AloneInTheDark's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Gooberstory]

Very good

The graphics are wonderful. No doubt about it that you are a pro with years of experience. Surprisingly this flash also had atmosphere and content and that makes it a masterpiece.

Beautiful backgrounds, probably made with photoshop or painter with the right combination of vector art. The backgrounds were little ninjai quality while the characters in them had a cool unique style.

Anyway, not much to be said, excellent job all the way. You will conquer newgrounds.

[Don't Stop Me Now]

OK

Pretty cool. Cant help but feel it wasnt really going anywhere though. No real theme, vision or cleverness to be found. Just random scenes that connect together in a pretty obvious way. The animating was great at points but lacking in other parts. Maybe it would have been better to create the different scenes with different styles which will suit the each situation better instead of just working with 1 style and color pallette. A couple of parts were funny and that made the overall thing still enjoyable.

AITD

[Comfort]

Too awesome for words

Man, i should really make a favorite author list sometime. Because if i would, your name would be right on top there with a handful of others i really respect on this site.

What an awe-some animation. Iv seen all your other work also including your website and know now without a doubt that you are a real talent. Not only in animation, but also in painting and in the way you manage to tell stories.

All your animations are very surreal with the enormous attention to characters and emotions. I love that, it inspires me also. Whats so impressive is how you emphasise those qualities even more by not using any music or special effects. So incredibly pure and cool how you just let the art and voiceacting speak for itself. That still scene of the goat man sitting on the table with the lady (his mother?) just screaming 'nothing!' the entire time may be one of the best flashscenes i ever seen.

I think you rotroscoped the flash movies you uploaded on this website. I might be wrong, but i dont think it is possible to draw such fluent perfectly timed movement without the use of rotroscoping. Wether you did it by rotroscope or not, this thing still remains incredible.

What i also really love are the small details you put in your animations. I noticed when the mother was throwing the objects out of the closet she threw away the weirdest stuff. I even saw a small female flying. Brilliant, lol. I dont know if it has a meaning or not, but thats the wonderful thing about art. You dont have to justify every decision you make and can just let it open to interpretation. Unlike architecture, heh.

Anyway, its sad that you arent uploading your work here anymore. I bet you dont even visit this site or read these reviews. But this just had to be said. 'Comfort' is (together with the other two) one of the best serious animations on Newgrounds.

AITD

[Fantastic Realm Chapter 2]

Nice one!

I remember Fantastic Realm being one of the first movies i reviewed when i made an account on newgrounds. I was really overwhelmed by it and thought at the time that it was one of the best flashes ever.

First off, i noticed you wrote a brilliant response to a review of a previous user. 'No doubt, it seemed like some people really have it in for us sometimes. Its funny how vicious people can get when you try to offer them free entertainment!'. Haha that is so true man, couldnt agree more.

Anyway, this episode was in some ways amazing also. Very proffessional and well thought out. The visuals are stunning and posses the right cartoony touch. Same goes for the audio. There isnt much you can improve on the visual/audio area.

I also noticed how many usuers think the story is unoriginal and without surprises. Unfortunately i cant completely disagree with them. It is a very ambitious series and its extremely important that you will manage to give it an own identity in order to become really great. You partly succeeded in this with the castle guard character and the main villain, but overall, it lacks detailness in the way you tell and present things. The evil wizard was just an evil wizard. The pretty girl was a pretty girl and her dumb comical companion was just a dumb comical companion.

I would strongly suggest to take more time and shape every character into extreme detail and add more unique things to them. Everyone loves Xombie, because of his awesome one liners, his confusing purpose and his still warm personality. Everyone loves Darth Vader because of his voice acting, his skill with the lightsaber and the slight sense of good in him. These are just examples, but I think you know what i mean. I was kinda missing that in the characters of this movie. They were there and had their purpose for the story, but nothing more. In the end, it is what seperates a well drawn proffessional approached movie from an epic memorable series.

Anyway, keep it up, you people are definately going in the right direction, and the talent is literally shining of the episodes. Just spend a little bit more time in thinking about how to reach the heart of the viewers.

AITD

[A Men's Room Monologue]

a rare gem

Brilliant flash. Completely original, hilarious and clever. I love this and i love how it is approached. It really shows how a good concept/idea is worth so much more than some clean visuals.

What made this flash really stand out was the script and the voice acting. They were very fitting and almost Seinfeld quality. The thing was really funny and a joy to watch. Most of the things were so true and recognizable also, which makes it even more enjoyable.

There is no real advise i can give you. You obvious have talent in knowing how to reach the viewers. A talent not many on ng have. Telling you to improve the visuals will just be lame and pointless, that wasnt really the important thing of this flash.

Definately hope to see more of you in the future!

AITD

[Review: Alien vs Predator]

Terrible

No, I am not a legendary frog hater nor someone who doesnt like comedy, but after watching this flash i seriously wonder how anyone could ever rate this higher than average.

First of all, it is pathetic that you dont even do your own flash movies anymore, but chose other people to do the dirty work. I mean what the hell?, do you think you are such an awesome writer and you should continue in that direction from now on? How much skill does it really take to chose a video game or movie as a subject of a flash and make some lame G rated jokes about it.....

What is even more amazing is how other flash artist completely copy your infamous tweened limbs style in their quest for internet popularity. Probably one of the few styles that take the least amount of creativity and talent to create and that can be done within a couple of minutes. Combine it with a teenage theme, some childish jokes and every flash is a winner. It worked for return of ganondorf and Ark and Kerrigan, but there comes a point in an artists carreer when he has to experiment and learn more in order to grow.

Even the topics of every new flash become worse and worse. I mean, making a flash which is about a movie review?!? And just when you think it cant be any lamer, the entire review isnt even funny in an original or rude way, but no, we are supposed to laugh at a girl saying alien vs predator is average and deserves 3 out of 5 stars, Hihihihi!

I eagerly await 'your' next movie review or metal gear solid parody.

AITD

[The Child That Smelt Odd]

getting there

After watching this cartoon i somehow had to think of my alltime favorite flash 'how it will end'. And i wasnt surprised that after i checked your profile i saw that flash also as your no1 favorite.

This is different from your other work indeed. As in it isnt trying so hard to be weird and scary and put the attention more on the dialogue and acting. I like that, more subtlety is always better. But unfortunately i wasnt really all that impressed by it. Where 'how it will end' or 'b&w drama theater' were clever, hilarious and thought provoking in every scene, this was a tad boring. But thats just my opinion. You have alot of fans and im sure they will love it.

AITD