Seawana's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[-TheTrio-]

Slow, yet superb

Wow. Just "Wow".

The art in this piece is absolutely fantastic. After watching movie after movie willed with subpar art (like mine), this is a breath of fresh air. The artistic style and cinematography are wonderful together. I also really liked the music. It fit quite well with the action and really held the mood.

What I did not like about this movie was the very slow buildup and then significant lack of any real action. It is quite clear from the very beginning that this is a showdown. Then I have to wait through tons of very long scrolling camera moves to get to the action. Although the little proloquesfor each character are nice, they also lack any real action of any kind. In my mind, adding more animation than just the minimal grinding teeth, darting eyes, closing door, and a few blinking lights would really help solve this issue. When the showdown finally does come, I guess I was expecting a little more actual action than some vague weapon blasts.

Ok, I'm rambling. Overall, this movie is superb. Be proud of this work!

poxpower responds:

hmm well for one thing I won't be proud of it.

I liked making the gun FBF thingies. I liked making the blue one best. So that means I at least like making simple FBF. SO maybe one day, I'll actually make some decent FBF :/
But yeah, I guess it is pretty damn dissapointing hahaha big buildup for some flashlights haha

[If I Could Nuke the World]

Kinda funny ... at first.

The art was pretty good and the animation was simple, but they definitely got the point across. I had to laugh when this started because it was a funny idea. The humor didn't really last though.

I'm glad you added the closed captioning because some of the words were a little hard to make out at first. The audio, while perhaps appropriate was very grating.

It's good work overall.

FemJesse responds:

Hey it got a little old while I was working on it, too. Right after the second instrumental. Good criticism, my friend!

[Megaman's Quest Part 1]

Blah.

Apart from the humdrum plot, boring "action", text too fast to read, terrible dialog, numerous misspellings, lack of artistic consistency, and dull music it wasn't too bad.

All in all, it's actually pretty average for a sprite movie. They nearly all tend to suffer from these same problems.

SeanMichaelLoftus888 responds:

Thanks for the review this was my first sprite movie, I know i could have done better on it

[NESkartoon]

Great art, bad "plot"

I guess this movie was not supposed to have a "plot" per se, but instead was more of an introduction to all the characters.

Still, I found the speed of most of the clips to be far too fast to really tell who the characters even were or what they looked like. Being able to discern what they were doing or even read their names was even more difficult in many instances.

Work on your timing and I think you'll have something great. The art is very well done.

skotsoad responds:

yeah sorry bout that but the clip only goes for like 70 seconds so and it was all improvised while I was making it,but the first episode wont take too long to make so yeah and stuff.

[Zomborg Apocalypse - 004]

Uh, you're losing me.

You are not losing me because I don't know what's going on. I do. I have watched all the Zomborg movies an enjoyed them all.

You are losing me because the movies are becoming too danged short. When the title screen fade in/out is almost longer than the movie itself, I think it's time to add more before uploading the piece.

Once again, your work is great, but just too damned short.

*sigh*

SPLANKGY responds:

ok. i'm gonna make a longer episode.
but don't complain if it takes longer
than a week to get done ;)
thanks though!

[The Last Swordsman]

Why bother with an Alpha of this?

When I read in the authors comments that entioned this movie had an alpha, I was expecting something great. Unfortunately, I am disappointed by the final product.

Aside from the walk cycle for the swordsman, the art and animation is just not very good. The music and sound effects leave much room for improvement. The story is ever so banal it's barely even a story.

Sorry, man. You probably put a lot of work into this, but it's just not very high quality, IMHO.

wallpaperman responds:

just cuz it has an alpha dont make it front page material straight away, thanks for long review though

[Zomborg Apocalypse - 002]

Wow! Cool zombies!

Er, Zomborgs. Sorry.

Hey, great movie. I really like the smooth animation and simple artistic style. The music fit very well and really added to the mood.

I wish this episode had been a little longer. It really left me hanging. Of course a good cliffhanger is important, so maybe a little more action before that would have been good.

Overall, I really enjoyed the results of your work. Keep it up!

SPLANKGY responds:

thanks! a friend once told me...
"within lies the ultimate hatred burning blast..."
i didn't understand it at the time.
but now, thanks to all the NG support,
i finally get it.

["12 Angry Men" Response]

Superb work

I haven't seen the play, but I loved this movie. You have a great artistic style that really fit well with the mood. The dark colors and vague shapes really allow the characters and setting more versatility in the viewer's imagination.

Although I really liked the music (always have loved that song), it seemed a little off compared to the action at some points. However, it was a pretty good fit overall and worked better, I think, than adding any sound effects at all.

My favorite part was the actual murder scene itself. The use of the passing subway cars was fantastic. I don't know if this is in the movie/play or you made it up, but it's downright brilliant. Despite what most posters to Newgrounds think, we do not need to see blatant graphic violence to understand what's happening. Kudos to you.

I don't give fives very often, but you got mine.

Skruggs responds:

I MADE IT UP! I AM BRILLIANT GIVE ME MONEY! Its crazy, after reading these reviews I have discovered that there are actually well learnered people. Other than 12 year old ass hats.
I is learnereered goof…to0

[Sweet potato]

A technically well done movie.

Have you been reading Bash.org lately? Hmmm.

A cute movie nonetheless. I liked the alternate endings.

nef responds:

Yeah, that's where the original potato theory is from, I mentioned them in the credits :) Thanks for the review.

[Devil:Joker IV]

Not all that great.

Please please please read the FAQ and learn to compress your sound. 4685kb?! This movie should be an order of magnitude saller.

afromonky responds:

If you compress your sound, it sounds like crap. And that would lower my score. Thanks for the review.