Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[In my mind]

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A great flash. I liked the concept of this, though the change over from "reality" to the "dream world" could have been made a bit better. Maybe you could zoom in on the guy while cross fading (fade out the real world, fade in the dream world) into the dream sequence.

I liked how you synched the dream scenes with the background music. This worked really well and helps to experience the flash better.

I also liked the menu, it looks very professional. But you should decrease the length of the fade a bit. It's a bit boring to just sit there and stare at the fading menu, waiting for the flash to start.

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Lochie responds:

Everybody seems to love the syncing. :P

The menu I made prior to the idea of this animation, it fitted the scene to I put it in. :D
The fade does take a while, I made it fade out using actionscript, same with the text that appears. :P

Thanks for the many many reviews RRC'ers. :D

[ifone]

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Nice one. You hit the nail on the head with that flash. The iPhone MIGHT be a great phone, but it just offers too many not needed features and it seems to be that this is just another overpriced apple product that no one really needs (but everyone buys it...).

The voice acting is done very great. You managed to sound just like the announcer of a real commercial.

Some of the jokes where so stupid, that they were already funny again (like the "blue tooth" ;) ).

Overall: Great flash!

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RhysMus responds:

haha thanks man :D

[Newgrounds Intro Collab]

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A great idea for a collab and it's also a great idea to make the .fla downloadable. I really would like to see some of those intros in future flashes as most of them where done pretty good.

The animations where very smooth on all of those intros and graphics where good too (except for that madness-style prealoader. The graphics there seemed a bit too sloppy).

Some of the intros (the "OMG Newgrounds" and the "AWESOME" one) had a very low sound quality and a lot of static noises could be heard there. You should try to fix that.

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Insanimation responds:

Thanks. I'm not sure what you mean by Madness preloader, since I don't watch Madness, but anyways...

[Ode to Elevator Music]

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Well, the story in your author comments is actually more intersting than the flash itself.

The flash just offers some of that "nice" elevator music that annoys you after three seconds and the sentence "Regret is the greatest burden a man can experience".

So there's not much to review here, I'm afraid. You should have animated the story you described in the comments. Would have been much better... and you also could have used that "Regret" sentence in the flash, as some sort of "final thought" for the main character.

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SprintT responds:

Missed the point :(
Cheers

[A new clock!]

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It made me smile. Nothing more, but nothing less. The animations looked quite fluent and I liked that you put in some sounds here.

I also liked the "Monty Python"-ish weight that dropped on the Clock.

However, you should put in a bit more effort into your drawings. It's not that your drawings look bad, it's just that everything seems to be so "sterile".
There's nothing in the backgrounds. Just a plain wall or a bright blue sky. You can easily improve the backgrounds, if you add some graffiti to the wall or a few clouds to the sky. This can easily be done but improves your flash quite a lot.

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sistem69 responds:

ok thanks for the tips.

[Narrative Flash Remake]

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The presentation of the poems is nice, but it's something to get used to, as it is a bit confusing at first.

The choice of audio was great and the music fitted the poems very well. You should have compressed the songs a bit more though, to reduce the file size and the loading time.

I noticed that "The Crime" and "The Forsaken Child" are the same poems, only with different music. Was that intentional?

Also, you should have made the link to your site in the preloader clickable. That way the viewer doesn't have to type in the adress manually.

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SprintT responds:

Now I feel silly! That was not intentional, and probably happened when I reloaded to fix another issue. I will get the changed here ASAP! Also thankyou.

[Do I eat the...? STWPT]

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Short, but funny. The song is good for a quick laugh, the graphics look very good and it fits perfectly to the song. The sounds in here are fitting, too. Overall, the flash has a very comical feeling to it.

Too bad that the collab has died, though. I'd really like to see it. ^^

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Lazyfeet responds:

Yeah, a lot of people want to see the collab. It was the '10 second collab.' Shame really. Thank you v much for the review ;)

[The Last Hour: Chapter 5]

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Now you are finally getting somewhere! You improved A LOT since the last chapter.
The graphics look much better here. They are still a bit sloppy, but better than on your previous chapters. If you continue at this rate with your improvements, you'll be one of the top artists on newgrounds in no time. ;)

I liked that you cut down on introduction lenght. I think it was the first time the acutal episode was longer than the introduction.
I also liked the skip button you added there. That way we can jump straight into the action.

Also, you managed to produce a much better voice acting here than in chapter 5. Nearly no statics could be heard now. Great!
Still I'd say you should keep looking for different voice actors for your different characters.

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Jaiba responds:

check out chapter 10. it will more than make up for the quality of this movie.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view /457202
plus i've listened to all of yalls reviews

[The Last Hour: Chapter 4]

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You are still improving, but you still have quite a long way to go.

First of all, you should try to find some voice actors (I'm sure some people in the audio forums will gladly help you out).
The sound of your voice is all right, but either you need a better mic or you should put the mic farther away from your mouth. Sometimes the breathing is just too heavy on letters like 'p'. Also your accentuation is quite strange, which makes it a bit hard to follow what you are saying.

It's a good thing that you turned the volume of the music down as it was very annoying in the last chapters that the music was so loud all the time. I still think it would be better if you stop the music once the introduction is over.

Speaking of the introduction: It's too long. You advertise the previous chapters of the series. Now that is fine, but I don't want to sit through all of this if I already watched (and reviewed) them.
It would be better if you'd create a simple menu, where you put in different options like "introduction", "previous chapters", etc. .
That way we could start watching the movie right away.

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Jaiba responds:

i think you will enjoy my newest movie. check out chapter 10. it will more than make up for the quality of this movie.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view /457202