Nova500's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Babies]

Awesome

I also noticed that throughout the whole video he has a smile on his face, except for the beginning.

Epic pelvic thrusting as well.

[VG Exiles - Episode 2]

Awesome overall.

I personally think you can call yourself among the best of the sprite cross-over animators in terms of fighting. Whereas Proxicide uses nice graphics and a smooth, yet slow, flow, your work prides itself on it's speed and aggresiveness.

Like any animation, it's not perfect though.

The story part after the fight dragged on for a while. While your drawings are fairly good, there was no animation, which made it tough to sit through.

Also, the point at which they enter the room with Ryu, Chun-Li, Sakura, and Shawn was somewhat confusing. I can only harbor a guess as to what went on (They thought Gambit was good until he killed Chun-Li, and though Jon was the bad guy), but it was a bit unclear as to what had happened, especially Sakura's running around.

Regardless, the fast paced nature of the fight had me hooked. My only other complaint is that Gambit attacked with "Supers" multiple times, and Jon only did twice, usually to counter Gambit's Royal Flush move (not to mention his giant laser missed!)

The way Gambit fought both of them off at the same time was especially well done, and Sybreed is an excellent choice of music. I eagerly await the next installment of the Exiles.

R1665 responds:

"(They thought Gambit was good until he killed Chun-Li, and though Jon was the bad guy), but it was a bit unclear as to what had happened, especially Sakura's running around."
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A bit abridged, but, yeah, that's basically what happened! Appearances can indeed be deceiving...

R1665

[Exodus Tyson Punched Out]

For the few that don't get it...

Mike Tyson's daughter, Exodus, died while playing on a treadmill when she accidently hanged herself by falling into some sort of cable or loop under the console (as opposed to being crushed).

As for the movie itself, I can't say I find it funny. But I'm not a fan of cold humour like this. Obviously, those that like the darker sides of things will get a kick out of this.

altr responds:

Thank you for leaving me with the same thing she was left with.

A nice build up then leaving me hanging.

Dear fuck, you guys are getting to me did I just type that? adsfgfseyhd

[Brawl Funnies [dick 3]]

Hop up on a soapbox and tell everyone you're sad.

Because that will get your point across the best, right? Right?

You need a few things to be popular on NG:

You either need to be funny, graphically impressive, stylish, or a combination of these things. The problem with a lot of flashes is that they aren't worth it. Egoraptor and Michael Swain are funny. Adam Phillips is graphically impressive. Krinkels is stylish. Kirbopher uses a mixture of them.

Video games also appeal to large amount of the masses. I've noticed almost anyone who plays flash games and watches flash movies has played some sort of video game and enjoyed it in the past or present, so it appeals to them. Brawl was incredibly popular, so Brawl Taunts was a win-win idea. Did Kirb overdo it? Yes. Just read through the reviews. Many people felt like the jokes in it were stale and unoriginal. It just wasn't funny anymore.

Comedy appeals to the public the most, and many people unserstand parodies and what they're a parody of, so it works out.

Get off your soapbox and quit whining. Make something someone WANTS to see. Those are the best animations, regardless if the idea was used before.

dreftclub responds:

A few months ago ashford pride made a movie with a foreboding title. It was called "Awesome Grounds".

Well ladies and gentlemen, that's might as well what this site should be called (at least right now), with the top row on the front page slot dedicated to an "awesome" movie and an "awesome" parody, an "awesome" t-shirt in the newgrounds store, and pretty much every "awesome" movie in the top 100, along with han's "awesome's creed".

I can't go to newgrounds with seeing something not about egoraptor or his coveted video game parody series. It makes me wonder sometimes if pursuing anything but half-assed cartoons making mildly funny observations about video games laced with profanity is even worth it. Truly, they are what bring the masses of 13-year olds to this site, and thus increases traffic and competition in the internet world. But you have to ask yourself, with this sort of two-bit audience increasing in numbers, are they really interested in watching anything else?

I understand that it's a dog eat dog world in the online entertainment business, and to compete you have to pretty much put up content that a majority of internet browsers would click on. This includes either women or video games. Things they already know they want. And that's all they want. They sign up, watch more, and come back and do it again later. They're trained to know that what they want is easily accessible and is promoted all over the site.

Original content is often shuffled off to the bottom of the page, or never gets any attention to begin with. Now comes into play the whole 'they won't click on it unless there's a boob for the icon', etc etc. That's because they've been fashioned to think that way.

I'm not saying i have all the mysterious answers to the way people's minds work. But this much is true - if all people click on are breasts and video game icons, and you give them breasts and video game icons, you're not pushing the envelope.

Newgrounds is the epitome of user-generated content. We already have a massive advantage over youtube in the fact that making a cartoon involves so much more creativity than snappily editing your webcam footage. So instead of 200 cartoons coming out every minute, we have 200 cartoons coming out every day. That gives someone a better chance of breaking out and being discovered for his hard work, and a reward for a job well done.

But in the same way that viewers are trained that they don't have to go out of their way to avoid original content they would otherwise enjoy, authors are becoming more and more disenchanted with their personal creations and are turning to nerd culture icons and cheap tactics to get viewers.

I can't tell you how many animators I have spoken to that have shunned their own creations in favor of sub-pop culture parody and disjointed scripts sprinkled with toilet humor and profanity. a cartoon catering to everyone who's forgotten what cartoons are all about. And here we are shoving away everything about cartoons that was originally appealing and magical, because we're pretty much forced to.

I'm not pointing the finger at any one person here. I think it's part of the bigger picture - bigger than Newgrounds, too. But if people really care about the future of cartoons and animation, we wouldn't be seeing this kind of blatant favoritism.

People will find what they want if they want it. They don't need to be spoon fed it all.

For thirty years animators who strive to create something genuinely unique have gotten nothing but a slap in the face. It's sickening and it has to stop someday, before they all disappear.

Lastly, this post is not about me. I'm not writing this out of self-pity, bitterness or spite. I'm being honest. I care a lot about the future of animation, and what I see around me is very troubling. The industry is bad enough, but where the future lies is in the small corners of the animation world. Newgrounds is one of them. I spend a lot of time trying to encourage and teach frame-by-frame animation, and creating your own characters and scripts. That is what is important

[One More Brawl Taunts]

Wait a second!

There's no scene with Peach pulling her top off! I am dissapointed!

Well, not really. The first few scenes past the intro, sorry to day, sucked. After a while it did get better, but still, the overall quality was not there that was in the last two.

[Castle Repercussions - B]

Short, but sweet.

A grand job, as I had been (im)patiently waiting for the next part of the Castle series to come out from where Part D left off.

For those that care, the animators homepage, Deletion Quality, has part C of Repercussions up. Much longer, and it continues off of A as well.

[Bowser's Kingdom: Movie]

Genius as always.

"And Luigi, you look like a homo!"

"Hey fuck you!"

[Power Star 4.5]

A true parody

Watching Mario beat the crap out of himself while Luigi lays unconscious had me in tears, and I was almost on the floor when they teleported mid slap fight.

Brilliant job.

[Wii love Brawl comedy]

Morgan Freeman as Meta Knight?

Should've seen that coming.

Snake as Arnold Swarchzie was brilliant.

[Sonic the Unstoppable]

Have to agree with Ertyguy on this...

It was okay for the most part, until the ending, where ROFL's ensued.

"Now that's what I call a Sonic Boom!"

Freaking Brilliant.