KarmaX's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[ZELFMOORD ][]

I was torn between 6 or 7.

Yo... Karma here again. *grin*

This was kinda nice. I liked the animation on the girl when she turned around. That was quite good. Neat character design. Especially the wacked out spiky headed guy. I liked that.
The !POTS thing was really cool, and an awesome sound effect. Is that a Gradius or a Parodius sound effect??

Also, i don't know if you inteneded it this way, but i found the "look out behind you" thing to look a HELL of a lot like Ninja Gaiden II for NES cinema segment after beating the green monster boss. If it was a homage, great job. I remember that segment.

And yeah.. it was short, alright, but i'm not gonna go "OMG! TOO SHORT MAKE IT LONGER WTF!". Sometimes a nice short thing is good. Or at least I can see the value of that.

!POTS ...heh heh... some of your stuff in your movies (Such as the Parovidius "I WANT A MILLION HELLACOPTORS AND A DOLLAR" thing) and this !POTS thing are becoming classic favorite phrases of mine. ^_-

DYNAKYRIS responds:

A decade ago and some change, Oscar the Grouch taught me that STOP spelled backwards is POTS. :]

You're pretty damn close!!! The alarm noise you hear is from Nemesis for Game Boy, also known as...GRADIUS!!!

The LOOKOUTBEHINDYOU is just part of the dialogue, if anything is intended to refer to anything else, it's definitely the Jessica Rabbit phrases at the start. In earlier versions, though, I even used a clip of Jessica shouting "BEHIND YOU" before the shadowy figure gets shot out.

The other phrase you love, from ParoVadius, came originally from an episode of Dinosaurs wherein the food in the fridge took over the house when Charlene babysat her little brother. It was the head cheese's ransom letter, which one of his underlings corrected for him when he misread it.

[ParoVadius (2002 Version)]

Whoaaaaa..............................

Yes!! Ok... first off.. let me say that i'm beginning to type this as the movie is loading. While that's happening, let me tell you something real quick. First of all, i just watched After ParoVadius, and just finished reviewing that. Now, you'll see that I raved about it, and said that that movie was much like what i'm attempting to do with my own Flash films coming soon. But I did say that the one thing i didn't like about it was the shit humor, and it's preverseness. Having said that, I see now that THIS movie came first and that you actually did a good clean movie. This is even better than I have could have hoped for.

So, this means that while this currently loads, I cannot wait to see it. *excited while i wait for the movie* ...... Quick side note: I saw the people trashing your After ParoVadius film. They are much like the same shitheads that trashed MY submission to Newgrounds a few weeks back. The same kind of retard 12 year olds that seem to populate and spawn on NG like some kinda retarded, beligerent walking dicks in human form. ;) *waits more for the film*

...ok.. i just watched it. You are god. I bow before you. This is everything I always wanted to make in a movie, myself. I honestly could not...stop...laughing!

Please note that I am about to give you the highest score i've ever given a movie. Becuase this is that damn good. You are freaking god man. FIRST PERSON EVER TO GET A TEN FROM ME! Even "Decline Of Video Gaming 2" only got an 8 from me. And aside that, i havn't given anything else higher than 6 or 7 i believe.

DYNAKYRIS responds:

O_O!!!

:D

Hey, Karma. I'm glad that you even /bothered/ to take the time to dig a bit deeper on ParoVadius! Thanks for the reviews. I owe you one for your Kendo Rage flick, which got the fives from me.

I'm glad you liked ParoVadius. I don't know what else to say. Because I am teh pooped from tonite's Manhattan excursion...but YES!!! I'm glad you liked it! I wish you great luck in your own works, and in Kendo Rage I could see what you mean when you say AfterParo & Paro are similiar to the kind of movies you wanna create. I dunno, Kendo just seems to have that...'spirit' about it. Keep me posted on your progress, ey?? & good luck with everything.

From your profile I must assume you have the time to practice Frashin', so get crackin'! ;]

[After ParoVadius]

Oh... My.... GOD!!!

I love this movie.

This is very much the style that I am trying to accomplish with my own sprite films.

Not only that, but i LOVE parodus. My first thoughts were OMG! A movie of Parodus?! Then I watched it and was, for the most part pretty wowed by it. It's a bit short though, and a little more preverse than is my liking, but I don't really care, becuase i'm not offended whatsoever. I can take that kinda stuff even though shit humor isn't quite my thing.

Again, this is the kind of look and style i'm going for in my movies, and you have inspired me a bit more even. So thank you. Really.. A personal thank you from me to you for keeping me from giving up on my own films. My flash production company (which means me, myself :p ) is called KarmaX Productions if you care, btw. I'm surrently working on making Flash films of classic games that are mostly anime-like or not well known, and don't have a zillion flash movies out about them (like the 37 jillion Mario movies on NG)

Also, i have to add that the drawn pictures of the two Parodus girls at the end was neat as well. Where did you get those?! From a Parodus japanese manual or something? They kick ass, and they are pretty hot. ;)

Anyway, my point is.. Keep up the good work making movies like these, and If you want, keep an eye out for my films when the good ones start showing up. (The Kendo Rage movie i have submitted on NG is not that great and is meant as more of a preview of better movies to come.. if you care. ;) )

DYNAKYRIS responds:

You're about my age... You remember Altered Beast, right? For the Genesis? Do you remember what the old guy said--okay, I think he just said it in the arcade version, but do you remember what he said when you continued on the fly?

It is what I say to anyone who's trying to master the art of Frash; "/NEVER/ GIVE UP!"

I'm glad I could inspire you.

A Googie search unearthed the pic pretty easily. My keywords were Akane and Hikaru, I think. Not sure where the illust is from originally. I have the Parodius Deluxe Pack and Sexy Paro, so I know it's not from there.

Liked that Kendo Rage flick. This time I'll watch it again with the sound on. See ya!

[Penguin Jam 3]

ugh...

Alright man.. here goes. First I see that you say shitty things to people JUST cause they don't like your movie. Well, most of them just say "this sucks" and nothing else. I know how irratating that is, but really... This is not very good at all. Just so you can't cuss me out, allow me to break it down for you in an intellegent manner.

Your concept is surprisingly unfunny. One movie, a peguin shoots a guy in a bar. There's no point. 2nd movie... Peguins having sex. Sorta. In the dark. Cheap, and not good.. also.. not funny. The only good thing about this is that you mamaged to follow the rules of the competetion. But underdog of the week?? They'll make anything in that position these days, won't they? Your art is terrible. You just made bad shapes in Flash and strung them together in a very cheap and badly animated way. This had no substance, no style, and you didn't seem to put much work in this at all. Bitch me out like everyone else with your vauge, childish insults if you want.. you won't hurt my feelings. But this IS a peice of crap. Spend more than a half hour on flash, use real artwork... And make something enjoyable that people will want to see, and not just some thing that you think is decent when you didn't put any real work or too much thought into it. Really.. this DOES suck, and you know it does. Being so insulting indiscrimnatly to everyone who dosn't like this crap, shows your immaturity and your insecurity.. becuase you know this sucks.

cool-penguin-0 responds:

Well, thanks for the constructive review, it makes a change for once.

Also, people leave stupid reviews, I leave stupid answers. It's a give and take situation, or something. These cartoons aren't supposed to be professional, they're supposed to be a bit stupid, a bit of a laugh, go to a professional site if you're expecting professionalism. Amateurs is what NG is all about, and that's why I <3 it.

[Let it be...]

Guh...

I suddenly realized after having sat here and watching 5.. count them.. 5 brand new Negrounds submission, i feel like one of the following...

A. Spontniously exploding
B. Clawing my eyes out
C. Going to the liqour store down the street and drinking until these submissions look good in retrospect or
D. Taking a long hard look at my choice of internet activities.

Anyway, now that i've got that out of my system, this movie is er.... well, it was ridiculous. It was actually funny. The sad thing is, i don't think you were TRYING to be funny.

Patchco responds:

lmao. Yes i was.

[World record ep.1]

hmmmm..........

Well... that wasn't too good, but at least you finished the whole thing and spent some almost decent work on it. You get a C minus for effort. Although it really isn't enjoyable to watch.

The-Protector responds:

ok thx , the next will be 2x more funny

[Spencer S. Dedication]

Hmm.. it was nice but..........

That was rather neat up until it looked like you got bored with the flash and just made a VERY fast bullshit "ending".
That part of it was stupid. I liked it up until then. If you aren't going to end anything properly then don't bother sending it.

Old-Voycoon-Studios responds:

You know me better than I know myself

[Kingdom Sprites: Episode1]

Pretty good... pretty good. ^_^

Graphics: I gave the graphics on this a 6. Maybe i should have given it a 5 on account of everything being small and a little hard to see, but everything was animated so well. All the sprites had decent frames in it, and they moved rather nicely in places. The battle scenes flowed well, and were directed pretty smoothly and they were intresting.

Style: I gave it a 6 initially becuase the backgrounds and overall look of it looked cool. I liked the opening with all the characters, and it all had a pretty videogamey style to it. Although what kinda threw me off was text. The text looked kinda generic and maybe went off a little too soon.

Sound: Choice of sound and music was good, overall. The choices were neat, although seemed a bit too trenched in Final Fantasy tunes.

Violence: The Samurai Pizza Cats dead in a pool of blood?! ...nooooooo!! Wait.. they aren't dead.. just evil. wait?! They're evil? ....noooo!! ok, all joking aside that was pretty neat i guess.

Interactivity: um... hmm.. *skips this part*

Humor: I only gave this a low mark cause it's not SUPPOSED to be funny, although i did like the horses joke and Goofy's.. er..goofieness.

Overall: What can i say? Excellent writing, great plot, and a brilliant concept.

My only real complaint is that the preloader kinda freaked me out. Was that really nessessary?! ^_^;;;

silencer169 responds:

ha ha ha ha.... Thanks for the review Karma. I think your review is probably my favorite amongst all the rest. Why>? Not because of the score, mind that, it wasn't that high, however, you appreciated all the details I work hard to produce. Another high point of your review is it's shear honesty...
THANK YOU!

-Silencer169