f0d's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The VRROOMMM Collab 2]

Magnificent

what a stunning masterpiece :')

Menu - brilliant work three. i love that song ahahah. the cars were all done very creatively, i especially got a laugh out of reverent's car. who is that asian chick in the back seat of my car?!? WHOA. help button doesnt work btw ;]
Rev - man i love yours. fantastic graphicsss I love everything ya make, rev. poor sevenstar jr. died :'(
Roymasta - a touching tribute to grape. banana still hasn't recovered, i see :(
Roymasta 2 - WOW this was amazing! trippy graphics, interesting concept. its as if banana has entered a paralell universe or maybe he's entering his OWN MIND and he's trying to come to terms with the tragic death of grape! i was disappointed when it stopped though, i NEED CLOSURE!!! I CANT LIVE WITH MYSELF KNOWING GRAPE DIED SUCH A MEANINGLESS DEATH :'(
jet - trademark jet style. the ending made me crack up. absolutely brilliant stuffff
BFC - wow you're an amazing artist BFC. the ending was a bit predictable but still, your work is phenomenal.
me - well the menu button looks rather ugly when its partially up in the corner. its that dumb AS camera is tweening around :(

ThreeStar responds:

ok the help button works!! just not more than once!!

I just googled the person in your backseat, ahaha, I didn't know who to put. I was originally gonna put a bunch of prom-ready girls in the back but I came across that girl and couldn't resist her. :0

And ahaha I didn't know how to NOT make the menu button tween with the rest of the stuff lol

I think overall this one was less buggy than the last one, but it's not without its defects...

BTW, F00D, your piece, I thought, was the funniest of all of them. :3

TO SUCCESS!
<3,
Three

[Anime Collab]

no point

I'll be honest, I went into this expecting the worst most overrated trash imaginable, but you did prove me wrong, so I give you credit there. The effort put into this collab is pretty apparent and it has its great moments. You get most of your points by disproving my expectations. However, there are quite a few big problems with this collab that make it mediocre in my eyes. Allow me to explain.

Graphics - They were decent as a whole, but they were inconsistent. Some of the parts were truly excellent. I have to hand it to Astropuff and Ginilla, because they did a great job and are pretty clearly the most talented animators in the collab. As much as I dislike anime, I really enjoyed those guys' parts. However, there were some parts that were just downright awful as well. Horrible, sloppy, awkward and didn't fit the collab. When you have parts like that and you spend 8 MONTHS on a collab, the collab leader really needs to do some quality control. However I have a hell of a lot more respect for the people who made sloppy low quality parts then I do for those who simply traced the characters from their favorite anime and passed it off as their own work. It is a crock of shit that these artists should get to bask in the success of the collab when they didn't even do their own work. Another case where the collab leader should have stepped in.

Style - my least favorite part of the collab. I've always disliked anime because I find its a cliche, overused and unoriginal genre. I find most anime is gut-wrenchingly painful to watch and utterly stupid, but I realize not all animes are that way. Still, when I see an anime with a compelling storyline or one that required an immense amount of talent to make, I find myself thinking "why couldn't the authors have made this in their own style instead of using the same damn style everyone else is using? Or why not just make it as realistic as possible, without the big eyes and crazy multicolored hair?" I've still never had that question answered adequately. Essentially, this collab is a tribute to all that I dislike. For that, I couldn't give you anything more than a 1 in that department. The 1 point is only because the talent of several animators was able to show through the tired style, IMO.

Sound - Really sappy music. It fit the anime style which is why I didn't enjoy it much. WOW MAN RIPPIN ELECTRIC GUITAR WHOA

Violence - Wasn't a big fan of the violence. It was well done at points but mostly was just the same old anime violence I've seen a hundred times before.

Interactivity - It was mildly interesting to read the authors' bios.

Humor - Very very very little humor, clearly not what you were going for though.

Overall - The whole collab felt like an introduction to a show or something. It has no point, the parts are just slapped together making an unattractive collage of good and horrible. It doesn't feel like it has a good rhythm to it, and the parts dont flow very well at all from one to the other. Its as if the only guidelines for the collab were "make a super cool awesome anime flash with a fight scene!" I think adding more of a theme to the collab would've improved it a lot. OR a better theme. Anime has been done to death and I'd really love to see the exceptional talent of some of the artists to go to better use. My two cents.

[IDY in Baywatch]

Detestable

I found this flash devoid of humor, an eyesore, and reeking of laziness. I cannot imagine why it has the score it has. Actually, I can. Newgrounds is teeming with people who enjoy this trash. Anyways, I'll try to be constructive here. On to the review:

Graphics: I can see you have some artistic talent. Your drawings here, however unoriginal they are, display some skill. The main problem with the graphics was the laziness. It is painfully apparent that you took shortcuts in every way possible with this flash. First thing I notice is the traced-bitmap backgrounds. Using traced bitmaps sends tells me you were way too lazy to actually draw anything in the backgrounds, so you just searched for a picture on Google then used this nifty little tool in flash to make it look like you actually did some work. Essentially, you cheated. You may trick Newgrounds viewers with that but you lose immense amounts of respect from your fellow artists. Then there's the animation. Its immediately apparent how little work you want to do when I see a circle tweening across the screen that is supposed to represent a character. You only actually animated about 5 frames in here, then looped each one to make it look adequate. The rest was just tweens and traced bitmaps galore. The only work you did was the run animation, from the front and the side, and that looked painfully awkward.
Style: I seriously can't think of a style I despise more than furry art. Allow me to explain. Of course, furry art is done in anime style. Wow, never seen that one before! Before you draw anime, consider just how often the same tiresome style has been used. Don't you think it would be refreshing to try a new style? Wouldn't it enrich your works to bring some semblance of originality or creativity to them, instead of just going along with what everyone else is doing? Besides the anime, you've also drawn anthropomorphic characters here, customary in most "furry" cartoons. I feel this reflects a strange sexual fetish in your works and it certainly turns me off, even if it turns you and your friends on. If you want to be taken seriously as an artist, furry cartoons are definitely not the way to go, even if they aren't intended to be sexual.
Sound: Boring music, but it was the highlight of the flash. Why exactly did you use that song by The Who? It was completely and utterly pointless. The voice acting was just atrocious.
Violence: Dead lizard girl.
Interactivity: Your ugly preloader highlights the groin of your main character far too much for me not to question your sexuality.
Humor: It couldn't be further from funny. It might have been, had the delivery been better. But I think I got pretty thrown off on the storyline as soon as I saw circles tweening around the screen. Anyways, I have seen countless parodies of Baywatch. What makes yours any better? Is it the fact that a freakish anime hybrid of a man, a cat, and a blueberry is acting out the parody? Sorry, that doesn't do it for me. The gag at the end was stupid as well, mostly because of the utterly inappropriate music. The only reason I gave you a one in the humor is because you didn't include a busty anime kitty cat girl to pose as Pam Anderson. I most likely would have vomited if you had. Oh, and for the record, the mere appearance of David Hasselhoff in your flash is not humorous in any way, except to morons who giggle at any pop culture reference.

Overall: The kind of flash I hate. I'd like to see less of this, even though I know there is a fanbase for it. It perplexes me to no end how stuff like this becomes popular.

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i spent way too fucking long on this review 54yuj45bbnfgnnjsdj

Fonzu responds:

Yeah, as stated in my Sheezyart's description, I did take the "lazy" shortcut, because college work and deadlines were piling up onto me. And I can't do backgrounds pretty well, so my only option was to use a couple of photos I own. I don't really see what's bad about that though. Even when you've got a professional animation team, the background artists and the animator himself are mostly not always the same. Some lack talent here, and some lack talent there.
I used the song by the Who, because its pretty obvious. Its the theme tune to the CSI series. IDY first went dramatic on Baywatch, and since he failed, he didn't give up and switched to the CSI drama. I even put CSI on his swim suit just for people who are a bit slow to realise, but I guess it didn't work for you either.

[Experiment_11]

Brilliant artwork

I smell a Portal King of April...

As I told you, I love the artwork in this, especially the brilliant backgrounds. All of the "Experiment" films have this same trippy quality, excellent visuals with a great abstract feel to them, and a nice soundtrack to accompany the animation, but I think this one was the best out of all of them so far. Plus, you had to have been animating this for only a few days after you finished your marvelous Star Day film (congrats on front page), making it all the more impressive.

Yadayadayada I know I've told you all this homosexual shit before but thank you so much for everything you've done zeka!! :wub: oops that wont work here...

oh and enjoy your modship!! only ban gay people!

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

Nah, I worked on this before I started my StarDay toon, F00d.

And as for my modship, I am waiting for Ape Linkin to join again.

[Star Day: Frankiedaman]

Whoaa

I love Frankiedaman, I'm not gonna hide it

[SD: The Professor EP 1-4]

gaahahahaha

"Menstruation is a big problem"

"Gangrene AAAAGAAGAAAA"

ahaha that was amazing.

So much greatness in one flash. This literally made me crack up. Excellent work Denvish :)

DefinitiveStar responds:

Shhhh, no-one knows

"My mother had the GREAT POX, we didn't have a cure for that, so she died"

The recipe for gunpowder is in there somewhere, too =)

[SD 06: Death of P-Bot]

Perfection

Gorgeous flash, right here. I love the epicness of this toon, its a beautiful portrayal of the REAL struggle of the SS. And the stop up in the middle was also very funny. The final battle with the mallet soaring through the air brought me to tears!! NICE JOB SPACEY LIZZARD!!! AAA

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

f00d is healthy for the human body

[StarDay: Aubergine 2]

Aubergine

Always a pleasure, Aubergine. You still have one of the absolute best flash drawing styles I've ever seen. I'm glad you're still around and took the time to make something for Star Day. This was funny, Foamy's face melting gave me a good laugh. Wonderful job!

AubergineLock responds:

Woah, thanks for the compliments. Much <3

[Star Day 2006:davidmoore0]

oh my god!

oh my god david it passed!!!!

David responds:

I know f00d! Congrats on your position.;)