Migel's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[-Love at First Sight-]

Animation was nice but

Was looking forward to some nice visions on valentines day.
And the quality of animation was pretty nice, although some artist tried to pursue a style that wasnt completely in their abbility so they screwed up a bit.

But most the movies were pretty corny and well it took me till that movie with the angel to finally notice I was listening to Kylie Minogue all this time and had no other choice but to press the X.

So off to watch 300 again to get some testeron back into my body...i feel like such a pansy now that even my reflection of my bald head and sexy beard isnt enough to put a grin on my face ;(

Zwickel responds:

:( maaaaaan
it has vinnie!

[~SA:ChristmasBattleParty~]

4 days waisted then?

Repetetive:
The characters. the music, the story?, quality of drawings.
All stays pretty repetetive so i didnt watch this to the end. I liked that episode with giant angry spider head thing. But I didnt watch this one to the end at all.
It was going to slow and introduced a lot of same drawings so...i was confused why the hell u made a filler movie while trieing to practise.

Practising:
I dont know I think practising is important. But in my eyes this is not really practising, could be because i dont have any experience with this, the moment a animation got hard u quited. Its better to fail and review own work than just stop in middle of a interesting animation with some lame excuse and show us a lot of repetetive placed doodles. I mean copy paste doesnt need practising now does it?

Potential:
What bugs me most is that this style could be used for some awesome storytelling instead its used for some cute stuff thats already be done in earlier episodes. I mean i rather see animation and some music under it if the quality of story is like this.Like i said i thought that other movie which was done in same style was more interesting to watch but also had some slow parts.

So basicly I dont know the purpose of this movie. If it isnt much of a practise session in my eyes. Then again what the hell do i know im just a random ng viewer :)

SpikeVallentine responds:

All the animation in this is from scratch. Filler is taking animation from other episodes? I didn't do that. But i did recycle animations within this project.

"But in my eyes this is not really practising,"
Only those on a journey see the narrow road ahead.

"could be because i dont have any experience with this,"
That sounds perfect.

" the moment a animation got hard u quited."
Quit?

" Its better to fail and review own work than just stop in middle of a interesting animation with some lame excuse and show us a lot of repetetive placed doodles. "
I don't understand.

"I mean copy paste doesnt need practising now does it?"
Of course not. But what am I copying and pasting? A circle?

"So basicly I dont know the purpose of this movie."
Practice man. Whatever passion or profession you have, you'll understand things beyond those who don't share the same passion.

I didn't really waste 4 days. You're not me so you can't really say if I wasted my time, but I'm pretty sure you wasted yours.
Thank you for your appreciation and honesty.<3

[FC Tells Da Truth]

Always coca cola :)

Bit weird kind of style but I like it. Message was clear. Sounds kind of reminded to the ones used in killer7.
Perhaps u could have hidden the message a bit more to work better with the style of being freaky.

[The iPhone Shuffle]

Not really funny

Graphics were soso and plenty of ipod jokes out there already.
Agree about the i-phone being useless because there are cheaper phones ( 2x cheaper ) that actually can do more ( 2x better ) like running
But the ipod mp3 players are quite good and my ipod is most the time on shuffle mode so...perhaps ( but not likely ) that ipod-shuffle aint bad :D

Anywho as a ipod owner myself I hear and make a lot of jokes myself ( preemtive attack ) about ipod like products. So as a expert I can say this joke been thousands times already and now became almost as lame as your excuse not to lypsync the whole thing :D

[Is that.. Mario & Luigi?!]

This is not good for independent movie.

Bit weird was reading through the reviews and out of the 101 reviews here. Only 1 guy said that u copied and made comparisement to a artist from completely different caliber so no idea about the fuzz./

Anyway the movie sucked balls :) no offence.
First off the swearing of mario was so forced and filled with beeps that the whole image u described in the text above as mario being a low life curser didnt quite make it, it felt more like someone put on mario suit and started complaining. Your job on Luigi ( both voice and character ) was better, but Luigi being from the mafia also didnt surface.
I mean comon the italian like voice and suit were only 2 things related to that image. And luigi is already italian and just wearing a suit but acting like a pansy doesnt make u look like mafia guy.

The end joke was ok but the overall joke of them being old as reference to them being used to often by fanboys is really good but 2 ironic to be used in a standalone movie. Basicly u bashed your own movie with this joke.

DAGamesOfficial responds:

ah but you now see there are quite a few people who still say that I copied, even though I dont even know what Im copying.

[Link and Navi]

Well I enjoyed it.

But its really not that well animated :D and some jokes stolen from
"The real story of Zelda" so its just so so.
Loved the whole screenshot like events though so all i can say keep up the good work, but trie to stroll a bit away from that other movie or youll end up like some cheap ass copycatter.

[The Greatest Idea Ever!]

Nice animation but dead wrong on blackhole effects

Apparently a blackhole created by a overload of the system as u suggested will turn you body into a string of spaghetti. So bodies being sucked in like that was a bit crappy.
Also the blackhole gets its name because the gravity is so strong it even sucks in light. So in flash the effect of this would been very awesome to see instead of a standard dragonballz like explosion.

Rest of movie was good.

[Chris & Harry]

wow, simply wow

Even though the reason of the fight bit was ackward, the fight itself was freaking epic.
The graphics was not bad and animation was quite good although the blurry effect was perhaps bit overused.
Anyway the quality of it all was suprising. I was looking for a quick punchline kind of movie, when the guy opened his mouth i thought: "ohno not another charging ma laser movie".
Didnt think someone was going to pull of something like this in that style so good freaking job overall, it was actually more exiting to watch than the movie from which the music came from.
And well as for the ending that got to hurt.

I cant imagine how much work you must have put into this lol :D

Oney responds:

thanks very much dude!

[Legend of Miyamoto]

Lot of people say great animation, I dont agree.

There is actually little animation in this movie. Most are closed up and the movie is basicly lot of pictures ( really nice ones ) and then tweened a couple of cm to create depth. The movie itself is based on a nice idea and worked out fine.

But showing good animation for 2 second and swithcing pixel animation is not so cool. Music was good choice.

[Ill Fate: Ep. 1]

Saw the picture on frontpage :) knew enough.

Super movie man the animation and character design is brilliant.
The voice acting was high above my expectations.
The whole story with badguys as main characters is pulled off nicely for once.
Atmoshpere created by the unique style and smooth animation is one of a kind ;)

Looking forward to the next episode, if it comes out without giving us 2d pictures of kaiser jumping around for couple of years.