Compdude's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[XiaoXiao Beth the Thief!]

And?

Good message, TFX. But submitting a crappy text file to complain about a stolen stick file doesn't make things any better. I agree with you, but this is meant for the BBS, not for the Portal.
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And besides, the movie has (after this movie was made) been transferred to Zhu Zhu. Not the greatest of solutions, but it suits me fine.

TFX responds:

First off, 99% of all Portal viewers don't go to the BBS, so if there's some grand point that needs to be made, this is the only way to make it. Everyone on the BBS pretty much knows this.

Secondly, this movie is several months old. The message is lost. I cannot be bitched at for this.

[Nasty Elf]

Odd little movie... I like it

Strange movie... but good. I particularly enjoyed that theme song - catchy. Interesting animation style too. Poor Nasty though... so wife-whipped... what a pity.

peterbernard responds:

Thanks, Compdude! John and I used to create dozens of cartoon characters and they all had their own theme songs. This one was one of my three favorites. We developed Nasty at Jumbo Pictures, which is now owned by Disney--pretty weird, huh?

[Ghandi 2 FIXED!!!]

Unoriginal creation.

Dude, all you did was take a sound file off Napster/UHF and put it on a slide show presentation with black-holes for mouth movement. Yeah, the sound's funny, but it's not your creation, and what IS isn't all that impressive. Sorry, but better luck next time :)

HackerZC responds:

You know what, I;m sick of hearing all this shit about "all you did" "all you did"! Enough of it already! If you dont like it then you go out there and do it your damn self. Oh and I just watched your ONLY MOVIE, and it sucked too.

[Love Hurts]

Taking a first step

The song is beautiful, but since that's not your creation, what counts is the part you created. Now, I don't mean to rip on your emotions. If this is based out of real life, I truly feel sympathetic , unless you were a creep to the girl (boy?) :-). But, in my opinion you don't add too much to the song. Yeah, your message of a "love lost without reason" is there, but it's not really moving. Two reasons. First off, the movie comes off a little... narcissistic-sappy, kinda like saying, "boo hoo, woe is me for losing you, my life sucks now!" Ack. Maybe I've just never lost anyone dear, but I would say move on. And secondly, though it's been beaten into the ground by previous reviews, the graphics ARE a bit (read, a LOT) on the crappy side (that heart? UGH!!). Sorry, but it's hard to be moved by scrolling text. Maybe we've all been weaned on too many eye-candy movies, but a SINGLE FRAME of frame-style animation would have been appreciated. Nonetheless, you definetly get my Kudos for taking the leap into (what has to be) a previously uncharted genre of Newgrounds movies. I don't recall ever seeing a truly emotional movie about real LOVE before on Newgrounds before. Most "love" movies here just involve crude FDA humor... Way to go man. Maybe you don't have the best movie ever, but you made a valiant first brave step into uncharted Newground waters. Now take the second: improve the movie. Who knows? Maybe Newgrounds will become a place of love and understanding. Nah. Hey, better luck with love in the future! ^_^

qpid responds:

Your review is probably the most interesting that I read for this movie. Not many people will write a long review and list the good and the bad with advice, etc. Kudos for that. As I told just about everyone with a response, it was my first movie, and I made the movie basically AFTER this happened. Funny what motivates you to FINALLY learn something like this program. FLASH is hard to deal with, my I'm working on it and it is improving. I AM making another movie but the problems with my computer is making it difficult to deal with. (The sound card quits when I install FLASH. Takes a lot of restarts to MAKE it work.) The graphics... most has been done by hand. Except say.. the night sky when I had to fill it in with a color. But, like I said, it's getting better and HOPEFULLY it WILL be better. Practice, errors and mistakes, and patience. Anyways, there's lots I wanna say in response, but all in all, thanks for your review. Not to many HONEST reviews out there, know what I mean?

-q-