Ivaron's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tribute to Steve Irwin]

The last sentance totally ruined it.

This had nothing but text, and ended with "please find it in your heart to vote high on this movie".. How is voting high on this going to help anyone except for YOU? Trying to get a good score by making this, eh?

I appreciate Steve as much as the next guy, but don't use his memory to get a high score. That's just not right. And if that wasn't your intention (which I'm sure you'll reply to me), then you shouldn't have put that in.

[Tribute to a fallen Hero]

Very nice.

I think Steve was pretty much an idiot, but that doesn't mean I won't say I feel sad that he's dead. I always liked to watch his shows, not because it's really important to spend so much time saving animals when there's human lives you could be saving, but because the shows were always brilliantly funny.

So it's a shame to see him go. And that's probably indeed what his heaven would look like. Did I catch him saying 'crikey', btw, or was that something else?

Xeptic responds:

Yes that was supposed to be crickey. We didn't want to mimic his voice because that would probably ruin the atmosphere of the animation. I don't have any experience with lip-syncing, so that's why it looks a little strange. Thanks for the review.

[Hamburgerman]

Nicely done

nice animation, but the song really got on my nerves. That's some awful shit right there, man.

[Merry Potter's merry day]

Hahahahaha

Godver man, ik verslikte me in een chipje en zat daarnet een paar minuten lang mezelf dood te lachen terwijl ik geen lucht meer kon krijgen. Fuck dit is meesterlijk gozer, dat stukje met hermelien "but voldemort, sir, you can't apparate in Hogworts" was de bom :D
En dat van Harry en Voldemort die onsterfelijk zijn omdat ze elkaar niet doden is precies wat ik ook dacht toen ik dat las :D
De graphics waren ook geweldig met die grote grijnzen en gek getekende ventjes, helemaal perfect.

Geweldige humor man, meer HP spoofs graag!

[How Newgrounds Functions]

I hate these damned loop flashes!

j/k, I thought this was pretty good .. The sticks needed voices though, I mean there were other things that don't normally have voices that did in your movie so why not the sticks? But still, the only thing really keeping this down is that it's so short. Next time you should include all of the fads, that'd be cool :)

Graphics: 6, was great for what was there, perfect for what was needed in this flash, but didn't have anything special. There was no lip-synching or anything (which wasn't needed, though, don't get me wrong).

Style: definatly the best part about this, you get a 9. It's just so true.

Sound: 6 The stickmen should have had voices, also even though it's truthful the (c)locks shouldn't have had microsoft sam voices. Also the recordings were a little cracking.

Violence: didn't see any.

Interactivity: where?

Humor: good enough, a 7.

[TooF War - Investigation]

Wow, I thought you guys understood..

I like the TooF parodies, but I always thought you guys were smart enough to realise that parodies only give the original movie more attention, nothing else. People will still have the same oppinion of something. I've had arguments with loads of people, and in the end it's only about 1% of those that are honestly doing their best not to be biassed, and taking a closer look at their own oppinion. The rest just believe what they want to, no matter what you say about it. So this flash only helps him out.
Oh and yes, TooF is made easily, but that doesn't mean it's not funny. If it wasn't funny, people wouldn't vote highly on it. People don't just vote 5 because it's their favorite artist, only SS Fanboys do that. The funnyness is Logo's voice, he just found a great medium trough which he uses that voice.

Seriously, I like the TooF parodies if done well, but you guys don't "win". How is giving more attention to his series, which gives him more fans, winning? How is your group dissolving winning?

Anyway, I liked the music in this flash. There wasn't really any art, and the preloader sucked, style was ok, violence: where? interactivity: movie. Humor: couldn't find it.

[Revenge on AFD]

Haha, nice ending

I liked the ending. That shows this was just a joke and not ment to offend anyone. Nice going.

I think FetusEater covered most of what there is to improve. I'll also say one thing that bugged me, though: the moon and stars have the same color as the rope, which made it kinda weird.

Oh, and also, you should make the moon actually 'shine' instead of it being a static image. Doing what FetusEater said (with a movieclip) is a good idea, but also give it a static shine, which is easily accomplished by copying it, pasting in a layer on top of it, then selecting and setting alpha level (in the color mixer, to the right of the stage) to a lower level. Then hit ctrl+alt+S and make it larger. Do this a few times on different layers, with the color gradually becoming more invisable and larger, until it looks good. Do the same (but to a lesser extent) for the stars.

Good luck! I'm going to give you a 5 since this will obviously pass, and because it's a not-so-anti-AFD movie, and I was in AFD4 kickin' Xombie arse! ;)

Oh by the way, picking something like the theme from Mission: Impossible or something like that would have made more sence than that song from Blackeyed Peas. Also, I really hate that song, it's on the radio way too much driving me insane :p

BrassKnucklesClock responds:

lol yer your right :P, chrz for the review mate n thanks for the tips

[Ten Commandments]

This was great!

I really liked this movie, it was full of fun. I especially liked the part about "oh no! that man is hurting a fellow jew! which I only care about now that I've found out I'm a jew myself" *blam* "oh no! ... a witness!" *blam* "oh ... *looks at camera* ... oops", and the part about "this staff can turn into a snake and do other cool stuff" *staff turns into Snake, rofl*, and also at the end "screw it!" :D

Keep it up!

[Animated Book]

Hmm..

Alright, first off, I think the whole story and idea behind it are great.

But, don't get me wrong here, it's just boring the way you told it. The story on itself: superb. The way it's told: bad.
Let me explain what's wrong:
- grammar and spelling mistakes
- way too long, too many repeats of the same thing. I continuely had the feeling that things you used 4 or more sentances for could be described in 1 short sentance.
- the plot could be seen coming from a mile away. I think it would be more of a tear-jerker if you could make it so one doesn't expect the sad ending.
- You tried to use too much emotion on the character. I think, to me atleast, it would 'feel' sadder if that part was left to the imagination of the 'reader'/viewer.

I liked the book, especially when flipping the pages, very much. Did you draw that or did you use AS? About those buttons with MC's in them you placed all over the place: it's a very good idea, and most of them were great, but some were just a tad... childish. Like the ambulance sound, and the falling tears. That kinda ruined the 'sad' mood.

Alot of whining here, but that's only because this has alot of potential and I'd hate to see that not being used as well as it could be.

Good luck on your next animated book/animation!

COUNTYGATES responds:

Well I'm glad you liked the whole story and the idea behind it and yes, I'm aware of all the grammar and spelling mistakes and it was probably a bit silly of me to not proof read it before making the book, but i put it together at like 4am or something like that so I just didn't have the energy to do it, lol. Admittedly, I am not a very good story writer because it's just not what I do, I guess I'm just more of a thinker. I actually never read either, I think I've read like 1 book in my life apart from the ones forced upon me by the education system so that is probably another reason why I'm not too good. But thanks for the tips, it's good to get some constructive critism from a writer.

Well the flipping pages is essentially just gradient shapes I drew in flash and then shape tweened. It's very easy and the gradient I thought was just a nice effect. Yeah, my teacher did complain about the ambulance sound and christmas music, I guess I was just trying to add (uneccessary) variation, because I know how the story is quite slow paced and some people will probably get bored of it.

Well I will try work on my story telling if I do decide to write another story, because I do have a couple more ideas.

Thanks for the review

[ICHHLT - Star wars]

Darth Geranimo!!

Rofl, that was great dude, keep it up!

MarkArandjus responds:

Thanks, will! :)