Auz's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Lord of the Clocks pt. 1a]

Best clock day movie

Graphics: Everything was in clock style and well, the clocks themselves are always drawn pretty well. The backgrounds and all that also looked pretty good and had a lot of details (and not every clock movie has detailed backgrounds). The movie went a bit slow during the fight and I had it on low quality, so I dunno if that has anything to do with the flash, but maybe you can fix it. Anyway, I think there is nothing wrong with the graphics, 9/10.

Sound/Music: Great voice-acting really. The storyteller sounded the same as in the movie, right? I think you did a pretty good job there, I dunno how you did that, but well done. The rest of the voices were also pretty good and suited the characters well. The sounds in the battle were also very good and very realistic. I don't think you can add better music, so as for the sounds, 10/10.

Interactivity: Not a huge menuscreen or something like that, just something at the top of the screen. I like that actually, now I can change the quality while I'm watching if I want to. An option for adding subtitles was also a good idea, no dutch subtitles this time, too bad =(. Only a scene-selection would be nice, but I already saw that you wanted to add that. For now I'll give the interactivity 5 out of 10 (for me, that's pretty high for a movie).

Humor: Really funny to see a NG/Clock version of the lord of the rings. Pretty original too. I liked all the stuff about mount blam and the rings that are changed into votes =) 8/10

Overall 9 out of 10. Great movie, I liked it alot. Best clock day movie I've seen and at least this one deserved the high score (unlike many other crappy submissions yesterday). I'm also glad that a real clock won the daily first and not some clock wannabe with a very bad movie. Anyway, I hope part 2 will come out pretty soon. I'm pretty curious about how you're gonna make it, cause in the real movie, the beginning was less serious then the prologue. Anyway, congrats with the daily first. Keep up the excellent work and good luck with making part 2.

[mumta ninja]

Good, but too short

Graphics: They were very good. It looked a bit like a stick movie with real drawings. You know, pointless fights, several weapons, no story etc. Anyway, the graphics were really smooth, the drawings were not bad, the special effects were good. The only thing is, you should change the background. The green is kinda boring. I'd say, make something that has anything to do with ninja's, a dojo or something. That's about the only thing that could improve a bit.

Sounds: The sounds were very realistic, very good. There was no sounds for when those ninja stars came down (I thought those were called: Shurikens). It's a small thing, but it was a bit weird. Also, it really missed some music. I really wonder why you didn't added that. I mean, it could only improve the score. Maybe you didn't know what kinda music you should add, well I dunno about the rest of the NG users, but I hate heavy metal music in a flash. So I'd say, anything but heavy metal music.

Interactivity: No interactivity at all. No preloader with playbutton, no menuscreen, nothing at all. Well it doesn't really matter that much since the movie is not very long. Only a replay button would be nice, cause the movie kept repeating over and over again. As for the rest, well if you make some very long movies in the future, it would be better if you added a menuscreen with scene-selection and maybe some more stuff.

Overall 6 out of 10. Even though the graphics and sounds were very good, I still vote kinda average. The reason for this is cause the movie was veeeery short. I hope you'll add a couple of scenes and a story to this. If you do that, I think it would get a score over 3.00. The length was the main reason that the score is not very high. Anyway, I kinda enjoyed watching this and I'm very sure this is gonna pass judgement. Keep up the good work and good luck with any other future projects.

[Zito]

One of my favorites for this week

One of my favorite submissions this week. This movie is different then most movies that are submitted these days. Most have a lot of violence, but this one barely had any violence at all (only the TNT). The graphics were simply awesome, I think those were the best part of this submission. It had nice colors and everything looked very good, very well drawn. The music and the sounds were also excellent. The music suited the movie well I think.

The story was a bit weird, some strange creature looking for a good toothpick, but it was pretty funny and didn't bored me at all. The movie was not too long and not too short, that's also a good part. Anyway, even though this had a daily feature, I still think the score should be higher, above 4.00 actually. There is something wrong with the weekly awards this week (maybe they'll fix that today), I hope for you this will win an award although I doubt that, since 3.81 is a bit too low for a weekly award. Anyway, I'll vote 5 for this. Keep up the good work and good luck with any other future projects.

~Auz

[Pallid Fingers]

Kinda weird, but I liked it

A weird kinda movie, but I liked it. The beginning was a bit boring and I though: "how can this get such a high score?". The movie went very slow and the way that guy walked looked pretty bad. After the background turned black and that weird guy appeared it got a lot more interesting.

Graphics/Style: The drawings were a bit weird, but it's obvious that you made them look like this on purpose and not because this was the best you can draw. You used a lot of black and white, I like that. I also gave you some extra points for style cause of the black and white and the way the characters were drawn. Somewhere in the middle of the movie you added some colours which didn't looked bad with the rest at all. Some things that could improve a bit was the way that guy was walking at the beginning and the mouth when that coloured guy with the subtitles was talking.

Sounds/Music: The voice-acting was simply awesome, I don't think you could get any better voices. The sounds were also very good, very realistic. You could've added some music in this at some places. The menuscreen for example, always nice when the menuscreen has some music. During the movie, you could've added some soft music at the background. Anyway, I think the sounds were the best parts of the movie.

Interactivity: It had a menuscreen with a play button, a link to some site and a button to change the quality. Nice that you added some quality buttons. My computer ain't that fast so I had to play it on low quality. Maybe you could add a scene-selection and a button to view the credits there. Not that those are absolutely necessary, but it could increase the score a bit.

Humor: Well there are very few movies that make me laugh, this was one of them. That guy on the right was pretty funny. "This is my pokerface, playa", lol. Some other parts of the movie were also pretty funny.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. I thought this submission had the highest score so far today, so I wouldn't be suprised if this won the daily first tomorrow, although 3.84 is a pretty low score for a daily first. Anyway, I'm pretty sure it will win an award and I think it deserved it. I'm looking forward to some of your next movies. Keep up the good work and good luck with making them.

~Auz

[Dragon BZ Part 5!!!]

Pretty good

Well I think it was a pretty good movie, better then the average ones. In most of them, you can't even see what is going on. The movie was also not too long and not too short, that's another good thing. The part with scooby doo was pretty funny, so I gave some extra points for humor.

Still, there were some things that could have been a bit better. First of all, I think you should add some subtitles. At some points I
could barely heard what was said and because of this, I did not quite understand what was going on. I know there was something about chips and something with an axe and the beginning looked a bit like DBZ (the fight also looked pretty funny, even though it wasn't very long), but that's about it. Well it doesn't really seem like a good story to me, but I could be wrong cause I haven't seen the other episodes yet. Another bad thing was that the music at the end was a bit too soft. I don't know if you did that on purpose, but the music was a lot louder in that scooby doo part.

Anyway, overall I'd give this 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Like I said, I think it was pretty good. Most of these kind of movies are very bad and get blammed, but I think this one will survive even though the score was not that high when I voted (about 1.75). Anyway, I hope you'll at least add some subtitles next time, good luck with making the rest of the series.

~Auz

[Talon VS Salocin - Part 1]

Awesome first episode

Well I think this stands a good chance to win the daily feature. I'm glad to see another excellent series here on NG and I'm very interested in the next episodes. I hope they'll come out soon, but not too soon cause they wouldn't be so good as this one maybe. Anyway, some explanation about the ratings.

Graphics: Excellent graphics. I don't think they could get any better. The rain looked very realistic, the characters were very well drawn, the backgrounds looked good, I'd say 10 out of 10. Style: I really liked the drawingstyle in this, 9 out of 10. Sound: The sounds were very good, the music suited the movie well and the voice-acting was awesome. I have to say that these were the best voices I've ever heard for these kind of movies. I liked the wolf clan leaders voice (or whatever that guy was, you know who I mean). Sounds, 9 out of 10. Violence: Some blood, but not really a big fight. I didn't really understood what was going on when the screen turned black and white, but I guess the monk got attacked by that wolf guy. Well it was good that there was not only talking, but also some action in the first episode, even if it wasn't much. I'll give it 7 out of 10. Interactivity: Just a play button. You could add a menuscreen where you can put a button to view the credits, a scene selection would also be nice and maybe a button to change the quality. 2 out of 10 (I would gave it 5 out of 10 if it had all that I mentioned above, still not much, but it's a movie not a game). Humor: Well I don't think this was supposed to be a funny movie and I don't think there will be any humor in the next episodes. 0 out of 10.

Overall I'd give this submission 9 out of 10, 4 out of 5. Like I said, I wouldn't be suprised if this won the daily feature and maybe it could win a weekly fourth or fifth, but I think there will be more movies this week that will have a score of over 4.09 so I'm not sure about that. Anyway, keep up the excellent work and good luck with making the rest of the series.

~Auz

[Bag Boy: Episode 1]

Could become a pretty cool series

Well this looked quite promising. Maybe it'll become a pretty popular series in the future. You submitted episode 2 before this one, right? Would be better if you submitted this one first, but meh who cares? Anyway, here are a couple of suggestions that might make this a bit better.

One: You should add some subtitles. I could hear Bag Boy pretty good, but I could barely hear what Justin was saying. Just make some kinda box where the text is so that it's not diffecult to read or something like that. Two: You need to work a bit on the graphics. They were kinda average and if you want this to get a very high score, you have to draw better. Three: Well there wasn't really that much going on in this episode. In my opinion, it was a little bit boring. I hope the next episodes will be a bit more interesting and a bit longer.

Overall I'd give this 5 out of 10, 2 out of 5. It was a kinda average movie, but it was pretty original I think. I haven't seen anything like this before actually. I hope you'll improve on your drawings and that more stuff will happen in future episodes. It could become a pretty cool series like I said before. So put a bit more work in it and good luck with making all the other episodes.

~Auz

Oneity-EightThree responds:

Yes we did submit ep2 before this one. We thought it to be better, but I like the simplicity of this one so I decided to add it aswell. We have three future Bag Boy scripts written already, and I'm ordering one of those Wacom drawing tablets so we'll be stepping up a bit in the near future. Thank you for the pointers, we'll be sure to consider what you've said when we work on episode 3.

[Devoid City Trailer]

Not bad

Well it's pretty clear to me that you got your inspiration from the movies of LegendaryFrog and The_Super_Flash_Brothers. The humor was about the same. It was a pretty nice trailer I have to admit.

It seems like you mixed some pictures (the city, the vampire) with some drawings. Well the drawing were allright, deffinatly not bad. My only complaint is that because of this mix, it didn't really looked like one movie to me, more like something random. I know it's not just something random, but it gives the idea that it is. I hope that in the real movie, you'll only use drawing and no pictures. Some good parts were the subtitles (very good that you added those), the voice-acting and I think the real movie will be a pretty good story.

As for the rest well, it's always okay to improve a bit with the graphics cause they can really give your movie a high score. 2.90 isn't bad surely, but with even better graphics, the score could be over 3.00

Overall I'd give this trailer 6 out of 10, 3 out of 5. It wasn't bad for one of your first flashes and I think you could become a pretty good author if you keep on making flashes and don't get lazy.

Oh btw you don't have to apologize that it took so long all the time, quite honestly, your no big author (yet), so I don't think the people of newgrounds would care if they have to wait for 5 weeks =) Anyway, good luck with making the real movie.

~Auz

Pokelord-EX responds:

Just want to say thanks for your "Essay" about this, dont worry, it was laziness that put those pictures on there, but still I cant promise the drawings will be better than this, might stick to what I know, but I can promise you no pictures, like what you described will not be used unless they are either posters or movies like in the easter egg (if you can find it).
And I am also from DeviantART, so that is why I am apologising, because a few people know me there, and know of whats to come and such. but anyway, thanks for the review, all is appreciated, this is the best review today!

[Professional Soccer 2]

Much better then the intro

I just watched both of them and I think this one was a lot better then part 1/the intro. The intro was very short and didn't seem to have much point. Anyway, I think this was a pretty good movie. I'll not be suprised if this won a daily fifth or fourth place tomorrow (don't think it will win a daily future though, 3.66 as a score is probably not enough). Here are a couple of suggestions that might make the movie a little bit better:

First of all, I think it would be better if you added subtitles. At some moment I could barely here what was said (like when that coach spoke for example). A subtitle-box would be good I think, otherwise the text is not always readable. Second, there wasn't really that much going on here actually. I thought this movie was about football and I'll I've seen now is a lot of blah blah by some of the players and the coach. Okay, I know one of those guys got a red card, but please add some more football and less talking, I think it would be a lot more interesting then. Third, well not that they were bad, but work a bit on the graphics. They were pretty good actually, but if you improve them a little bit, then the score might go up as well.

Overall I'd give this 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Of course there were also a couple of good things in this. Like I said, the graphics were pretty good. I also liked the joke with the hand of god coming from the clouds and the part with the muscles, so I gave you some points for humor. The sounds were also allright, the voice-acting was decent, although I did not always understood it well. I also liked the fact that this is about football, I haven't seen many flashes about football here on NG. Anyway, this is all for now, I'll keep an eye out for Professional Soccer 3 and I might review it again. Good luck with making the rest of the series.

~Auz

Renegade-Hamster responds:

I'll try to respond to some of your suggestions here:

1, "Add subtitles"
I had no trouble hearing them talk. Maybe you didn't have your sound up enough.
I considered putting up subtitles, but I dislike them when you can hear what the characters are saying anyway. It also wrecks the comedic timing, so I didn't put them in.

2,"Too much 'blah blah', not enough action"
This is mainly a dialogue comedy. There is some action, but it will only happen if the comedy warrants it. (e.g. the pidgeon getting the crap smacked out of it, Mills taking a dive to get Keagan sent off for tripping).

3,"Improve graphics"
You're welcome to give me examples. But I like 'em. I'll improve them as I see fit as I learn more about flash and improve my techniques.

Thanks for the review!