alxmrg's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Terminator: Madness]

Great

Your "bad english" MADE this flash. What can I say, I'm a sucker for garbled, "lolcats"esque foreign translations.

brysew responds:

No problemo X-D

[The Invisibles]

Based on a true story?

Either this is a thinly veiled figurative work one step up from an emo blog, or this is a completely fictional piece that crawls on and on in tedium.

If the former, you don't examine the situation very meticulously, but rather you bitch and moan like everyone is out to get you.
If the latter, this can be too easily interpreted as the former to be interesting.

I'm not quite sure what to make of this, except that it reminds me of an even crappier version of "Clerks" (i.e. antisocial nerds indulging themselves in mastabatory rants and whining.)

Try keeping a journal, but let it die there.

Virgilcomic responds:

Not based on a true story, no.

[NG Styled Art]

Nice

I always enjoy an art showcase...so thanks for submitting. However, what's with EVERYONE having giant bulging muscles? Was this something you agreed upon beforehand? I hope it's at least some sort of inside joke, because otherwise you guys are all bizarrely ripped or you have strange caco-morphic images of yourselves...

JKAmovies responds:

I like to think that I do actually look like that :3

Though, the point of this was to draw yourself as a NG staff member (checkout the staff page to see what I mean). Thanks ~JKA

[CIGAR WARS]

Kind of funny.

The idea is kind of funny. It was decently executed. But I do have one suggestion: wear a shirt that covers up those hairy shoulders. Holy freaking Elojim.

RatherRandomReality responds:

Don't you dare question the mighty Dart Chewbaka.

[The Final Act]

What the hell is wrong with you?

The only good mime is a dead mime...great animation, very fluid, but if you're hoping that Pixar will pick this up for one of their before-movie shorts, don't hold your breath-- too scary for the kiddies. Great job!

orb responds:

LOL haha, Pixar makes all their shorts themselves :P

[Endeavour]

It's...alright...

It's okay, but there isn't really anything that separates it from all the other 14 year-old emo-esque naive sentimentalism submissions out there. The art and animation was okay, but I won't be writing home to mother expressing my strong fondness for the style. You won't see me doing this: "Dearest mother-- I have been thrust into a debilitating despondency since news that winter's last frost has ravaged your radish farm. How ever will you persist now that our prize crop is gone? By the way, 'Endeavor' amazed me."

You see that? That letter will never be.

Mesmay responds:

Well, Im sorry you feel you have to attempt wit in response to my animation.

Also, next time, try a little thing called C&C. Where you use constructive criticism- eg: work on the style by doing this, this, and this. Criticism by itself doesnt particularly help anyone- its just a sad little way of getting "kicks".

[Antarctic Antics]

Pretty funny...

A bit meandering, no clear plot line, but funny and well-done nonetheless. In response to The-Lorax: South Pole Yetis do in fact live at the south pole, those two penguins and the walrus were swept away by strong ocean currents, and in times of weakness (breaking that winter diet), walruses will eat penguins, but only whole and only baby penguins. Duh.

VillainousTurtleSLC responds:

Good rebuttal! Thanks for watching man!

[These Pancakes Are Tiny]

Pretty good

Pretty good-- especially the color scheme and animation style. But the conversationalist humor (without many overt jokes) would better suit a long-running series with more character development. It's sort of like watching Home movies, but like fifteen episodes in. Or maybe like watching the last season of Family Guy without having seen any of the other seasons.

But it's still good.

sexysexybicycle responds:

I totally agree with you man. I'd love to do something where I could build up my characters more in an episodic format, but time just won't permit it right now. I kind of wanted a certain level of ambiguity with these characters though. Like, you're not quite sure who they are ( I didn't even have them call each other by name [They do, in fact, have names]) or what their history is, but you're thrown into this situation with them where you experience a slice of their every day life. As I said though, I'd love to do some kind of series in the future, but I'm pretty busy with school right now. Thanks for the great review.

[With My Mind's Madness]

Pretty awesome

The direction was the best part-- great cinematic angles, frame composition, color scheme, etc. The only things I could suggest are a slightly less "sketchy" look to the character animations (sketchy is fine, but this was like rough-draft sketchy) and more variation towards the end. The whole "cross" scene was pretty gratuitous in its effort to come off as "epic", and just dragged on a bit. But overall, awesome job.

MindChamber responds:

"The direction was the best part-" thanks this means alot to me.

and yeah I agree the ending dragged abit I had a couple of ideas that I didn't flesh out because it was taking so long to finish and was already a day late. I might revisit tho.

thanks again