CornerStoned's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dragonballs]

Well...

I personally REALLY dislike DBZ, but I am not going to let that make my vote and review biased. You did a fairly good job at animation, and for some strange, inhuman reason, the song at the end fit perfectly! It made absolutely no sense overall, but what the hell does on this site?! Work on animation a TAD bit is all the advice I can really offer. Good job, that was three weeks well spent for you!

[A Short Mario Movie]

Very good!

Friggin' hilarious man! Good sprite work too! I loved the DBZ part, LMAO! Good choice of songs as well. Next time, just make it longer and fix a few capitalization errors and it would be a 10, easy!

[The Tali-van]

YOU MUST FINISH IT!

This is a GREAT idea, finish it and you will do awesome! Most definetely a 5!

[Class Project]

Good point.

I liked the disobedient children part, I wasn't expecting it to be put down so plainly! You are right, things have changed. You do have some potential, just work on animation a lot and add some sound (You desperately need sound, I havent' seen a flash get by without it.) That should be all you really need. Good luck to ya!

[XmvsSF]

My money is on Street Fighter!

Good idea, work on the animation a little bit. Your drawings were pretty good, especially for stick figures. Throw in some limb movement by the characters and use better grammer and you would be doing good!

[Bush Bash1 redone clocks!]

Let's see...

First of all, good idea with the clocks and all! I like clock stuff for some reason, some of their work turns out to be really good, but some it also bad. (Which makes the suspense all the greater!) Second, point well taken about the pumpkin thing. Animation is not the "make or break" of a flash, but it is always a plus in my eyes. I guess I learned something today. Lastly, I wasn't trying to really put down your work, I was trying to offer constructive criticism. (Which is the point of a review) Even if I disagree with you (as if we don't know that already!), there are plenty of people who like your stuff and if it makes it better for them, good. Political differences are a world apart from actual hostlility. I'm sorry if you misunderstood my review.

TheOtherTruth responds:

Thank you for your review.

Nope, I didn't misunderstand your review or think you were putting me down.

I was just giving some feedback. I did want you to consider the concept that lots of animation wasn't the crux of all things good.

I had toyed with the idea of having the News Flash 9 guys do some random, worthless animations for no apparent reason at the end of one of their Newscasts, just because many people have made that observation.

I figured that type of inside humor would just get me blammed out.

I have actually had 3 projects of mine blammed, even though I felt that 2 of them shouldn't have been.

Ah, well. My adoring public.

Thanks again for the clarification, but I was cool with you.

ps. Have you watched Eternal Blamnation yet? I did some fairly decent,but sparse, animation on that one. For me, figuring out how to open and close the portal doors and make it look like I knew what I was doing was difficult. Upon reding this, the rest of the world is probably saying "it's easy you moron" but it perplexed me for a bit.

I thought that movie was fairly funny, but it only got luke warm reviews.

[Bush Bash 10 (ba ram ewe)]

Yet another review...

Ok, first of all, please try and work on your animation, the only movement was the mouths and the sheep on the conveyer belt. (I hope that isn't a spoiler). It looks to me like the main reason you get good scores is because people that agree with you vote 5, no matter what, and there seem to be a WHOLE LOT more Liberals watching this than Conservatives. I don't care if it is a flash with a Liberal, Conservative, or whatever message, what it said politically sould not merit the score. If this was the same thing, but with the Clintons or something, I would still give it the same score, and you can probably guess what that is. If you made a funny or skilled animation, I would vote a higher score, even if it is Liberal. That is why I liked Eternal Blamnation, it was simply funny. I'm not trying to nitpick, I'm just suggesting what needs improvement, that is the point of reviewing, not to argue. On a side note, I appreciate how you said I was fairly respectful in one of your responses, that was an encouraging thing to hear!

TheOtherTruth responds:

Thank you for your review.

Cornerstoned, what I am going to do about you....pick,pick,pick,pick. OK, here goes...

Flash does not have to be equated to animation. Yes, the capacity is there. Yes, if I wanted to spend 100 plus hours on a movie I could do a lot more animation. (Kudos to those of you out there who are doing 100 hours or more) I know that you know I am 36 years old, have 4 kids and a busy schedule. Most of my movies take 20-60 hours to make. That is a lot of time to take away from the family.

BIG DISAGREEMENT POINT...I should DEFINATELY get a good score if people like the message (and it is well put).

The whole point of Flash or any other entertainment medium is to convey a message of one sort or another. I have definately done that. Remember, "form over function" is neat at first, but fades quickly.

I cite the guy who did the halloween pumpkin that you carved and then there was a candle in the pumpkin upon creation! Almost no animation, 17kb of work, and it was one of the best flash projects on Newgrounds!!!

And finally, your critiques! Read some of my other reviews (esp. by 70TA). He is completely disrepectful, and I rip him every time he attempts to get down on me. I have always said, "if you dislike my flash, peachy". I am not trying to dictate thought. However, if you are rude without cause or, my favorite, tell me that I don't know my subject matter...you can count on a verbal thrashing.

Your reviews have always been fair. Is that another zero up there???? Maybe I should take that back!

Thanks again.

[Bush Bash 9]

Just of curiosity...

how many more of these are you going to make? I mean, this is BY FAR the longest running series I have ever seen! I'm not even going to bother argueing or debating, for 2 reasons.
1. You get enough of that already so everything I say AND what you say will have already been said, so why really bother.
2. As the author, you get the last word. So, it doesnt matter if I make a bunch of trash talk or the most well presented argument in the history of mankind, whoever gets the last word in is bound to win, no matter HOW they think.
On a final note, I dont know all the details of your court case (I havent sifted through all the reviews yet), but if what you say in the few that I have read is true, I hope you win!
A pattern for 2 politicians, Reagen: Actor, then governor of California, then President. Arnold, actor, then goveror of California... Dear God Man! Also, I have heard conflicting information of what Arnold's political views are from people and from political anylists, and I think 1 more set of information would be interesting. Where exactly does he stand on political issues?

TheOtherTruth responds:

Thank you for your review.

Ahhhh Cornerstoned! Everytime that Bush continues to lie to us or say retarded things, he will be the subject of my movies.

For example...did you watch the press conference yesterday? Not only could Bush not field the questions being asked, he actually told one reporter that she was asking a "trick" question and that he refused to answer it on those grounds.

I don't think that asking the president "will we be reducing troops stationed in Iraq in the next 12 months?" constitutes a trick question. I think the public would like to know.

Not only is this an extremely deceptive administration, this president is from one of the most corrupt political families in recent history. This man is a liar and a deceiver and must be called to account.

I know that it is easy to beat up the man once he is in office, but I am also certain that if John McCain or Colin Powell had been elected president that I would have zero political flash on Newgrounds.

As far as Arnold, he is a political moderate.

If I had it my way, this country would have 3-6 political parties with fairly different views. When you only have 2 parties everything becomes Black and White...Right and Wrong.

Our 2 party system is just not reflective of how we think in this country.

Anyway, I am working on the next Bush Bash right now.

I will look for your review on that one too ;)