Cheesius's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[feather]

Loading Loading

Really, only one loading is necessary. Since the Newgrouds preloader comes with text that says "LOADING" - why did you put more text on that said the same thing? A bit redundant. Ok, I'm gonna watch now.

I liked it! Two things - Firstly - replaying it, the music continues to play over itself. You should put a stopallsounds at the end of it to stop that - hearing the music playing over itself is annoying. Secondly - Nice job on tweening. However, the feather should slow down as it reaches the ends of the arc - you can accomplish this by easing it (using the "easing" control).

Mr-dude-2nd responds:

ok the deal about the loading thing is when i made it I was going to make my own preloader, but when i added the preloader it screwed everything up. So i just left the other loading on there sorry. I know the music repeats and I should of fixed it but I had to leave and I am going to fix it later today.

[Newgrounds Man]

I only laughed once, but it was a good laugh

I laughed when "Person man" got hit with something.. And was like "Wait, that's not..." etc. That was great! The rest, so so. I dunno. It's all right. I think I reviewed your last Particle Man one, too, and I think I liked that one better. Ah, well. This one is topical, and I respect that. But I just didn't like it as much.

It always amazes me when I read reviews of movies like this, where people seem to think the person who made the movie wrote the song, or something. I mean, you even credited TMBG. Weird. Oh, well. Congrats on #20!

SeizureDog responds:

Thats my favorite part as well.
Odd that you liked the other better, seeing how this is basically that plus some. But it is different in parts.

I know! I remember one guy who said something like "great movie but seeing how you didn't make that song I'm going to have to mark it down". I mean seriously, only what, 2% or so make their music for their own movie. But, meh, I guess people can just be really stupid. Anyways, thanks for the (rather low) review!

[Border Hopper Steve]

Great animation

Unfortunately, you lost some points for unoriginality and for "me free-o." That was just dumb.

The unoriginality comes in where you were "inspired" by various sources like loony tunes, mario, etcetera. Apparently, when you said "inspired by" you meant "blatantly ripped ideas off from."

That sounds angry and stuff, doesn't it? I didn't mean it that way. I enjoyed your cartoon, and am looking forward to the next one. I'd just like to see some original gags, instead of "Well, it worked with Wile E. Coyote and Daffy Duck, so why don't I try it too?"

Anyway, nice animation. keep up the good work, just try to get a bit more original on the next one.

pimpi responds:

No i did not steel it. I never once saw Wild E coyote tried to cross a border and roadrunner tried to stop him. Never.. So get your definitions straight

[A Simple Line 5]

Not bad.

It's not pure fbf, I caught a few tweens in there, but nicely done, nonetheless. Very impressive stuff.

Nicely done.

Oro responds:

Yeah. Its still fun though :D

[SWF Fate]

Uh huh.

There was a movie submitted here recently all about what a flash toon goes through in the submission process - I didn't care for it much, but it was better than this.

More than half the toon was sound clips from the matrix movies - Not a terrible idea, but the "Then you destroyed me" becomes a bit of a reach. You shouldn't have let the matrix clips go so long.

Masonogy1 responds:

whaTEVA MAN!!!

[UIC3]

Oh. Look. Another stick fighting toon.

So..... If this is the third in the series, where are the first two? Never mind. I don't actually care.

Your animation was smooth, but in places it lacked realism. The sounds were decent, in general. The graphics were - well, they were stick figure graphics.

5 on graphics because it's better than most of the stick-figure drawn crap out there, but only a 5 because it's still stick figure drawn crap.

8 on sound because the sound didn't suck, although it would have been better with some good music.

1 on style because, lets face it, this is probably THE least original concept for a cartoon ever.

0 for interactivity and humor, because there wasn't any.

Coldie responds:

I appreciate the honest and thorough review.

[Mr Pogetog Reads A Poem]

That was really long.

OR did it just feel that way? No, I think it was really really really long.

I was bored, but I sat through it anyway. I wish the button to attempt to kill him did something other than say "error."

You need to learn the joys of "Stream" versus "event" sounds. Streaming audio stays in sync with the frames. Event audio doesn't. I have a reasonably fast machine, but the frames lost sync with the sound anyway.

Anyway, you clearly spent a long time animating this thing, but unfortunately it was kind of boring. I don't know what to suggest, it just wasn't really very funny.

Sorry.

PistNBroke responds:

Thanks, I never realized there was a difference. Its only the first serious movie we ever made.

[Touching things is fun]

Okaaay

I'm not offended by stuff like that, but I didn't really find it all that funny either. It was well drawn and animated, but I just didn't laugh. Sorry.

I know there are plenty of folks out there who will love this, though.

koit responds:

Not a problem. And thank you for your honest appraisal.

[3-in-1 Preloader Tutorial]

A few suggestions

Firstly - that intro is long and boring. It's gotta go. Secondly, it's even longer and boringer the second time. Have the thing loop back to the menu instead of the beginning. Thirdly, add some sorta noise. This thing is boring as hell. I understand the point, but you've got to work harder to make it worth watching.

64 responds:

If you can't sit through 30 seconds of something that's non-entertaining, you need help. Badly.

[SketchMission]

Nice.

Of course, with the stickmation toon hitting the front page recently, you're likely to get a lot of reviews that say this isn't original. Of course, that one wasn't original either - having been probably inspired by the old warner brothers toons where Bugs Bunny played a cartoonist taunting poor Daffy....

Anyway, this was nicely done, and I recognize how much effort you put into this. Good job! Keep up the good work.

LogFish responds:

I started making this about this time lastyear, I just put it out of mind for an excessively long time - what actually reminded me to finish it was this ad on TV here in NZ for a bank which had their lousy tellers as sketches and stuff! So of course I'm hearing all this 'its unoriginal, oh you copied the bank' feedback, which bugs me a bit, but nevermind. It wasn't original when I decided to do it anyway, I'd already seen something on here somewhat similar. The biggest difference, I hadn't made it - so I did it anyway. Man this is a massive lifestory, but thanks for the decent feedback! People like yourself make Newgrounds worth submitting to.