XanRethan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Forever in Debt]

It was nice for an advertisement.

WaldFlieger responds:

WHAAA?!!!

[Entertainment]

Not very entertaining.

The artwork was creative and moving. The voice acting was very interesting too. And I believe the extent of the like/dislike reviews is centered around the message, that multimedia entertainment is a mechanism for brainwashing. Here's my review on the message, and why i voted as I did, based on two hypotheticals.

First, if the message is sincere, the logic breaks down when you attempt to connect the act of "Thinking" about anything to perceptions of things, or in this case consciously changing and manipulating those perceptions via multimedia. This is the disconnect from the premise that multimedia brainwashes, to the alluded points of dangerous or sinful acts, such as murder. That there is no causal link between video game violence and actual violence is proof enough to disprove the premise, even if the logic is accepted.

But because of the voice acting and word choice, I find it more believable that this is either a idle animation work, or a satirical one.

The problem I have with this angle is the misrepresentation of the issue. For those who sincerely believe that video game sex or violence is causally related to deviance in those areas, and especially so for youths, hearing the choir sing words they already are brainwashed with doesn't help bring light; in fact the only people who could enjoy this film without being scared shitless are people who already know that video game violence is conservative bullocks. A good spoof or satire shows what is ridiculous about a position clearly, which this does not do at all.

The bulk of my score, 6/10, is earned from the artistic merit, but not for the message, comedic or not. The sincere message is indefensible and the comedic message is in bad taste.

akoRn responds:

ok.

[U: Marathon Race]

I can't say much.

Non sequitur humor is always hit or miss. We can't all save money on Geico. I get that. I personally didn't find it funny either. But in terms of artistic merit, mirror-reversing the runner's number is kind of pathetic in a flash so short as this. I can't fathom why it would be done intentionally; the purpose of this flash was to create an atmosphere and then change it at the last second. Because of that, i'm giving the flash an overall 6/10; 3/5; A lot of points lost for something so minute, just because it's such a large part of the extremely short short. LEWL NON SEQUITUR I SAID A LOT.

Blakant responds:

if u realize, the number is mirrored frm the very scond the movie start, u should relaize it was intentional... i love to make random stuff, so that is part of it... sry if u dont realize all that

[Bad Baby]

Another superb animation

Horrific, yes. Dreadful, of course. Fluid, well animated and superbly synced with music sfx, another yes.

The only thing I wonder about are the recurring themes in your works. I'm probably one of the duller tools in the shed, yet even considering that, there was enough new material that it was clearly seperate, thematically.

Catoblepas responds:

i'm on a pretty existential mood right now