Ardhamon's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Two Princesses]

I definately am impressed

I like seeing this kind of dark, gothic style one in a while. It does intrigue me to see something so twisted but yet so appreciative.

I did like the cutout animation, it's as if your telling a story using puppets and whatnot. The black and white color fit perfectly aswell. I also like how the screen flashes to something sinister and creepy.

I am turned off by the narration itself though. I guess the different pitches and tones in the recording made it hard to watch. You have the right voice and everything, but it just needs better quality.

But overall, I did like watching this. Nice work.

[Contemplate Life]

Different

Atleast from what I'm used to seeing here.

Now I do appreciate your animation in the falling and such. The tweened animation kinda killed the mood for me. I don't know why.

But the art was pretty good, though. For some odd reason, I have a feeling your inspired by Sexual-Lobster's work because of the shading and such.

I did enjoy the music as it really had a powerful feeling and the fact you used something not anime-ish or Linkin Park (despite how much I like the two) really impressed me.

I am also shocked at the message you tried to convey here. But it did give some good points at the end.

Nice work, keep it up. :)

nahtanojmal responds:

I was more inspired by redminus' style, but I could have subconsciously done things similar to Chris. Hey it is kind of similar isn't it :S :)
Well we are both Australian and did kind of attend the same uni at the same time......

I like them too :D

and Thanks for the review

[No Service]

I like this idea.

It does make sense how you would be shocked see some people in fancy restaurants dressed casually.

I did like the voice work and the waiter entertains me a bit. Love his sarcastic tone and annoyed attitude towards the overweight man.

Nice work.

[The Death of Nyan Cat]

Uhm..

I honestly thought that was just terrible. An old (not to mention really unfunny and out of place) meme placed in out of nowhere?! For what purpose?!

I also think that Creeper thing was just stupid and to be honest, that was just recycled from your Minecraft animation. However, I did like the animation here. I mean, you did a great job with the background and Nyancat looks well animated, too.

I also like your artwork.

Nice song, too.

But the humor DEFINATELY needs improving.

[Batman: Arkham Shitty]

I'm Sorry..

...but I honestly don't see the appeal in this.

Now I have no idea about Arkham City (one of the games that I have yet to play). But I honestly think that this could have been better.

The humor felt more forced or something. I mean, it was too random for my taste. Now I don't mind some random humor, but it does usually feel out of place. Sure, making a joke about the game itself is cliche unless cleverly written. But either way, some of the facial expressions and actions could have been done without.

I also felt the animation was sub-par or was rushed a bit. It looks as if you either didn't use enough frames or the actions went too fast.

The voice acting was terrible. The clown just sounded annoying and that Batman impression just sounded horrible.

Overall, I just couldn't find anything hilarious about this but only one or two things. But even those I just giggled a tiny bit. Try going a little less random next time.

IaMI2002 responds:

Weird. This was probably the most specific I could get about a in game story flaw. Perhaps when you play the game and experience the moronic act of interrogating a suspect you'll get the joke.

I don't feel we rushed the animation, but there something to be said for you comment. This was our first collaboration and we really wanted to put the joke out there and see how it was received. We didn't think it would be that big of an issue because we most certainly didn't expect this many views.

As for the voice acting. Ouch bro. The clown is supposed to be an annoying twat, but I did my best with the batman voice. It's hard to do anything with the typical "Christian Bale is Angry Batman" voice.

But you are right on a lot of points, we appreciate the feedback and are working on all of these complaints for our next video. Thanks for taking the time to respond and type out your points instead of giving us a bad score and saying "it was bad." Constructive criticism helps greatly!

I also saw you were a voice actor, maybe you could give us an example of a good batman ;)

[My My Little Pony Cartoon]

Meh

This was entertaining to watch. Art was cute and Iike some of the references.

I've seen stuff like this so I didn't mind the sound quality. Did drag a bit and I got a little bored midway, so yeah. :P

[Bronies]

An honest opinion of an MLP fan and a fan of yours

First off, the animation looks lovely. I read somewhere on your formspring that this took four days. To be honest, the animation looks great and the coloring and shading are amazing, too.

I love how you animated the fat brony's chin. I also like your take on the MLP characters. (he he badass rainbow dash).

I was also shocked to find out Chris O'Neill was in this cartoon doing a voice. He perfectly fit the role here and Redfeather wasn't too shabby himself. He really can pull of a girl laugh or girly hum.

Axel's composing did fit the tone of this cartoon in the beginning and the end as well. I like how it starts off all innocent but slowly gets to a creepy-ish kind of tune then goes all akward with the "...taste the magic." line.

However, as much as I like Shadman's art, sometimes his background art doesn't sync too well with other characters. Like, when he's doing a background of a certain angles, the characters look either bigger than an object in the background or the background simply looked too big. But It does fit other times.

I can also understand your message in this cartoon. As much as I love the show (I do consider myself a brony to some point) I do feel some people in the fanbase can take it a bit too far and some of them are kinda creepy, though.

Either way, it's a great little short from you and you did great. Keep it up.

(Late review I know :P)

[Sailorman the Squeakquel]

FUCK YES, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!

Man, fuck the assholes who say your ripping off Egoraptor when they don't know their head from their ass.

I love the animation here. Since Sanity (season 2) started, I noticed an evolution in your style especially after that Bronies cartoon. Your animation started to improve from the Season 1 finale, Street Fighter Chode and other projects. Also, you started to use more shading which made your stuff look much more beautiful to look at.

The audio clip was pretty funny, I mean I heard plenty of times, but I was shocked when you cut out a few things here and there. But meh. I did love the anatomy here as it looked alot better than the first Sailorman.

Speaking of that, I like how you went for a more proper setting here, but that kinda made the whole animation lose it's random appeal from the first. Which is kinda why I loved the first one alot. But this audio clip did have more of a situation going on so I can't compare the two too much.

I also liked the After Effects that you used here. It fit the situation and it actually worked well.

Love Nerd Bayne's title card as it looks close to the style of the show's and does alot of sexualizing the characters here. Great job.

Overall, welcome back after Sanity Not Included. :)

[Mario's Date]

Okay..not what I expected.

I did love the twist that this thing had. The all action, no dialogue was played out well. I also admire the animation and the cutesy art style as opposed to the situations they end up in. I also was shocked to see Peach get killed, too.

The last scene with Luigi sorta reminded me of the style Sheep and the Big City had, especially the way Luigi looked after saying his line.

Nice work, overall.

[CopsOnFireWithErections]

That was random...

.....yet so fucking awesome.

Love how the title had me expecting actual cops. But, they'd ruin this movie for me. :P

Nice work, keep it up, bro.