Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Hokuto BATTLE!]

Hokuto no ken is an already ridiculous anime with over the top martial arts fighting.

Your usage of micky mouse and a strange looking creature highlights the absurdity of that anime.

The main protagonist; Ken shiro can literally make his enemies explode into a gory mess using his own two hands.

Most of the combatants in that show have an extremely destructive force in their hands.

The crazy fight scenes along with blood are the main attractions of fight of the north star.

The more violent elements of hokuto ken have been toned down in the anime adaptation.

A lot of things about Hokuto no ken is perfectly ripe for the ridicule of parody.

I would be interested in seeing more of your Hokuto no ken themed movies.

-Mightydein

[Tough Guys]

You've taken the everyday occurrence of two men in the gym reaching for the same free weights and took the event into absurd direction.

You've taken advantage of the animation medium and created impossible situations to go along with an everyday mundane experience.

I don't know why animation is treated as a second class citizen.

Cartoons have the strength to create an entirely brand new reality in ways that live action never could.

It takes a lot of work to just make a bad cartoon since each drawing is a single frame in a movie.

Shortcuts are sometimes used for creating animation but the process takes way effort than live action.

I like how the two strong men became extremely competitive against each other because they were reaching for the same free weights.

I would like more time to get to know more of the personalities of the strong men.

Character development can be improved upon by making the movie a bit longer.

This animated short while based on a gag of two men fighting over free weights has shown a lot of unexpected potential.

I really enjoyed the execution of this cartoon.

- Mightydein

[HD Weinerman - Dirty Dog]

I found the concept of a hotdog searching the internet for weiners to be an extremely absurd premise for a movie.

I like the art style used for this movie and the drawings were decent.

This movie was a very entertaining short gag.

I look forward to more episodes of weinerman.

-Mightydein

hdweinerman responds:

Thanks! Absurdity was definitely what i was going for. I appriciate your feedback.

[GG Animated - Doggy Style]

I didn't find the movie to be very funny at all.

If a comedy can't be funny than it has to at least be entertaining.

Sometimes humor falls flat and a back up plan is necessary.

I can tolerate not laughing during a comedy but I can't tolerate boredom.

I like your movie's concept of using the idea session conversation as the movie itself.

That kinda conversation always happens during the early draft stages of creating any sort of collaborative project.

Normally that kinda conversation is the first stage of creating a movie.

That very same conversation has allowed your imagination to run wild and has inspired an animation based on mental images.

The idea session as a movie is entertaining idea with lots of comedy potential.

All the ideas in the draft stage are used including the worst ideas that would otherwise be struck down.

I have awarded you some points for just that entertaining concept alone.

I have subtracted points for originality since the audio originated from a video game commentary show.

these short cartoons based on video game commentary shows such as; "Game Grumps" are common.

You could have recorded a conversation between your friends cracking jokes and animated those metal images instead.

I love the concept of animating metal images inspired by audio stimuli despite a lack of originality.

Better luck on your future movies because this current movie only registered as average to me.

-Mightydein

[animation excercises]

Your good but need to be a better showman

While those traditional animation exercises on this site aren't too common you can still make something even less common and make an even bigger impact on your audience.

You have some substance there already to your work but you can make your work a little more flashy to stand out above everyone else.

Thats not to say that you should make your movie purely just pretty graphics because that would be hallow and would only serve to entertain graphic whores.

It's important to make your work entertaining in and of itself since even with it's imperfections and than polish it up when it comes time to.

When your happy with your movie than that means your done and ready to show your work to everyone warts and all.

There is no tangible way for me to explain how to make something entertaining since what might entertain me might bore someone else to tears but you can still do things to make your work different from what everyone else is doing.

Coloring in your drawings will make you stand out from all the other people on this site that do traditional animation here because i notice most of the colored in animation in your short collection of animation exercises were done in flash rather than on paper.

I'm not saying piss away all your money on cels and make backgrounds but you can still ink in your drawings than color them in with markers, water color or coloring pencils.

Than you can than transfer your colored in art work to photoshop and erase any part where you didn't draw anything in and combine it with maybe a background you did to go with your drawing.

The background is just something extra to look at but it must not compete for your characters attention instead backgrounds are used to make you pay attention even more.

Your on a positive step so far. you took a year off to learn before you showed anything off.

-Mightydein

[Waterlollies]

this has the most plot out of all the bitey movies

I'm a little surprised on how long this movie this is. your other movies are so much shorter.

theres a whole lot more going than i would expected so you do show some signs of vast improvement from your previous work in aspects such as plot, drawings and animation.

you have also made an improvements on making sure your movie plays how it's supposed to on as many computers as possible.

it ran smoothly on my computer for the most part and i'm getting low on ram while there was choppiness in some parts. you can't be blamed for that since it was my machines fault.

and as i recall this is your longest movie yet and also most graphic intensive. you should maybe offer a tutorial on optimization just because this movie is actually more than worth the 12 megs of movie.

I've long outgrown being a graphic whore and i've judge your latest movie all on criteria what i consider makes up a good flash.

you've become a better entertainer and this what always comes first. I find your past works focused on graphics and design more.

and even if you nearly killed yourself making this movie i somehow get the sense that you were having fun as your making it.

Thats something you rarely see in any overly ambitious projects at all since you basically force yourself to work too hard for a finished project that few people will appreciate beyond it's nice looking drawings.

none of this felt forced to me at all and i will admit that I'm jealous of your skills like so many of the artists.

keep up the good work but your movie is still somewhat lacking in storyline but at least your making improvements.

-Mightydein

chluaid responds:

Great review! Agreed on the points of story. Thanks :D

[Stop Your Shitty Posting]

Big is an idiot

I don't know who this bigs guy is but this movie was actually pretty funny even if i never been to the clock crew or know what a bigs is.

He reminds me of those tight ass loser mods that take there job too seriously. There has to be room to have a little bit of fun in the cc fourms or otherwise it's just basically another shitty typical fourm that is way too modded to be any entertainment vaule.

I hope you get unbanned from cc and that dick bigs gets demodded.

Sir-CannabisClock responds:

I've been long unbanned! however albino clock banned me for trolling the drugs/sports forum :D

[Guide to being review mod]

very useful tips

with these powerful little bits of advice. I'm on way to becoming a review mod.

thanks cannabis and when i do become a review mod. My first duty will be to unban you from reviewing.

-Mightydein

Sir-CannabisClock responds:

aw... <3