Not so deserving
The movie shows a lot of effort was put into the making, but it's just not that appealing. I've read many reviews and your responses and you seem to want to justify your boring movie with the fact that lots of effort was put into it, which is not the only thing that makes a great movie. You fire back and say that because this movie is 'late' or 'unoriginal' it should not effect the score or how one perceives it but this is not so. An idea can only be redone so many times before it becomes old and used up. You can only milk it so much to a certain extent and I think what you did here was milk a dry cow.
As said before me the hits and punches were too slow to be considered Matrix style and the big fancy moves were repeated too many times. You blame a lot of the repetition on the sprite set that you used which for some reason means it's not your fault? This is not true, you decided to use that sprite set and it's your job as the creator to make the movie interesting. Look at what Paul ter Voorde did with his limited sprite set of Mario and Luigi and he created a beautiful masterpeice which draws attention. You might argue that Mario sprites are easy to edit and create new ones, but that is your own fault for not choosing to use an easily edited sprite set.
Another one of my problems was, in fact, your use of sprites. The most famous recreation of this scene in flash was already a sprite movie, this only furthers the point of unoriginality in this movie.
The amount of effort shows in this movie such as your recoloring of the sprites and your syncing of the sound but it was not used in a way that keeps the educated viewer intereseted. Don't get me wrong, this movie works for the common Newgrounders but many experienced animators will be very offended that this scored such a high score. I myself am very appalled that this unoriginal sprite fest has scored a 4.20 but that's just my opinion.
