Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Halloween Evil]

he id

++++ kid made me chuckle. Specially when tackling Jill.

+++ Candy... the word makes me chuckle. Crazy Yanks.

-- Start with helicopter only confused.

--- Generally, try to keep a flash a uniform style. House could have been redrawn in flash.

- Stilted motion.

- At the end, it wasn't apparant that the pumpkin would do what it did.

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Nothing slick, but the idea made me chuckle.

[Halloween Runaway]

gle for a mom

++ The silliness and lack of anything else in the flash made me giggle a wee bit.

+ Nice purpley background. What's it from?

++ Great tune.

-- Text cut off/covered at end.

- Pumpkin not immediately recognisable as such at start.

-- pumpkin cutting machine? Why not a guy with a knife? Stretch yourself!

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Made me giggle for a moment, then get tired as I waited for it to finish.

Maybe you could have had some variation in the chase? And not just something random like Sonic.

[Robotech Sentinels Part 2]

ork that wen

+++ Plenty of interesting, well-written info.

++ Great tunes during menus/extras.

- though they could loop better.

-- On pages 4,5,6 of the 'canon, continuity and beyond' section, text is extremely hard to read on the left. You dimmed the white on page 3, but not subsequently!

- Text is kinda hard to read. Justified or left-aligned text would work better than centred. Maybe a lighter, smaller font for the book?

- In bio of Rick, surely 2nd paragraph should all be in past tense? Confuses.

+++ Great drawings. Looks just like the pro thing from some screens! Specially the vehicles and ships, which are flawless throughout.

+++ Great voice-acting. They sound as they should (age, microphoned...) and acting's good too.

---- Terrible lip-synching.

-- I couldn't understand voices at times. No subtitles.

-- tweened motion for joints looked dodgy.

- Some pixelly edges on some things.

Street scene and high scene above city's backgrounds have lovely backgrounds. Did you really draw everything in here yourself?

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I'm astounded by the amount of work that went into this. You obviously love the series and it's a great tribute.

Read all the text apart from one or two sections, watched the movie twice. But a lot of it was overly confusing for me and I was struggling to keep up. Bios helped though.

Optional subtitles would let me enjoy it a lot more, I think.

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By the way, I've got a few original Robotech comics. If you pay for the postage, I'll gladly let you have them in exchange for... a drawing of an elephant.

MedMapGuy responds:

While I appreciate the criticism, you didn't have to give me such a lousy score. It was extremely difficult as it is working on these kinds of films, and with just 2 people on the planet making Robotech stuff, ya shouldn't be too harsh cuz its quite discouraging.

About the problem with lip-synching. A lot of people pointed it out, but I'm really, really confused! I mean, you know that Starcraft series that's so popular right now? The one with the all the 3D effects? (Most recent film was Starcraft Infestation). That film had some pretty, okay fine, bad character art with terrible lip syching, but people never complained. I wonder if there is double standards in this site... :(

I never studied animation, so tweened joints may be the only thing I'll ever do! Arrg!

Lastly, everything was made by me with Photoshop and Flash. As I said, its very time-consuming. And getting a score like 6 is quite painful to the ego.

I tried adding subtitles, but I encountered an error. I really tried. Took me 3 days to decide to omit the subtitles!

Lastly, is that last offer for real?? I'm PMing you as I write this. (That elephant thing though...)

[Robotech Sentinels Part 1]

The high

+++ Graphics were great.

-- voices would have improved it.

- on a couple of occasions, a subtitle flashed by for literally just 1 or 2 frames.

-- occasional visible edges on moving planes etc. Tracing stuff in flash would have helped immensely.

-- Not a lot happened in this episode.

-- I'm gonna assume you got most of the bitmaps from the show. You should've been open about that!

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It all kept me involved. The high-action scenes remained exciting, though a tiny bit confusing at times (partially thanks to having to read and watch simultaneously).

Didn't really urge me to watch #2 though.

[Break in and your fired 6]

yed it a tin

+ Ending was vaguely amusing. (Both mistake and newspapers.)

--- Inconsistency in character design styles clashed.

- Why split it into 2?

!!-- Music starting during loading - annoying for some.

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Found it all kinda unexciting with too little going on. Had this been the first I'd seen, I may have enjoyed it a tiny bit more.

[Break in and your fired 5]

sing ta

++ DT's sick attitude amused.

+ GW's 'Jesus' also.

- When you just flip the characters slowly for them turning around, it's kinda annoying. Maybe just change it in one frame? Maybe actually draw maybe 3 or 4 in-beweeners?

--- Camera boy - overly incongruous graphical style.

--- Joseph A. 's camera boy voice - overly whiny and annoying.

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Another amusing tale.

[Break in and your fired 4]

led. En

+++ Bill Gates - made me grin.

+++ End, with hearts. Chuckle.

- The 'play again' font is a bit boring. Actually very nice face, with the finely judged slight angles and curves. But too much like a font for blocks of text - I think you should use something more decorative.

-- Camera man voice was kinda overly whiny and annoying.

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Chuckled. Enjoyed.

[Break in and your fired 3]

focus shifted

+++ Great Irwin parody. His deranged version made me grin.

-- Not so well-drawn.

- Intro joke got a little old.

- Question: What's that explosion at the end meant to be?
(I consider the incongruity of that a neg)

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I like how the focus shifted a bit for this episode. My favourite so far (seen 7,1,2).

[Break in and your fired 2]

king in to wait

+ Continuing intro joke made me smile.

++ Amused by cameraman response.

-- DT's size seems horribly wrong in door scene.

--- Black dude's style was horrible and jarring compared to DT.

- Horrible stereotyped voice for black dude.

??? Maybe it'd work better if the 'camera' was outside the house? It'd make more sense in context.

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Amused again.

Definitely prefer the breaking in to waiting for planes.

[Break in and your fired]

dea it

+ Vaguely amusing 'problems' with cues.

++ Amusing concept.

- crackling during voices.

--- I think that without any reaction shots it lacked resonance. Had you maybe shown the family turning and raising an eyebrow, it might have had more potential for humour, whether they were looking at DT like a madman, or scared of this sudden intrusion.

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The idea itself is enough to make me smile, but in the execution, nothing is added.