Saito427's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Great Weed Drought of '03]

That was sweet.

cool man, very well done. lots of clever things going on here, the blonde dude reminds me of Sickboy from Trainspotting.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

yeh now that you mention it...

anyway thanks

[Chicken tunafish gopher?]

It was cool but didnt make me laugh.

Though me not laughing doesn't make it a bad thing. I have nothing against loops or any thing of the like. But there is one thing I do have a problem with, this egotistic idea you have of "trying something new, and it's a silly idea," etc. I read some other reviews, and every time some one talked down on you, you basically hid behind the fact that you were trying something new. Cool man, you tried something new, you don't have to keep reminding us or try to give us a guilt trip by saying, "I'm sorry, I'll never try any thing new again." Like you said, language is powerful, but if you keep telling us something it's going to get old, and there my friend, is where the real repition is, not in the flash, but you. Now I know an author is going to defend his work, but by telling people their morons and that they can't spell or speak correctly isn't going to do any thing. I know you're not dumb, and I'm going to assume that every one else who reviewed this isn't dumb either, and seeing as how that is, they don't need to be told that they have a spelling/grammatical error. There's just something incidious about the way you're doing that, and it bugs me. You can keep doing that, I don't care, but I'm just saying that it's evident. But don't defend yourself by the faults of others, fixed your own faults, don't make excuses and use others as smoke and mirrors for your own escape.
Clever flash though. The gopher part is that only thing that didn't make sense, tuna is the chicken of the sea, the gopher needs a buddy. I did like your art. Good job.

Matazone responds:

Firstly, if you'd spent two hours typing replies to 'isn't this a bit like that badger song' I'm sure you would sound repetitive too.

Secondly, if you'd spent two hours typing replies to 'isn't this a bit like that badger song' I'm sure you would sound repetitive too. ;)

When a person wrote a serious piece of feedback, even if they didn't like my animation, I gave them a serious response. Equally, there are only so many ways that you can type 'I've responded to the reviews about the badger song in my comments on the page'. I assume that most people won't be going through all the feedback to the animation to find if they have had a response, but will simply check in their admin panel: they won't see that the response has been duplicated and they still get a reasonable answer to their review.

I take the accusation of copying very seriously, which is why I have emphasised that I was attempting to do some new things. Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' and James Cameron's 'The Terminator' are basically the same idea, but they are treated in such a different manner that no one complains 'we've seen this before', so I find it frustrating that an animation in the same genre as a previous one gets accused of copying.

If you have a check back through the comments, on the few occasions where I have been stronger in my language I will use terms like 'makes you sound like an idiot'. The crucial words there are 'sound like'; I am not saying that these people are idiots, only that the way that they are writing inclines the reader to dismiss their observations. If you had written 'wtf dude u r crap y ru disin ppl fur not likkin ur sh1t' then I would not have given you this answer. People get the response that their reviews merit.

I know exactly the comment you are talking about when you write about me being picky and grammar and spelling, but if you have a look at it again, my final point was to try to encourage the person to work with their language so that in future they would be able to write more clearly on subjects that matter to them. I do not think that it is unreasonable to expect a 15 year-old to be able to spell 'tuna', especially when it is already displayed on the same page twice. I admit that perhaps I was a bit harsh, so you have fair reason to call me up on it, but I was genuinely trying to show the person how bad their writing is and to encourage them to work harder, for their own good. As you agreed, language is important, and that person will likely be hampered in later life unless they work harder on communicating more clearly.

I have made a fair attempt to respond to people's views. If those views are a repeat of someone else's then I will respond in the same manner, if those views are expressed without thought for clarity, with amateur dramatics (OMG! I want 2 shoot my PC!) then I will give them amateur dramatics back. Yes, that’s a bit petty, but I don’t see any reason to be polite and reasonable when the people reviewing my work have not been.

Thanks for your feedback. It's interesting to read something that has had some thought put into it. Also, I’m glad you like the animation. Sorry if you've found my attitude to some of the comments arrogant, but I spent over two hours replying to them and many of them were immensely arrogant, as if I owed them something. Eventually that attitude is going to annoy me! I put this up here for the free entertainment of others. If they were paying me for this then I could understand their levels of apoplexy, but as it is I find the apparent rage of complete strangers utterly baffling. It isn't the end of the world, and I think I have a fair point that people need to get their priorities straight when they act like it is. It's only an animation; if they don't like it then they can say so, and even more helpfully they could explain why. When people did this I gave them a good response. I'm not interested in approval, I'm interested in critique. You have given me some, and I thank you for that.

All the best,

Mata

[The 5 Shades of Green]

Eh...

Here's the thing, some of the flash in this were great, like really good. But a couple of them just didn't make any sense and weren't very good. So in a way it was sweet, but in a way it was blah. I think you guys could have done with out some of the other flashes.
I did however liked your idea for the shades of green. TwinsenDude had by far the best animation in my personal opinion. I think he captured the idea of using green, and the clever title Fly very well. And what impressed me was how he used his 3d animation program. I don't know which one he used exactly, but making 3d animations like those are tough, and I am seriously impressed with how that came out. Good music too. A little weird though.

All in all that was cool.
Awesome Sauce.
Yeah, sadatay.
Cya.

mynamewontfitin responds:

(TD): :) that was a very happy review for me :D everything you say I agree with :)

[Ghetto Romeo and Juliet]

Eh.

I didn't really like it. There was too much dialog, and I'm sure it's like that in the actual play, but it just got so reduntant after a while. Did you really turn this in for an english project with all the swearing and stuff in it? Black slang doesn't mean that every word that comes out of their mouth is a freakin curse word, all though in some cases it may with certain people.
That's just was I think, sorry dude.

Stoned-Gorilla responds:

if i took out the dialogue, i would have gotten lower marks. And those 2 people just happened to swear a lot, i didn't show the entire black race swearing did i?

[Spring]

touching

:) Some how flash movies like this always have some strange effect on me. It reminds me of when I was little and would struggle with dealing with wanting to do something, like fly in this case. And no matter how many movies like this appear on New Grounds I can never hate any of them, people think that the whole concept has been used, but at least we're being constantly reminded of what it was like to be younger and curious. This movie is great. I guess some people can't see past the idea of the concept being used before, rather than what the film really means. I beat your [Mopsicle's] idea of the film is nothing like what I'm thinking, but hey, this is a great movie! Good job with this.

Mopsicle responds:

Your right, my movie isn't about the concept used but the real meaning behind it, the emotion.

[Davedreams]

Amazing.

Simply amazing, there's no other way to put it.

Sundial responds:

that makes me happy. thank you!

[Bowling Buddies]

cool

that was cool man. i don't know about the music though, it just didn't fit the movie. good work.

Ajimbo responds:

When i was working on my computer the music was all lined up, but when i put it on newgrounds it was a bit off. thats probably what you noticed. the music definitely fits though.

james