Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Planet Nuke]

Good movie

This is a pretty good movie with an interesting idea for a story line.

I liked the colors you chose for this flash. Some artist tend to use the whole palette of colors aviable, without any shadings. You on the other hand made good use of shadings here. A red tone and a slightly darker red tone for the sky, the clouds, the sand. Everything looks pretty good here.

The thing that impressed me most was the shadow of the jet. It looked quite realistic how it moved over the hills.

Also, the music was nice and underlined the different feelings of the flash. At first a depressing world with a sad song, then a cheerful world and "Summer Breeze" playing (wow, didn't even know Type O Negative's version is a cover!).
It's also a good thing that your submission is only about 700KB big even though you had two songs in it. Some artists seem to just put the whole song in a flash even though they only use a small extract from it, which pumps their submissions up to 5 MB and more.

However, the animations are a bit rough and there was sometimes a white line on the right side.
Also, the credits went by a bit fast, hardly enough time to read them.

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urban-wolf100 responds:

Thanks Haggard.
i used audacity to cut down the audio, so it only had the bit i needed instead of the whole song.
i will try and do a bit more work on it in the near future, but at the moment im working on a large scale project that wont be done until maybe late next year

[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 :)

[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

[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.

[Generic Sprite Flash: 2]

Generic again. :P

Again generic, as the title indicates, but better than the first one. More action, less talking. Also the implementation of subtitles was a good idea. It's easier to read and it doesn't cover up parts of the screen.

The Golden Axe reference was pretty nice. :)

I noticed one minor flaw though: One time you wrote "your" when "you're/you are" would've been correct. It's an annoying error that could easily be avoided if you just say "you are" out loud every time you want to write "your". If it doesn't make sense, then "your" is correct, if it does, then you should write "you're". ;)

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Fro responds:

Your right. lolololololol

Ha, yeah this will be fixed in the next episode.. as I will be using voices instead. Can't be bothered to go back and fix it now though.