Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mr. BoomBa Ep.1]

Somewhat amusing. Somwhat predictable.

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+++ Nice clean graphics within your simplified style. I like the ending pose, with the lines on the eyes.

-- Some poses are held for way too long.

-- Kinda predictable.

++ I smiled at the evil laugh though.

------ starting automatically. I cannot stress enough how much this irritates me.

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A somewhat amusing joke with quite an expressive, cleanly drawn, character. It's slightly slower than needs be though and a bit predictable.

AND DON@T HAVE YOUR MOVIES START AUTOMATICALLY!

[There she is!! step 2]

Lovely. Sweet and funny. Groovy too.

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+++++ Generally, timing to the music was excellent throughout. I specially liked the part where the mean bunnies came along, just as the music changed. Also the part prior to that where after a bunch of bags crashing down on him, he catches a little falling can.

+++++ Made me laugh multiple times. The slapstick comedy. The crazy animals racing along. The spit coming out the mean bunny's mask. So much here I liked.

++++ The part at the end, with the ribbon unfurling slowly as the music tempo changes , makes me feel sorry for the pussy.

+ I like the posters for the band in the tube station.

++++ Graphics are practically impeccable.

-- Maybe more graphical variation would have been nice? Maybe splash shots like Luis has?

- Could hypothetically have even more stuff packed in.

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Brilliant. A step up from the original (hoho). Funny, rocking, great graphics, a sweet story... your heart would have to be made of ice to resist the charms of this animation.

[There she is!!!]

Fantasmic.

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------ I HATE FLASH MOVIES STARTING AUTOMATICALLY! Put in a play button at the start, after it has loaded.

++ I like the painted backgrounds.

++ The limited colours works really well.

++++ Great art in general. Vectors are nice and clean and all the transitions, camera movements and everything are handled really well.

- Though the 'scratch lines' in one scene are a bit shoddy in comparison to the rest of the movie.

++++ Great story overall. I specially like the way that after the cat surrenders, he starts falling in love with her. I didn't consider the parallels between this and interracial marriages until mentioned by a previous reviewer.

+++++ Great music

++++ Made me smile throughout.

-- It could have been even faster paced yet... Maybe some watercolour splash shots or something thrown in to add even more diversity.

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A fantasmic music video. Well worthy of the pedestal it has been placed upon.

[Shinsetsu, Pas Ecchi]

Still not too keen on the story.

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++ Some of the artwork is rather nicely drawn. You have good drawing skills.

+ I kinda like how it's all different styles.

++ For once, I could understand your story. Except for Seph. Was that just a random insert, or did she think her crush was Seph for a moment? That was kinda confusing...

-- When the snowball was being thrown, it was just too slow. There were other bits which I felt suffered from a similar problem.

- The story seemed a little insubstantial. I mean, it had a bit of comedy at the start (which made me half-smile) then a bit about the characters, then a yaoi thing for the fangirls. No exploration of the characters and the comedy was a bit lacking. It's really all about the naked dudes, isn't it?

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Better than 'Andrea's heart' in pretty much every aspect. Seems like you're improving, so keep at it. Hope I've helped give you some pointers.

By the way what's with your pre-loader? The face looks like it's a button meant to link to your site or something, but clicking on it doesn't do anything.

Stay funky,
- Bez

[Andrea's Heart]

I don't much like the story.

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++ In the close-up of Andrea's eyes, her left eye's quite stylishly drawn.

+ Also, the gay love scene looks like you put more effort in there... *rolls eyes...*

++ The music suited the kind of feel you were going for.

--- I hate the way when we replay, it starts up again without the old instance stopping (so 2 instances of the song are playing simultaneously).

-- The beginning (with the girl and the runes), though I think it's your 'logo' or whatever, I wasn't sure if it was part of the movie or not. It was kinda confusing.

--- I didn't feel the story was that well told. I mean, if you wanna say she committed suicide, I wouldn't have gotten that from just the movie. I'd have taken the blood and everything to be symbolic of her broken heart.

--- I don't like this story very much. I mean this dude cheated on his gf and went with another guy? No wonder she got messed up! He seems like a bastard to me and I don't see any reason to side with him. Also, the movie doesn't really explore his true feelings or hers at all. Just that he's saying he's 'ready to love again'. (Though I notice he doesn't explicitly say anything about being more faithful.)

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Nice music, adequate animation, but I just don't like the story or the way it's told all that much.

[Russian Roulette]

Only one ending made me grin.

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+++ Some nice art. Specially the close-up of the gun.

- Hands don't look so hot.

-- Animation of moving hands is bad.

+++ I like the way you have different animations for each chamber.

+++ The 'losing' animation is quite funny.

--- The others could have been made yet more interesting. Maybe a short quip like 'up yours!' or something else to add some humour?

+++ The song was a great choice.

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The whole thing was quite intriguing and the losing ending made me grin. It was a little boring going through all the 'winning' animations to see that one though.

I was kinda chuffed at first though, when I 'won' on my first go.

Btw, what's a 'flash class'? Is that a module at school?

f0d responds:

module... lol

i took a class at my high school as a part of the multimedia academy that I'm a part of. Its like a school within a school, where you get to do various things involving multimedia, meaning photoshop, animation, and filmmaking.

thanks for the review

[Random odd silly collect]

I smiled at one point. Which is very little.

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--- Terrible graphics throughout

-- Terrible synching in Milkshake man.

++ Chao farm made me smile.

-- The rest didn't.

--- Many voices were unintelligible.

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I was actually hoping for something totally different. Like maybe a guy who collects random things and puts them away in his house... then one day his collection of armed missiles is stolen by his collection of terorrists and he uses his collection of FBI agents to find them... or something.

I don't care much for the sort of flashes you have here really.

MrBigStick responds:

if you want to see a guy get his missiles stolen, then stop whining at me and open flash and get to work. i don't do requests anymore.

[Corporate Dummy]

Very cool

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+++ Everything seems to be timed well to the beats.

+++ I really like the design of the corporate dummies, with the barcode mouths and everything.

- I find myself unsure about the ending - has the dude literally died? Is this meant to show us that life is more important and precious than any job - that we should cherish every moment we have? Or is it a metaphorical crash?

++ But it's great that the animation made me care enough to get me thinking about these things.

- Ending doesn't have the 'woah' effect on me I think it was meant to have. I never really got a sense of him really climbing up the ladder until the very end, when he was on the graph.

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A very cool animation which does make me think - partially about what your meaning was.

It maybe wasn't as powerful as intended though.