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[Clockmas 2019]

Obligatory.

RealRedbookClock responds:

Obligatory vote 5

[Madness Whitehank Zero: The Mulligan]

Lmao sansford. That hurts my soul but makes me laugh at the same time.

[Madness GOTO Heaven]

Remember to Madness GOTO the polls. I apologize for nothing.

[Abnormis: DEPARTURE]

Noticed at least one or two sounds seen in Deus Ex 1. You can't sneak those past me. Pretty solid piece overall, btw. Just felt like commenting on that.

[MAXIFICATION 2: Commencement]

Ho. Ly. Crap. The details people might overlook are immense. Some actual frame-by-frame animation. Fantastic ambiance and soundtrack (fleetwire, my boi, nice work), the use of 3d graphics, the flag flapping in the wind, dirt being blast aside by aircraft... The actual choice for fully diverse camera work, fantastic set pieces such as the city's wideshot, to even small details like the population number dropping...

WHEWIE. Grand total, I feel like the animation in this, in terms of actual scope and material depth, is unironically superior to anything from the canon madness movies. That isn't even beginning to talk shit about the canon madness movies, that is 100% a compliment to the work done here. This would be impressive in any field of flash movies, but seeing all the diversity of shots and art in this is a godsend. Those aspects are in extremely scarce supply through madness fan films. Sidescrolling is prettymuch guaranteed to be 95 to 100 percent of the content, so trust me when I say I appreciate the work done here.

This is just a preview and I'm already beside myself. I imagine the actual movie will have to get action and more sidescrolling shots in, so it won't always be this cinematic (as my expectation, as I said), but if it's even got splashes of shots like these I am ALL over it. I don't care if nobody gets shot, this is a 10/10 madness short.

Jsoull responds:

Awesome review my boi! You are correct that the film will have those "regular" side-scrolling scenes, but I plan to pack-in enough detail and cool shit that it more than makes up for it.

[Madness Powers: Devolution]

The choreography is absolutely stellar in this. Lots of things I've never seen before in arrangements, and things that are highly underrated on top of it. For instance, guys in body armor making fun enemies, as just one example of the latter. For the former, things like holding a pistol to a guy's head, reloading it, then firing while he's still pinned down? Awesome. Dropping a guy's magazine with gun-fu and watching him fire the single round in the chamber? A fantastic detail.

Some of the movement, particularly in response to recoil, being hit, and etc do feel a bit on the weak end. Well, for what I've come to expect from Madness shorts, anyways. Still, the reactions are there almost always, so it's certainly not a lack of effort in play. While it is well into the realm of opinion and bias, I would have loved to see more "fling" and "bounce" when the chaos unraveled. I feel like some of the sequences with slow, tactical movements could've also been enhanced with some alternate camera work to ramp up the sense of tension... But let's be honest, side scrolling is prettymuch 96% of everything in madness combat, so once again that's a very specific detail.

I found myself really enjoying the details and movements here, but the sense of energy didn't quite cap it off into a complete "murder boner" or whatever you'd call that. Awesome work nonetheless, I really can't overstate the sense of soul and individuality in the action sequences' planning.

KorboDuo responds:

I'm rewatched my animation and yeah, I see that the pacing is unstable. Thanks for pointing!

[Climate Change Deniers]

Also see:
-There's no evidence that running people over kills them
-Running people over isn't vehicular manslaughter, it's a free uber ride
-You made this shit up 5 minutes ago, just because you hate free drivers and want my ticket money
-The witness who said I hit him is paid resistance
-The forensics report saying I killed him was also bought out by a secret conspiracy
-To think Ford would let a car end another man's life is arrogant

[Yu-Gi-Oh! - The Summoning]

SMH, shoulda followed it with thousand knives.

[Literally Hitler]

Very interesting animation style... Hitler impression was so blunt I liked it. I also liked how he actually pulled the trigger, but the gun malfunctioned. Now when people say "literally hitler", I want to ask "before or after the Nazi party", just to piss them off.

[MadHat Zero]

Really good. I enjoyed the variety and scale, as well as some of the goofiness I'm always a sucker for. The action was pretty nice overall, but I found that it stood out how many times the bad guys fired at the protagonists and missed by a hair.

This was offset by having a good few injuries take place, to try and break up that feeling of plot armor, but it felt a little plot armor-y even then. Some of the total impalings that people survived also felt a little odd. Instead of the enemies missing outright, more diving for cover, using people as shields, deliberate dodging, bullet deflecting, etc would all be really good ways to try and break it up a little.

Don't let that small stuff weigh this review down though. I had a good time watching this for sure.