Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[How To Win Portal Awards]

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+++ Cool idea. Subject matter instantly grasps people's attention. Well that of authors anyway.

-- Poor buttons. Sort out the hitboxes on frame 4. Perhaps use a big rectangle in that frame.

+++ Cool bg logo.

-- Kinda garish text colours and button colours.

---- Really thin on actual info. There's a lot of tips and tricks you can use to get these awards, none of which are mentioned.

--- The bg for the 'voice' version is really boring. Maybe you could have instead had an option - text alone/text with voice?

- Voice option does seem kinda pointless.

++ Cool sounding wee snippets.

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Nice idea, but for what is essentially just textual information it's just not informative enough.

Frenzy responds:

okay, thanks.

.frenZy.

[Adolf N' Woodrow 01]

ain, but for gi

'6' for gfx mainly for intro and fonts.

+ seems a fair observation.

---- I have no idea who WW is.

+++ German barbie girl+Hitler comparison made me chuckle.

--- Limited nature.

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Yeah, nothing to watch again, but for giving me a chuckle, I give a 7.

The song is fantastically funny and whilst that's a large portion of the appeal, the appeal is still there.

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States of America during WWI

Thanks for the review ^_^

[Birth of Newgrounds]

I come away feeling

+ Great font at the start.

+++ Dramatic music creating suspense and intrigue.

+++ Lovely colours. Specially for the eye and also for the video footage.

+++ The watch is specially nice.

-- Is the kid beating the dude up/the guy jumping the camera meant to be one and the same? If so, the hair looks kinda different...

-- Abd if it's meant to be Tom, whilst it's like him when he's jumping the camera, the bit when he's beating the guy up isn't.

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Basically, despite watching this 4 times, I'm totally confused. Are these people meant to represent folk? Who's the guy at the end? Is that meant to be someone uploading to NG or some archivist?

And what's with the NG 'paper' at the start? Is that representing some dude tearing up the NG magazine that Tom made?

The fact is though that your great gfx and colours did encourage me to spend a few minutes thinking about it all... so well done I guess.

Another fact though, is that I come away feeling unfulfilled, not any happier and not 'moved' in any way really.

Masonogy1 responds:

Read the Author comments before you watch... Its my interpretation of how Newgrounds.com was developed... It is meant to be a wierd Eerie stylistic approach to the formation of Newgrounds.com! It was supposed to make you think, so i did my job! :)

To be able to understand you really need to know about Tom Fulps past life... I might add a link to the lit page in the movie!