Twisted4000's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Spengbab's Day Off]

Ha ha, that was actually pretty funny. I loved the disoriented music and drawings, really set the theme up. I found the pacing to actually be pretty well-done, the video never really dragged or stalled, it had good flow to it and actually made me chuckle quite a bit. I think the only real problem was the fact that it ended sort of abruptly for me, I was expecting and hoping for it to go on for at least just a little longer, I thought a lot more jokes and discombobulated images could have showed up and it would've worked well. But overall for what it was, I, strangely, enjoyed it. Nice work.

ShigDiggity responds:

Yeah, I realized that I could have probably extended it a bit further, but honestly I didn't even expect it to be this long. The flash was supposed to end when the song ended actually, but I couldn't find a fitting ending without extending it.

Thanks for the review I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[Ninja Gayden]

I was never a huge fan of sprite movies, but I have to say, this one was done right. The writing's good, clever and funny, acting's nice, and the addition of TomFulp, well, all the better! Nice video, made me laugh.

Saminat responds:

That's the best thing I can hear, that the writing was good! Thanks buddy, we need to work together again!

[Que?]

I thought the visuals were okay, it's very colorful and bold, and yes, I don't like motion-tweeny animation but that's not really a reason to give it a negative review because that's just me, I understand some people just like to animate that way. It was the few frame-by-frame parts that seemed very disjointed and lacked flow, though.

As for the joke, I mean it was sorta just a guy flipping out because he thought a soap opera was sad. I dunno that just didn't do it for me lol. But when he was screaming and crying and stuff, the voice acting and quality was good.

The style is pretty basic and cute-looking though, and at least it's not another video game parody. I think you should focus on just making some more original jokes is all.

Jaltoid responds:

Tweening is just something we do, Its part of the style. I realize its not everyone's cup of tea, but we try to make it as intricate as possible.

Also we'll be sure to work on our writing! :)
We're still kinda finding our place as far as writing style goes. We still have a few kinks to work out. Overall our current videos are warmups for much bigger projects we have planned!

[Smooth as Sandpaper]

That basically describes women perfectly.

I liked in, sweet little running-time, fast-paced, funny, and best of all, so true. Nice work.

StaticBunny responds:

Thanks T4K. :)

[Eyes]

Remarkable! I like pretty much all your work, but this one I felt is your best so far. The text you put in was a bit of an interesting addition to what you normally do, but I think it worked and it definitely assisted in explaining the story. Speaking of story, it was very interesting and plain cool. You managed to deliver the emotions the characters were feeling at some points exceptionally well, with nothing but visuals.

As for visuals, very nice. It's the style you use throughout your videos, and though I do think it's cleaner and a tad more fluent then your previous work, the backgrounds were what made it stand out. They constantly kept changing and created patterns to fit the mood or location of the scene.

The pacing and plot is good. It went step-by-step, beginning, middle and end not too fast or too slow, and it had quite a decent running-time, if I may add.

Again, I think it's your best yet and you continue to improve and amaze me with how you conjure this unique stuff up. Very well-done!

daigonite responds:

Thanks dude, I'll try to keep this stuff up. And thank you for the preview testing, I needed all of it lol

[Oddball Omnibus (Ch 1-3)]

Okay, I don't normally leave reviews on stuff I'm in, but this video really deserves some attention.

First off, it was all extremely stylistic, unique, it had its own atmosphere. It was really something else, something different, something new, and VERY interesting at that.

The visuals were extremely crisp and smooth, very professional-looking, I could totally imagine animation like this in legit TV shows or perhaps even movies, it was really great. As for the backgrounds, they were just incredible, all the effects added to everything, just perfect, again, it's really something else. There's people out there that can make good backgrounds, but yours are just phenomenal, they're so realistic, and they seem to compliment the way you draw the characters. It all fits so well.

All the acting was great, but my favorite was the time lord, his voice was so menacing, it was awesome. Again, I could imagine acting like this in TV shows and such.

All-in-all, all of the quality is there in practically every aspect, it was very enjoyable, it was really great. Fantastic job, you're very talented!

Kreid responds:

boo-ya!

[Kingdom Farts!]

Overall I would say it was a pleasure to watch. It's clear to see areas you can improve in, but it's also clear to see areas you ARE improving in and putting a lot of effort into.

For a standpoint of the content, it was pretty good. Though it was a parody, a lot of the jokes were pretty original and didn't rely so heavily on the subject that was being parodied, therefore a pretty decent amount of creativity was put into it for what it was. Though I didn't completely burst into laughter at any point, I WAS chuckling and smirking all the way through, and even that is something that's hard for a Flash movie to make me do. I like your sense of writing. Yes, at some parts I felt it dragged quite a bit and there's a lot of room for improvement, but then again, your age and time of experience is something to be considered. You have what I would say a respectable sense of humor, you don't entirely rely on 1) constant adult sex jokes 2) gay 3) rape 4) gay rape 5) random screaming crazy faces 6) abrupt cuts and endings 7) LOTS of cursing 8) random overly-violent and gory scenes, and the list goes on with what so many users are doing now with their content, yet that kind of humor is what people consider "respectable" these days. I for one am not one of those people.

Now as a technical standpoint, I felt that it was pretty good too. You're working on your frame-by-frame, and it's clear to see the improvement and once again, your efforts. I think what you did best was the lip-syncing. At times I saw you chose to do the mouth-flap thing, but most of the time it was well-synced, at a good pace, flowed nicely into the words and overall wasn't half bad. You'd be surprised how SO MANY OTHER USERS just can't seem to get that right.

Some stuff was slightly disjointed but honestly wasn't the worst I've seen. It's just something that you need to work on, because it can be very distracting. I think the overall biggest issue I had with the visuals was the lack of consistency. The animation kind of flipped from good to not-so-good quite often, from shot-to-shot. Now what does that tell me? It doesn't necessarily mean you're bad at animating, but it means you're being a bit lazy at some parts, not using your full potential. Believe me, I know this, so many of my older videos, I got lazy and sort of rushed through a lot of parts to get them over with and they didn't turn out so great. It wasn't 'till I went "alright, I just gotta pull myself together and do this good" that I got past issue (for the most part, anyway).

Now some people who are familiar with a lot of my reviews and are reading this may be thinking "wait, how come he gave worse reviews to videos that had higher scores and did better?" Well, I review things based on what else I have seen from the producer, and in comparison to the score and recognition it as. There's no point in comparing one man's videos to another, because there's ALWAYS going to be someone better, always someone who is worse. You just can't compare apples to oranges. But you CAN compare apples to... other apples. As in, what else the same creator has made, or what I usually do, look at the content and then see its amount of recognition and popularity.

As for voicing goes, most of it was decent, but other voices were off-quality in terms of both acting and the equipment used. Something left to be desired.

But overall it was pretty good I thought, the biggest issues again are consistency. If you animate, write, and use voices all at the highest quality you can do, and KEEP a video that way the entire time, I'd say you'd have a pretty good film. Just don't let laziness get in the way. You REALLY have to go all out at your max (reasonable) capacity the whole way through. It's tough, it takes a long time, but in the end it's worth it, it really is. I'm glad you're not doing the same thing over and over again with your videos, I can see you're improving and trying things outside of your comfort zone, you're moving out of the box. Honestly, there's so many animators out there who just aren't doing that. Keep it up.

MistyE responds:

Hi, thanks for the great review, I really appreciate it! Thanks for the compliment on the lip-syncing, I did make sure that the lip sync was at least fitting (even if I got lazy and resorted to mouth flaps.)

I'll be sure to keep all of this in mind for my future projects. Thanks for the great advice!

[Pulp Pixelz]

You know, I hate sprite movies, but... somehow, this worked.

deathink responds:

Thanks man!

[NoPUNintendo]

Lotta improvement, I liked how the situations kept changing, made it all very dynamic and interesting to watch. I'm not a fan of puns really, but a lot of it seemed pretty clever, and, well, the title makes it clear that it's going to have puns, I can't really complain.

Aside from that, line-work was pretty clean, backgrounds were pretty well-done, it was all pleasant to look at. Animation is pretty smooth, but it kinda lacks most of that fun bouncy movement that I like, it was pretty stiff... but, for what it was, it was good. Nice job, keep on improving.

TerminalMontage responds:

Thank you sir. Still got a ways to go to get that fluidity, but I'm working on it :)

[Event Horizon]

That was very, very touching.

The thing is, with videos, there's always that content/execution balance you need to find for it to be good, and I can't say this had the most spectacular art or animation ever, but there was something else there, and it was heart, soul, and emotion. Putting your heart and mind to something, drawing it and then bringing it to life though animation naturally creates this energy, and any viewer who can sense that energy will feel the emotions of what the author put into it. Let me tell you, I'm not really soft, but I almost shed a tear at some parts through admiration for this.

I really like the flow this had, the transition to scenes and angles was nice and dynamic. The rain effects were good, and I loved the turning-point of the video, where she opens the box and assembles the puzzle, there was just this burst of color and I liked that. But the ending shot was my favorite, pressed against the glass wall, longing to get passed, as it zoomed out with all the snow and the grey sky surrounding her, I dunno what it was but I really, really loved that a lot, it just seems like it showed what you were feeling, you got the point across of what you were trying to say, the story you were trying to tell. That's what I love about animation and cartoons. I'm really proud of you.

daigonite responds:

Thanks.

More than most people you know what was going on and while I didn't tell you everything, you probably figured it was a lot to deal with, especially at my age and current standing. It kinda was natural I think. Like it felt necessary to do this.

I think in the future while my cartoons may become less clunky or flawed, and have progressively better art, they won't really hit the same chord as with this one, simply because it's a visual representation of things I can't express with words. I'm glad that my messages come across.