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Broken Dreams

July 6, 2005 –
July 20, 2012
This entry was deleted.

Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.

Author Comments

An alien explorer discovers Earth, but something terrible has happened.
(SQUISHIMILATORS related.)

This movie, Broken Dreams, is the predecessor, or incomplete version of, Fire and Ice. It was animated to correspond with the music "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Greenday. I received numerous anti-Greenday reviews and many others with constructive criticism.
Also, I could not use Broken Dreams as a school movie project because I could not get permission from Warner Brothers Records to use "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" in film festivals.
So I composed my own music, fixed animation, added animation, expanded the plot, thus creating Fire and Ice, which has been a huge success.
So, watch Broken Dreams, then go watch Fire and Ice.

Reviews

Im getting tired of that song tho. I agree with the last reviewer, why did the music stop all of a sudden? Maybe its just me, but when you travel so fast, shouldnt you start slowing down before you are 15 feet from the ground? I would say when he broke the atmosphere... Anyway, good flash

first off, great job of the chronoscope. the blend of past and present was nicely done. your nuke explosions were nicely done as well. the abrupt stop of music when the chronoscope broke was a little weird, i don't know if it was the song itself, but a breaking soundeffect would have helped that out. but all in all, nicely done

I don't think you understand the real meaning of Green Day and the song Boulevard of Broken Dreams this whole flash film is so different than the real one plus its just plan old dumb!

This was really good and worth watching. The backgrounds were incredible and seriously good job. But you really need to improve your character design. The small bullet shaped gradient coloured guy just didn't fit in and showed so little expression. If you made a fully animated and detailed human character this thing would have a 4.00+ score without doubt.

Matomic and his adorable, little brown blobs have ever been a show of cutesy quality in animated music videos and as soon as I see one of those bullet shaped men I know I am in for an enjoyable few minutes. The creator of the excellent 'Rocks and Trees' and of one of the better Zelda song parodies, has put together his best work to date.

I have always loved Green Day's 'Broken Dreams'. It invokes imagery that makes me a little sad and lonely. Which is how I like to feel sometimes. I can recall a few other animations here on NG that has used this song but none have really captures that basic essence that I feel to be essential like this flash has.

The audio is crisp and clear. While the animation is definitively not professional quality, it's well done and smoothly created. It's shorter then it could have been, the song was cut a bit short. Normally, that would be a big minus to me as when I hear a music video I generally like the whole song but a complete story arc is managed. So it's no big loss. Still, perhaps letting the music drift off onto nothingness at the finish while you are reading the end notes would have been a better idea then just cutting it off when the tale was done.

The tale, such as it is, is about one explorer from a distant planet that investigates the ruins of Earth and finds no life remains. We blew ourselves up. This has been a concern of ours ever since the first atomic bombs was put to use but the danger of this fate has steadily increased over time as nuclear power and bio weapons become more accessible and we SHOULD have daily reminders like this production because our vigilance in watching out for this fate must never falter. I needn't to tell you why. The music video does a good enough job on it's own.

I really enjoyed this... 4 points out of 5 for you. Keep it coming!

PS. Just curious, how exactly did the Cronoscope break? Did the bullet man drop it in horror? Also, what enspired the look and shape of the brown bullet men?

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Score
3.80 / 5.00