Decky's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[BLANK2.swf]

I really did enjoy this flash especially the level of macabre humour involved, although I do have some thoughts about how it could have been improved. For example, it isn't very clear about anything really, the menu doesn't even give any indication that it is one until you move the mouse and find out that the white dot is your mouse. Also you have mentioned "secrets" I'm not sure what they are but I did get two different endings for one short, for some reason.

On the plus side I really think this is one of the best, if not the best flash I have ever come across in The Review Request Club so far and you don't get compliments as big as that easy. If only you had just put a title on the top of the menu and made the buttons more clear it'd be getting a much higher score.

I'd like to see more creepy shorts from you in the future, keep it up.

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Surn responds:

"For example, it isn't very clear about anything really, the menu doesn't even give any indication that it is one until you move the mouse and find out that the white dot is your mouse."

Already noted in Author Comments.

"you have mentioned "secrets" I'm not sure what they are ..."

If you're still curious, try reading the first review for this cartoon by Handsome Tyler.

"On the plus side I really think this is one of the best, if not the best flash I have ever come across in The Review Request Club so far ..."

Well, I'm glad you like it. If you liked this then I'd recommend "aufeis".
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/612292

" If only you had just put a title on the top of the menu and made the buttons more clear it'd be getting a much higher score. "

I was going for a minimalist, enigmatic approach, but I'll admit: it kind of sabotaged the final product. I'll note that in the author comments.

Thanks for reviewing.

[Meatball Baby]

A simple yet funny short, one of those ideas that for me was a "why didn't I think of that?" moment. The writing can't be faulted but the animation at times was slow and seemed to drag on a bit, for example when the meatballs start to go into the babies mouth, that could have done with being a second or so shorter. All these little cuts here and there would have made it more snappy and in my opinion funnier.

I would also have liked to see more time gone into detailed drawings. The baby was ok (although it looked very pale and almost like some kind of sick dead baby joke in bits), the dad on the other hand has an arm coming out of where it shouldn't.

I do like this movie but if just a little more time had done into it I'm sure it could have been much better because you started with a great idea.

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Pepeto responds:

Thanks for your great review! I'm glad you liked the story and I can see now what you meant with the dragging, it's one of those things you are blind to when you're making something and see only when some time has passed.

[ASHTRAY]

For this review I've done it properly, sat down with some popcorn and completely zoned out into the animation, which is very smooth and can't really be faulted but I wasn't the biggest fan of the art work, it seemed rushed and with little detail.

Another point I would like to bring up at this point is the looping which as I'm writing this is driving me insane and making me mute my laptop, it really needs to be changed so that it comes to a stop with a replay button. The last thing I will point out is that I really haven't a clue what is meant to be the point of this little tale, maybe some more time at the writing stage would have done it some good.

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Pepeto responds:

Thanks for this review too :) I have to admit I totally forgot to add the loading and play -buttons for this one as I just wanted to get over with uploading animation here as fast as I could. I'm thinking of adding them later when I have some time for it.

[Shortestmovieaboutspeaker]

I really want to give this at least one star because I rarely ever give no stars but I'm sorry it hasn't done anything to deserve one. Maybe if it was longer then a couple of seconds or had something other then a little bit of text and an explosion that was more predictable then the whole Ricky Martin being gay thing.

The things that you could do to improve it would be to simply go back to the drawing board and thinking of a decent idea. Even for a Clock Crew flash this really did suck.

Alphaman responds:

Watch my other movies then.

[FFIV: The Big Game]

Well it's a Clock Crew flash, what can I say? I find it hard to review Clock flashs as rarely any real effort has gone into them. This one is not a real exception. It wasn't the worst drawn I've seen but if a few different views were used it would have made the drag of it less boring and more humorous.

Clock Crew flashs can be really good but this isn't one of them.

RobertClock responds:

The Clock Crew <3's you, Decky. {{{}}}