Reviews for Autumn Tree

[epyon2142]

You can animate, but poor selection.

Music was decent, no speaking until the end. You can obviously animate, but your selection of what to animate was poorly chosen. It was basically just a fairly boring documentary about a couple of kids who decided to shoot a few people at their school. Even if it did happen, doesn't mean its anything good to animate. Calling a teacher a bitch after shooting him...yea, lets kill the people who have to work for a living because were fuckups, but its not our fault, oh no, nothing is ever your own fault, lets blame the teachers parents and some kids for our failure at life in a nifty little suicide note.... Come on, really, the animations good, the sounds decent, but its really not that great an flash, mainly because what you chose to animate just kinda sucked. Better luck next time.

[GeijutsukaOO]

Elephant

Although i quite like the idea of making a flash animation about columbine seeing how both guys where into drawing and flash. This doesn't tell me anything that has not already been said in a better way. Perticularly in Gus Van Sant's Elephant. Which i'm sure you've seen because you've pretty much reproduced it here. Don't immitate, innovate. Your just reproducing stuff that's already been said and seen.

also speaking facts One of the most interesting to me was that The origonal intention of the masacre was to detonate explosives around the entire premisis (that failed to go off) and was maticulously planned to maxamise the death toll. The intent was to create a catastrophy on a scale never before seen inside America in relation to the admeration they had for the nazi party and mass genocide. And at the end of the day you have a country inwhich people can order a gun to there doorstep. And frankly it was bound to happen, kids usauly act on impulses and if they have easy acess to munitions they ARE going to use them unless there are laws to stop them. There's no way to explain the reasoning for it I agree but there are certainly logical explanations for how to prevent it in the future (or certainly minimise it).

[ben-odonnell]

Wikipedia was your source, huh?

When I first saw this on newgrounds' front page, I was interested in what you were going to make a point about the shootings. Unfortunately, you disappointed me greatly with the inaccuracies of this animation. During your credits, I found out why this is so far off of the truth.

I like Wikipedia. I really do. But when you depend on it for the main source before you go off and make an animation that, so far almost 50,000 people are going to watch, I get a little upset. If you actually care about learning anything about Columbine, I suggest you read 'No Easy Answers' by Brooks Brown. Of course, because you didn't read that, you made up bullshit to fill in the holes of what you assumed happened on that day.

First off, you didn't even scratch the surface of the 'why' question. The character 'Dane' in your animation, which is a character meant to portray Brooks, DID NOT see Eric and Dylan in bulletproof vests and carrying guns when he left after 4th hour Chinese philosophy. He saw them dressed in their somewhat usual attire, black clothing. They had bulletproof jackets underneath, and they were carrying their weapons in duffelbags.

Second, you didn't get the video games deal. Third, you missed the mark on the 'Do you believe in God'. I'd love to tell you why, but my 4096 character limit is about up.

[uprise]

Careful What You Publish

I would give this a better mark, but even if you think you have all the facts you're still portraying false information. Even though you claim this to be factually based, many of these facts came from unreliable sources, the ignorant, and the attention starved.

It's pretty obvious what happened and how. The sad part is that the world is becoming too superficial and critical that these things are starting to happen. And being the immitative creatures we are, like mentioned in another review, others have thought about doing the same, just because something doesn't go their way so they want selfish revenge and try to think of the most extreme way to exact it.

Truth be told, I think the entire school curriculum needs a serious adjustment because obviously the lifestyles we live today are not very enjoyable anymore. All you younger ones out there that are upset with the way things are, we are the ones that need to change it. We complain and reject these things, but we're never willing to do anything about it. So remember: There's Life After School

[turkeysix]

Horribly inaccurate.

To the author/creator: I've taken it that you've seen the movie Elephant, no? It's blantly obvious that you modeled this work over that movie. Furthermore, that movie was based VERY loosely on Columbine. The way you've marketed this film is in a way that "This is Columbine. This is what happened. This is the truth." And it only takes a quick glance at the other reviews here to see that people actually believe that. Unbelievable.

Autumn Tree has so many inaccuracies, I really find it difficult to watch.

I will gladly go into detail and correct your mistakes in an effort to stop you from furthering contributing to the lies and misinformation that surround the Columbine Massacre. But before I do, I'd like to see if there's interest, so I don't wate my time.