Bored4Fun's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fleisch 001]

This seems more like a fun experimental flash that someone would make for the sake of making it. So why is this listed 10th Best of All Time on NG Portal? It's short, there is no sound, it's unoriginal, and just about any animator with decent skill could have made it. I'm more ashamed at NG's community than the animator (there really isn't anything to be ashamed of, animator).

So this get 1/5 stars because that is what it deserves if we are comparing it to other best of all time submissions. Sorry, just being honest.

[Penny the Possessed Baby!]

You forgot "She never leaves you".
*Girl throws doll away*
*Turns around and sees it back on her bed*

;)

[Lazy Writing 6]

You forgot "She never leaves you".
*Girl throws doll away*
*Turns around and sees it back on her bed*

;)

[I'll Be There For You]

Dude, like everything you create is gold. GOLD

[The Love I'm Searching 4]

Amazing

I can't believe this has been on NG for almost 3 years and I'm barely seeing it now. Beautiful piece. Your artwork is smooth and incredibly it doesn't clash with the live action backgrounds. The music is perfect for this style. My only peeve was, it was a bit hard to follow with all the characters looking quit similar. other than that, great job and amazing flash!

[Jerry 2]

You've truly grown as an artist.

Truly, truly, truly...

[You are a F*cking Moron7]

The worst thing about this...

Isn't that he's now dead, and this makes it not funny or whatever. Cause, this was posted about 6 years ago so it doesn't matter.

But the worst thing about this is it's shitty "journalism". Every single quote was straight up taken from the popular MJ interview "Living with Micheal Jackson", which aired in 2003. Which also happens to be when this crappy spoof was made.
Pretty lame.

[FRED - Animated Series]

Had no idea who Fred was.

...And wondered why a short film like this made it to the top?
So I did my research (Only took about a second) and found out exactly who this Fred was.

My ears never bled so much.

You haven't ended the Fred Apocalypse, but you sure as hell soothed the pain.

[Brawl Funnies [dick 3]]

Nice.

Not the movie (that was crap) - But your point of view.
You are right, in your description, that our creative talents are being smothered to death by copycats and repetitive shorts on whatever is Hot.
However, you yourself haven't contributed much preventing these poor space wasting front page films. Half the ppl who have watched this never bothered to read the description, or even read your overly restated replies. They only wonder WHY it is on front page. Exactly, WHY? Which you've yet to clearify clearly to an audience who cares less what you say in person but rather what you put into work in flash.
I suggest you come up with another movie, in any creative way you can, to get your point through and clear to everybody, since it is apparently a big deal to you.

DO NOT SPAM ME YOUR DESCRIPTION: Instead, Be a little more mature and give me a decent reply or even PM me. Otherwise, you mean nothing more to me than a kid bandwaggoning with hopeless protesters.

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

[Brawl Funnies [Dick 1]]

Yeah, ok.

The first was good. But its like everyone els decided to purposely waste their time making this. How useless.