Darkend's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[PlumberMan 1]

It Was Alright But Needs A Lot of Work

You've got a lot of things in there that bugged me. Do you go back and read what you type after you type stuff? Because you do realize that your character description section is full of typoes and bad grammar, right? Like instead of saying, "He is" or "He's" you used "His". Very bad. Have someone else look it over for you and check your spelling.

As far as for the movie itself the graphics were pretty okay but I have a question. What is up with that gun the robber was using? It seemed as a bullet shell or what looked like a one slowly came rising out of the barrel....? Dude, whats that? Do you know how guns work? The barrel is not where you load a weapon nor do shells ever come out of there. Go study up on them or something because I don't know what you were trying to pull.

And I'm sorry to say your humor didn't get a single laugh from me. It was kinda old humor. What annoys me is when artists comment on their own flaws in the movie or anything that's strange. "Why don't you have a face?" "Why is my voice gargily?" You know, stuff like that. Artists feel those are questions reviewers will be asking and commenting on so what the artist does is bring up these questions himself in the flash in order to play along with the audience, and it's sort of a disclaimer. But really, you just look like an idiot. Whether or not that is your reason for doing so, it still looks that way and I recommend fixing it. I think those were the only problems I saw. Fix these, find better humor overall, and you'll do way better next time.

-Darkend-

Jonimator responds:

Yeah. next time i will check my spelling better. but Geeeeze!
the gun is from another Planet and is obviolsy a alein type Gun. Lol. And not having a face isn't a flaw, But i thought you would want to know WHY. The face has a part in the next one too!
Anyway thanx for the reveiw.

[StarCraft: The Return]

Well thought out, but not fully executed

I can tell you're very creative (I've checked out your site) and you put a lot of thought into your stories. However I think you need a little more help in actually putting your projects together.

My personal artist friend here is tweaking out over your sloppy graphics concerning your people. Your ships and mecha stuff were awesome, no doubt there, but your people and faces are...yeeeeahhh. You need to fix the shading in the hair because you drew out of the lines once and overall (on the redhead) the hair was spiky but the shadows were round. Very bad. Stay in your lines. And shade! Shade everything, your colors are too bright. The ships were too lit up for being in space.

Get some help with your voice acting so you don't have to do every single voice. We can tell you're having trouble trying to change it.

You're dealing with a major StarCraft fanatic here. I know it inside and out. Enough to say that the design on some of the crafts were a little wrong. For HEAVENS SAKE dont have the dropship have those straight legged landing pads! That's so gross. It looks like something out of the 70's. You did okay in capturing the world, except when they went to that..general guy to get briefed. He talked and looked like a principal in a school and the whole matter didn't seem serious at all. Not to mention unrealistic dialogue between them. I don't know that part just looked corny.

Work a little more and you'll get closer to capturing the world. Overall good job though. 'A' for effort.

-Darkend-

LogFish responds:

I love A's for effort! Heh. Thanks for your detailed pointers on the freehand graphics, that's what reviewers don't usually do, tell the person how to do something they clearly don't know how to do. (granted, most don't know how anyway). Anyway - I'm shading the graphics in the next episode with the pencil and filling it etc. so the lines are looking much better - this one was a real abortion in that respect looking back on it, trying to cross pencil with brush - i gave up as is clear when the shading stops early on heh.
I don't really think I can be assed doing lighting effects all the time for everything, as while they look cool you can't use the graphics again, and this is flash afterall. Filesize under 5 meg and all that.
I'm putting voice actors in the next one, whether that'll be a blessing or a curse, we'll see.
Thanks heaps for that useful review!

[HACKware ep. 1]

Boring, Long, Old, and not Funny

I dont know, this was just so boring and long dude. Maybe this may come as a shock to you but this was not funny at all in my opinion. The jokes were either premature, or old. I'm seeing too many movies like this lately. The poorly drawn, long, bad-joked, movies.

Did you get this idea from Decline in Video Gaming? I know the plot is different, but c'mon the similarities were all there, except yours was this mediocre one. The graphic style of the characters, the intros, the comedy flash-backs like, "Hey guys remember what happend last time we tried this?" *que flash back* Its old.

Lastly, this lasted too long and you drug out things that should've been. Shorten your scenes especially your "comedy" scenes because those were the longest and thew worst.

Come up with something more original, improve your graphics, and get some new jokes and humor. It was so long that you must have spent a long time on it so I gave you a 2 to protect, but you barely deserved it.

-Darkend-

Sudden-Flash responds:

I am making ep. 2 more original. I have developed my own style now, and yes, for the record most of my inspiration for design methods came from Decline.

[Starcraft Homeworld remix]

Eh, I dont know..I didnt really like it

the only thing that I liked about this was your graphics...everything else was just kinda dumb. I was expecting the Zealots psi blades to be a lot longer and cooler than that. They barely passed their hands in length, if that. The song wasnt that great, especially with the quotes that didn't fit. "This is not WarCraft in space!" "I wonder what this button does." No, none that that made sense dude.

But what really bugged me out of all of it was that nuclear missile. Oh my gosh dude, what the heck? C'mon man, you know that no one is going to use a big ol' powerful nuclear missile on a stupid dinky interceptor. What was that?! Really, that was just dumb.

There were just a few other things, having to do with the reality of it all. (tanks shooting at such close range). But your graphics saved you..for the most part

Overall, decent job.

-Darkend-

LegolaSS responds:

ok i know its not the best moive ever but you must understand i created a moive based on the music, second of all, these are early days, you can not espect somthing spectatular now?... ok, now to answer your questions... the psi blade... ok sure if you thought they were lightsabers on the end of there hands, well thats fine, yeah i suppose there a little short but its rather hard to tell when there that small, the song was somthing i found which had zealots talking in and i thought would make a intressting moive, the nuclear missile... ok they fired the missle at a protoss base, but the interceptor... well.. intercepted, and got in the way thus blowin up, some people saw it like that, others saw it like you... and the tank shootin at close range, right as you may of seen, the zealot just standing there... well thats just down 2 to factors, time... and lazyness... but thank you for writing such a detailed review, i apressiate it, and i hope i have answered all your questions, if not email me, thxs darkend hope to see you reviewin over moives soon...

[CSG 3Return of the Reveng]

That friggen scared me

I had my volume high when the animation popped up and the music started blaring...stupid thing.

so lets see here...you've got this techno stuff playing, with a DDR theme floatin' around all the while a freak in the middle dancing around, and all it does it loop...?

I think I've said enough.

-Darkend-

Smon responds:

Sorry, sohuld've mentioned, click him, he's a play button, sorry for scaring you. :(