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Reviews for "The Silent Protagonists"
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i ddnt find it funny. and ash from pokemon isnt silent... weird... he's always like "im gonna beat you!" like joey from yu-gi-oh.
Aeonstars responds:
err...me getting defensive: I love how 13 year old newgrounders are so quick to criticize submissions that actually take time and effort to make for their lack of plot. Then these same members go review Metal Gear Awesome 2 and I quote "XD !!!!! CANT STOP!!! HAHAHA LOL LOL LOL!!!"
wait a sec. I don't like that.
not bad
This could be more funnyer
Aeonstars responds:
This review could be constructivyer.
I never empathised
I loved link's face - his sorta 'scared, worried look was great and made me chuckle as he walked away from the jail and - earlier - from the phone.
I really like all the silent protagonists - how they don't have mouths (apart from that one shot with Link).
The movie didn't really concentrate on them that much, though, which slightly disappointed me.
A lot of the movie kinda bored me. The Leroy Jenkins and Lightsaber Kid and all the police stuff... I felt slightly sorry for Gary after he was practically accused of Ash's crime...
For the most part though, I just didn't empathise with the characters at all. Gary just seemed completely shallow; a 1-dimensional chirpy character. The homages I mentioned were vaguely 'nice' to spot, but I felt that beyond the nod of recognition, there was nothing there. It was like you wedged them in there, rather than having them in the background or whatever.
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Maybe other folk will love this and I feel like an arse for writing this after you've obviously worked fairly hard.
Essentialy though, it bored me for the most part.
Sorry.
Aeonstars responds:
Bezman... First off, I'd like to say thank you for liking the characters that are the silent protagonists. As for Gary, I see how you can see him as a 1 dimensional chirpy character and maybe in some respects he is. But if you look closely, You'll see that Gary's favorite hobby is to call up people at their homes and perform surveys over the phone. Why he does this is beyond me. He just likes to know things I guess. That's why in the bathroom scene he says to Ash: "Did you know that the razor is the most feared object in the household?". This means that Gary has actually called up people and asked them what their most feared object was. This is also the primary reason the police are chasing him. This is just a little insight into who Gary is. If you right click and pause very quickly at the beginning and zoom into his bookshelf you can also see his collection of survey books. I consider this a funny character trait and I also like to think this takes away a bit from your 1-dimensional view of him. I did, however, build him up to be a happy guy because it's that much more funnier when you see him scream and run for his life with the silent protagonists shaking their heads in the background. Gary essentially became the flash for me. When I started working on it, 8 months ago... I came up with a whole bunch of funny situations Gary and The silent protagonists could get involved in and I basically narrowed it down to the best ones. He's even become a sort of inside joke between me and my friends. They even made me a Gary shirt for my birthday a few months back lol. You didn't enjoy this flash and that's unfortunate but a lot of other people have so I guess that I have gotten an overall positive response. I'm not going to say this review doesn't hurt me because it does... You gave me 3... Over the last 8 months, I poured my entire heart and soul into this project and I completely surpassed my limits. Doing this for me was incredibly ambitious considering when I started, I didn't know what a movieclip was. I know that this deserves more than 3... That I deserve more than a 30% rating. Like I said before, It's too bad you didn't enjoy it... When I finish my new stuff I'll be sure to send you a PM because I want you to tell me what you think. Thank you..
-Aeonstars