Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[THE CODE]

Not a bad intro.

I thought it was portrayed well and got me in the mood for the full movie.

I'd like to see the movie when it's finished as it looks as if it has potential.

The only thing I'd maybe criticise is the way you re-used a scene as that just feels kinda cheap... but I suppose once you've done the full movie you'll easily be able to change that for a scene from the full movie?

If the full movie lives up to the promise, I'd give it a pretty good score. It all depends upon how good your story is, I suppose.

Anyway, good luck,
Bez

[The (clay) Hulk]

Very nicely done, and mildly amusing.

Although the previous reviewer was right in saying that the light wasn't too well controlled, resulting in flickering light levels, the animation is really nice and some things impressed me - specially the transformations.

I liked the way it was set off, the squeal and the voice... rather amusing.

The sound effects were also great.

Definitely one of the better claymations around. Good work!

[Not Gonna Get Us]

Gets progressively worse.

The spinning extruded stick-man gives a good first impression, although the hit-box on the play button is badly done.

The font you've used is nice, as is the first picture. However, all that exists after that is a a couple of short loops repeated again and again and...

Really, I'm surprised and slightly shocked this survived judgement. I suppose it shows how many people vote before watching the whole thing...

[Bendee 4 (2003)]

Not as good as #3.

it just didn't have any real humour present and didn't make me smile the way the other 2 I watched did.

I suggest in future you keep the light-hearted humour, even if it nestles alongside the violence.

By the way, this is a series - it just isn't a serial.

eddsworld responds:

I know what you mean, and i didnt fins this one as funny as others either

[day and night #1]

I prefer the activity here.

Though I liked the music in the sequel, I like the fact that stuff actually happens here.

Maybe you could make some sort of story/soap with the activities being portrayed in the style of these 2 movies?

I'd love to see that!

In any case, I'd really like to see another of these movies as I found them refreshing and enjoyable to watch.

Good work,
Bez

[day and night #2 (better)]

Nice idea

I really liked the transitions between night and day - both the way the moon and sun switched and also the colour tweens.

However, the whole thing seemed to be just an intro. Whilst it was all nice graphically and the bird shit incident was mildly amusing, nothing really happened and I feel like it could have been taken a lot further.

Also, I didn't really like the bomb at the end as it was totally unnecessary, somewhat at odds with the rest of the movie and we didn't even get shown what he was trying to (or did) blow up.

[Fekked Stick P.1]

Nice graphics.

I liked the graphics, specially in the part where the coin is tumbling towards the ground.

I also liked the soundtrack, repetitive it may be, but it did the job and seemed to work perfectly in context.

However, the joke is pretty rubbish.

The explosion down there killing the stick on top of the building is just too far-fetched to be accepted and that leads to your joke not being amusing at all.

[The normandy mission]

I can't believe this is going to be in the daily 5

Okay... I'm just a little bit envious...

The graphics were good, but apart from the text, heads, hands and shoes, you got everything from verious games.

And to be honest, it didn't look as if you invested an awful lot of effort into the drawings.

Still, I suppose the bitmaps were cut and implemented rather well...

The spelling made the movie look a bit sloppy - you mispelled 'Normandy' twice - once spelling it 'Normany' the 2nd time 'Normand'.

I did rather like the font you used.

I wasn't too sure about the plot but would be interested to see the full version.

I suggest you maybe have buttons for large sections of text, as I found a couple of bits went by too fast.

All in all, whilst the music and graphics arent (for the most part) yours, they have been cut, positioned and alpha blended rather well.

The only thing missing is a proper story, which will hopefully be in the full version.

[The_Flower]

Brilliant.

I love the 'story', the style, the timing, the animation... in fact pretty much everything about this movie.

The timing is excellent - the way she closes her hand as the music dies down and the fish comes out as it starts up again...

All the motions seem to happen to the beat of the music and that's not as common as it should be.

I like your style very much - the art is very precise and I love the pseudo cell-rendering.

The part where everything turns into a swirl was exceptionally great, as was the bit where her face starts waving.

The sequence of events really does look brilliantly trippy, as does the slightly distorted design of objects... the floating table and bed, the cave-like pillar...

Her clothes, hairstyle and top helped to follow this alien look through.

My only criticism is that it ends just when it looks as if it's starting up again.

Maybe that was due to you only being able to use a sample, but in any case, I do come away feeling a bit unsatisfied by the ending.

Apart from that, the whole thing's just about perfect.

[Grimace is Dead]

I like your message.

However, it could have been passed on a wee bit better.

If you had a link to some more information about the subject, or maybe a few screens of text we could browse through, that might result in a more useful movie.

Also, for our convenience, it would be nice if it paused at the start and a play button had to be pressed. Also, your e-mail address should be a link.

Use the following code:

on (release) {
getURL ("mailto:<e-mail>", "_blank");
}

obviously replacing <e-mail> with your e-mail address.

However, these are minor niggles and I did like the way you kept to a sort of computer-game style. The sound was also fairly nice as was the 'moral'.

All in all, it's a fine piece of work.