f0d's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Olympic Love]

uh

for what it was (a 10 second short made in 5 minutes tops), this flash was okay.

but it isnt really the flash itself that bothers me as much as it is the fact that the humor in it is exactly the same as in all of your other work. if you had any variation to the themes of your flashes i would have a lot more respect for you as a flash author because i think you're a pretty good artist. but despite being criticized for it, you never change; its ALWAYS the same. DICK JOKES PENIS WEINER SEX ANAL JIZZ PENIS ASS SEXUAL etc etc.

do something new and different for a change. delve into some other type of humor you haven't explored yet, like satire or something. for once, avoid going the sexual route. just ONCE. ONE TIME would be enough. sex jokes are ok in small doses but if it is the single most creative concept you can come up with for every single one of your flashes, you're never gonna go anywhere as an animator. you'll be seen by your animation peers as a one trick pony who severely lacks the ability to come up with fresh new ideas. dont let the 14 year old sex crazed retards who frequent this website blind you from that fact.

but i probly shouldve left this review on tankmen or something since so little effort was put into this and you clearly dont even care about it... whatever, just suggestions for the future.

JohnnyUtah responds:

haha. its hilarious thats all you ever see of my work. do you honestly think all i can do is DICK JOKES? This is like me saying "can all you do is make shitty faggot star syndicate movies?" i dunno pal, atleast i put SOME effort into what I do. so in essence, your statements hold no weight because you're a huge hypocrite. and dont PM me complaining that I'm off base, since everybody can see I'm not.

[Rats on Cocaine - Ep # 7]

never ceases to amaze

as usual, a fitting addition to the series. you always think up new and even more disgusting/offensive premises for each episode, topping the last one. my stomach hurt from laughing after alice's pussy started talking like a black person from a minstrel show. i also love all the obscure references, such as the moon from "a trip to the moon," the hindenburg john lennon float, etc. there were probably many more references that went right over my head due to lack of knowledge and age

whoever compared your work to golden age animation was right. back then, they were all about achieving an alternate animated reality; complete exaggeration of the real world made it so anything was possible, and they used this to great comedic effect. in rats on cocaine you take this old formula and apply it to adult humor... EXTREMELY adult humor. i think this is a fantastic approach... unlike all the adult oriented cartoons on TV that are basically drawn sitcoms, you actually take advantage of what can only exist in animation. the limit to how fucked up these flashes can be lies only in your imagination. its great.
i cant believe that same guy compared your shit to 4chan. 4chan is a bunch of nerdy internet faggots made a whole shitload of awful inside jokes and slang that only they understand, then spread it around to all the sites on the internet. they have neither the maturity nor the complexity of the humor in these flashes.

anyway keep up the phenomenal work and ignore the preteens who say "eww that was gross!" thats just newgrounds for ya...

ApocalypseCartoons responds:

thank you very much. very well put. and i'd like to point out to everyone else that even though this is basically gross out humor, it can be done in an intelligent way. and the proof is the fact that people like this commenter (who is intelligent and articulate and understands the jokes) actually likes it. whilst people who can barely string three words together without having a semantic abortion, hate it. the disgusting is a genre in itself. and like any other genre there's clever ways to do it and there's stale, predictable ways to do it. (i'm looking at you, larry the cable guy) anyway, thanks for proving my point.

[you can't kill me]

fuck sa

yeh fuck sheezyart and deviantart and anything with art at the end of it...

nice protest flash, should rile up some discontent. i dont know how people could possibly side with the staff in this matter.

although i always thought if you were gonna make a flash about sheezyart it would be about all those faggot furries who you were fighting with awhile back eheheh

rtil responds:

they all disbanded and i'm friends with one of them now LOL!!!!!!

[The Swell Collab 10]

dam

this flash is looong overdue ahahah

nice work all around, everyone had some impressive work here. zekey's and rtil's were nice as usual, hadn't seen much of limitededition's stuff but then again he's probably not even around anymore judging by the amount of time it took to organize this lmao.

anyways i look forward to getting these going again, maybe making a few myself.

Muffin responds:

hadn't seen much of limitededition's stuff but then again he's probably not even around anymore judging by the amount of time it took to organize this lmao. <== the truth hurts me too much :P

[Sprite Diapers]

SPOT ON

no really... i dont think i've ever seen a more accurate critique of video game or sprite flashes on newgrounds. you blew mine out of the water.

i guess it takes a former sprite artist to really nail a sprite parody. i guess i should've expected that from someone who helped with skittles n shitz, another phenomenal parody.

great work, this should be front paged ASAP

Blordow responds:

hahahahha yeah man

[Dumbbell]

most original flash in the past few months

pretty well done. i mean i wouldn't call it a masterpiece or anything like that, mostly due to its length. but it does make you think a little, and thats something very new and different for this site.

the underlying message is fairly straightforward and easy to understand. humans don't learn from their mistakes, they just repeat them endlessly for all of eternity. my guess is the idea for the flash came from staring at that infinity symbol for awhile and realizing the possibility for a looping animation cycle revolving around that design. in any case, the result was refreshingly original.

although i can't really see why people are calling this "deep." it may be a clever and well thought out concept, but it sure as hell isn't deep. i guess newgrounders are just too used to meaningless, mindless flashes... so much so that once a flash with real meaning behind it comes along and they're smart enough to figure it out, even if that meaning is very simple, they'll immediately declare it "deep." i think if it were actually deep, it would provoke some kind of deeper thought and debate rather then just conveying a straightforward message.

thats beside the point though and im probably sounding like an ass... the flash was still good. i'd like to see flashes move more in this direction from now on. every flash should have some sort of underlying message or meaning, and not just mindless madness-style violence or shitty videogame knockoffs. great job and keep it up, tmst

TmsT responds:

Since you mentioned it, actually the infinity symbol was the last thing I did. It was an afterthought, and I admit that yet it was quite unnecessary and a bit too much, almost self indulgent really. Yet people see it and go "OMG INFINITY! DEEP!!!" I understand what you mean. But it's only as deep as the depth to which you think about it, after all. ;)

[Sliver]

i dont care what you think

i still say this was a great flash.

worth the 2 years of effort? nah, but great all the same.

i definitely know what its like to get started on a project too ambitious to finish in a reasonable timeline. i've started and given up on too many of those types of things before. obviously, you have too. otherwise we wouldn't have any of the "prelude to joy" flashes.

so i can definitely understand why you think this flash isn't your best work. a lot of times what seemed like a great idea to begin with will lose its luster over time, and eventually you'll look back and go "wow, why did I ever think that was a good idea in the first place?" this probably stems from a combination of you gaining tremendous flash experience over those 2 years and your style evolving in new, more innovative ways. i mean, looking at this and meat grinder side by side, you can hardly tell they're done by the same author. thats really rare for an artist with as distinct a style as yours.

i think that because of the knowledge you gained since you started this, your disappointment in this flash is exaggerated and blinds you from what is actually redeeming here. the well done parts still shine through, even by today's steeper animation standards. while you may find the concept lame and boring, i thought it was actually a very fitting tribute to "fantasia" style orchestral animation of the past.

in the end, though, i guess its better that you didn't put all of your expectations behind this one project. newgrounds has never and most likely will never appreciate flashes of this nature, unless of course they're done by a professional disney animator. and even then, they still say "the story was gay but great grafix! next time more blood and tits!!"

plus, if you had kept the high hopes you started sliver with, an inconsiderate anime faggot like YungJazz leaving a pretentious review might have really dampened your spirits. especially after 2 fucking years of work.

note to YungJazz: just because you got some daily awards for submitting some old shitty anime of yours on incredibly slow portal days doesn't make you superior nor give you the right to demean other artists. in your review you treat zekey like he's a child or something; "oh, the animation was lackluster, but good effort! F for the flash but A for effort! nice try!" you make me sick. obviously you prefer shitty rehashed anime garbage to real artistic expression and creativity. go back to jacking off to hentai you cunt.

p.s. thanks for the mention in the credits too, zeke

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

good lord, f00d
I actually read that whole thing!
:U

[The Detective Lobster 1]

goddamnit

I clicked on this expecting to find an actual parody of the movie "The Departed," only with immigration officers. You could have done so much more with a plot like that, and the title would have been far more fitting.

Nice attempt, anyways. Some jokes were funny, and the voice acting was well done. The problem is there's too much "HEY LOOK THIS IS RANDOM SO THAT AUTOMATICALLY MEANS ITS FUNNY" kind of humor in there. There is absolutely no point to making the cop a lobster, and just because its absurd doesn't mean its humorous. You could have done far better with some real satire of Scorsese in here.

Irrious responds:

Sorry it didn't meat your expectations. Next time I won't false advertise the parody. Promise. I think my next cartoon will be called "F00D has a lousy judgment of humor and should wipe my ass for a living".

Starring you... as a fucking lobster. stfu.

[Weisman W0p Feet Collab]

lmfao

this shyt is bumpin

Gavin responds:

dam f0d wat uppppp

[Blockhead: Episode 8]

Sorry, didn't like it

Graphics: better then usual. From the other flashes I've seen in this series, it seems like your style usually involves more static drawings with only the mouths moving or something along those lines. This time you included a lot more FBF animation and detail, so I'll give you credit there. At first the houses looked like they were taken from Google image search and you used a photoshop filter to make them fancy, but then you actually started drawing the houses as the flash went along. So the graphics were a step up.

Style: I can't help but feel this series has just a little too much adult swim influence. The content itself is sort of original, but the blatant ripoffs of adult swim characters turned me off. That one guy sounds and looks exactly like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force... he also serves no purpose to the plot other then to tell Blockhead what an idiot he is. Also, is he in Blockhead's mind? Or is he just imaginary? Or is he God? Why the hell does he show up everywhere? Sorry, I haven't watched much of the series before this. IMO, you could get rid of that character entirely and have a much better series using only segments like the first scene in this flash.

Sound: The voice acting was somewhat annoying, and it really ended up getting on my nerves and ruining jokes that might otherwise be funny. I also found the singing to be so annoying I could barely keep myself from closing the flash. I would suggest toning down the performances a little bit, they just seem too over the top and goofy.

Humor: I dunno, it kind of seemed like you were trying too hard. Maybe its just me, but the humor seemed a little forced. Making something random happen just for the sake of something random happening doesn't cut it for me. I'm sure a lot of other people find it hilarious when Blockhead uses his tongue to grab on to shit, but I don't quite get what's so appealing about that sort of thing. It also goes back to the adult swim influences, and it seems to me you're trying pretty hard to match that style of randomness. Of course, I hate a lot of adult swim shows that try to do the same thing you're doing here too. Whatever.

Overall: Just not my cup of tea. For me, the good graphics weren't enough to compensate for the annoying voices, unoriginal style, and forced humor. Good luck in the Halloween contest though.

The-Swain responds:

When I used to watch ATHF, I would quote Carl and have peopel tell me what a bad impersonation I do. Then I give a husky (not whiny) NY (not NJ) accent to an overweight gent, and then suddenly the two are EXACTLY alike. Haha, the world's not fair, is it? :D

Note: (I'll point out something I've said before because you claim not to have seen many of my other submissions) I have dated proof that my characters came before Carl (or even Adult Swim in its entirety, in fact), so maybe it is not I who has been influenced, but the other way around? Eh? Eh?? I even had to "un-Carl" the Conscience by removing his original wifebeater and sandals concept. Me: 0, World: 2