myTHself's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[LoZ - The Final Link]

the experienced swordman's run-in...

alright, so i admit, this kind of thing leaves me cold and yawning.... but it was nice to see your making of, interesting,,, thanks for that... ps i don't really mind, in fact it gave me a smirk,,, but your heroes hero hero run-in to the fight and there after was that of a 'ninny'... i'm all up for the slighty gay efeminate hero type thrashing the demons... nicely subversive,,, and glad you are too,,, seems obvious to me those fellas poblies get more experience with sword play....

LeviFolds responds:

heh - he did run kinda gay there in the beginning - sort of 'fairy' like...i admit it, but 'link' isnt the manliest of heros is he now ?

[Diary of William Ostler]

good departure

definately a film greater than all its bits,, and a coup for you for getting it out so modesty and yet effectivley... your film didn't really look very nice... and the blue sunglassed muppet....hmmm,,, and your crappy diary sketches... hammy victorian naration... but you've infected the word in me,,, for ever?.. diary like a factory... rehearing the sounds of words is such a nice way construct new meanings and corrupt old ones...

t3h-m4tt responds:

Hey, he is kind of like a muppet... which is high praise, as far as I'm concerned.

[Tinman]

more-rose.(ses) for fatter feelering?

very competent film and i'm full of praise for you in creating a new film... your graphics adequately expressive. i found it morose as you intended. but i think i found the music over powering in a way that didn't complement the pictures... it side lined them a bit. i also felt your storey didn't 'self-contrast' sufficeintly to stretch its potential emotive hit... it kept in the low sulk... a deep hit sure... but stretch me up and thwong me back down... upon installing the self made heart did our hero experience the emotions you flashed or merely see the words... and in that sense did we with him? i mean he seemed to be experiencing emotion throughout the entire movie... i.e. sadness,, emptiness,,, a lack of positive emotion sure,,, with the heart he gets to glimse at least to the existence of the words denoting the positive emotions yet concludes they're nothing... or worthless,,, and again FEELS empty and collapses back... which is an interesting insight into a depression,,, i think you could have animated more than words in the flashing newly installing heart emotions... or maybe evan simply changed your font styles... just to give a little stronger contrast... .... i think this could have fattened the film... but as it was it was interesting and pretty well done... got me writing and thinking,,, sos if i've been overly critical but you've had plenty all positive reviewing to gratfify.... thanks.

BlackmarketKraig responds:

Regarding the question of whether or not the robot is experiencing said emotions as he installs the heart; I submit that he is now aware of what those emotions are and what they represent/feel like.

Yeah, now I wish I had animated what the emotions are like rather than written them out... as AloneintheDark suggested previously. It would have bulked up the movie in length and content... oh well, no point in sulking about it now. ^_^

But, thanks for the constructive criticism. Seriously, if no one tells the truth than no one will ever improve, right?

[PEACETANK]

flower power!

excellent little flash movie... tight everywhere... loved the colour flashing to theme song... looked great... liked the evolving equation...

but that war imagery its just so lickable-suckable!!... its in the newgrounds logo... its in every other film on here... YOU use it to great effect in this movie... tanks, guns, bombs, missiles oh yeah and peace... making a film with guns and bombs and PEACE!... its like tits and ass... your text trys to pervert my war lust... but still i lick your war... i suck your violent imagery... i console mythself with your message of peace,,, i smell your violets... see your violence,,, we should ban war porn entirely and only show movies about flowers.... and love... and peace... and, and, piece of ass... with loving... lots of loving... up and down loving... up and down... in uniform... leather boots... marching with guns... shooting ... shoooting!! shhhoooootinggggg!!!!.... ...and he shot
thanks,
oh... i've seen your name bout here before... you Do make things look nice.

DanPaladin responds:

thanks! ps. i like how you think

[Mecha-King Menorah]

iconaclash of the titans

that looked great!! i was i little worried by the warring stick men but from then on in the dimensions of the movie just kept opening out... i loved the mix of graphic styles from lazk stick - to photo montage... scribble delish...and you just kept turning it up!!! candle sticks meet christmas tree... explodify!!! you've watched much manga and picked up the best from it... your cutting and movement through the storey was lightning... despite warring cliche... this is a favourite of mine.,,, specially since your clashing icons... 'iconaclashing',,, one of my favourite pastimes...

spacejelly responds:

EXPODIFY!!! wait, you gave me a 10 for violence? save that 10 for the one where the guy gets his intestines ripped out his anus

[Evolution -BmK]

i'd have helped her.. given her a hand

very decent graphics... melancholy storey... storey? i imagine clever code on the seeds... what i liked most was the way you composed it... giving it the space... and i liked your openeing pan to the girl on the plateau,,, i'm not gonna call it art just because it seemed thoughtful... it was devicive and sentimental.. i don't think she should have took the gamble on getting the wings, just cos she's no hands and feet doesn't mean she couldn't live a full life. the two strands of hair rebeling from the fringe, i know it would have been hard but they were such big players, i think you should have spent more time on them... on a film like this where one is asked to contemplate over the animation rather than be driven hard by the narrative (?),,, details that arn't as convincing as the rest become distracting... i'm definately gonna check your oher movies...

BlackmarketKraig responds:

I'm terrible at code so everything was either tweened or (rarely) frame by frame.

The lack of hands and feet were more a stylistic choice than any intended missing pieces of her anatomy... :) Maybe it's my psyche trying to tell me something subliminally.... I dunno.

Thanks for reviewing.

[Noah - A Short Film]

nice original storey...

i liked your storey... quiet, thoughtful... giving critique - the dailogue of the fellas in the bar after the hero left was a little clumsey... in fact all the dialogue was a little clumsey... and maybe they said a bit too much... but i liked the raining boxes final scene... unfortunately i thought your animation in and out of the box and the animals them selves let the film down a little... but you got your storey over well ... and i liked the message. thanks

Siard responds:

Thanks! I aprreciate your comment:)

[The Parental Mask]

facing up to it

liked the heresy stamping machine, but i like factory metaphors.

your film made good use of tv ad parody... your graphics were expedient, communicating imediately,, my favourite sort... the smiley mask itself hasn't got me ringing up but as a cog in the larger workings of your film,, its adequate. i'm a bit lost with the expressionist reference, i figured your mask to be a kind of smiley... not somthing linking back to early 20c expressionist... theater?... but you're right they used alot of circles too but i think the smiley reference is the one that stands forth and works on my mind - and the mind of others?... (and i've done my bauhaus homework- [maybe the smiley icon 'has' expressionist origins....?]) any ways its all POPular art now,,, especially on new grounds...!

oh, and your script was tight and delightfully dry...

look forward to seeing more of your work.

HeresyInc responds:

I use the term exressionism a little loosely. TO me it means any art that expresses the artist thoughts, feelings, or emotions.

[Painless Agony]

chopped scenes

i wouldn't have finished it either... errr or started it.... but i liked seeing your outakes along side the actual... i figure the whole set of scenes gave some insight into the construction and so deconstruction... the main cartoon seemed set in the country and the cop car so urban it had me puzzled from the off... then on seeing your out takes i see another context... what i liked about it was the overlaying of all these film snippits you enabled my head to do by presenting them as separates... the experience was novel evan if the cartoons storrey wasn't... as to your intension (?)

oh and i delished in that horizon change thing from cop car on-coming to axe man looking-out-toward... lovley effect...

Killjoy-popsickle responds:

Thanks heaps Yeh It was going to be almost completely to music without sounds so the scene changes were intended to make it smoother.. ANyway thanks lots

[Chicken dance of Death]

short, banal but i liked it

short, banal how about part two where the chickens get frozen transported around the world, defrosted, dipped in batter,deep fried, eaten, digested.... the next bit left for part three.

but all done with your impecable sound to image and fast pace...

MYEZinc responds:

o...k...