Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Hannibal Planet]

It took my imagination to make me grin

The premise is amusing, and I love the opening silhouette shot.

However, I found the speech kinda hard to understand at points - maybe add subtitles? - and the end with 'technical difficulties' was a bit hard to understand. I mean, why did the cameraman start rolling on the grass? To hide? So what were the tech. difficulties? The lack of a sound engineer shouldn't be a problem... you could have had the cameraman go as well for a beter ending.

Lastly - the pouncing animation was a tiny bit weak. But that's a minor niggle.

The 'credits' about Japanese were both amusing and informative. I always assumed that 'kohii' and 'biru' were from English!

The idea makes me smile the more I think about it. However, some better supporting elements could have strengthened the joke.

HalfV responds:

Im surpised that you were able to tell what was being displayed in the credits, and I now realised that subtitles would have been a good idea. The whole camera falling was supposed to be the cameraman dropping the camera while running. Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it

[~BB~ Super Adventure #2]

it was for real

When I heard the Celine Dion music I thought it'd turn out like that, but around the time the last picture came up and it started zooming in, I thought maybe it was for real.

I'm sure you already know yourself that the graphics aren't great. Unimaginative pics in 'act 1' and zooming in on bitmaps is almost always a bit horrible.

I really liked the song at the end. Very appropriate and made me chuckle!

Rigormort1s responds:

Thanks for the review!

[Hemlok & I]

ay ha

----- The voices seemed too quiet and totally incoherent.

++ Kinda cute style of drawing.

++ Amusing little ending.

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I may have kinda enjoyed it, but the fact that I couldn't make out half the words, even after watching for the third time, really ruined it for me.

MetalDart responds:

MetalDart: Thanks for the review. IS THIS LOUD ENOUGH?!?!

Hemlok: You're kinda cute. ;)

[Declaration of Revocation]

it made me

+++ Some parts of the speech made me smile.

+ Bill Gates as Adolf Hitler was mildly amusing.

+ Rocking tune

--- Fixed-speed progress is annoying. For most of it (specially the opening screens), it was too slow, then a couple of pages flicked by before I had time to read them (the pages about french fries/beer).

-- Numbers are often missing or flash by for one frame.

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I'd read this before and it made me smile. However, the re-packaging really added nothing to it and, on the whole, actually resulted in something worse.

Sidorio responds:

Excuse me while I cry.

[How to submit.]

many would do well

I was really impressed how you brought a 'slideshow' to life. The simple changes do well to illustrate your points and the way it normally goes off is actually quite visually appealing.

The menu is great and the fireworks at the start/end are rather stylishly drawn.

Only criticism is its limited nature and the fact that I found it not amazingly funny. Sure, I agree with your points and some made me smile, but it's not the greatest material... I never came close to chuckling.

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Still, it's a flash I enjoyed and many would do well to watch.

Ohls responds:

Another great review. Only thing you forgot was to comment on the elevator music hehe.

As with most of my other old stuff. I found them a lot better when they were made. I remember thinking this was hilarious. I don't think so now though.

[ASCII Animation]

parts, like the tractor

You should set music to stream, so the end's automatically cut off. Just now, the filesize is larger than needs be.

Congrats on getting this onto NG. I do love the idea, though it could be taken much, much further. It's obvious that it's just a test, with all the random things coming on and no real coherence. Not even any cause-and-effect flow that we see in some random flashes.

Technically, I think it'd look cool if all the letters were kept on a grid. Very possible.

Think more about the letters you use.

And definitely don't rotate stuff if you're trying to emulate the ASCII look.

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I liked some parts, like the tractor and the fire, but it's more of a test than a real animation imo.

Still enjoyed the style.

KyleDaFox responds:

Yes, it was a test to see if people liked it. People do so I'm going to start a new one. The filesize is 340kb, that's not much, and I don't want it to just end right away when you finish the animation. I'll be getting a new ASCII animation on NG in about a month, it'll have some sort of a followable plot. Thanks for taking the time to review it:)