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Reviews for "Skate Something ep.1"

rather simple

I felt underwhelmed by this movie. Though the music and sound effects were acceptable, the progression of scenes lacked drama. The physics and art also appeared primitive. Still, the greatest weakness of this movie was that it appeared to start high, showing multiple difficult jumps, and ended low, with the figure flipping his board while traveling on a flat surface. Even movies made only of action, without dialogue or characterization, benefit from a sense of drama.

Drama, imho, derives from the viewer's perception of coherent events. What joined these scenes was a skateboarder performing tricks on a board, but other elements felt incoherent. None of the scenes felt like real places. The first and second scenes used a static camera, but the third scene's camera followed the figure. The movement did not reveal proper physical mechanics, for which our human mind has an immediate intuitive grasp though we may struggle to define them formally. And why would someone perform their most astonishing trick first, and progress down from there?

Better art would be nice, but the author most particularly needs to improve showmanship.
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sistem69 responds:

well its simple because its my FIRST FLASH and i know that it doesnt have a story and the graffics arent that good but the next one will be better.

is... very simple...

the idea of the skate with a sticky was good... but... is not so awesome
the graphics were simple... but I have to accept that the backgrounds wasn't bad at all... but the were few, next time use more
- graphics 5/10
because.. at least you added some shadows... that was cool

the animation wasn't a big deal
the tricks were nice, but... there is nothing complex on it
- animation 3/10

the sound... well, you chose then well...
but it didn't have music, or something... it was too quiet
- sound 3/10

but I have to say.. it was a nice flash... and looks like you have a good future... so just keep going... and practice more

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sistem69 responds:

it had music but thanks for the review.

Hmmm....

I'm sitting on the fence with the visuals. On one hand, it's not...."mind blowing". But on the other, this was better than a lot of stick flashes that are god awful. If anything, it's kinda boring with its lack of fitting music and the chara. just skating instead of a "gleaming the cube"esque, day in the life of a skater that does something either extraordinary or even mundane.... while SKATEBOARDING!

For example, chasing after another skateboarder who stole something from him. Or HE'S the one who took something and he's trying to get away. Or even if he's just going to the store for something, you could wrap some skater drama around it (like the first Harold & Kumar movie. A whole lot of funny happens to them, but their basically just GOING TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT FROM A BURGER PLACE!

If those things could be worked on, this may have promise.

sistem69 responds:

Thanks for the critisising review.

Very much overdone.

I'm sorry to give such a low score and review to this Flash, but the fact is, I've seen tons of stuff like this before. The concept of a skateboarding stick has been done to death by scores of authors over the period in which NG has existed, and your movie has done little, if anything, to set itself apart from others of the genre. It's also too short, with only three scenes; this movie could benefit from more scenes, preferably depicting a larger variety of skateboarding tricks than just jumping and grinding.

As far as "improvement", I don't know what you can really do within the "skateboarding stick" genre. You can certainly increase the length and variety of the movie, and preferably find something that sets your movie apart from all the other skate movies out there, but other than that... There's not much you can do.
0/5, 1/10
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sistem69 responds:

no prob i liked ur honesty thanks for the clarifing review.

Uhhh...

- No plot
- No music
- Kinda short

It's like just a stick-guy skating at various places, and doing some tricks. Dull and not very interesting, because most of the jumps looked the same and the sounds were repeating over and over again.

sistem69 responds:

Yes but u cant even review properly cuz there was music. what do u want to do for ur life?suck cocks!