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Alright

I agree with the other reviewers who think this just isn't as good as your normal stuff. It was a good idea and the piano theme was funny, but the jokes weren't really doing anything for me. Maybe because the real movie is laughable enough on its own. Oh well, you're still one of my favorite artists on here and your stuff is always top notch.

Awesome

From the "poor voice acting," the "bad lip syncing," the total randomness and convoluted plot with stereotypical characters, this perfectly captures old school anime. Great job.

Not funny

I've been coming to Newgrounds for over 9 years and I know the site was founded on controversial animation and artwork, usually it's done with a little creativity and dark humor, but this was just in really poor taste.

Garbage

If you wanted to "help your cause," you should have made something that "pushed the envelope" and was worth watching. And as far as these parody movies that you seem to hate, just about all famous comedians make their money by making observations about life and joking about it. While I agree that Newgrounds has fallen a little too far into using dick jokes for everything, saying all parody movies hurt animation is silly.

dreftclub responds:

A few months ago ashford pride made a movie with a foreboding title. It was called "Awesome Grounds".

Well ladies and gentlemen, that's might as well what this site should be called (at least right now), with the top row on the front page slot dedicated to an "awesome" movie and an "awesome" parody, an "awesome" t-shirt in the newgrounds store, and pretty much every "awesome" movie in the top 100, along with han's "awesome's creed".

I can't go to newgrounds with seeing something not about egoraptor or his coveted video game parody series. It makes me wonder sometimes if pursuing anything but half-assed cartoons making mildly funny observations about video games laced with profanity is even worth it. Truly, they are what bring the masses of 13-year olds to this site, and thus increases traffic and competition in the internet world. But you have to ask yourself, with this sort of two-bit audience increasing in numbers, are they really interested in watching anything else?

I understand that it's a dog eat dog world in the online entertainment business, and to compete you have to pretty much put up content that a majority of internet browsers would click on. This includes either women or video games. Things they already know they want. And that's all they want. They sign up, watch more, and come back and do it again later. They're trained to know that what they want is easily accessible and is promoted all over the site.

Original content is often shuffled off to the bottom of the page, or never gets any attention to begin with. Now comes into play the whole 'they won't click on it unless there's a boob for the icon', etc etc. That's because they've been fashioned to think that way.

I'm not saying i have all the mysterious answers to the way people's minds work. But this much is true - if all people click on are breasts and video game icons, and you give them breasts and video game icons, you're not pushing the envelope.

Newgrounds is the epitome of user-generated content. We already have a massive advantage over youtube in the fact that making a cartoon involves so much more creativity than snappily editing your webcam footage. So instead of 200 cartoons coming out every minute, we have 200 cartoons coming out every day. That gives someone a better chance of breaking out and being discovered for his hard work, and a reward for a job well done.

But in the same way that viewers are trained that they don't have to go out of their way to avoid original content they would otherwise enjoy, authors are becoming more and more disenchanted with their personal creations and are turning to nerd culture icons and cheap tactics to get viewers.

I can't tell you how many animators I have spoken to that have shunned their own creations in favor of sub-pop culture parody and disjointed scripts sprinkled with toilet humor and profanity. a cartoon catering to everyone who's forgotten what cartoons are all about. And here we are shoving away everything about cartoons that was originally appealing and magical, because we're pretty much forced to.

I'm not pointing the finger at any one person here. I think it's part of the bigger picture - bigger than Newgrounds, too. But if people really care about the future of cartoons and animation, we wouldn't be seeing this kind of blatant favoritism.

People will find what they want if they want it. They don't need to be spoon fed it all.

For thirty years animators who strive to create something genuinely unique have gotten nothing but a slap in the face. It's sickening and it has to stop someday, before they all disappear.

Lastly, this post is not about me. I'm not writing this out of self-pity, bitterness or spite. I'm being honest. I care a lot about the future of animation, and what I see around me is very troubling. The industry is bad enough, but where the future lies is in the small corners of the animation world. Newgrounds is one of them. I spend a lot of time trying to encourage and teach frame-by-frame animation, and creating your own characters and scripts. That is what is important

Alright

Creative idea and animated well enough, the humor was just sort of... bland and obvious? I think it would have been much better had you used the Star Wars music.

Pretty good

It was good but it just seemed like Tank Men with Cog characters. It was also disappointing that different animators weren't featured in it like Queers of War.

Good

I've been waiting for this since the trailer came out way back when, and I got to the point where I thought it was never going to be made. This is a good start to the series, the animation is incredible. I was a little disappointed it didn't get into the post-apocalyptic battle scenes.

Alright

Okay, we get it, these guys are unbeatable, but it's all becoming rather blah. Having the majority of it take place in the darkness seems like sort of a cop out. There was a lot of action, but it somehow seemed rather boring.

Good

I don't agree with your position, but the movie itself was very well animated. The voice work was also pretty good. You should do a straight Star Trek movie/parody, with no controversial causes as a plot.

Great

Really well animated, and even though you're not responsible for the voice work, it was hilarious. Poor Wesley Snipes.

I'm an old school member. I've been coming here before there was even any flash. I'm an artist, graphic designer and web designer. Feel free to email me, I like meeting new people.

John Krzeminski @johnkilo

Age 40, Male

Artist/Graphic Dsgn

Connecticut

Joined on 10/21/00

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