xTOXICxEMPIRE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Stickmanrun!!!]

meh.

Kinda made me lol, but lack of a preloader, bad animation, and the fact that it went for about 5 seconds made me blam it. It's hardly a movie, sorry.
Instead of doing small stuff, put effort into something worth while.

Spend about a week on you next animation, develop some ideas and a storyboard to help you get going.

[Pleasure Island]

Horribly disturbing, but...

Great animation nonetheless.
Bit short, but hey, I'm not judging you on length. Great animation there, and I admire how much detail you actually put in!

Make me chuckle, and cringe at the same time.

Great work, keep it up!

[FW:]

HOLY FUCK!

That was intense!
Non stop action the whole way through, I absolutely loved it.
Great use of slo-mo techniques, and some awesome stick action.
I really like some of the skills that guy had; the sword spinning, making a guy shoot himself, super speed etc.

Fucking awesome movie, best stick fight I've ever seen. Well done, this was brilliant.

5'd, and fav'd. Nice.

[The CTSG Collab!]

This review may be a bit biased, but...

I LOVED IT!!! <3
Oh man, it turned out brilliantly, Whirlguy did a brilliant job compiling it all.
Transitions turned out fantastic, I loved the credits, and I hadn't seen any of BritishMoose's except a screenie before now, I loved the whole damn thing!

Every single bit of the animation flowed fantastically, and and so did the music.
Seeing this brings back so many memories of the actual thread, I can't stop watching it over and over again!
I think the music was definitely enhanced through the animation now that I've seen the whole CTSG collab put together, and they both work in sync really well.

Can't wait to see you guys in the next CTSG!
Congrats Rigster!!!
AND WELL DONE EVERYONE!!!
<3<3<3

[Sprite TV 3!]

Brilliant!

Well usually, I hate sprite movies. I just don't think enough effort is put into them.
I was proven wrong right here.
Every part of the movie reeks of effort, and every single one made me chuckle, if not absolutely LOLgasm.

Some I didn't think would be funny, then had a clever joke at the end. Others were just so fucking random, I loved them. But ALL of them were awesome.

If I did have to pick favourites, they would be the Ness and Peach dance off, Balloon fighter, game crossover/bohemian rhapsody, link and tingle, the kirby movies, and lots of others.

But I have to say, the two that REALLY stood out for me would have to be the intro, which was absolutely hilarious, and the main menu easter egg, found in the first menu screen.
Brilliant job, I loved it :D

[Flipping ninja-moves]

Hmmm...

Well, definitely could improve.
But, you did a good job. Good sound syncing, and some good bits, for example the ninja bomb throwing, was done quite well.
However, too many flaws.
There should be a stopallsounds(); script at the end of the movie, incase people want to replay it without the song screwing up.
Most of the animation was choppy. When someone falls down, they aren't standing up one second, and down the next. Take into account poses and anatomy, i.e. the back would be bent, arms out.
The backgrounds need some details. They're there for the whole thing, they should look at least a little pretty! this can be helped with gradient backgrounds, and a little bit of shading.

But I liked the ending, last frame was good, and title was good.

I realize your still learning, and this is a good start. My first few animations were atrocious, I'll never let them see the light of day again.

Anyway, next time probably include a menu, customize your preloader, and make the animation fluid. Good try man!

Lare responds:

Thanks! That's what I call constuctive critism. When I made this animation, I had no idea how to use scripts, so that's why music sounds pretty bad. And animation is lousy just because I was too lazy when I drew it. I didn't have a tablet, so that's why it looks so unfinished. But I'm very glad there something you liked about it.

And thanks again for the review!

[:the Composer:]

Beautiful.

And I don't use that word lightly, either.
This is a magnificent flash, and unfortunately, a flash I could relate to.
My parents are divorced, but I don't use music as a means of escape.
I draw.
Of course its not the only reason I draw, but one of.

Thats why I think this flash is SO brilliant, and SO inspiring, is because so many people can relate to it.
Not everyones means of escape is the same, but it shows an insight into one small boy, how he tried to get away from it all, and how the cycle keeps moving forward.

The animation complemented the music so well, because of your realistic style.
It was fluid, and I noticed the small details as well, which adds to the whole realism of this flash.

Thank you. A few minutes of my life, definitely well spent.
Just Beautiful.

[The cross]

... Huh?

Sorry man.
I'm not rating this based on ANY religious views, this is a total non biased review.
I'm open to people of all religions.

But I am going to say this; This is a pretty bad Flash. And i'm not just saying that, I will justify my answer, not just being a douchebag.
Okay, so, you've decided to spread the word of Jesus through Newgrounds- thats cool, have no problem with that.
You just have to do it properly.
Start off with a well designed layout and menu.
Then onto the music. You need to have constant music going through the whole movie, not just at the start. Good choice of music, just loop it next time.

Secondly, a different pace.
You need to take into account that some people are faster readers than others, and some people are more impatient than others.
Instead of having a movie, with reeeaaally long cutscenes and long text time, have buttons leading onto different parts of it, so that they can skip cutscenes if they just want to view the text, or if the cutscenes too long, or if they've read the text already, and don't want to wait around forever.
Thirdly; content. And lack there of.
Your movie was pretty much a few bible quotes, and really simple tweens that led up to nothing.
Now if you just want quotes, and no actual animation bar tweens, thats fine.
Just add in about 5 more, and like I said, maybe have a menu so people can view them all, or skip through if they've read 'em. And make them quicker
Or if you want to lead up to something, you did it, just too slowly. From the look of you're tweens, you do have some animation talent, just need to use it.

But yeah, not very interesting, only because its too slow.
I reckon you can do a lot better. Keep on going man, don't give up.

Oh, and If people are going to rate my review useless, only because of the fact that I gave this a low score and I'm agnostic, thats just too bad.

I won't take it seriously.

Like I said, I'm totally cool with you guys being Christian, think its pretty brave that you believe in something and aren't afraid to show it, 'specially on Newgrounds.

[Sticky1]

Actually, a really good stick movie!

Well, I watched this, thinking "great. another stick flash. Some n00b trying to submit some more shit".

And then I watched it. And was actually amazed at your sweet animating skills! Dude, you need to market this properly!
Do an awesome icon, and a catchy name, because remember, first impressions! Some people might judge your movie, without even watching it!

But yeah, some funny bits, some awesomely animated bits, and some bits where you have no idea whats going on.

Great job.

[SSBB Collab]

all rounded, good collab

Well, I love the mega epic final destination music, and it went pretty well with the whole thing. Not a mssive fan of sprites, especially bad quality images (i.e JPEGs are horrible in a flash movie), but this was pretty good. However, Kirby could own Meta-knight in a brawl. Seriously. Also, maybe the templae stage instead of the super smash flash stage would have been better. Or even the pokemon stadium, its on his website!