Horsenwelles's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Organ Story]

very well animated, very good points about healthy living, and i will never, EVER watch it again.

10/10

Splapp-me-do responds:

Haha, thank you

["Of ducks and drugs"]

i hate you drugs! why did you kill our lords and saviors!!!

Kolumbo responds:

deddd

[Birth]

marcy that was a fantastic flash. its such a firthian style that feels disgusting and flat, but devours up those aspects and vomits them as charm. the pacing, the animation style, the sound, the music, everything has this sense of wonder and life (pun intended) to every frame. there's nothing at all right with anything in this flash, and that my fellow newgrounds users, is why everything is right with it.

one of the best flashes i have ever seen.

MarcyVF responds:

WOW thank you so much! I really didn't have Firth in mind untill during the making of it, but that's a nice comment. Jan Svankmajer and Don Hertzfeldt were kind of thought of from the start.

[Five Second Collab]

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SoupSquad responds:

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[Dandy: No Evil 006]

its not bad, but its pointless. the entire thing is a bunch of pointless events. even in concept, its pointless.

A. what made them have to be animals anatomically similar to people that speak in southern english when there was no reason for it in the context of the story?
B. what was the relevance of the scarecrow scene and why did it matter?
C. what was the point of the rabbit anf the other wolf telling them that they ate dandelions when they didn't lead to anything other than an upset boss which had nothing to do with the boss?
D. why did she ask where the scarecrow was when she saw what happenned to it?
E. what was the entire point to this? they work on a farm for some reason and he makes 2 mistakes. thats all that happens, and its not like the characters were there to react in an interesting way to those mistakes, which leads me back to question A.

this was pointless, empty, but it was animated pretty decently and its not harmful to anyone. i just don't see where this was going or what it was setting out to do. apparently its a comedy of some sort, but its just not... well... really funny to me. its just sort of boring and familiar.

anyway, you got the sound and your artstyle down, but the writing and the direction need a ton of work.

Warlord-of-Noodles responds:

Oh I dunno... I've successfully gotten you to ask the correct questions^^ I say I've done VERY well.
It's so adorable how you've "gotten it" without "getting it"

[Game Grumps: The Movie]

i explained what you do wrong with comedy in my last reviews, so i'll look at this one a little more briskly.

its a gamegrumps animation in which you make fun of people that make gamegrumps animations when in and of itself, it is created by one. its about zooming in on faces that were drawn like something you'd see on 4 chan to illicit laughs, they act silly for no particular rhyme or reason, and there is 1 jab at the editor, and i honestly think that is the best joke you have ever written, or should i say, the joke you've ever written,

why does that joke work? well its jontron's editing in a nutshell. the way it was executed was rather funny, and i definitely enjoyed how it was a full out satire at that point, and not some dumb mix of things. kudos.

overall, it is surprisingly your best, its not as obnoxious or grating as your other works i've reviewed, and i even laughed once. you might be heading back on track.

Speedo responds:

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[PACMAN DIES AAAH]

i dont write negative reviews just to be writing them. at this point i'm not even sure you understand how funny generally works. in fact i'm not really sure you knew what this flash was or why you were making it. i'm not sure if you were going for a satire of the unnatural "silly" faces and yelling or you were indulging upon them because you wrote "lol get it" or something to that effect by the end, and it was pointing towards it being a satire, but without any of the elements of satire.

it was a very empty flash in writing terms. what do i mean by this? well, lets think of a joke. a joke has a set up, occasionally a trial period through the joke, and a pay off. you set the stage by having about 5 loud, obnoxious faces that didn't matter or mean anything. they weren't a part of the joke delivery because there was no set up, and the pay off was really just showing how pacman looks in the game itself. i then ask why did you choose to make that a pay off at all if its all very obvious and had nothing to do with the silly obnoxious faces. the faces cannot be the pay off of a joke because its like if i showed you a picture of a flower and you laughed hysterically at it, considering it a pay off for a joke when nothing was established ahead of time to set up the joke. objects themselves aren't funny alone, and a face that you normally don't see is not a joke.

now for the other element: yelling. yelling is another tool you can use for a pay off, but when used without a set up, it is also not funny. "BALLS" isn't funny because it wasn't a part of something. it is a word that you yelled. you have these ghosts just standing around and then they start yelling. that's it. then you have them screaming and jittering around in reaction to a death. that's the closest this came to having a joke because the yelling was about something. the only problem with that implementation is that its not really anything new. its just a glorified amount of violence that really didn't mean anything. the shaking visuals in response to it are just annoying and pointless.

ok, now for what i originally said about the unsure nature of this flash. were you aware that saying "lol get it" or whatever you wrote is entirely contradictory to what a parody is? a satire would have benefited from that ending, but you put effort towards a bunch of things that someone would satire in the effort to parody. do you even know what setting out to do a certain thing is? if you were setting out to make this a parody, i wouldn't really bother writing this huge block of text, but this is just mind boggling. who was this flash for? was this made to make fun of a certain audience or appeal to one, because the amount of effort towards the latter tells me that you really didn't know if you were making fun of the audience or giving something to them. you don't seem to have goals for your flashes, but at least the others kind of knew what they were.

in the long awaited closing, let me just say that you definitely need to think ahead. you need to find some overall goal for your flash. you need to go all the way in one direction or the other. you do animate well, but you lack any sort of creative vision from this material. maybe stop making obnoxiousness the goal and slow down your material. don't stubbornly fight against progress and fall blindly into an audience that likes things that are loud and pointless. you have the ability to be better, and this flash is like an insult to yourself and your audience. it shows how ignorant and juvenile they are, and i think you should turn yourself around instead of bathing in their very pathetic praise.

stop pandering for your own sake. you're better than that

Speedo responds:

Horsenwells was spitting facts 10 years ago ngl

[Canned's Sad Birthday]

i'm sorry dereck... i seriously did work on mine and i'll submit it late, but i didn't forget. not to mention mikey's a faggot <3

Dosensuppen responds:

Mikey's a faggot indeed.

[Oney In a Nutshell]

this had no protein bearing plant life in it. false advertising check your facts unsubscribe

DotExecutables responds:

Oh no not da unsubscrib u mak mai willy sad :c

I did check my facts. Oney even liked the video and commented that he agreed.

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