rvyn's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Kissing A Fool]

wonderful

i hardly ever give nines, but this movie has so much going for it and i see it taking a lot of unnecessary crap on newgrounds that i'll do my best to try to protect it! it's wonderful!

[TSC Clan Site Intro]

boo

Okay first of all, nobody cares for intros here. second, 2.8 megabytes for just a site intro is ridiculous to expect of your viewers. since most people have an attention span of about 30 seconds when viewing a webpage, they've likely already skipped your site to visit another, better site where they can get a gist of everything in the time it took for you to just show the stupid logo of your clan.

[Alien Report Part II]

good

story seems kind of a cliche way to introduce a superhuman/alien character, but it's alright. coulda gone for more action though. meanwhile, i assure you you can reduce file size by at least 500 kb by just optimizing your images. not only will your file size look smaller, your graphics will also look smoother (but don't do it too much, cause it'll look too angular; find your own balance)

[Old: Stikz]

not bad

it woulda been cooler if somehow one person managed to kill everyone on the island, just as kind of a domino effect, then show a different scenario for each person on the island.

[Robocop:001]

holy wow

my eyes are bleeding... sure, it's really short, and i'm getting really tired of people using nothing but songs from the requiem for a dream soundtrack when something else would suffice much better (a techno track for this one, probably), but JESUS CHRIST that was pretty.

[Whats Cooking]

Surprisingly funny!

Things here tend to be chucklish, but usually not haha funny, except this one. I also loved the character design, very clean and crisp and not half-assed. I can't wait for your series.

[perish]

keep it up manuel

you continue to be among the most prolific artists on flash in terms of product and style, and this keeps the tradition up. It's awesome following your work.

HeRetiK responds:

thanks a lot rvyn! :)

[Priest Trilogy : Part 1]

slow

the art is amazing, but it seems you're taking so much time revelling in the good drawings you've made and made shots take forever when they're supposed to be fast and exciting (case in point: the twirling of the pistols... took too long, and we saw it twice). i understand these drawings take forever, but editing has just as much to do with story telling as do the visuals themselves... i felt this could've taken 1/3 of the time to tell.

[Very Sneaky]

very well animated

the character animation was spot on, and i loved the soft colors. you should make it take up the entire window, since the cat is so far away (i had to zoom in to confirm that you drew him very well).

[matrix: unlimited epi 0]

meh

it was unnecessarily large (learn to compress audio, man!) also, you didn't specify whether the machines cloned neo's real body or his body within the matrix. since neo had been flushed long ago, the machines no longer have a physical body. likewise, neo and the other freed people can jump in and out of the matrix, and since it's all computers anyway cloning is a pretty organic way of doing it, don't you think? agent smith could replicate himself at will without the messiness of cloning. also, since cloning doesn't really copy a person's mindset, and since neo's power comes from his mind and not his body, what's the point of physical cloning when his powers and speed are from his mind and his mind only? And finally, as we heard from the trailers for reloaded, the agents don't think highly of humans at all, calling them "only human." So why would they bother cloning an imperfect human body? The machines would be smarter to copy Neo's "mind" (which is basically impossible, and yet you assume this in your animation, when they cloned his body as well), and "paste" it into, say, a 500 foot robot? anything's possible in the matrix, and yet it seems you've put a lot of barriers around your story to keep it from falling apart.