well this is obviousely going to the front page!
great job people the movie held me tightly all the way through. i felt like i half swallowed a ping pong ball. i would have ended it differently, but the ending was still cool. CONGRADULATIONS
this deserves a perfect score
I hope this flash gets many awards...
I saw Bowling for Columbine when I was around 11. That movie made me realize how awful violence is in reality. AloneInTheDark and comapny, you've recreated what was the most terrible school shooting in history into a remarkable flash that felt so real, I was actually freaked out... The people who are giving you low scores don't understand what this did to the world so I just want to say congratulations. The sound was a little scratchy at times but that didn't change the overall experience. Overall, a very moving flash that shouldn't be missed. Keep it up guys.
Good Animation
Great Animation and everything, but you shouldn't be pointing fingers at people's opinions, even if they are misinformed. I studied this a couple of times for multiple school projects, and all I'm saying is you could've researched it a bit more. Other than that, you guys had it down pretty well.
It's horrible, yes, but don't dwell on the past. Nothing good comes out of it, especially when the memories are about things like this.
But your aim wasn't to bring it up again, you just wanted to show the facts, and that's what's important.
Sad
Wonderful job on the flash, guys.
It's sad, but this kind of thing could happen again. I remember when it happened, everyone went ballistic in my school and started pointing fingers at everyone that they had ever wronged claiming that they would be the next to shoot up a school. Some of my friends got arrested because some of the popular girls said they said something about blowing up the school. Which they didn't, all of the popular people just got paranoid after the Columbine tragedy. The school hired some professionals to teach the entire school not to belittle one another and just leave eachother the hell alone. Worked a little, but there were still some very hard headed people.
But with Columbine's memory slowly fading from everyone's minds, there is a false sense of secrurity. Kids are teasing eachother again, beating eachother up, and just all around being cruel to eachother. One of these days they are going to choose the wrong kid to pick on and he or she will shoot up their school... and so on....
I just had a son and I am terrified of what he will go through when he goes to school. I wonder to myself if he'll be one of those popular kids picking on the others... Or if he'll be the hero that steps in and stops it. As soon as he's old enough to understand what I'm saying to him, I am going to sit him down and tell him that it is NOT okay to beat up other kids, that it is NOT okay to call them names or make them feel bad about themselves. I hope to raise him to be the kind of person that won't turn into a cold hearted person that can tease... or kill..
In everyone's minds, it's not a big issue. "Kids can be cruel" is all everyone will ever say. But they never do anything about it. They ignore their children's actions, then wonder why someone tried to kill them later on. And I'm not talking about Columbine, there are things that happen even into someone's adult life that can lead to the same result. It can be a dark night on the street, your son so happens to make a rude comment about someone nearby, that person shoots him. Its not just an issue of how children act, it's an issue about how we as human beings should treat one another.
Now I'm not saying that those boys were justified in killing all of those people... They more than likely had a mental illness and that is something to tip toe around. You never know who's mentally ill. You never know who to trust deep down. So my advice to anyone is to be careful what you say to everyone around you. It just might be the last thing you'll ever say. Sometimes it's easy to see the signs of someone who's "not right in the head". But most of the time it isn't. Either way, most mentally ill people cannot control themselves, such as these two boys. They don't have a sense of whats right and whats wrong because everything in their world is distorted.
Moral of the story: Do unto others as you would have unto you. And if you are on the other side of the fence, in the seat of those boys then please seek out someone to talk to. Someone you can trust not to flip out, someone with reason and a voice that calms you.
Anyways, that's the first review I've ever felt very sensative about in a long time. Congrats on getting me to write one so lengthy and full of meaning! In the meantime, I need a tissue. That flash really got me even more frightened about where my son will be in highschool, and if he'll be safe.
Good work man
Wow i mean wow. I was shocked when i first was told about the columbine massacre as i got home from school the first day and was horrified as i watched police videos on t.v. This is just like the reenactment shown on t.v and to capture the same ssence and feeling of it in a flash is a real achievment. Good job man keep it up. :D