zebragrrl's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[RL: 10 Second Insanity]

wow! look! (-c)locks with style!

that was neefty. Wow.. I actually enjoyed that. I usually don't enjoy clock-crew-type things.. because they're so guttery or stupid.. but this was was kinda neat. I liked the music.

Though I did expect the gun shop guy to start going on a rampage.

Trine responds:

Yeah, those kind of C/Lock movies aren't really too entertaining. Random guns! IM A FAGGOT!! Ehem... anyways thanks for the review!
-Sandman0277
Thanks for the review (im running out of ideas)
-BlackcherryLock

[Death on the Snow Field]

One of my highest reviews so far

okay here goes.

loved it.

This was great. simply great. One of the best falsh movies I've seen, and sad too.

I agree, the art is rough, but it was consistent, so that was good to see. Nothing looked "pasted in" or weird. the snow was a little odd, it could have been better with 2 or 3 layers of snow moving at different speeds, but really, who cares? it matched the art style perfectly.

a few oddities I kept wondering about.. how come the blonde was not wearing a helmet? Why was she out of uniform? was she a returning villager who was cast out in exile by the bearded guy? (her father?) I want to know the plot now! I'd also like to have had sound effects, but still quieter than the music.. fading to just music for the long pan-shot and death sequence as they left. it also sould have been really cool if you had made the film end closer to the music ending.. but that's an editing issue really. It also would have added weight if it was the blonde in the mech watching at the end.. maybe crying, who knows..

I have to agree with a previous reviewer, with a little more practice at drawing and such, your stuff is really going to kick @$$.

Can't wait for the next one!

(oh, and keep doing mecha stuff.. please!)

Matt-Merrill responds:

Thank you for the review. You'll have to play FF6 I suppose (or at least the beginning of it =P) to understand everything that's happening. Also, I'm sorry the song is kinda off with the movie when you watch it on newgrounds. The REAL file has perfect timing though ;)

oh yeah, and for all you that wanted sound effects, I considered putting them in several times, but the main reason I didn't is I didn't want to take away from the song. (lol, also I have been workin on this for a while and I was ready to be done with it)

[Optimus Vs. Megatron]

Effort: 8

Okay, I'm 31.. and I was with the transformers from day one. I'm a big time, old school fan. So first off, I have to agree with the previous reviewer that "x isn't right because Y" etc. But I won't go into that petty nitpicking stuff.

where to even start? why did I rate it so low? Well.. being as big a fan of the original series as I have been, really anything less than "great" is going to get a low rating.

That aside however, the art.. as well intentioned and labour intensive as I'm sure it was.. was really rough. The really unfortunate part is, your rating wouldn't have been any worse if you had just inserted a bunch of old comic book scans and moved them around. And it's not like there isn't PLENTY of source art out there to trace or copy.

Your backstory I could look right past. It was all made up, and I could tell and just say "okay, whatever".

battleflicks aren't my favourite, so I'll leave that for others to judge. Your transformations were crude.. *AT BEST*.... and to be honest, maybe you should have just flashed from robot to vehicle mode. Megatron losing an arm in battle.. well I can't remember when I've ever seen a transformer lose an arm... much less leak molasses out of it.

plotwise.. it's a battleflick, so as far as I can tell, there wasn't any plot. The issue of galvatron just appearing.. is weird to me, and then unicron shows up in time to destroyy cybertron, the end. uhm... okay.

I guess the crux of my review is.. I don't hate you or anything, and I'm glad you tried.. but get about a year of practice under your belt, then try it again.

oh, and next time, draw a real decepticon logo, PLEASE?

Jim-Bob-Joe responds:

Well, i thank you for the advice.I dint know much about transformers, so a battle flick was about all i could do. You said that you dont recall a transformer ever losing an arm in battle, but the episode when megatron tries to take over a city (for what ever reason) Optimus does indeed lose his arm. Yea, ill practice flash. Again,thanks for the advice.

[GerkinmansTipsForCosplay]

Well wasn't that.. squirrely?

Okay.. cute, and all.. your use of hand drawn art is appreciated by this reviewer. The skit was fun, and I'm sure the cosplayers enjoyed it.

suggestions: I would have liked to see hand drawn mouths animating.. not much, nothing fancy, maybe 3 positions like homestar runner or something.. but the "tween" scaling really looked kindof "bad" with the nice, friendly, hand-drawn bodies and faces.

I dinged you mostly on originality. It's basically a rewrite of that squirrel guy's anime con rant. (I don't know the name of the toon, my friend likes it, I don't). Oh it's a funny skit, but since I'd seen essentially the same thing done more "over the top" about a month ago.. it didn't feel all that "fresh".

But it looked like you had fun making it, which is always the most important part. And your target audience enjoyed it too.. so double-plus-good for you, citizen!

Gerkinman responds:

yeh, there are some similarities between the 2, which was gonna happen no matter what i did. I had a quota to fill and thats how i filled it. And i did have fun making it so thats what counts ^^

[Crazy Random Purple Cat]

PINK CATS ARE WORSERER

okay dude.. like I know this guy, so don't expect me to be completely impartial here.

I know about the project he made the staircase for.. for good or for awesome. And I have seen it, and it is good.

Excellent staircase. it looks like it's far more layers than it needs to be, but I know you were going for that "well 3 years from now, I may want someone walking up THIS staircase, so I better make it work now" thing you do. WAY too much detail in the bannisters. you need like MAYBE half that many. or even less.. big enough spaces to get a 7 year old's head stuck in.

no, not an exploding baby's head.

Cheesius, YOU and your cat are insane, and it worries me that it's meow is so powerful.. or that the camera mount gimble is so sensitive. (I still worry about what that one pink cat under the stairs on the lower-right is up to.. he's with Al Quaida I tell you!)

Cheesius responds:

Oh, don't get me started on pink cats. Pink cats are WAY worserer, they might even be worsererest.

And yeah, I put WAY too much detail into that bg - and now it doesn't even match the cartoon I was making it for. Ah, c'est la vie (which is french for "Pigs often belch". I never took french.