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Nah, you got it wrong.

First of all, a two party system has saved us from the kind of fractured democracy seen in all of Europe. Ours makes the parties more inclusive in order to cater to more voters, and forces them to broaden their appeal. Unlike Europe where the socialists only appeal to socialists in the socialist party, and the moderate socialists have their moderate socialist party, etc. As for money and campaigning, that's a matter of free speech. No amount of advertising can overcome the truth. The truth is that socialism and communism sucks, and freedom rules. And America is far more free than most all other countries in the world. Because of this freedom we've had the opportunity to start businesses. CEO wages are a matter of competition, not unfairness. To hire competent CEO's away from other companies you have to pay more.
Your whole sour grapes approach is infantile. Go read "The Road to Serfdom" by Hayek and "Free to Choose" by Milton Friedman and see if you still feel the same way.

NewEvolution responds:

When the means of communication that reaches the largest majority of our society doesn't cost several hundred thousand dollars a second to use, let me know. Until then, the vast majority of Americans will continue to believe whatever the television tells them, which is what the multi-billionaires choose to show.

As for CEOs, I'm reasonably sure they could live fantastically wealthy lives at 1/8 of their present income. I don't think that's too much to sacrifice so that people in this country can stop being raped by the healthcare and insurance industries.

Okay, a real review

For being your second published work this is pretty good, however, as with your first work, "Syphen Transformation" it suffers from ill-conceived timing. You could have done this movie in roughly half the time by making every shot count. For instance, you could have started off slow just like you did, building tension, but as it got closer and closer you could have just cut back and forth showing the sonar just as it passes the creature on the display rather than making us wait for a full revolution. In the mean-time, some shots of a captain getting more and more nervous, a crew scrambling, the captain stands and order a torpedoe fired, their fear when it misses, etc. With a little work this could really be something. And then once the torpedoe misses the captain orders full-steam away, and to surface, or something like that. But the creature catches them. And then there's the question of why it's after them in the first-place? Maybe this is the first sub designed for the exploration of the deep-deep sea, down where the real monsters live and no sun shines.

Your main problem was timing, your second problem was not developing the story quite enough. However, I do see a couple gems in this work that surprised me and because of that I think you have talent. The way you made the creature dodge the torpedoe was sweet, very anime-esque. And the creature swimming past the window when it was too close for sonar to see, also sweet.

Perhaps a last showdown between the captain and the beast would have been your clincher scene that could have made this movie a true classic. I can just see it, red-emergency lights all over the ship, there's a hull-breach in the aft-section so they close off the doors to prevent the ship scuttling, only we cut away to see the creature make it just past the automatically closing emergency doors. Back to the captain and they start hearing random screams from the aft section, so the crew-members grab weapons and head back there, with the last one being thrown back into the command-center at the last second having been eviscerated. Suddenly the lights go out, and then start flashing like a brown-out, and the last thing the captain sees through the strobe-like light is the creature coming at him illuminated by the flashes of light as he fires his pistol.

I mean, this whole idea could be developed so much more and turned into something really great. So next time don't just take the easy way out and tack on an ending on the credit scene, k? GOOD JOB.

23450 responds:

believe me if i had more time i would have done most of what you asked me to do, but i am going to newfoundland(long two week trip) so i wanted to get it done. but i will probably make a better version sometime.

Welll...

Sorry to blam you, but I finally found something worse than 'clocks', and that is this movie, with 'locks'. Gah, ppl, learn to animate and draw faces instead of trying to do something Dali like this. I mean, everything else was great, good technical art, but then why fail on the faces? Especially knowing that the face is the heart of your animation, do chibi or something, but not (c)locks. And another thing, used to be people didn't have microphones hooked to their computer, now every does, either make use of it or keep with the text dialog! MS-voice sounds are a serious turn-off that should be saved solely for animating robots, Al Gore and John Kerry. And WindowsXP? I love it, so you lost another point with me there, oh well. At least I watched the whole thing, so you didn't completely bore me. And having to click for them to fight, that suxd! Either a flash should have a lot of interaction, or none. But don't freeze action in the middle of a scene, just because you can, and make me click a single button that does one thing. I mean, it's like you though you were giving me a choice, but then my only real choice was 'stop watching this' or 'click this button', then you did it twice. So there was absolutely no point to it. I think you could go far with your vids, just ditch the lock thing, plz.

DiaDz responds:

Sorry, but... LL 4EVR!!!

V is for...

...Varicose-veins, which is about as funny as this flash. Trying to be romantic to his girl, he comes off as a gesture of an immature boy. Be a man, grow up!

Other than that, good flash man!

Halley responds:

Ah... if you'd on;y told me that earlier.
Well Thanks.
glad you thought the flash was good!

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