nicely done
i thought it was really well done and as for being just over 18mb i didnt find that it took that long to load.
Reviews for "The Pretenders"
Fro responds:
I'm happy it didn't take too long to load for you. I'm also happy that you enjoyed the submission!
Riveting
What can I say? that was awesome. So simple, yet so entertaining. To put it short, it was good. Now, to put it long.
Plot: I like how the story starts off as a serious crime drama and ends with a romantic comedy sort-of vibe to it. You guys short know how to make a transition seem natural. Managing to make me interested in something that isn't flash on here is very hard to do, gentleman.
Audio: I don't know if this was because my air-conditioning was on, but I could barely understand what you guys were saying. Not to mention the music that was being played over didn't help much. If you could get better mikes or edit your sound next time, that would be awesome.
Humor: The humor in this was pretty funny, actually; not early SNL funny, but still funny nonetheless. My favorite part was when the Cop and the Killer were dancing around, fantasizing about pizza rolls was top-notch.
Video: At some points in the video, it seemed delayed for a few seconds and the lighting was not very good. Next time, you should probably film during the day, as to let the viewer see better at what's going on.
If you're planning to do a sequel or something, that'd be great.
-Knights
Fro responds:
We tend to make movies at night for some reason so yeah the lighting is poor. This is all done on a video camera that is suppose to take picture anyway. :P
The sound is bad because it's a movie put into flash. That always happens. That we the small camera just doesn't pick up noise that well. That's why we have to overdub a lot of our stuff.
Thanks for the great review!
I have to admit, it was better than I expected!
Graphics: 8/10. A little dark and blurry at times, but you did the best you could with size limitations, so it's fine. Surprised you could get five+ minutes of video into 19 megs with quality this good. The intro was nice, too...seemed like a "real" movie/television program intro scene, heh.
Audio: 8/10. Voices were a little hard to understand at times, but nothing drastic. The narration did a good job of being somber and serious...until the anal fissure cream massacre was brought up. XD
Acting: 10/10. Perfectly fit into the faux-serious storyline, with the distraught and weary detective, and the gunfight was awesomely hilarious. As was the celebration over tostitos.
Humor: 10/10. Totally started out as a serious cop story, with everything deadly serious, until the mention of anal fissures cream. One wonders why the entire family had them, Mister Detective. XD The gunfight was the highlight of the movie, with the bangs and bams being absolutely hilarious, as was their aggravated interruption. Well done.
Overall presentation: 10/10. I've never been a fan of live action stuff on Newgrounds, but this was an exception. You managed to cram a lot of goodness into 19 megs without sacrificing much video or audio quality, along with a humorous story that was fun to watch. Good job.
Ways to improve: I can't really think of much, since this flash appears to have been filesize optimized well and the storyline was perfect as it was. Perhaps, as others have mentioned, the lighting could have been a bit better, since dark scenes coupled with the slight distortion of filesize cramming can make viewing difficult at times.
Fro responds:
Thanks I'm happy you enjoyed it!
For the lighting in the future we may have a better computer, and I'm going to look up some ways to get good lighting even with night scenes. In the morning we really have to be careful because the sun leaves nasty glares.
The next movie was shot in the sun, but just hasn't been put together yet. Not that I know of at least.
The high quality version is over 80 MB, so you can imagine the terrible things we have to do to these files to get them to uploading size.
Thanks for the review. It's greatly appreciated.
Great job
My first impression when I saw that Nick and Corey would be working together, now mind you... I went to high school with these guys... I thought this would be HILARIOUS. And, surprisingly... no... it wasn't surprising. It was hilarious.
BANG BANG.... BANG.
Nice job fellas... now when do I get a role? HA!
Fro responds:
We'll strike a deal. You make a theme song for us and we'll let you act in one of our movies. :)
Ah you just submitted something new :P
Haha sorry if I'm a bit late, you know alcoh... hum wait, school keeps me away from the computer and NG. On the subject now, I really liked it overall. The story line was cool and captivating in the beginning, but as Coop said underneath, it gets boring after some minutes, it was mainly due to the fact the actions were long.
To avoid that in your next movie, you could try to reduce the length of the scenes. For instance the scenes are a bit disjointed and don't hand out together very well, but nothing too bad. Also I noticed the music quality was decent although you could make the narrator voice cleaner with a better mic or recording software :).
Fro responds:
You must have been drunk when you wrote this review.