Bored4Fun's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Knife To Meat You]

This is like the romantic version of "Lupo the Butcher". Nice animation. =)

HugoVRB responds:

Yhea Lupo is one of my favorites :)
Thanks!

[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

[I Am Metal Slug]

Hate to get nerdy here but-

The game Metal Slug is called that because of their armored vehicles armed with slug cannons... Sorry, but I love that game just a little too much, I know...

Besides that, this wasn't very good anyways. Its kind of stupid to waste your time on such a dull joke. I hope making this didn't take up more than a day for you.

BMack24 responds:

yes, i know, read the description.

this was probably a few days' worth of work tops. no biggie.

[Metroid Prime Catastrophe]

Haha

Yep... that basically sums up Metroid.
Good voice acting =D

Shadowii2 responds:

Thanks, nice you enjoyed.

[SMOKESUIT -TheBigSurprise]

Beautiful'

Its nice to see some people still use frame by frame - which makes your character look almost real. The song went well with it too.
My only criticism is where she hangs herself. I'm not saying that its bad, but just the fact that you flat out show her hanged kinda kills the rest of the creativity of the video. Try using a better perspective or camera angles that lets you know she hung herself, but don't just show it. The video all before that was great and I really loved the flow of the artwork.
none the less
Great JoB! This is goin' in my favorites

SecretSecretary responds:

Okay, I really did want to show this girl hanging herself and be really direct with it too. A kind of in your face thing, to make it more real and intense. I dont really get why I should leave room for imagination when there isnt really much to imagine. I mean, anyone can imagine a hanging, but actually seeing it happen in front of your eyes is so much more powerful. I guess we just disagree then, but thanks a lot for the score and the compliments. Glad you liked the music video. I will take your suggestions about camre angles in consideration next time around.

[Video Gamerz Chronicles-P]

Not my type.

I can no longer take every single "anime" with an epic japanese song, along with the same exact style for a begining.
And of course the ol' "Mysterious super guy" with one angel wing and the other half is evil or whatever.
I'm sorry- these are just my opinions, nothing personal.

Nice art and animation though

ScottFalco responds:

Well im sorry you dont like the whole idea... maybe once the actual episode coems out you'll chaneg your mind. Anyways, glad you like my animation and art style

[Akira the Don - Hypocrite]

Better check my Becktionary...

That was Gad damn AwsoMe!
I couldn't understand a thing he sang in that video, but the art kept my attention the whole time!
You Sync'd this perfectly!
Great JoB!!!

Wonchop responds:

Why thanks. I'm pretty pleased how well I managed to sync it.

[Bling to the Future]

NAILED!!

Hahahaha! You got this PERFECTLY! Aw man! I love how you give each character a personality what with the Big guy and his muffled voice and the guy that talks for him etc.. Great sense of humor too!
The only thing it needs are more sound effects.
Also- If its Bling to the FUTURE, Where does he appear in the past? J/W

None the less- its awsome
Great JoB!

JohnMazz responds:

If we do future episodes (which we really want to) You'll see Harvey all over time! Thanks for the review

[Meat Grinder]

nice'

I've always loved your style and it works perfectly with Mentally-Detached.
I'm sure i'll be seeing more of your work in the future'
Keep it up!

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

HUMDINGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!