Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Haiku Hilltop]

my reactions animated- :. :. :) :o :D :o :D :D :)

Textures. Soft music.
Nothing superfluous - just
Like the haiku.

[Sexy Alien Band]

Generally entertaining and groovy.

I loved the first few opening shots on the bass player.

The designs of the robot and the drummer were rather fun to witness. I specially liked the robot's curvy keyboard. I imagine it'd be hard to play for a human like myself though.

The voice and music generally was fun and groovy. When it ended, I really wanted to keep listening!

The female's shots and poses swung from amusingly ludicrous (the tongue and boob squeezing the button), embarassing (the zoom-in to her crotch from the back, the whole pussy thing... and inspired (the magazine covers, which worked brilliantly).

I chuckled when she exploded like that though...

I suppose as she isn't singing or whatever, it's more obvious - I mean, Madonna uses sex in her videos but at least she's the singer!

One suggestion for future 'episodes' would be to move away from the sorta 70s-style 'band playing music-type' videos and towards the more modern style of videos, with some vague allusion at a narrative. There were a few brief moments where the shots and camera angles were a bit dull and 'obvious'.

Interested to see where you take this, or if you do proceed at all.

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Generally entertaining and groovy.

[Tv Mount]

It fascinated me.

I did feel that it was perhaps more style than substance, but oh - what style!

I love the way you introduce graphical 'glitches', with the rough edges on TV mount's knees, and generally the cut 'n' paste style that brings to mind a tape game loading or a corrupted image...

The world of little spherical people and slave 'carriages' is a unique one and I'd love to see more, but in a way, it's better like this.

The huge weight's voice was really menacing - nice job on all voices and sounds, just like the graphics.

Btw, how did you make the background - the one that looks like an audiowave?

As alluded to, I felt it was perhaps a bit short on substance - I'd have maybe liked to see a little bit more of baby's world... maybe it'd have been great to see the story progress a bit longer.

But it is what it is.

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It fascinated me.

Will there be a sequel?

[Pit]

Made me smile a fair bit and chuckle a few times.

If folk have a problem with this but not Wil E Coyote and whatnot, it's maybe because this animation has (an attempt at) realistically drawn humans. Films don't generally use the violence in an attempt at humour. Though I suppose those who criticise this, then kill innocents in GTA are hypocritical.

Anyway... just playing devil's advocate...

Your self portrait (I presume) at the start is great!

The snigering at the start made me chuckle.

The characters in the movie itself were a bit rough, but enh. Functional enough. I think David Firth's graphics share some qualities, so you're in good company!

The music was probably my favourite part - such an upbeat melody and tempo for a macabre subject! Are the instruments all synths? It sounds like synth violins and beats. I liked the way you added in the choruses and background vocals and the violins reminded me of a country jigging tune. You had a great drum roll around half-way through.

I don't really like random violence, but the violence here was carefully calculated and directly at odds with the upbeat nature, so as to cause me to chuckle.

I also liked the fact that you had subtitles.

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Made me smile a fair bit and chuckle a few times.

[Nobodies Shorts #6]

Averages out to a smile.

The design of the dude on the right reminds me of one of the guys from Butternut Squash, the online comic. I'm sure you both came up with the design independently - just mentioning it...

I remember this intro always making me chuckle, and it did so just now.

I wasn't so keen on the content of the actual short, though the bonus audio made me smile (the twist in the joke - "here's one with...").

Well drawn art.

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Averages out to a smile.