Ranxx's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Furby Attacks]

Evil personified!

Furby clones bent on the destruction of mankind.
I think the real story here is the Igor character. He strikes me as an emotionally disturbed sexual predator. Notice his ravager posture, his quick malicious breathing. You should make a story about him. I think he is out to cause mischief and suffering.

Violet-AIM responds:

Nice of you to notice the background "freak" assistant. I wouldn't mind giving him a little more air time later, LOL. Thanks for the review Ranxx.

[Happy the Cat Part 2]

Happy is Hell

Happy rulez. You should keep going with this. I think you did an excellent job with all the sound.I would have given it a higher score if you'd take care of the preloader and speed up the action a bit.

[num1000 512kb cache mix]

Worth the wait if you have a fast connection

Very cool. Good enough to enter in a demo contest. The demo scene rarely uses Flash.
Until recently they're mostly assembly and C+ variations.
Stuff like this could turn some heads.
However for NG you really should reduce the sound quality. You could cut the file size by a third with little sound degradation.
This one deserves a much higher score than it has.

512kb responds:

I don't care much about the score, I just want to get this work out there :)

[Hitler's Rant]

All the proof you need.

This movie was submitted only hours after Foamys Rant. It's pathetic that Foamys Rant scored so high. This is proof that FR took no effort and little talent. Ppl just give it high scores automatically cause it's fucking foamy.
Apparently many of you don't get it. This movie was obviously thrown together in a hurry to prove a point and it does it beautifully.
If illwill can throw pure crap into the portal and score high everytime then that is proof that the portal is flawed. I submitted God Digs My Daddy on the same day as FR. Look at it yourself and tell me who put in the most effort!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=114193

McGornistan responds:

2 hours, 6 layers, and a voice done in sound recorder and I had a movie exactly like Foamy.

[Metal Vs Techno]

Mog used the wrong music!

It's an interesting idea but you make techno look like disco. If Mog would have chosen music like Delta 9, DJ Skinhead, Lenny Dee, Kenny Glascow or even Shaftman he would win from the shear brutality and extreme noise terror of it all.
Kain's ears would be bleeding and he would die from exposure. IMHO real hardcore techno blows metal away for intensity.

StainlessOne responds:

I guess I am not as much of a "techno" fan as you.

[experiment 1]

I'm scared!

I really like your use of blur. Good speed. Fluid movement. Action keeps moving. Cool monster. Yeah, I like it. I don't think you should use the plastic wrap filter on the text though. Too hard to read and a vector is smaller too.. It looks great on the monster though. Some, not all, of your images could be converted to vectors without losing too much quality. That would reduce the file size. The blur won't look as nice though. It's a trade off.
You could also reduce the music to 48bps for a big reduction in file size as well.
Good effort. Keep makinem.

FireHound responds:

You know, I think you are right... shouldn't have used the plastic on the text.. oh well, too late. But eum, the music is already 32bps even.. Hehe... so reducing to 48 would be a bit hard. And like you said, if I lower the quality, the blur becomes ugly (tried it first).
Thanx for your positive review.. But don't think I'll keep making them.. About 30 hours of work for a 2.81/5.. doesn't really seem worth the effort... does it.

[Broken Saints 24 Trailer]

Great stuff.

I interviewed 2 of the creators of Broken Saints at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. They are bright guys with Canadian accents.
I just registered for the 2003 Flash Forward in NYC next month. I'm sure Broken Saints will have a presence there.
I wonder if Newgrounds will have a booth?

[Total Loss]

Admirable work.

He did the right thing. Very nice. I hope I don't have nightmares..