Well, I already wrote some comments about the cinematics
here, but now I'll gonna rate them, too!
The End of the Curse
I have really no idea why this already got 6 votes, I think it's not special in any way, you did not work with the camera, story was not developed at all and you dit not even cut the music to keep the map file small - why should you keep 4:13 minutes music in a cinematic that is only a minute long?! Effects were OK, and all in all I've seen worse. I liked the imported models, but that cannot be count for your merit.
5/10
Haunted Goldmine
Well, one could see that you probably do not yet have much experience using the World Editor. Everything was made quite simple, no useless effects, but not very exciting too. I liked the voice acting very much, this adds two points to my rating for you!
5/10
Deserted Revenge
Not bad, I liked that you changed the terrain according to the special effects. Nevertheless, there was very few cinematography, and the special effects were not part of the story but the story was too obviously just a reason for the VFX, this is not as it should be in my opinion.
6/10
Awesome Robbery
The problem with this cinematic is that there are too many VFX to be good, but on the other hand it does not take itself seriously in any way. Well, I personally think after the second or third wave of BAMMM, it is not fun anymore, so I don't give you a very high rating. One note: This cinematic does not lag as much as it looks, the waits are the problem, not the Effects. If you are interested in making it better independently from the contest, I really would recommend you to build the loops with periodic events, this will make it look much more fluently.
6/10
Orc ED
Nothing new and not even had an ending. Sorry, but this won't give a high rating from me, best aspect is the terrain and even that is only average.
3/10
Dwarf vs Naga
To get it exciting, this would have needed much better timing. Anyways there were some nice basic approaches but also some ugly problems (camera moves directly through objects and the mentioned timing).
6/10
Short Cinematic
This is not really a cinematic. If I rate it as cinematic, I had to give a 2/10, if I rate it as any custom map, I give 5/10 because it's funny. Since this is a cinematic contest, it will get
3/10
Tainted Trail
Not bad at all and you invented a nice story just to get to monsters fighting. Very sad that the sway in the beginning looks so ugly without the camera system; I really recommend to build it in independent from the contest.
7/10
Winter's Veil
This is not your first cinematic and one can see that. Nice choreography and I really would like to see you to get some votes more. For me it's the best entry after The Escape, if I don't consider mine at all.
8/10
The Escape
Very nice in any aspect, the only cinematic in the contest that can concurrence with this one is mine I think, but since I are not allowed to vote for my own, I don't have problems to decide. It could get some detail work in the camera movement, maybe with my camera system, and at the first time watching it I was not sure if he's dead or not in the end. Maybe you should add a short latest cry to underline he is not only hit but dead. Also the last scene is a little too dark I think. These are the things you should have worked on if you had had more time; I know that you were busy until the last minute of the deadline!
9/10
The Clone
Ah, a pastebin submission, I wondered why I did not see this until now. Not bad, you created the effects fitting and not too much, there was a story and at least the camera moved. To get it even more exciting, you should add some closeup camera views. Everything a little above average, so
6/10
Sad that you can always vote only for the cinematic you like best and not at least for the second and third, too. With the method we use at the moment, cinematics like Winter's Veil do not get as much reputation as they should.
EVEN MORE SAD that there are always people that try to get votes by any other mean than a good enty to the contest. Giving reputation to people who voted for your cinematic is OK, but everything else is unfair manipulation for me. I'm interested how the moderator judging will be and how much it will count besides the poll...
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= 1 place
. Cause i really liked both The Escape and Winter's Veil, But in the end i voted for The Escape cause the use of the camera amazed me 
