ShaolinDave's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Super Smash]

very awesome

very awesome. i loved your character desgin. i'm inspired to remake the actual games with those graphics!
the only place i see room for improvement is the animation. started out great, then everything turned very sloppy.

[Dad's at Work]

favorite

this is still one of my favorite newgrounds animations. still waiting for the new one...

[TANKMEN: Tankbusters]

lol

great, keep it up. looking forward to the next one.

[Badass Dora!]

pretty good

it ends pretty abruptly. actually everything happens pretty abruptly. the animation could use a little more flow from on scene to the next.
aside from that (and the fact that you can't choose the 'straight to bed' option) i'd say it's pretty bad-ass. good job.

[The Real Legend 3]

the best

hands down, the best thing i've seen on newgrounds to date. looking forward to you doing even better on the real legend 4.
newgrounds will probably delete his post, as usual.

[Sometimes, y]

great

great. i especially liked how you parodied the disney and pixar logos.
different voice actors might've helped. also it could've been a bit longer. for a single-evening project, it was great. looking forward to your next one,

[How to be leet.]

it's not leet

"L337" = "Elite" ... not "Leet"
you're contributing to the bastardization of the sacred language.

other than that it was okay i guess. could've been longer, maybe had some spoken narration.

[The MAC & PC show]

decent

a little short. the art style was pretty good.
not sure about the humor though. is the punchline suppose to be implying you can't play games on a mac? i'm typing this review on a mac, then i'm going to use the same mac to play some f.e.a.r. perseus mandate or counter-strike:source. mac's can play all the same games as pc, even really demanding stuff like crysis. some games, like those that run on havok and torque engines, are actually better on mac.
so, humor could use a little work, clarity and voice acting as well. not ever flash has to be a full show, but less than 30 seconds long and no one can even really get into it before it's over.

[Born the 15th of August]

what is this suppose to be about?

for future submissions, the first thing you should do is make sure that your flash has some type of point. it might help to storyboard it and make sure everything is coherent and meaningful. make sure graphics and sound are clean and relevant.
so, work on the plot/point of the flash, graphics, sound, humor and/or drama... pretty much everything involved in making a flash. it might help to do some tutorials or take some college classes on flash, and take a few film, art, and creative writing classes.
i suggest you spend a couple years getting caught up on that before making your next submission. that way it'll be worth the time you spent making it, worth our time watching it, and worth newgrounds' resources for hosting it.

[YAAFM 13: Pres. Bush 2]

ha ha ha. wait, that's not funny.

i used to like YAAFM, but lately you've ditched the funny for the soapbox. and not getting your facts straight makes things even worse. you used to use dozens of actual quotes from everyone you ripped. this time you used one.
contradictions in this one, you say that bush is solely responsible for creating more terroist, but then confirm that these wars have been going on for centuries. bush wasn't president centuries ago. and being "solely resposnsible" for creating terrorist means no one else is doing it. i'm sure that those who call america "satan" really wouldn't twist around our cartoon demons to further that image. there's not a single person in the USA who in one way or another doesn't "create terrorist". i do it myself, just by being a white american christian.
you mention that 15 of the 19 terrorist came from afghanistan, but afghanistan didn't attack us either. al-qaeda did. al-qaeda is in iraq, and saddam was an important ally to them. if someone commits a crime in california and drives to nevada, they're don't have to go back to cali to be considered a criminal.
"finishing what his daddy started", instead of drawing your own conclusions, check the news archives. we won desert storm, and it was always made publicly know that we did not intend to overthrow the government then. so his daddy finished what his daddy started, and we weren't involved with iraq until clinton attacked them (i'm not going to accuse him of just trying to get monica's face off the papers either. he was hunting for terrorist also.)
maybe instead of assuming that iraq poses no threats against the US you should think maybe you don't have all the information that the government does.
and since you decided to say the war's unjustified because iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, ignoring the information about al-qaeda in iraq, then you're forgetting the most important thing. the war on terror is to prevent future attacks, not get vengence for past attacks. if we had attacked afganistan in 2000, the same people criticizing the war now would be whining about how afganistan poses no threat to us. had those attacks in 2000 prevent 9/11, those people would never know how wrong they were. by taking out al-qaeda leaders in any country, wether previous attackers were from that country or not, has stopped several attacks from 05 to 06.
and to call anyone who believes iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 a "fucking moron" is small-minded. there is enough evidence to support that, so you don't have to be a moron to believe it. remember the mural on the iraqi airlines planes crashing into the world trade center, found in iraq? that was probably painted before 9/11.
there where and still are WMDs in iraq. it's been discovered, declassified, and reported in the news. these news articles are still available online. between 2003 and 2006, over 500 storage facilities were found with degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. this type of stuff is perfect for making the chemical equivalent of dirty bombs, which happens to be one of the types of attacks that terrorist were expecting to attempt before iraq was invaded .this was long before the information about the types of weapons found was declassified in june 2006. there are also storage facilities that we just havn't found yet, and i'm sure that there was plenty found that's just still classified.
saddam had a lot of weapons that were not usable for their original military uses. they were being held onto for one reason only, to be sold or given to others who could use them in IEDs. the only people who could use the stuff he was giving, were terrorists, (like al-queda, who saddam welcomed into iraq.)
i don't know about your cop-out statement about being critical of the government is the most patriotic thing you can do. i do know that it's very unpatriotic to insult an entire religion, since the country was formed by people wanting religious freedom. i do know is unpatriotic to spread lies to draw attention away from facts that could help support those fighting the war, just because you hate someone else.