so they drool over movies with their favorite characters in them that don't immediately look like they were made by a 10 year old in MS Paint. It doesn't have to be original, it doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to have anything new or impressive, and it could just be a total ripoff of something else--so long as it has character inserts and blatant stealing it will succeed.

Ew.

[Experimental Film Collab]

Meh

I usually hate collaborative works, since a lot of them have what this movie has--a bunch of completely unrelated clips of varying quality that may/may not constitute as entertainment and usually do not. In this flash, we have (in order) some guy standing around in front of a black background poorly lip-syncing and otherwise doing nothing, a boring montage of sprites, something that was actually 'animated', something that's also animated yet done poorly, and finally some shape-based-minimalist-characters clip in which nobody has arms or legs yet everybody looks like Kirby.

I guess it all kinda matches with the music--a highly disorganized experimental flash.

If everyone works just a little on a large project, it just means you have everyone doing only a little work. It doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be good. Generally it reminds me of One Love. It's the same idea--everyone doing only a little bit of work that ultimately just means everyone *only doing a little work*.

Contrary to what most Newgrounds authors think, quality still rules over quantity. Being able to finish something in less time doesn't mean it's going to be better. Work hard and come up with more better ideas--it'll serve you well.

[ACC - Around The World]

No

Dancing around in your bedroom is not animation. It's a horrible waste of resources.

AntiClockClock responds:

I didn't have any resources to waste. You just lost a fan too, asshole. Mass 0 ATTACCCCKKK!!!! jk. actually im not.

[Final Fantasy Day Care 2]

Heh...

Well, it isn't the best, and it was a lot shorter than the first episode, but at least it was kinda funny. Spend a little more time on the audio--add in some more background music if you can to spice things up a bit.

[One Love V2]

Uh...

This is what the 'edit submission' button in your Grounds Gold menu is for. It's got a critical bugfix, yet it's really just the same exact music video.

[One Love]

Incorrect

Flash needs more hate, not love. Much of this subject is based on which authors are really trying (Cycon) and which are just pulling things out of their asses yet succeeding anyway regardless of if the result is good or funny or original (LF).

Ironically, the end result of 32 people working together is pretty boring. It's just a vast amount of characters standing around lip-syncing. No background, no story, nothing really happening. Some of the little animations are impressive-yet-brief, and the rest of them are lame-yet-thankfully-brief. For a music video, the audio skips a lot--like, every 2 seconds. You probably could've fixed that by using the original clip straight out as it was and then just pasting the animation frames where needed as opposed to trying to layer up a bunch of wav files--flash has always had annoying syncing issues.

Some people will like this just because it has authors that they like--the rest of them will dislike it for what it really is. The movie has no original ideas and the theme you were going for wasn't clear up until the very last frame. It's otherwise just character inserts and graphics ranging from good to decent. At least nobody had to waste a lot of time on it.

[FF7: Clouds history pt1]

Blammed it.

EVERYONE knows the story to FF7 and if you don't understand what happened then you're too stupid to play the game.

All you did was throw in a bunch of jpgs. Flash shouldn't look like a powerpoint presentation--it should be ANIMATE, interesting, and original. This is a job that anyone could pull off in like... an hour, tops. If anyone wanted to see any of this they'd just play the game again.

[BritClock Gets a Robot]

Heh heh heh

The animation's pretty smooth and clean even though there isn't a lot of it and it's kinda short. I like the ending best. I'm giving it a 5 for the hell of it :}}}

BritClock responds:

Thanks for the fifen...I dont know why you gave it such a low score for everything though, especially sound, which is crystal clear on speakonia =|. Thanks for the review, anyway.

[Phil and Compy]

Needs work.

It kinda looks like you're going for something similar to Penny Arcade, only you didn't animate it very well at all. The characters mouths aren't even in sync. It only takes a little bit of extra effort to pull that off, but the effect it gives really shows. Considering how short this was I'm very sure that you could afford to make changes to the submission.

Of course, this is your first, and it wasn't all that bad. Just keep practicing, learn to stream your sound clips, and you'll improve over time.