T-rebel's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Red Zebra Vol. 1]

You forgot one: CHAINSAWED ZEBRA!!!

ZebraHumor responds:

Thank you very much! That punchline didn't make it into the main site yet, but you will be credited when it is.

Stay tuned for further volumes of Red Zebra. Either Red Zebra Vol. 2 or Vol. 3 will be violent.

[Sonic vs Shadow]

Why did sonic turn gray with a blue aura?! Wouldn't it make more sense to use the traditional super-sonic version, where he becomes all yellow and sparkly?

Thebest14 responds:

The super sonic things always being used so i wanted to use dark sonic

[contrast: a love story]

Great on so many levels

Just the idea of using luminance contrast to convey gender was a great start. Then you added the nuance of their contrasts setting them apart, in different worlds. It made me think of how these two might be like yin and yang to one another.

I'll admit the plot itself was a bit simplistic, but it was more than enough to convey the ultimate message on its own. All I would say is that it's so blatant that you don't really need to spell it out at the end; just leave it to the viewer to understand what you were going for, and I would bet that most would.

I'm wondering why you picked dragon/snake/wurm creatures instead of people as your characters. Not that I disliked it -- it's just the only artistic decision you made that I can't really connect with the rest.

Anyway, I hope Courtney enjoyed it as much as everyone on NG did. And if not, you should totally divorce her 'cause this was great!

5's & 10's all around.

Horsenwelles responds:

if i had chosen people, it would have psychologically been less interesting. human romance has been studied and analyzed since the beginning of the human existence. if i had chosen people, you'd be less inclined to believe that the situation could happen.

as for dragons, they are simple minded, they are animalistic, they are very hard to read, but the simplicity of an animal's goal, and the legnths that creature will go to for them, is much more interesting to me at least, than a story about 2 people on the opposite sides of a wall.

as for.... why the actual choice of dragons as animals though? well any animal could really show the struggle, but the idea was something creating a barrier around them to emerge through, and really.... only people and dragons can, and with dragons, your really showing purity, where as humans are far less.

thank you for the wonderful review though!

[The Great Chimp Heist]

THE MANWHORE STRIKES AGAIN!

I would have liked a less predictable ending, but I guess it wouldn't work very well that way as a looped animation. That was manwhorrible, in a good way!

Sexual-Lobster responds:

i seriously doubt you predicted the ending.

[PP - Parable of the Raft]

Does this really need a flash animation?

Not that it was badly animated or anything; it's actually quite well produced. I just don't see enough of a plot in the parable to warrant making a flash of it.

I totally understand the parable; all I'm saying is that a man crosses a river in a raft... that's all... I got that from the title.

RiverJordan responds:

If that's all you got, you're missing the message, the meaning, behind the parable.

["fleur bleue"]

Wow, this got on the tops list?

Sorry, but putting up some random images while a guy belts out "salope" and "pute" for two minutes just doesn't qualify as good work with flash. You get 1 star for managing to set the animation in time with the music and one star for making it French. Other than that, I don't think there's a single redeeming quality to this.

the-meedows responds:

Well I beg to differ, if I may...

First of all, I don't get how those images are random since they perfectly illustrate the lyrics of the songs.
So, yeah, those lyrics are pretty much simple, stupid and it's overall a great use of bad taste but that's what my animation is all about so I'm not off-topic.
You see, you're talking to the writer/drawer/animator/director of this piece of flash, you can't blame me for the lyrics - it's like saying "I don't like punk so your flash is crap".
The exercise was to put images on this song and for what it is, I think it's a success :
it's varied, pretty fluid and goes with the song.

What you may not know is that I'm no animator or drawer, didn't take any class or had any experience in animation.
Just my eyes to look, my brain to analyse and mimic and my elbow for the grease.

Cause it was really a lot of work, you know.
Think of 8 ways of illustrate "You're mom is a whore" is not as easy as you may think.
Rotoscoping the lips on the Intro Guy and the hand of the medium was obviously some work and organisation, as for the stop motion in scene 6.
The letters in scene 5 are hand-design, not a random effect in some soft.
The scene in the kitchen for the first chorus was really really harsh, especially to sync the sound to the action.
Translating the lyrics in Katakana and sync it karaoke style was also a lot of work.
Finally, the parody of the White Stripes music video was a complete nightmare and took me days, it's really a lot more work than results !

And you said it yourself, I've put a lotta efforts in timing the all thing.

I'm almost done.
Also, I would have told you that I didn't deserve the "Making it French Star" since I'm french but seeing that the score you gave me is 1 star anyway, it's possible you've already find that out.

Finally, I don't know what Top List is, I don't see how this animation could ever be in it.
I think Newgrounds just told you a white lie.
You know, like those related stuff on the left side that have nothing to do with what we're talking about.

Voilà .

No agressive tone intended, it's just what I think, if you're interested.