Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[60 Seconds of Awesome]

Nice ideas

There are some nice ideas in the flash, especially the first one and that part where he jumps over the car and gets hit by the next one.

The graphcis are quite simple, but very effective. I still would like it better if the people had real faces.

The menu is very nice and I like that I can chose between three very different songs. Nearly every user should find something there that he likes.

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Emrox responds:

Thank you. It took a while to find those songs.

[One Cold Christmas]

Nice flash, sound lacks quality

A very good story with good humour (used underwear for christmas... ^^). Also the drawing style is quite nice.

You should work on the voice acting, though. A few lines didn't sound very natural and I couldn't even understand what Santa said at the end.
Also the quality of the sound was quite low. There where statics all over the place, especially when the voice got a bit louder.

Anyway, overall it's a nice flash movie. :)

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MrAbnormal responds:

I'm getting voice actors next time

[Dufflebag Dud]

Random

The graphical style is interesting and looks like old disney cartoons from the 40s, which is pretty nice, by the way.

The music could also be from one of those old cartoons and it fits very nice to the style of the graphics.

Too bad the story is kind of random and doesn't make that much sense. Maybe the "missing reel" wasn't that good of an idea. Also, the Carl Johnson with the monocle at the end didn't fit in the flash too good either and only adds to the randomness of this submission.

So, while the graphics and sound are nice the story sadly is not, which is why I can only give you 6 out of 10 stars. :(

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Snaws responds:

thnxk.....,.....

[The Sculpture]

Awesome

At first I thought you got the scenes from an old cartoon or some old CD-i game, because the graphical style really reminds me of some of the retro comic series I used to watch as a kid.

The story is pretty interesting and the SCP foundation sounds interesting as well.

I really like the scene where we watch the statue move through the eyes of one of the personell. Just like him we can only helplessly watch how the statue slowly moves closer and closer until it reached his collegue and kills him. The next blink and we watch right in the face of the statue.

I also like that the story is kind of open ended. We can see that his eyes slowly close, but before they are fully closed the flash ends. So, either the organisation send in some men to help, or the poor guy bites the dust after all.
I would prefer the first ending, because he's the only one who reacted like they where told, except for when the door suddendly closed, heh.

Also, the voice acting is pretty good. There are a few static sounds, though. And when the first victim goes to the statue there are like three voices at once, and none of them can be clearly understood. So, you should try to fix that.

Other than that, this flash is awesome.

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PBass responds:

Yeah, I felt after watching my own animation that it sort of resembled old cartoon cutscenes from LucasArts graphical adventure games. I agree definitely on my audio issues, when I finally exported it from Premiere, somehow I must have really turned up the volume on 'HEY' and I was too frustrated to go and fix it at the time. I'm working on a better menu and a subtitles option to update it with later, so I'll probably do some audio fixes when I update. Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked it!

[Bloody Sundae]

Good submission

This submission combines humour with seriousness pretty good. There are some things to laugh about, like when the girl first discovers the cannibal. At first she's shocked, but then asks: "Are you a vampire? *smile*"

Pretty good irony in this scene. Also, the eating scene reminded me a bit of the famous scene from Resident Evil where the zombie eats one of his victims and he then turns around.

Anyway, the ending was good as well. It's funny how he first hesitates and then says: "Ah, fuck it" and goes on killing the girl anyway. You laugh at first, but when the camera sooms out and shows she is only a few yards away from where she meant to go... the laughter really laughter stuck in my throat.

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Pixmintro responds:

Ha I'm glad to hear you liked it, thanks for the well-done review :)

[The Creep]

Nice

This is a pretty nice submission. The storyline may not be that original, but I like what you did with it. I liked the part where the arm attached itself to the dead body.

Also, the scene just before that, where the hand rips off the face of the man is pretty awesome, haven't seen anything like that before. :D
And the guy was a lousy shooter anyway, he didn't even hit the hand. :P

It was a bit weird at first to not hear any sound effects, but I think the flash workes quite well without sound effects, as the music is pretty good.

Well, the ending was unexpected, but it gave me a good laugh. But there's some pretty nasty static sound, I guess that's because the bass is too deep.

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[Dodraugen]

Looks rushed

And it really is rushed if you did this in only 2 to 3 hours. The graphics look decent, even though the bathroom really looks like a living room, heh.

Also I wondered why he was sitting with his pants on on the toilet and the toilet seat wasn't even raised.

The sewers didn't look that realistic and the pipe was just odd. Looked like you only cut out those parts from the picture. Anyway, it looks weird and too rushed.

When that creature came out of the toilet the guy was still sitting there. Would have been better if he fell off the toilet or something, now the creature just goes right through him.

Anyway, if you can come up with such a movie in such a short amount of time then I really want to see some movies from you where you put more effort and more time in it. ^^

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Assios responds:

Yep, I rushed it cause I am also working on a much bigger project.. But if i'm going to make a halloween submission for next year, I'll make sure to start earlier:p
Thanks for the review:)

[APA TU?! (what is that?!)]

Good short film

This is a very good short film. Hardly a minute long, but very nice indeed. I think it's quite hard to get an anitmation in an actual film, as of course you can only imagine where the animation should appear in the picture and what it is doing. So it's a lot of work to get the timing right.

The biggest let down of this flash is the unsteady camera. A tripod seems to be a must for those kind of flashes, as the animation is in the picture itself, not in the real world. So, if the camera is unsteady, the animated figure seemingly jumps from place to place, even though it should stand absolutely still. It was most visible, when you stood up and filmed down in the backyard. The camera moves from left to right and so does the character, which looks very unrealistic and sort of destroys the nice image you created when the character first appeared on the screen and climbed up that wall.

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akoRn responds:

Hey thanks. Indeed, I do worried bout the camera. Didn't plan to publish this at first, juz makin this due to boredom. But thanks! I will make a serious project based on the same medium