TheAbominableMatt's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[8 clock!?]

This flash

Has.. like....

Graphics, style, sound, violence, interactivity AND humour.

So overall, yeh. 10.

Why not?

HoboPorn responds:

:O <3

[Madness Elimination 2]

Not bad

My main criticism of you is that you desperatley need to learn how to accept constuctive criticism. You'll probably respond to this review with something along the lines of "You are just jealous because I got front page".

I wouldn't begrudge anyone getting front page but seriously, grow the fuck up. Your animation shows an understanding of flash but no originality. You must realise that this got front page because of the success of the original madness series.

I'm not trying to sound like a wanker because your flash was quite well put together and is a fairly good homage to Krinkels but stop taking every piece of criticism as a personal attack against yourself. People are allowed to criticise and as an artist you should welcome it. It means you can make your next movie even better by trying to improve and make sure there are less critics next time you submit.

Splurgle responds:

K, thanks for your advice.

I just HAVE to post this:

Elimination 3 is going to include:
-Massive 2 floor airplane slaughter.
-Guaranteed harder enemies.
-Guaranteed better animation with more realism.
-Car chase, roadkill.
-Explosives plus an off road 1 on 1 plus a hell of alot of agents in a field.
-Theme: Korea.
-More guns.
-A shitload more blood.
-Better music.

[Peoplemation: Trash]

Well it's no "Spin"..

....but still very clever and funny. I was wondering why more people don't tying using "peoplmation" and then watching the shaddow creep across the screen as Gel chased the bin I realised that this must take bloody ages. How long did this one take you?

I'm tempted to have a go myself, it's just stopmotion isn't it? I might have a bit of a play around after I finish with the flash I'm working on now.

I really enjoyed it guys, as always. Well done.

Ps. if this was made before Spin, do you have stores and stores of little films that you made but never submitted?

Dustball responds:

I forget how long it took, but this one might've only taken a few days. Spin took around 2 weeks. You should definately try it, it's just basic stop-motion! And yes, we have TONS and tons of stuff we've made on video... heck we've known each other for almost 10 years. I'm trying to pick out the best stuff to bring to NG.

[-Play More-]

Dustball

You are my hero... seriously.

That was great, I'm actually working on some rotoscoped stuff myself right now and I was feeling a bit like I was cheating but this animation has reafirmed my belief that rotoscoped animation is still animation and takes the same amount if not not more effort to make it work.

Both Play and Flathead orchestra are in my favourites but unfortunately this one isn't going in there. Don't get me wrong, I love it- but it's not original enough. I'm really pleased you did a second Play animation because I'm a big fan of the first but I think you should leave it at that. Your work is brilliant and I don't want to see one of my favourite artists stuck doing the same thing again and again.

Good work as always man but move on to new projects. I'm not just blowing smoke when I say I'm looking forward to seeing them.

Dustball responds:

Cool, thanks for the comments. Take another look at my list of submissions, how often do you see the same type of thing twice? I definately did take a break from this, but after doing a few different projects I figured what the heck, why not do another one only way better? Don't worry, I've got a lot of exciting (and diverse) things up my sleeves!

[Legend without Zelda BOD1]

Chickens?

They're called cuckos.....

Or something like that.

RogerregoRRoger responds:

who cares, it's not a documentry.

[Over There: Segment 5]

you guys never cease to amaze me

This review is for all 5 segments.... which are all equally good.

I really liked that you used characters from your own animations as clay ppl... I always liked your style. I've seen a few reviews of ppl compariong you to knox, which is fair enough as he's probably most well known for claymations..... but it my own humble opinion i think the two of you blow him out of the water.

There are some animators on Newgrounds that inspire me more than any others and Dustball and gel are two of them... just check my favourite authors! The originality you two have when you work together amazes me today just as it did when i first saw one of your movies for the first time... i think it was spin...

I've gotten away from myself a bit with such shameless flatery... you'll have to forgive me. I really did love the Over There series... some parts of it were funny and some parts of it were just impressive due to the obvious amount of work that you put in. It's not perfect, don't get me wrong in thinking that i'm just in love with your work so much that i would vote five on anything you pumped out, but any flaws i saw were too small to change my opinion of the series too much.

I have to say that the part of this movie that i really loved was the plane that nida built... the transformation really made me laugh i was impressed so much and i loved the little LED you had flashing ontop.

As ever your voice acting is strange and original and i like it for that. This was good work from both of you as always and as always i look forward to seeing what the two of you come up with next.

Thanks for making me smile :)

Dustball responds:

Thank you! And thank you for the nice review. We agree as much as anybody that this movie is anything but perfect... it's amazing to me that it even works as well as it does, having been animated 5 years ago, and then with my recent attempt to bring it to new life.
I think you're the first person to mention the LED, heh heh. The shot of them sitting in the ship was done by just pointing a laser pointer at it (you can see that the light itself is not even attached to anything!) But for the flying I actually managed to wire up to a battery and get it to light up long enough for that one shot.

[Chavs]

pretty good

chavs, or spydes as we call them in northern Ireland, aren't wiggas. They don't act like they're black, some of them do but thats not what defines them as a chav.

There is no american equivelent of a chav, whoever put this on the front page said white trash- which is probably more accurate than wigga but still not exact.

Americans- count yourself lucky that you don't have to deal with these dicks.

Anyway..... nice flash, some of the lyrics were really funny.

Mozer responds:

Thanks, I chose wiggas to describe them so Americans could sort of understand where I am coming from, but yes as you say, it's hard to think of an American equivalent.

Cheers for your comments :)