IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Exploding Fungus (silent)]

So! the great Bezman has...

a skeleton in his cupboard!? (albeit one with a score of just over 4, which goes to prove how artificial NG scores can be!)

I cant compete with the last reviewer for technical skill in reviewing so I won't try.

+ its vaguely funny
+ it has some a punch line, therefore purpose, which makes it better than quite a few NG subs

-it looks crap, with no background, meaningless colours, no shading
-very few movies get through without sound- even just an explosion would be a considerable improvement.
-animation very crude.

You must have some powerful friends or something, I don't see any clocks or B's in it. How did you get this through judgement?

I wonder how you would have reviewed it if it came from someone you didn't know? I ask myself that of my own work sometimes and it pushes me to do better.
Best Wishes,
Ice

Bezman responds:

Thanks for the review!

Bear in mind that this was 2001. Kong had been at #1 for a few months straight. Nothing else could reach the score of 4.00. There were far fewer submissions and 'spam groups' weren't around. Everyone had a far greater chance of getting accepted into the portal.

When the famous B was submitted, my understanding is that passed of its own merit - people just found the shock of finding that letter and nothing else amusing.

Likewise, some folk just found this made them chuckle. Check one of the first reviews for proof.

For the record, it passed at maybe 2.5ish. Above 2 anyway. I voted it up afterwards myself - something I wouldn't do now - and did so until it reached 3.7. A fan took it upon themselves to upvote all my stuff recently. I didn't ask them to.

In a way, my LLL account was an attempt to have a fresh slate, free of upvoting and whatnot.

Stay funky!

[Periodi City]

I eat cheese & jam- its cool!

Dragons & Spirits like weird food combinations and we support eduFlash, so its OK with me!

Periodicity fascinates me and you made a good effort. so much so I gave you a resonably good score, but you know its a mess.
the blue blocks of small letters are very hard to read, increase the contrast.
You need to tell everyone who the characters are at the end.

PJEskoria responds:

Ah! thanks!!! Good to know someone understands this is meant to be a type of eduflash! i thought of giving a more specific bio of each character at the end, but my due date was eating me up.

[-Wii-]

Very good little thing

Makes the Wii look good. Nice images. Good sound

Jimtopia responds:

Oh, cool, thx.

[The Spirit of Halloween 1]

Like Inusfan...

I tend to go into movies above Brackwood ready to vote them down to 'their proper place'...but...
All my five R belong to you today!

+Art
+detail
+animation
+timing
+Sound
+Character
This could be on TV.
I dont usually bother reviewing stuff where everyone's already said it all.
I seriously look forward to Ep 2
Well Done.
I would give you some constructive criticism if I could think of any.
Thanks,
Ice

squeakytoad responds:

Thanks.
It was really great to score up there at first, but now this movie scores less than my other movies that never even made it in the top fifty.
Why?
Cause people didn't even realize that it takes 24 hours for the top fifty to refresh and wanted to get it down below Bitey.
It's pretty annoying.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the review!

[Ivanhoe the great]

Very sorry

When the music cut and repeated I thought it was a dumb NG loop and B'd it with a 0/5. Soreeee!
Then I saw someones review and thought "Ninja?" and looked again. Its funny, it just needs a background and credits and I would pass it. I will give you and inflated review score to try and make up for it!

RichArt responds:

yeah.. that's a shame, you sure hitted that button fast!

[Happy Fathers Day!]

OK

short and to the point. the music at the beginning was clipped short, so it didnt sound very good. See if you can think of a way round that.

All the Dragons & Spirits use a mouse. None of us has a pad yet. A lot of the best guys use one, but it depends what you are used to. If you already used a mouse in Paint for many years, like me, then its doesn't matter much, otherwise maybe a pad is good. try someone else's and see how you get on.
Asking that question was a smart way to get reviews!

JunkYardAnimations responds:

Do you still use the mouse 13 years later? I dooooo <3

[The Random Collab]

Not too bad, but...

nothing really grabbed me at all. There was some bits and pieces of reasonable images, but not mauch animation and no real point to any of it. The tank bit was vaguely funny, but that was it really. It was well enough put together and the credits were fine.

Authors is spelt thus.

DrunkAlien responds:

No u >:(

[Flash to the Present]

OK but not great

+some good graphics
+good lip sync
Maybe its just me but...
Were we supposed to know these people? Was this story supposed to make any more sense than just someone coming home from space and not being missed?
I didnt get that other guy who just appeared for a moment. Wa that just random?
I didn't get the repetition thing yep yep yep?

I guess most people know the music is Johhny B Goode, but you should still put it in the credits, especially since there are ship loads of versions of JBG- that was the Chuck Berry version, yes?

pastabilities responds:

the other guy was a cutaway, the repetition thing is half parodying king of the hill, it is the chuck berry version.

[That's My Fulp 8]

Good laugh

Some nice stuff in there. It helps if we know the Ackbar series.

I can just picture the staff rushing to get round a monitor and see your latest, then ribbing each other for the rest of the day!

I was kinda hoping to see Stamper screw up NG in their absence, do you think you could insert that somehow- just a quick bit at the end?

MaddFlash2 responds:

Thanks for the review.

[Tank_Sm.gif]

OK

The movie's OK, the sounds OK, the musics OK. Its not great, its kinda short with basic animation etc etc etc.

Never mind all that- is it for real? I've never seen this little thing?
Where is it? Are we really supposed to save it- should I alert all the Dragons & Spirits on Friday?
Tank_Sm.gif forever?
Tank_Sm.gif we love you?
don't go Tank_Sm.gif ?
How dare they take away our beloved Tank_Sm.gif ?
Is that the idea?
I mean we can do this... I can ask the Spirits- Hefalump will pout and Pegasus will cry and earthdragon will make the ground shake and they will have to listen to us!

Not-Stuff4u2kno responds:

Yea. It is real. If you click on the forums link under the newground banner > look for where it tells you when you visted last and it will be on the opposite side.

That is the idea and if you want to you can ;) Nifty review btw ^^