Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Format and J3nnica say hi]

Made me smile. :)

I guess I'm one of the folk 'not cool enough' to know those portrayed, but it did make me smile.

The animation wasn't great but had a nice style.

It made me smile and that'll do pig, that'll do...

MetaphorcE responds:

thanx :D

don't worry, you don't have to be cool to know those people - we are all massive geeks, really.

[Very far]

A bit different. Finish it!

I've seen quite a few deliberately crazy videos on NG, but most are hyper in both the graphics and music choice. The slightly different style of your movie made it a more enjoyable watch, and I specially liked the angel you drew.

All I can suggest now is that you finish it and submit it again when completed.

I take it you were going to do that anyway?

Looking forward to it,
Bez

[SBC Review Commentary 2]

Boring for the most part.

The start (before the reviews started coming) was mildly amusing and I liked your manipulation of the SBC picture.

However, when the reviews were responded to, it was tiring to hear them all read out and the responces weren't particularly witty or amusing.

Very poor.

TurdClock responds:

fuck off and let me be

[.Blaster part1: Infection]

Nothing particularly interesting.

I don't really have much to say about this... just wasn't that interesting for me.

I liked your clock-eye when you went off to kill Bill Gates, and I also liked the appointments joke.

But it wasn't anything special and at the start, some of the speech was a bit hard to understand. (I didn't follow what the thing about the website link was about.)

Maybe if I had understood that the story as a whole would have been more interesting.

Subtitles?

AnarchyClock responds:

Meh. Maybe.

[Mario in Black]

The end lets the jokes slow down a bit...

At the start, this is chock-a-block with jokes - the way Mario gets injured, Luigi, Peach and Toad, Mario dressing up...

The 2nd half isn't quite as funny but remains entertaining.

Also, there's a couple of spelling mistakes. ('gintanic' should be Gin & tonic and 'arts' should be 'arse')

I presume this is because you're not a native English speaker? Well, hopefully now that I've pointed out the mistakes you'll be able to sort them out.

Apart from that, I have no real criticism.

The sprites are well manipulated, the music well chosen and the plot as a whole is rather good.

I'm really looking forward to the next episode. :)

[the tenth character]

Rather poignant

I would have rather the audio had lasted the entire length of the movie (and I knocked off a point from the audio because of that), but I presume that you just had your heart set on that particular tune?

The shot of the boy kneeling by the rubbish is a bit proportionally wrong, but the rest of the art looks brilliant. Specially the shot of him in the rain and the slow-dreamlike motion of him in the snow.

I don't quite understand why the dream-world flashed behind him at the end (care to explain?), but all in all, that was an enjoyable watch. Good stuff. :)

Stay funky,
Bez

kospas responds:

Thanks Bezman.

Well in my converted flash movie the music acctually did stop somewhat at the very end. Many people have mentioned that audio problem though...

The kneeling boy. Yes, he unintentionally got a conehead. Didn't mind to fix it... :)

About "the rain and the slow-dreamlike motion of him in the snow". I have no idea really what means either. I just got the idea in my head and converted it directly into flash. ^_^

Stay funky u too,
KoZ

[Die earth die!]

I chuckled at the end.

The animation, whilst not as good as it might be, is pretty darn nice and rather smooth.

But still, it's just sticks...

I liked the use of masking at the end to emulate the Xiao Xiao ending. Also, I chuckled at the fact that the hero died.

(Although I don't understand the button press after that... care to explain?)

You obviously have talent, but fight scenes are really too prevalent on NG to be of any real interest. Maybe try thinking of a proper story or doing a music video or something?

Keep it up,
Bez

[Mr. Wrench]

confusing, pointless and unfunny.

I couldn't make head or tails of what was going on at the start since all the characters were so close together.

Also, I'd suggest that you include a pre-loader and play button in future. Just use the NG one if you want - you'll get it from the uploads page, and it'll make it a more enjoyable watch as we'll know when it's ready to watch and also it won't loop.

Still, that must have taken a fair bit of work, so well done for that.

Stay funky,
Bez

McFrizz responds:

hey....there is lots of kids out of my house....with torches....and signs...and flaming sticks....why??

[Kirby's Kalamity 1.3]

Better than #1 (I'd have liked to give you a 6.5)

There weren't any jokes that made me chuckle outright, but there were a fair few things that made me smile. And that's nice too. :)

Your graphics are pretty decent and I like your use of masking.

I liked the shots you used for the kamehamestar, and the whole thing was entertaining, from start to finish.

I forgot to mention - the buttons don't work in any of your movies.

Again, I liked the music. Where is the hospital music from? I know I recognise it...

My only real gripe (apart from the buttons/preloader, which didn't matter too much) is that on occasion (specially one of the jigglypuff bits) the text went by a bit too fast.

I suppose it might get a bit annoying clicking on buttons, but maybe that'd be the best way of sorting the problem?

I find it rather hard to work out decent plots and stuff for myself... but maybe you could make an animation about what Kirby actually does in the HQ? But ultimately, you're best off developing the idea you think you can make most interesting.

Keep it up,
Bez

[Kirby's Kalamity 1.2]

I much preferred part one.

That at least had 3 mildly amusing jokes, whereas this doesn't really have any.

Also, I forgot to tell you that your music in part 1 was really well chosen. The music here was reasonably well chosen too, but was maybe too similar throughout the entire movie.

The filesize is far too large for what it is... Click on the audio optimisation link when you go to upload a file and hopefully that'll help you reduce the filesize by quite a bit.

My main gripe with this is the overall plot - to have such a long fight scene was a mistake, I feel.

Well, I might as well watch #3 now...