Blessing's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

['The Tragedy']

Well...

My sincerest condolences on the death of your friend. I know this must be a hard time for you and I hope you can pull through. However, that being said, this isn't a very impressive flash. If you look at it as though no one is dead and this is just some thing someone created for fun, then you have to admit that it's not long enough and doesn't have enough substance to really be anything.

Some decent graphics coated with a subpar song that last for less than a minute. No plot or anything just someone (who's never shown) driving a few seconds and crashing (into someone else who's never shown). On the other hand, if you're expecting this work to survive the first 200 votes simply because it's tributed to a dead person and you're trying to cash in for an easy score I severely question your morals. There are few things I hate more on Newgrounds than people who try to tribute a flash that took them 15 minutes to make to a victim of a recent tragedy in hopes that sympathy votes will bring up their score.

As I said though, I'm assuming you aren't hoping for sympathy votes, just making a dedication. If that's the case then, as I pointed out, I should vote based on the quality of the flash without being influenced by sympathy. So... I like your art, but make longer flashes with a little more depth.

Swim-The-Swan responds:

Im not expecting a high score. Im not trying to make people feel guilt tripped into voting high.

Its your opinion and you should stick with it. It isnt my choice. I find NG is a truly democratic site where people can vote and voice their own opinions, and im not here to ruin that for anyone. And im definitely not here to "try to tribute a flash that took them 15 minutes to make to a victim of a recent tragedy in hopes that sympathy votes will bring up their score." That is really insulting even to consider that i would try to do something that remotely selfish. For gods sake, its a damn website! People should see that i have better things to tend to in my life rather than getting my average higher.

This took me three days, which still isnt that long i know, but i DID put some effort into this flash. It was mainly for my friends & not for NG. But atleast you took the time to explain why you voted how you did. Alot of people dont do that anymore and are just asses about everything.

Thanks for the review anyway.

-Swan

[Who Goes There? Part 5]

Oh Noes!!!

This green ball of chub is slicing up an army of people before dispatching them instantly with a blast attack. So why waste time fighting if he could instantly destroy them? Maybe just for fun, or maybe because he realizes that there's an invasion on the way. An invasion of Warcraft sound bytes!!! The art in this was pretty good, the animation was a step above the effort a lot of people put into flashes nowadays. It wasn't meant to be funny, but some of these lines were so tacky that they had me rolling. Be on the lookout for:
"how do i know i can trust you?"
"you can't, you just have to trust me on this."

[The Thwomps]

This was pretty good.

Made me laugh, i really liked it. It was kind of odd when the thwomp said "pwined"? I've never heard someone say pwned like that, but I still like this flash a lot.

[Johnny Wonder Ep. 1]

A waste of time.

The art was reasonable. I didn't like the lack of color but I can tell that it's part of your style. The animation was kind of poor. The lipsyncing was off a little bit and later on you got kind of lazy when you stopped animating mouths altogether and would just flip the "camera" to whoever wasn't speaking so that you could use still images. The audio was horrible. Not only were the voices quiet compared to the sound fx, but your choice in music was shit.

That part with the weed drug on for so damn long that I almost closed the flash without finishing it (instead I simply minimized it until the music went off and entertained myself by reading your reviews and stuff. The flash as a whole was pretty boring and not really funny at all. I like to end reviews on a positive note, but right now the best I can come up with is thank God this flash is over, hopefully your series will die a rapid and quiet death.

[DCK: A Very Klunk X-Mas]

This sucked, to be honest

The audio was bad, the constant references to child molesting was disturbing (and on a psychological level, it seems to hint at something you're repressing about yourself), you used WAY too much profanity (particularly with the kid with the eyepatch, why did he have it as a kid?), the art was pretty good, but the animation was more of the same old motion tweening, and the rhymes were cheesy and seemed as if they were written solely to see how vulgar you could get. This really wasn't funny and it was rather offensive to me on a Christian level. This seems to be more overrated than Halo, and that's saying something.

[Doug + Pauls Mighty Adv.]

Are you a whore or something?

So many mates. Do you know what mating is? You brits have a funny way of showing friendship. Anyway, you and your sex slave need to work on your voice acting a bit. Your animation is kind of bad, but your characters are horribly drawn. You might be able to get away with the faces as being your style if you improve the body a little and become really good at animating them. I wish I could shit on you, but your homosexual lovers (also referred to as "mates") probably do that anyway. Make sure you stream your audio files, that might help with them coming unsynchronized. And come up with a plot, a good plot, and then start adding jokes to it. Don't try to add plot to jokes.

[Batman : The Red Hood]

Um... The Graphics Were Decent?

Sorry, but that's about all I can say that's good about this flash. The audio was horrible, the length was way too short, the plot wasn't very entertaining and was highly inaccurate. The only saving grace was the art which, even that, was kind of blocky. Not a bad start, but fix the audio and try to capture the personalities of Batman and the Joker a little better or start a series with some original characters instead.