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[A Run Through Iraq]

Great!

That's an awesome song. I just wish at the end (on the replay screen) I could've heard the end of the song. It's one of those really good songs that I really enjoy the first time I hear it.

Good use of images in Flash, I must say. Not many people can take photographs and do something this well. When the kids turn their heads, though, there are one of two suggestions I can make:

1) Just do it suddenly. Don't worry about fluidity, it doesn't matter much...

OR

2) Take head-on photos of their faces, and just go from one to the next to the next.

Fluidity of animation is what tends to get a lot of people tracked with weird movements. We don't see other people's motions that fluidly, to be honest. We're blinking our eyes, and our attention is wandering even as we're watching people, so their not that fluid in real life. No sense trying to go for it in animation. :D

Just a tip or two...

[The Return of Ganondorf]

Awesome!

That was the best... ever... I wish I had the patience to do something like this. But, sadly, I don't. I don't even have the patience to do a flash about four sailor-talking geometric shapes... Well, I do, really, but the lack of a female voice talent sucks (I had a couple lined up, but they all flaked out on me).

Anyhow, this was really well done. Marvelous! Simply marvelous!

[The Flash of the Blade]

Okay....

I watched about 2 seconds of this, but I saw enough to know the rest was great. Just too slow on my system and I couldn't bring myself to view it low-quality. Good work.

[Blood Fight (full)]

Well...

It's not too bad, but the background is really boring, and he plot leaves a lot to be desired. But you made an effort, and that's what counts. I hope you add in more plot if you plan to do more of these in the future.

[Shoe the Penguin]

Not bad...

But I guess I'll be the first to point out that "PlayGirl" is a magazine featuring nude MEN... so I guess the dorky one is gay? :)

[Alien Report]

Excellent

Wow. I'm floored. This is exceptionally well-done. I liked the roughness of the art style myself. It really lends to the grittiness of the story. But his motives are a little obscure. You mention that he's seen the worst of us... if he hadn't seen us at our best, why would he not then loathe us and write us off as a barbarian society? But other than that minor detail, quite well done! Cheers to you, Jeff, and may you make more wonderful films. :)

[Robotnik, Psy, and Jen]

Hehe!

Reminds me of the limited animations of SeaLab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law and The Brak Show. Great stuff. I enjoy those (except Brak and ATHF get annoying often), and this was funny. Good voices, although the Dr. Robotnik and Tails voices were really too similar for me... But it was hillarious.

[I Eat People]

Whew!

For a minute I thought you'd stolen this from ... well from yourself! Well, even if it isn't Dan who actually submitted this... it's still funny. So since the proper credit is given, I'll rate this fairly. :)

[Der Führer's Face]

Not bad...

Interesting flash. Could've been worse.

There are a lot of things that are parallel between Bush and Hitler, but let's not forget that Bush is really more like... well, more like Bush. We won't be seeing wholesale slaughter of innocents (on American soil) because of some difference. That'd be grounds for a second Civil War right there.

But I understand the political similarities. The Patriot Act was one of those duping things that Congress passed while it was popular to remove our freedoms to do so. I'll have to start digging up musty old quotes, because why say again what someone before me said so much better?

Yes, Bush is a Nazi-esque leader. The fortunate thing is that any chance he had to make his rule anything but finite (8 years MAX, and I kinda doubt he'll win the next election) has completely passed, so we'll be done of this jack-ass soon.

But to the Americans who think that losing a few rights to gain security, I leave you with a paraquoting of Benjamin Franklin (which I'm sure you're seeing a lot these days):

"Those who would give up liberty for security desereve and will not recieve either."

As for this whole "Freedom of Speech" thing... well, the First Amendment is suprisingly vague about that... it says, basically, that the press has rights. It says very little of the individual right to self-expression. And what falls under this category? Merely spoken words? Or actions? It's a sticky thing, and the Forefathers never foresaw Flash...