Polonium's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Yoyo vs FLLFFL]

oh whoopee

Sticks, fighting, with no real backstory, playing with eachother in a coy manner. Boy, deja-vu!

Okay, you're VERY good at animating shorts involving sticks fighting with supercharged weapons and powers. But then, so is a gigantic community who submit pretty much the exact same thing, day after day, in a slightly different scenario with slightly different characters and slightly different weapons. The sticks all talk the same, act the same, play out every step of their miserable placeholder lives the same. The only thing that gets this on the frontpage is raw skill, but that's a very small saving grace in this case.

It's high-quality batter in a very old mould and people wouldn't mind seeing some different and exciting templates.

Hyun responds:

Stick figures have feelings too ._.
all you gotta do it beliEEeEEeeeve!!!

[Why Leon Hates Ashley]

oh dear

Unfortunately your master plan backfired and instead of the voice acting entertaining me, it simply made me claw at my ears until they bled.

BatdanTheDarkKnight responds:

xDD All Of It Or Just Ashley? Because Thats The Whole Point Of Ashley x]]
If She Made You Do That, Then Job Accomplished =D

[Waterlollies 2]

naw

This was a pretty unimpressive misleader-toon. I mean, since when did Philips ever sequel his Brackenwood toons by number? You didn't even both to rip his art directly for the 46x box; another immediate giveaway.

Lastly, the content didn't even attempt to parody the toons - Bitey with a dick? Wow! It even scrolls way too fast to really annoy anyone watching. Nice try, sucka.

Hulalaoo responds:

i not rip art, is my art, i have talent for draw, but, i have other ability, the spam

[Jackie]

oh youuuu

There's one thing I just don't like about this flash: it affects me too much. I've never had much of a tolerance for any kind of creative medium that brings out strong emotions; this movie may be themed on black humour, but while there's plenty of humour there's an awful lot of black. It's obviously extremely well drawn and animated; you're HDD, enough said.

What I just can't stand about this movie is how bad it makes me feel. I come to Newgrounds to be entertained and while this is an extremely nice work of masterful creativity, it makes me feel really bad. I just can't make up my mind whether this flash is the best thing ever or just a trip into Moodytowne.

HotDiggedyDemon responds:

its cool to me that you're affected, though

[Stickers 10 sec fight!!!]

well

It really is nothing special technically, but I always feel inclined to comment when I see potential in a flash artist; they need the backing early on.

I found the fbf art very smooth, flowing and consistent, which is a major plus at any stage of flash skill. I hope you develop it.

Crits:

-The first thing that irks me is that you didn't include a preloader, or even a play button. The file may be tiny in size, but a replay/play button always helps to make your seem much more developed and stylish than it actually is; nobody likes tiny loops. Preloaders are a staple of any movie, and obviously especially if it's a large file.

-The art was nicely animated but also shoddy - it would obviously be twice the work but making a layer on top of your basic animation and drawing a clean version of every frame, like nature intended, would be nice.

-Make sure to try something new and different in every flash you make. Less of a crit, more future advice. Generic DBZSticks #355673 doesn't cut it.

-Sound/music. I didn't really need to write this one but there it is. A big chunk of advice here though: make sure you compress your sounds into lower qualities, otherwise you end up with a movie bigger in digital size than google's active content register.

Good luck, man.

Urbyz responds:

Wow thanks for review man!

guys like you make the differnce :D

[Pico Epsilon]

well

In general, I liked this, but a few things ticked me off:

-People continuing other people's shit is never meant to happen. If they leave it like that, then that's how it was meant to be left.

-How long until the Pico-Is-Traumatised thing finally stops being overused?

-Darnell looks like he has terrible muscle conditions. I guess he has 5 years to live for a reason.

-Try shooting down a giant missile with 3 bullets. Try.

-Since when did shooting at the floor cushion an impact? Jump off a 20 storey building and try that shit.

-Most of the actual gore is pretty lacking, I've seen 12 year olds draw better head explosions and I'm not kidding. That's criminal in a Pico flash.

-And lastly, my biggest complaint - I hate it when people take Pico source material too seriously. It's fine deviating on a formula and making it more unique, but Pico is about a kid who fights a bunch of goth kids with superpowers, friend to a stereotyped pyro and a suicidal slut. It doesn't need to be rewritten into war and peace.

BiffTheTimid responds:

Everything in the movie is physically possible, because its the law. If its not possible in real life, you aren't allowed to make a movie about it.

I don't know what you consider "too serious", but that's why there's a Pico Day, so you can make movies about Pico. They don't have to all be light hearted and "silly". For all the stuff you hated about the movie, you gave it a 7, so thanks.

[Happy Birthday K-Guare!]

this guy

Must be worth hell of a lot to you. About 12fps worth, in fact.

Magical-Zorse responds:

actually, it was 8 fps

[St. Patties]

this captures

Everything great about the lovable Irish stereotype. The inevitable beatdown was a little shorter and less impressive than I expected, but overall it's very smooth and the voices are top notch except that they sometimes petered-out a little.

Thoroughly enjoyed this.

Calicard responds:

Yeah the fight was longer in my head too. Oh well.

Thanks!

[The Anger #1]

didn't

Your early years of school ever teach you when captialisation is appropriate?

FatDragon responds:

No Im Irish

[Raven Clan pt 1]

Wait...

That was IT?

Jesus, I know it's the very start of a series and you can't expect the world, but a couple of sloppily-drawn, tweened images over less than a minute is just plain bad for a series that's meant to be leaning towards 'epic'.

Maybe the next episodes will be more impressive...but for now, this isn't great.

Android-Music responds:

That's your opinion.