dommi-fresh's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Harry The Harlequin Baby]

FUCKING MENTAL

but in a really awesome way

[The Last Gift]

ha ha ha

i was thinking it was gunna be a serious religious thing but the ending man that was good.
i was thinking of giving you a five or seven at first and saying that it was great style but wasted on religious stuff that dosen't apply to me.
but then that ending ha ha ha ZING!

[CW: Down to earth Pt1]

wow

this is really really good
the animation is so smooth and the directing is great. very professional.
its a good story too.
the only thing that bugs me is that the characters personalities at the start seemed abit similar and lame. the only one who didn't seem to be like a retard was the kid. but the look of the characters and the animation made that something to ignore.
but although i say that the spikey haired character became alot less weird at the end and reallly really badass and he had a cool moment when he was in the holding cell thing. so the personality thing got alot better at the end. either way that was just a tiny point in comparison to the rest which was really mind blowing it was really good and i really want to see more.

[Run, Darnell, Run!]

i can't get enough

this truly is a great one nogfish i love the music especially and as always you crazy but really inspiring way of animating
although it seems a same that some ignorant people on this site assume it is racist just at first sight of kkk members.
this is definitely not racist especially seeing as darnel kick the shit out of them at the end.
great work

[Cuboy Ep.3]

cuboy is legendary

i have waited for this for so long.

[--The Zelda Collab--]

not that bad

the jokes could have been better ... but the animation was really good with most of the animations which you don't often get in collabs.

[Facebook Twitter]

really good...and i agree

i always go on facebook and people always write really pointless boring notes like "i'm off to bed now" god it pisses me off so i just write random crap like "i have just killed three people two of which where children!"
anyway as usual your art skills are outstanding i could watch your stuff all day.
i really want to see more and more but unfortunatley in this backwards reality animation and art takes time ... bollocks, oh well great stuff.

[Zanta Claws II]

so good

the mike mignola style loading art is brilliant and so is the anjmation everything rocks

[Brawl Funnies [dick 3]]

umm ok. i sense anger.

to be truthful i didn't enjoy this flash at all and your other one was ok but it got less amusing later on through till the end.
i can see your point about ego raptor it is being milked slightly, but it is because he has done so well and it is in our nature to suck other peoples ideas dry.
i mean i am not really good at animating but i could do something better than that. an animation like that doesn't really deserve front page in my opinion.
i gave it a three because the idea behind it is something worth doing but do it with some more skill and wit... no offense.

dreftclub responds:

A few months ago ashford pride made a movie with a foreboding title. It was called "Awesome Grounds".

Well ladies and gentlemen, that's might as well what this site should be called (at least right now), with the top row on the front page slot dedicated to an "awesome" movie and an "awesome" parody, an "awesome" t-shirt in the newgrounds store, and pretty much every "awesome" movie in the top 100, along with han's "awesome's creed".

I can't go to newgrounds with seeing something not about egoraptor or his coveted video game parody series. It makes me wonder sometimes if pursuing anything but half-assed cartoons making mildly funny observations about video games laced with profanity is even worth it. Truly, they are what bring the masses of 13-year olds to this site, and thus increases traffic and competition in the internet world. But you have to ask yourself, with this sort of two-bit audience increasing in numbers, are they really interested in watching anything else?

I understand that it's a dog eat dog world in the online entertainment business, and to compete you have to pretty much put up content that a majority of internet browsers would click on. This includes either women or video games. Things they already know they want. And that's all they want. They sign up, watch more, and come back and do it again later. They're trained to know that what they want is easily accessible and is promoted all over the site.

Original content is often shuffled off to the bottom of the page, or never gets any attention to begin with. Now comes into play the whole 'they won't click on it unless there's a boob for the icon', etc etc. That's because they've been fashioned to think that way.

I'm not saying i have all the mysterious answers to the way people's minds work. But this much is true - if all people click on are breasts and video game icons, and you give them breasts and video game icons, you're not pushing the envelope.

Newgrounds is the epitome of user-generated content. We already have a massive advantage over youtube in the fact that making a cartoon involves so much more creativity than snappily editing your webcam footage. So instead of 200 cartoons coming out every minute, we have 200 cartoons coming out every day. That gives someone a better chance of breaking out and being discovered for his hard work, and a reward for a job well done.

But in the same way that viewers are trained that they don't have to go out of their way to avoid original content they would otherwise enjoy, authors are becoming more and more disenchanted with their personal creations and are turning to nerd culture icons and cheap tactics to get viewers.

I can't tell you how many animators I have spoken to that have shunned their own creations in favor of sub-pop culture parody and disjointed scripts sprinkled with toilet humor and profanity. a cartoon catering to everyone who's forgotten what cartoons are all about. And here we are shoving away everything about cartoons that was originally appealing and magical, because we're pretty much forced to.

I'm not pointing the finger at any one person here. I think it's part of the bigger picture - bigger than Newgrounds, too. But if people really care about the future of cartoons and animation, we wouldn't be seeing this kind of blatant favoritism.

People will find what they want if they want it. They don't need to be spoon fed it all.

For thirty years animators who strive to create something genuinely unique have gotten nothing but a slap in the face. It's sickening and it has to stop someday, before they all disappear.

Lastly, this post is not about me. I'm not writing this out of self-pity, bitterness or spite. I'm being honest. I care a lot about the future of animation, and what I see around me is very troubling. The industry is bad enough, but where the future lies is in the small corners of the animation world. Newgrounds is one of them. I spend a lot of time trying to encourage and teach frame-by-frame animation, and creating your own characters and scripts. That is what is important