M4KBOT's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Parkour Collab]

not good

Pretty much all the parts were obviously traced from videos and the ones which weren't were not well animated. It was alright to watch though.

SteakandKidneyPie responds:

Most parkour animations are traced, but yes the one that I had created without tracing was not much chop.

[Turing Test]

It was great but..

Although the timing and directions were brilliant, I can't help but feel that this is overrated. I mean it's basically a flash featuring green text being typed across a screen with occasional reaction shots from a character. And I know it's so much more than that, but if you break it down that's what it is. Although I did enjoy watching it and it was well made, I'm just not sure it should have the score it has.

Great job though!

[Nicolas Cage Wants Cake]

hmmm...strange but good

Not entirely sure what to make of this. I mean the animation is superb as usual which makes it entertaining to watch in its self but it's just weird.

[Dual Arms Verbatim Part 1]

One of the best flashes on NG!

Wow! This flash is amazing in quality and it is obvious that you have spent a great deal of time on it. From the very beginning I could tell that it was going to be a fantastic flash. The use of the dynamic camera angles, the continuity editing between certain scenes and the shear complexity of it gives it the edge over most other flashes on the site. One of my favourite things about the flash was that the different scenes reminded me of so many other things. The scene where the train enters the snowy world reminded me of the Xombie series for it's atmospheric values and the interior scenes in the snow area reminded me of certain levels from Halo 3.

The complexity of the characters, plot and settings you created reminded me of Mass Effect and this has to be the main thing I would draw comparison to. I thought that the use of 3D was a great choice and fit in well with most of the scenes (Swift 3D I'm assuming). I don't usually watch long flashes on NG as very few can hold up over it's length of time, but this one is definitely an exception. It is a shame that the score of this submission isn't higher, the sad thing is that a lot of people won't watch the whole flash and will therefore rate it without experiencing the full quality of it.

I have little criticism to express about this flash but I do have a couple of things to point out. I think that in some parts the voice acting is a little off and is a little hard to understand. That isn't necessarily your fault but maybe subtitles would have been a good idea. One other thing is that although as a whole the artwork was excellent, there would certain parts where the characters looked a little rough but really that wasn't much of an issue.

Anyway, brilliant flash I thoroughly enjoyed watching it and all that's left for me to say is please make part 2!

RPGsrok responds:

I'm glad you enjoyed the flash, and thank you for watching it the whole way through. Sadly, interesting though they seem, I haven't seen Zombie, and haven't played Halo or Mass Effect, though Mass Effect in particular certainly looked interesting to me.

I was indeed using swift 3D and I continue to be impressed by how little you guys mind my lack of 3D skill. I certainly hope to improve, should I ever be so fortunate as to find some classes to take, but I'm glad you thought well of them.

Indeed I would LOVE to have some subs and so as I've mentioned before IF ANYONE CAN CODE ACTIVATABLE SUBTITLES PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I don't have that sort of coding skill and I find the sort where you just hover your cursor over the bottom of the screen to be very amateur. If I have the good fortune to find out how to do decent subs, I will upload a new version of the video and if you want, I can let you know. I thought there were some good performances on the part of my actors and a few lacking, in acting and quality; overall I still think they did a good job. Character roughness was definately something I needed work on.

Thank you for reviewing, and please have patience; part 2 will be made eventually and I can only hope it will rise to your expectations.

[The Go On Collab!]

Poor

I'm not really sure what was going on in this collab. The first part consisted of a hamster in someone's pocket holding a banana or something. This was not a great star as it left me quite bewildered. I get that the point of the collab was to include the hamster thing in all on the parts and carry it on but in some parts the translation of the hamster between different styles was so different that it lacked continuity and just became very confusing.

The artwork was generally quite poor with some exceptions and definitely should have been touched up a but, this did give an overall feel hat the collab had been rushed. Anyway, it was interesting put I was not very impressed and I don't think it was worthy of a daily 3rd.

P.s. Stop reviewing your own collab guys, lol.

PBass responds:

The point was simply to continue where the last author left off, the hamster just ended up being in all of them. The transitioning of styles was more to add artistic diversity, so the lack of visual continuity was intended.

I'm sorry you didn't fully enjoy it, but thank you for your comments and criticisms!

[Pico's Brother]

Nothing short of epic!

The ending (which I won't spoil) was so well thought out and it worked so well! This is the best Pico flash I've ever seen, amazing work!

[FYAT]

LOL

That abrupt cut from the guy being outside the GYM to him dancing hypnotically makes me laugh every time.

[Madness Combat 6.5]

Great!

I enjoyed this episode of the series but I couldn't help but feel that some of the content is getting a bit repetitive. I know the series is all about characters going into a room and killing everyone in it but maybe it's time to put a new spin on things. I think it would be awesome if you made a new Madness Interactive game to be honest. Keep up the great work though.

[Starwell ep6: Halo]

Barely Halo related at all

Well, it's obvious that you put 'Halo' as the title of the episode to get more views when in fact there's only about 10 seconds of Halo related content and even that is fairly vague. I think "Starwell ep6: Rolling on the floor to go the fridge" or "Starwell ep6: Driving to work while Starwell reassessing his values" would have been a more appropriate title. Anyway, it is an amusing episode, I remember watching this back in 2006 when it first came out and I liked it a lot. I've only just noticed this now but the character Starwell looks like a cross between Spongebob and Patrick.

[Lost Finale Spoiler]

Awesome!

I'm giving this a 10 just because of that amazing 3D intro with the NG logo, also, I thought the voice acting in the flash was excellent.