Luke's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Frat Bots]

Quite funny

Surprisingly, I liked the detailed descriptions of what they meant but at the same time it was hard to read it all before it disappeared. Also the Bot Marley was a bit too difficult to understand, art was great though. Funny concept, minus those two minor issues it was a good first view for Robot Day.

Teedly responds:

Thanks! Appreciated and I agree the text is helpful, but does contradict itself.

[Facebook Girl]

Hmmm...

I give you 5 stars, because it is realistic.

I didn't find any of it to be funny, to be completely honest... It is a huge problem on Facebook that most of us know about, but as a flash animation it wasn't funny at all, and then it seemed that you tried to start being too funny with it, with statuses like "farted a little" and stuff like that... Just wasn't funny to me.

Art wasn't terrible, your little drawings of the girl were neat, having the Newgrounders as the friends list, and Newgrounds ads on the side was pretty nifty as well.
Besides those positive things, I can't find anything good about this flash.

2/5 - 5/10

Dosensuppen responds:

Can't make everyone happy.

[D&D Requiem Teaser I]

Interesting

You should really use flash to make it all together and not have it as an embedded video in the flash so to say, I'm sure you know what I mean.
I'm a HUGE Dungeons and Dragons fan... I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for this in July, and I really hope you guys can pull it off. You made my night.

dndrequiem responds:

Epic,

I appreciate your advice on making the film in Flash. That said, as a kid who grew up watching this series, the one thing I care about most - is staying true to the look, feel- and format- of the original animated TV Series. Honestly, Epic, Flash can make it look cleaner. So, in playing the Devil's Advocate (to put it loosely), let's imagine that the show was developed using a technology just like Flash today (supposing that could happen). Flash would work most faithfully to it- because it would have been the original format, then (if it had been developed then and used).

That said, the fact is, as Toei used Classical Animation (Traditional) principles (Flash is its own creation apart in Digital art), the current technology just won't do it justice- because the goal is to capture as closely to the look, feel and sound of the genuine article as possible-- the kids of the 80s in their late 20s, 30's and early 40s (I'm one of the middle kids!) will scrutinize this the most carefully.

Let me illustrate.

Recall that Dungeons and Dragons movie of 2000? They used CGI and the latest technology- and even featured a cast including Jeremy Irons. Sadly- they did not contain more than a shred of the original premise. What did the true D&D fans (of both the RPG and the Animated series) think of it? How did it go wrong?

Getting back to your point- there are at least two other Requiem projects in development besides me. One is penciling a comic on deviantArt, which looks really promising. There's someone else on You Tube doing a 3D version using LightWave. Here's my lowly opinion on that one: aside from the characters being mediocre in appearance and detail, and the voice actors didn't sound like anything like the originals (except for Dungeon Master), the mood and scenery looked and felt good- and made me look forward to seeing more of it.

If you're a kid of the 80s,too, then I'm sure-- or at least hope- you understand my feeling on fidelity to the series.

Thank you for your comment! It means a lot coming from a fellow D&D Animated fan.

By the way, as I have so much to do, I've pushed the completion date to September 2013.

[Nursing Home Madness 2]

Eh...

Really? This could have been so much better it's hardly over twenty seconds long if that, and he kills one person that you can see him kill... I don't understand why this was front paged, I can understand it passing judgement...

Rapheus responds:

Bud, the scores on your flashes really don't permit you to bash mine.

[Frodozers Vs. Clockday 4]

Bad ass!

Fro once again never fails to impress Newgrounds with another excellent flash full of excitement, terror, and everything else that makes shit sweet.

Fro responds:

Yes, this is all of that

[Drexids Lands P.1]

Not a bad start

This flash isn't a bad start to a series, but it does need a lot of work to be a good series. The art for one, is not very good. Try practicing a lot more, you'll get better as you go for sure. The voice acting seems like it's low quality, almost as if you recorded it in a Tupperware container. Regardless, there is much work to be done, but it isn't a bad start.

kevinseven11 responds:

This is my very first drawings ive ever drawn on flash, trust me its gonna get good :D and the audio is going to be a challenge but ill do what I can.

[Adult Swim Commercial]

Well animated.

A well animated and funny flash, great work on this. Glad I checked it out.

Billy-Chops responds:

Thanks man!!! That means a lot.