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"Haha! I can explain my score perfectly here."
First of all, I enjoy the choppiness in this movie! I think it adds to the sense of silly parody, considering Star Wars itself is so damn slick and overproduced. The little movements made when the characters talking such as their heads bobbing about really add to the humour in a subtle way. So keep those.
Keep the animation the way it is, but I'd suggest improving some of the drawings. I'm sure that'll come with time.
The only beef I have with this movie is the voice acting. I am sorry, but it is horrible and does actually ruin the movie for me.
Get this: When I have the speakers turned off and I watch the movie with just the subtitles I find this movie hilarious (especially the card scene between Fett and Vader). My friend and I really pissed ourselves at that scene in university, but when I came home to watch it again with sound I found that the voice-acting just killed anything funny being said. I mean, listen to Obi 1 at the start of the movie. He's meant to be shouting but it doesn't sound like it. It just sounds like a small boy pretending to shout. I know its awkward when you try to pull off convincing voice acting when there's other people around but its well worth trying harder. Please keep that in consideration.
Ignoring the sound the humour was pretty spot on! Personally I didn't enjoy 2 as much because it was much more of a direct dig at George Lucas rather than a subtle pisstake. Throwing Vader into that card situation still has me giggling thinking about it.
Keep up the good work :). I'm hoping to release the long awaited Stick Wars Episode III (started last May as soon as I saw SW3) so please keep an eye out. I'd like to hear your feedback also.
-Dave (Fatmandoo)
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Cool great to get a review from a fellow author
Yeah these were the old days where I didn't really know what I was doing, probably good advice to mute it so you don't have to here the bad acting or the awful sound quality.
I actually upped my style a little now, not sure if you've gotten a chance to see TF 2 (my latest cartoon) which has a slightly improved animation, but I’m now trying to animate to TV standard. No more of those striate flip heads when they turn, soon you will see them turn as if they were 3D...sort of...well not really 3D but you know what I mean.
For what little I have animated of part 2 the heads still bop around hehe, but there is also a little cartoon expression where the shape of Boba and Vader’s eye's change shape to indicate more emotion. But overall the style hasn't changed much.
Anyway thanks for the feedback, can’t wait to see Stick Wars Episode III :)
Thanks
Mike
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Glad you got this one out at last. Loving the music, and all the crazy stuff is awesome. Its quite a trip. 5ived.
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Well, after the last 4 episodes (which I loved) this one comes as a bit of a disappointment. It feels very rough and disjointed. The whole thing feels like a bunch of scenes badly linked together with no plot at all, and some of the humour feels as though you're trying far too hard to be random.
Random humour doesn't work in spades, and for the most part you killed the whole BFM premise with things like Mel Gibson's safari and the steel horse. Some of the drawings have been changed too, such as the motions used for the mouths when talking. They look a lot more basic.
Overrall I laughed at a couple of things, such as Man-Spider in the bath and the "Back With The Boys Again!" thing but thats about it. A big disappointment for BFM. If you're going to make a 6th, watch the first few and see the difference in quality between those and this please.
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"A refreshing change from the usual bullshit on NG."
Holy shit, a visual masterpiece, and none of it was tweening! I especially loved the emotions involved. Gripping stuff.
This deserves front page!
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FUCK ME IN THE ASS tat waz awsum. i reli lyked wot u guyz did wit dis da blood woz awsum! all my fiev XD
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Checked this one out due to mere curiosity, as I made a Star Wars spin-off once that got quite popular. Stick Wars ep 2, dunno if you've seen it? This reminded me of that movie a lot. Except a lot more original. And funnier. And with better graphics. And better everything really.
*sighs enviously* You did this in your spare time in between a job? This stuff would take me ages, and having to knuckle down and get it done. Nice work mate.
-Dave
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Haha, Ed- you just pwned the whole of NG. I remember you back from your early gif works at SFDT up till the present day. Holy crap you've evolved. Dunno if you remember this name, but I remember you for sure.
Keep em coming buddy. Please.
-Dave
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You even used a sound effect from Dig Dug on the Atari 2600! Haha! Fantastic work guys. Great graphics, timing, sound and story. I enjoyed every minute. I suspect this'll be the last one, and what a great way to bow out. All 4 Decline movies have been amazing.
-Dave
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The presentation was crisp and all, clearly you did everything to the best of your ability... but- how can I put this? the animation lacks dynamism altogether. Probably because its just a bunch of tweens. Not only that, I just didn't find this funny at all, but like they say- horses for courses. This is just one guy's individual opinion. I'm sure this review will be flagged as abusive or unhelpful by morons who can't accept a contrasting opinion to their own, but thats the NG monopoly for you.
I'd just suggest cutting down on the tweens. Your camerawork is generally very good. Also, fresher joke material would be nicer.
-Dave
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So I love this. Excellent tribute.
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