Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[All Your Leet]

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I'm not sure what emotion you hoped to spark. Confusion? Nostalgia? Anger? Bemusement?

In me, this provoked the marginal confusion above and perhaps also disappointment and boredom. Nothing else.

IThe title screen - with badly drawn text shifitng around - just doesn't look good. If you're gonna draw out text, make it well drawn.

I haven't seen the intro drawn out before, but the fact that it was drawn, rather than the original screenshots, actually reduced the appeal imo. Your drawings weren't graphically appealing.

I kina liked the pic with the petrol station prices, as it seemed like something that could actually happen in life without staging and wasn't obvious like the clocks.

I admit I never liked the original though and any 'craze' is long passed. The idea of this kind of slideshow just seems kind of boring - amusing the first time you see it, but never thereafter.

Sispri responds:

Fads pass and I guess this is old.

[Fairwell Ross]

Ross deserves some tributes...

Nicely drawn logo and cool voice at the start.

My first gripe is with the buttons in the menu - you didn't change the graphics for the 'rollover' frame so it isn't as obvious as it could be what's a button and what's being selected.

iShirm's part was nicely drawn (although the animation was fairly minimalistic).

Doesn't seem very pleasant a 'tribute' though and as a tongue-in-cheek joke, it didn't actually make me laugh.

In your part, things could have generally been drawn better - specially the crumpled up paper.

I guess the end frame is meant to be charming in ist's simplicity/primitiveness? I think the two sides could have been clearer - are they meant to be cliffs?Mountains? and some of the lines you have could have maybe been omitted for a cleaner look.

I liked the jolly tune and colours though and the font reminds me of a holiday postcard.

It's a cool tribute and would certainly make me smile if it were dedicated to me.

I felt a bit underwhelmed by this though - might be the length or the lack of real humour or other substance (to my mind).

Little-Renastair responds:

I didn't see the need to have a rollover frame, since there is a change of cursor for when you hover over a button anyway. iShirms part could have had more animation and blah yeah but I had no control over that.

One thing that bugs me is, you saying I could have "drawn better", no I couldn't, if I could have drawn better I would have drawn better. Belive me, I drew what I could, look at my eariler flash and you'll see that I've actually done a little better with my drawing here, so I find that comment quite rude.

As for the end loop to my part, that was just suppost to be silly and everything, didn't hostly put a whole lot of effort into making it, so yeah, the sides where ment to be buildings, Yahoo having more to represent a bigger company.

[MTC Vs. Pico.]

Fairly fun

Tom looked fairly cute.

You should've had some moving mouths - it didn't really seem like the wee boy was dissing MTC - more like someone else had said that line and he had stepped on-camera.

The words at the start were kinda hard to understand.

I liked the ending.

To me it seems like you could've fitted in a few visual jokes, with Pico/MTC downing beer/shots before Pico collapses. Might have helped with the flow, too.

Cool vibes though.

TheCriminalDuder responds:

Big thanks. Ya, I think from now on if I don't have time to add somethin' I'll be bittin' the bullet and get-her-done on a later date. Till then I'll also see if I can reorganize my schedule so I have more time to work.

[Pico v. Teh UberKidz]

Kinda cute drawings/voices/sfx.

My favourite part was Nene sucking darnell.

The drawings were pretty cute and though it wasn't anything but tweens, it is kinda charming.

I was really hoping for more jokes though - there's already so many of these intentionally primitive flashes, that it's no longer a novelty. You need to introduce more jokes or something else to pull it up.

tehslaphappy responds:

Okie.....Thanks. :3

[Tom's Birthday Song]

Cool homage

Matched the style of his song/animation fairly well.

Do you really know him well enough for him to be your friend though?

Could have had more jokes in it, and some rhymes feeled a bit obvious/forced, like the beard being 'a fright'.

However, it was an enjoyable watch. Music was recorded really cleanly.

Rudy responds:

Yeah, I wanted to match his song style and animation. :) And no, I personally do not know Tom. I'm sure the staff think i'm some creeper but honestly, the creator of Newgrounds, is a friend of mine (:

[a PICO DAY message]

Cool concept.

Models, rigging and animating all within 7 hours? Nice.

The gloves looked a bit too big - like they were nearly twice the length they should be.

The voice was totally awesome and made the animation for me. Spot on impersonation and good acting!

Some decent mouth shapes and a bit of body language - could have gone a lot further in that area, but I'll overlook it.

Seeing this from you definitely added to the greatness of the day, even though it wasn't necessarily a better entry. Cool concept.

Jazza responds:

nah just the animation... i had the models done a few weeks ago

[LOVEBLIMP]

Good vibrations.

That was pretty cool.

Simple plot, but nice vibes. Also, the graphics for the smiling blimps and the end song pretty much make it.

The graphics near the start leave something to be desired. The words could have been better decorated - maybe having 3d-style block letters or something for 'love' etc and more angular letters for 'war' etc.

The bomb could have used some shading and the frame for when the green blimp drops his cigar could have been better.

Also, the blurry rainbow doesn't fit in brilliantly with the crisp vectors in my opinion.

Your smiling faces rock though, the hearts-as-smoketrails are awesome and the song is brilliant.

Makes me smile, despite slight graphical issues.

-Review Request Club-

WritersBlock responds:

Yeah, it's not the best, but the style is simple and attractive, despite the flaws.

Maybe next year I could put more time and effort into a Loveblimp-2. LOL
<3
Thanks for the review.