Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[-8bit Clouds- Collab]

A cloudy collab

A very cloudy collab. Also a very 8-bittish collab on top of that.

I liked it pretty much, all artists have submitted good quality work to the collab, nothing stands out as bad here. Also, the music fits in very well here. It sounds pretty cheerful, which fits to the "cloud" topic in this collab.

Also, the mini game at the start was nice, too.

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[WALK!]

Simple again

Very similar to the "dance" collab. Again it's interesting to see what different authors come up with for a specific topic.

I think I would've chosen Fats Domino's "I'm walking" as a song for the collab, though. It's more fitting.

Also again it's a let down that there are only short cycles of "walking" here and no real story or even some changes in the background.

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Insanimation responds:

OK, thanks for the review :)

[DANCE!!]

Simple

A pretty simple but nevertheless entertaining collab. It's interesting to see what different authors make out of the theme "dance", heh.

Too bad the animations didn't synch up with the music though, but I guess this would've pretty hard to do.

Also, the background didn't change at all, which I also think is a bit of a let down here.

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Insanimation responds:

Alright, thanks for the review :)

[Headlights On Dark Roads]

Good

A pretty good flash. The drawings are all very good and I especially like the colors you chose. Even though most of the colors are pretty dark everything is very easy to see and to make out.

I also liked that you used the scenes from the fast paced intro later in the flash.

Only thing I didn't like was how in the intro the two cars crashed and flew "through" each other. This looks a bit weird. Maybe you should let the left car fly over the other car.

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Insanimation responds:

Yeah, the car crash never looked right, no matter what I did..

Thanks for the review :)

[Resident Shittits 5]

Funny

Hey, this looks pretty rush... oh wait! :P

It's a very fast paced flash so it's best to watch when no one is disturbing you so that you don't miss anything.

I really like this flash, it's amazing how many funny things you have put in here (my favorite where the signs with "No one is hinding here!" and "Best hiding spot!").

The quality of the audio is a bit low, but other than that it's a great movie.
If frustration always results in such funny movies you should be frustrated more often... :P

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RhysMus responds:

Thanks dude! Much appreciated, hugs?

[Fizz (Episode 1)]

Nice

A very nice movie. There's not that much happening here, but there's nothing wrong with having a flash that doesn't rely on style or action but on dialogue.

The voice acting was pretty good, but Lenz was a bit hard to understand because of the mask. It's a good idea to "muffle" the voice a bit because of the mask, but it was a bit too much for my taste.

I liked how you used the goggles to express the feelings of the scientist, it was a nice idea.

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Jimtopia responds:

I'll be sure not to muffle him as much come episode 2.

[Tribute to Tributes]

Done quickly, and it shows

First of all let me say that this isn't a bad idea. You have a point there. When famous people die, other people tend to pay "tribute" to them with crappy submissions that are nothing else as slideshows with a sad tune playing in the background.
Also, the beginning with June/July and Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps (or however it is spelled ^^) and Michael Jackson was funny, too.

However, it really shows that this flash was done very quickly. The voice is sometimes a bit too muffled and it's kinda hard to understand what you are saying. The graphics are pretty sloppy and the images aren't always well placed.

I'm sure you can do a lot better than this if you put more effort into your flashes plus if you have the time to plan your flash better. But on the other if you put this out in like a month, no one would care about your point anymore, because all those tributes would've been long gone from the front page of the portal and people simply wouldn't care anymore.

So, this is an okay flash if you consider the fact that you simply hadn't that much time to put this together, the point you have isn't less valid just because the flash doesn't have first class graphics. ;)

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blackcat2000 responds:

Better planned than most tributes =D
I hope? I'll also say it was 100% (more like 80% =X) intentional to make it reflect the submissions I'm raving on about.
Yeah, it was done moderately quickly, but I have a real animation to get work done >.<
Glad you liked at least part of it, and thanks for the review =D

[How to use the search bar]

Nice flash

You made a nice flash here, even though you used many screenshots from NG. This can go awfully wrong, but you did a pretty good work to make this a good flash.

First of all, I liked that you used the NG font for your texts, that was nice idea. I also had no trouble reading the texts at that speed and that's saying something as I'm a pretty slow reader in english (it's a foreign language for me).

The music was nice, too. It gives the viewer something to listen to while he's learning how to use the search bar. But there where some noticeable static sounds to hear every now and then.

It's also a good thing that this flash is only 1 MB big. Other flashes with audio in it are a lot bigger most of the time because the authors are too lazy to compress the audio and/or only use parts of a song (like you did here).

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[The Pretenders]

Nice

Again a pretty good movie. The story starts off great with that investigator theme and ends in an unexpected punchline.

The movie is a bit too dark at times. While it works quite well in the very beginning where Nick enters the house and talks about his job it's a bit hard to see what's going on once he goes to the fridge.

It would also have been nice if you had used toy guns and sound effects until Cody appears on the scene. While it is hilarious to watch two guys shooting at each other with their bare hands (and it also reminds me of that one episode of South Park) the punch line would have been even better if the viewer could actually see what you two where imagine.

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Fro responds:

We've addressed the lighting in our newest movie. Beneath the Sheets 2.

[Resident Hall Evil]

Great

Well, that was just great. I like how you copied the movement of the computer characters as well (especially the "running against walls" ^^).

I also liked how you put the "will you take"-screen into it as well as the subtitles. All in all you did a very good job of parodying Resident Evil.

The voices where sometimes a bit quiet. Especially Nick was sometimes a bit hard to understand.

The main flaw of this submission are the "door" scenes. While I like that you put it in (well, if you parody RE you just have to put in those doors in between "room changes" right?), but the door knob was staying at the exact same place. When the door swung open the door knob didn't move an inch. This looks pretty weird.

But overall, this is a masterpiece of amateur movies! ;)

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Fro responds:

Yeah, I didn't do the art. I did the stairs myself and fallensoul did the door, but it was so much better than what I could do.