Psychopath's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ninjas]

I might be able to like these if they at least had English subtitles. You'd have a wider audience if you did.

And really with all of these submissions you're littering the portal with, it's somewhat disappointing to not see you monetize them with the Newgrounds API, AdSense, CPMStar, StuckAds, MMD Cash, Funny-Games.biz, MochiAds, Ad4Flash, Kongregate, Paypal Donate buttons or something. It's frustrating really, especially since the content is entirely original and you could do it.

I would complain that it's black and white, but I'm gonna let it pass on the pretense that it's black and white for stylistic purposes, but what I will complain about is the unnecessary widescreen crap that you don't need; either enter in the height/width proportions that fit the movie's actual size or if this is what it really looks like when the right height and width proportions are entered in, remove the black brackets from the top and the bottom. No, it does not make it look theatrical and it doesn't compliment the quality of your animation, the reason why such a thing as widescreen exists is because everyone's television screens are not proportionate in height and width with the films being played on it, so they format it like that so the whole movie can fit on the screen, but since this is a SWF file on the internet, that means that the file autofits with the screen which is also the reason why it's required that you type in the height and width proportions of your SWF file into the submission form on Newgrounds, so they can adjust the page to fit the movie. I'm sorry, but it's always annoying whenever someone decides to do that to their movie.

mileyniko responds:

mmmm si ya se como les digo a todos pido disculpa porque sinceramente no se ni 2 palabras en ingles asi que no puedo poner subtitulos...ahh y lo de blanco y negro osea era que me gustaba dibujar haci igual ahora ya lo modifique http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594028 aca te dejo una animacion que hice ayer con mouse (porque se me rompio la tableta je) esa tiene color y todo....y lo de la anchura y la altura es algo que me acostumbre a dibujar asi no se porque (igual todo lo que son los dibujos y animaciones estoy aprendiendo todo solo apretando todos los botones je es que aca no hay nadie que enseñe nada de flash.... y hay muchas cosas que me decis que la verdad no las entiendo porque ya te digo no se mucho sobre flash y no entiendo un monton de cosas je muchas gracias con tu aporte y tus opiniones!! la verdad fue el comentario que mas me gusto espero quesigas viendo mis animaciones!! saludos y un abrazo!!1

[Knowledge is power]

Meh.

The problem with this story is the poor narrative structure, if I didn't read the description then I wouldn't have known that this demigod was named "Athenos" or that these bipedal creatures were "Huminods"; the film shouldn't have to rely on a description alien to the actual content, it should speak for itself.

I find it strange how Athenos materializes a book and he just hands it to them without teaching them how to read it, so I'm not surprised they tossed it to the ground. Avatar of knowledge my ass, what did he expect them to do? Even if he tried to school them in how to read, they probably don't have the mental capacity to comprehend what they're being taught, they're basically neanderthals.

Overall, it has relatively decent animation with a decent message with a interesting premise that ultimately crumbles apart due to the poor writing execution given certain plotholes. The movie has to be sensible first before I can even take the symbolism into an account, because if I were to disregard such qualities that would mean that moronic abominations like Animatrix are deserving of praise.

Impkid responds:

You can see beyond some primal acts if some species are curious and have the intention to learn, or their potential is limited by their ignorance or stupidity, you can see that in nature. Well i think maybe you are right about that writing the story was a wrong idea. But after reading all the incredible comments of so many people, i think that i can say that "the short speaks for itself". Knowing about the names of the characters is something that people wants to know after they watch an animation that they like. I know it because it happened to me a lot of times before. That people named my characters because i didn't write their names, and that is just AWESOME but i wanted to them to know their original names this time, and i know that they can appreciate that.

Animatrix is an amazing performance of skills, wich explains a lot better the CONCEPT of the movies, by strong and powerful sequences of animation. I don't know about your animation criteria but, i suggest you to be a little more open minded. Thanks for your comment.

[-The Guardian-]

Pretentious, plagiarised & poorly animated

Let's start with the plot; the plot surrounds this "guardian" who's looking for a successor, because why? Why does he need a successor? Is he dying? What prompted him to do this & why is it at all necessary? How about some fucking exposition? Furthermore, why does he check someone's heartbeat to detect their valor? It would have been more intelligent if he had brought a squeegee with him & collected the sweat off the kids forehead just so he could assimilate the kids pheromones, but I guess that wouldn't have been as poetic now would it? Wait, did I say "poetic"? Sorry, I meant "pretentious".

So after he checks his pulse for his valor he decides to take the kid flying over the sea & through the mountains during winter to have a party with all the other aliens... Can anyone say "The Snowman" or "shameless plagiarism"?

The biggest hole of them all is the antagonist, I'm expected to believe that he just sat there the whole time during the guardian's absence just so that he could try & corrupt the guardian's successor, because why? Ignoring the sheer lack of exposition & motivation, this has to be the dumbest tactic for tying to attack your enemy ever.

Let's analyze this, surely the guardian couldn't have found his chosen successor on his first try, if that was conceivable then why would he have to check your pulse to evaluate you? So obviously this took him more than one try to accomplish. Additionally, let's consider the matter of distance, obviously he had to travel far & wide to find each possible successor because he chose a secluded area to make camp. The antagonist has every opportunity to drag his ass over to the pine tree & steal the oracle or whatever it is. So, why doesn't he? If the guardian is his enemy then why not strike when he's most vulnerable? He can't possibly be scared of the guardian, he outright assaulted and took him down with a spear within the first few seconds of their fight. Why does he give a shit about corrupting the guardian's successor? Sorry, but 'adding insult to injury' is only as poetic as it is intelligent, by which I mean it's pretentious; why would he expect the kid to listen to him? He ruined his party and potentially killed his buddies, the kid couldn't possibly find any benefit in listening to a guy who had already fucked him once, furthermore, the reasoning he gave to him is just retarded; "Take it, think of the power!" doesn't make any sense in this context, it's not like the kid has used it at all before and understands the depth of it's power, so the temptation aspect is completely absent. Additionally, if the antagonist really does have an understanding of the the oracle's depth & dynamic of power, why would he try to hand it over to the successor of his enemy and not try and take it for himself? I would understand if the author was against using dialogue to convey exposition, giving effort to try & keep the plot implied through visuals for the artistic challenge such as "The Masquerade" by Pahgawk, but NWL gives dialogue to the antagonist through text so that excuse is out the window immediately. Exposition would be nice.

Another thing I hate about this short is the protagonist. He's some useless fuck who does nothing & conveys no personality traits of interest; he's a Mary Sue character. I'd get about as emotionally invested with a used condom as I would with this kid, I wouldn't want him as a guardian of any kind considering how he stood idly by & watched as his sole defender got roflstomped & killed in front of him, which was the point where I stopped giving a shit about the protagonist's safety entirely; not only is he a schmuck & a vapid Mary Sue, he's also a coward. Fuck him.

The animation is crap, most of it is composed of 3 frame loops & unfinished ones at that, I think the core problem isn't the tool in use but rather the person using it; others such as TheSwain have shown competence in using the brush tool for animation, but NWL obviously struggled in using it & it shows; big gaps between frames & no shading to speak of. I recommend the line tool for future use.

NeroGeist responds:

Haha, I've been waiting for a review like this, didn't expect it to be so long though. Well here are my two cents on this. You sir, look into things too deeply! I mean seriously, I get that there are plot holes in it, I get that some things don't make sense, but I guess your too uptight for that kind of stuff. What I was expecting from this was some CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. All I got out of this was "I recommend the line tool for future use." Yeah, could have told me that BEFORE your novel of bitching about "oooh this thing doesn't make sense! I'm going to bitch and moan about it and make the author feel like a dumbass!"

But, regardless, you are correct on a lot of things. Yes, my lines are crap. Yes, the story doesn't make sense if you look at it in a realistic perspective. But think this, a lot of cartoons don't make sense if you look at it in a realistic perspective.

Well, I admire your trolling skills and view on cartoons, but in the end, you lost.

Have a nice day!

-Nick

[MLP: Pinkie's Cupcakes]

Lame

Really the only thing about this worthwhile is the loading screen because that has literally the best animation quality, it's almost as if the animation quality suitable for 30 seconds was compromised to fit a 5 minute video. The motion tweening sucks on such a level that it reminds you that whenever the camera zooms in, and by that I mean the movie clip symbols expanding, the height and width proportions warp beyond the dimensional understanding of a 2 year old, but still beneath that of a 5 year old. A lot of the time the background shake, jarringly so, out of alignment with the stage revealing little bits and pieces of white in each and every corner for every new scene.

What really makes this the unoriginal and effortless piece of shit that it is would be the fact that the whole way through it piggy backs on the shoulders of A Nightmare Before Christmas by using it's signature song in context to what amounts to as nothing more than torture porn and guro.

And hell, if you can't create anymore interesting scenarios than what the song was made for or, hell, even have events properly synchronize with the song, don't use the song for your shitty snuff film.

And really what happens is just dumb and uncreative filler, just a pile of rocks and a pale of what I think is ice cream and that burlap sack popping up whenever the torture scenes don't work in context of the song and instead of adding intensity to the situation, they actually remove intensity by being non contributory by being nothing and pretentious by using them as a segway for shitty slow motion, as if it's that deeply significant. But when does the fucking song fit into context? The song describes nothing of torture or mutilation, not even in metaphor, it's just low quality work, again, piggy backing on high quality work and the fact that you built the flash around the song really shows given how half of the song is devoted to scraping the barrel for material such as A NEARLY MOTIONLESS FUCKING BURLAP SACK and it makes the actual content intended for the movie drag on for longer than it needed.

The supposed shock value is lacking substance as well, I've seen the BMP Olympics Finale video, Goosh Goosh, ED's Offended page, 2 girls 1 cup and Goatse. I can't say that I'm impressed with this shit; I've seen a video clip of a guy getting sold off to an overweight gang leader so that he can get his colon ripped to shreds, his spine ripped out of his back by said lardass before finally hitting the floor and bleeding from random parts of his head that never sustained injury.

The content is empty and vapid, the animation is shitty, there's a huge overuse of filters to compensate for the shitty animation and it relies entirely on a song that has no business in this context that actually ended up making the main content worse because it required pointless padding so that the animation would fill the timeline in conjunction with the soundtrack.

tiarawhy responds:

Thanks it's exactly what I was aiming for :D!

[Two Wiggers meet Weezy]

Hm...

I see the show is slowly turning into Beavis and Butthead, given how they watch FLV's of a music video and start critiquing it in B&B fashion.

Odd, I feel that it was kind of pointless picketing at Weezy without giving his issue of being outcasted for his romance song resolution. People just tell him to fuck off, murder him and the episode ends with John Mendoza complaining about piss on the toilet seat. It just feels like the episode was concluded only half way through. I know that usually the episodes end off pointlessly, but when they do they have some closure. Here it just sorta has a Sopranos ending where the episode ends in mid sentence only without the mid sentence.

Beyond that I have no actual technical complaints.

Pliskin99 responds:

Thanks. Yeah I havent thought of it until now but I can see how it could be like Beavis and Butthead. Im actually really busy right now so I cant make any new episodes for a little, which is why I havent uploaded one in a while. I'll try to make one soon and thanks again

[Two Wiggers Kill Somebody]

I enjoyed the two wiggers series up to this point

It's a funny little series, the only thing I don't like is the new outfit for wigger that looks like Patrick, which is odd because he swaps between his original and new outfit between fractions of the Piff man scene, between the points he's walking across the room he's wearing his new outfit, but when he's just standing in a door way he's wearing his original outfit. Quite the odd inconsistency.

Those are pretty much the only complaints I have, other than the grey blocks they use for guns, you go through the trouble of photoshopping pictures of hats, clothing & dildos but not actual guns? I wouldn't recommend photoshopping a gun into your movies from a JPEG though, I'd recommend rotoscoping it instead so that way the gun will be made of vectors and not pixels so they'll blend into the rest of the scene.

I really like how you bring in the uncle from the mob, who's nephew's a blood, it brings a sharp, hilarious contrast of what gangs used to be like in the 1930's and how they are in the new millennium.

Two Wiggers is like the new Beebo, the animation is intentionally crappy and the humor has no restraint, and because of the cheap nature of the animation, it doesn't take you very long to create new episodes, so I can regularly expect episodes of this series.

If I could help out with your series, I would, but I'm currently in a bit of a bind right now. Maybe some time later. However, if you want a voice actor, I'm here for you.

Pliskin99 responds:

Dude thank you so much I love you!!!

Haha but seriously, the one thing I love is when someone posts a huge review for one of my movies.

Thanks for pointing out the part about the wigger's outfit changing. I didnt even notice haha. I'll be sure to change it ASAP. Thanks for all the nice stuff you said haha. I know it's a stupid series but I do put effort into it. So yeah thanks, and I like making them so I'll keep doing them. The only problem is school gets in the way. Thanks again.

[Two Wiggers get laid]

I like this little series of yours.

One of the few problems I have is that there are no subtitles; most of the characters are unintelligible all the time.

Also the way the music is programmed kinda blows; the music at the end loops on and on forever and when I rewind to the beginning the end music bleeds over into the rest of the movie; Whether you have it on Start or Event mode, it needs to be fixed to Stream.

Also what's really fucking ghetto is that there's no replay button, nor does the movie loop back around to the beginning frame, which sucks because if I want to watch it again I have to either A; right click; rewind from the drop menu or B; close out the movie and open it again. The latter obviously because of the afore mentioned audio settings.

If you really want the music to perpetually play by the end of the movie, put it in stream mode, take the frames containing the song, put them into a Movie Clip Symbol and drop said M.C.S. at the end frame on the main timeline, so that way it'll loop infinitely without spilling over into the rest of the movie when I drop menu; rewind or better yet, click the currently none existent replay button.

Controls would be nice too; having the ability to frame jump, rewind/fast foward, pause and play without having to use the ghetto ass default drop menu in flash, which can be programmed out by putting "Stage.showMenu = false;" into the actionscript on the first frame in the timeline, so as to not fuck up your movie control settings when people right click.

The positive things I have to say about the movie is this; it takes me back to when Flash movies were at their infancy and didn't sport constant ongoing professionalism in animation, nor was such professionalism demanded. Back when there was no established standard of what was ideal or should be regarded as ideal. It just simply existed for the purpose of giving individuals the power, ability and outlet to create their own material regardless of quality; essentially, everyone was equal; back when you had the freedom to be shitty, without being told that you suck at life for it.

Of course we ended up taking that beauty and turned it into a giant, ongoing pissing match and class war; crushed our sense of freedom with our sense of standard. I kind of miss the days when I lacked the cynicism that I have now, to universally enjoy everything that I watch.

But then again, this cynicism isn't bad, after all, it's what gives us our concept and grasp of quality, and it shows our knowledge and understanding over the craft, hence this review.

Although I do miss that sense of total freedom this medium had when it first boomed, I can't say that it's a good thing to revert back to it; the future is forwards, not backwards. Forgive me, I have too much sentiment for crap.

Pliskin99 responds:

Haha dude dont apologize! I love huge ass reviews.

Thanks alot for all the advice. I'm pretty new at animating. It sounds that you got the point of this cartoon, it's just for fun and laughs. Nothing more.

But thanks alot for the review dude, I'm still working on becoming a good animator but I'll get there eventually.