wizardman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Drive Drive Revolution 4]

Interesting

First thing I noticed were the pinty waves, as I would suggest curving them out a bit next time. The rest of the background looked pretty good, if a bit crude. Of course, the sea voyage part lasted way longer than it should have considering nothign really happened. Then you go and end the flash with a picture and music, which knocked the rating down a bit.

Wadezilla responds:

SEA VOYAGES TAKE AS LONG TIME ASSHOL

[Bbq goes to chinese]

k

It wasn't necessarily a bad flash, I just personally didn't like it. The animation was far too choppy for my tastes, and although the graphics weren't too bad, it didn't feel like anything was really going on. So he gets Chinese, gdoesn't like it, adn shoots everyone. It felt kind of boring, adn you could have made it a lot more interesting.

Bbqbeefburgerman responds:

The point was he got plateful of bizarre looking chinese food in front of him, he didnt like it so he shot everyone.

[[KK] Stick Advance]

Not that bad

OKay, so I didn't liek the intro at all :P. Now that I got that out of the way, it wasn't too bad. The stick flashes got gradually better, the music was good, plus it was somewhat funny to see the sticks hit the tree. My main problems were that there was no #5. Not sure if there's meaning behind that. Also, I'm not exactly sure what the point of the extra was.

Magyar responds:

there was an intro??
the sticks getting better was the plan.
the stick hit the tree!?!?!?!? i never animated that.
What is this number 5 you speak of?
no one knows what the meaning of the extra was.... .... .... .... ....

[666BloodyFuck]

Uh...

Thsi was an interesting, well, piece of art that you've thrown up here. It's not exactly a flash since there was little animation and no real plot. Still, what you have in itself isn't all that bad. Teh graphics and sound were pretty good, though the static kinda made it hard to see what was going on. It didn't need a preloader though since it wasn't all that large, but I would have liked for more to have happened.

Sir-CannabisClock responds:

newgrounds needs more people like you

[Sunshine: ATW]

Quite fun

Took me a while to figure out what I could move and what I couldn't, but once I figured out everything this was a good flash. Thsi was a decent song, but I have to say that I like the original sunshine song better. Thsi one did work though. Moving the Earth was pretty cool, and pickgin the random thigns was fun. Not as much going on as I would've liked, but not much else you could've done.

Omgee responds:

I just did this one for variety. :) I probably could've added a lot more, but I got bored with it, and I know how short attention spans are, anyway, so I kind of figured people wouldn't watch it for too long, anyway.

[Enter DrPepperPoker]

yawn

This flash wan't horribly awful, I'll give you that. The graphics were pretty good, and I liked the voice of DrPepperPoker. That being said, there wasn't a whole lot to the flash. There wasn't any sort of plot, plus it seemed like a clock/lock thing that you were tryign to do, which I cant' say you pulled off. It was an okay attempt, but nothing good.

ampm responds:

googooggaaga

[Talking to a robot]

Meh

Okay, perhaps 3/5 is a bit much, but this wasn't too bad. The graphics were very good, and the lack of a true background or anything added to the flash a bit. The dialogue was kinda hard to hear at some points, and there were some scratchy parts, though they may have been on purpose. That guy in th background was cool, even though I didn't understand the purpose there. For soem reason I just didn't like how the flash was made though, as it didn't feel like anything was going on to me.

NightShadowTWO responds:

Fwd: i understand. this flash was totally random coz nothing in the voice recording was planned. its more of an animation practice than a planned humourful flash movie :)

[Blockhead: Episode 8]

Slightly disappointing, but awesome (~4096 chars)

Well, true to your word, you managed to churn out this episode before the end of Halloween. Since it was a Ghostmas-themed episode, I was most definitely excited for this. I’ve went too long without BH as it is. I mean, why else would I have made that soundboard? But anyway, onto my review.
First off, the cold open (which is the part before the title screen. It’s an actual term, but I’m sure you know that already). We’re starting off in a grocery, which I could tell would be funny. The first thing I notice is that you changed the outline on Blockhead, if only just for the first minute or so. Can’t say I liked it. Still, him jumping on the conveyor and having fun on that was definitely amusing, even though the outline was visibly different when he fell off. It pretty much just revolved around him putting the gum on the table and trying to anger the cashier. That in itself was a nice attempt at humor, though I can’t say it was that great. Blockhead then handed the Id to the cashier and tried to look like the guy on the ID, and that I definitely cracked up laughing at. BH actually did a pretty good job of looking like that weird guy. He continues doing his occasional snake imagery, including hitting the cashier and taking a nice bite out of the table for some reason. I am still not sure what his fascination for the destruction of property is, but oh well. And you used the Halloween theme for the title again, yay.
Now onto the actual episode, what fun. As I was saying about Blockhead’s destruction of property fetish, who exactly cleans the mess up every episode? I’ll be honest though, it seems at if you went overboard with the Conscience in this episode. It’s always hilarious to see him get pissed off, but he seemed overzealous and just too angry this time. Maybe that’s just me though. I also have to say that your animation and graphic have actually greatly improved. Everything looks more realistic in this episode it seems. The hearts on the wall were a nice touch, and they go very well with the whole idea of Ghostmas. I mean, is it not about l-l-love? Not sure how BH got stuck in the TV, but that may be better if I didn’t ask. BH can’t be too intelligent if he’s just wearing his #1 guy costume again. Or perhaps he doesn’t remember last year’s Ghostmas, since this is a different version than last year. I must say though, that was one of the least durable televisions I’ve ever seen. It was around for 15 years too . I loved how defensive he got about his costume, or his “retard uniform”. And then we get to the best part, the Ghostmas Carol.
I must say, BH isn’t that bad of a singer. He’s a little pitchy in a few spots, a couple flat notes, but he was alright. Yeah, I had to thro American Idol in my review. I’m quickly learning that Ghostmas is about spray paint (which we learned last year) and pumpkin, or throwing pumpkins at unsuspecting...cars. The scene with the woman who’s angry at BH actually shows off your knack for showing detail at its finest, even though there wasn’t a whole lot of it on the part where he breaks into the house. I find it amusing how the couple though BH was after drugs. I’m not sure if I care for BH’s occasional stuttering in the episode, since it seems out of character for him. For the couple, you could’ve shown some face animation when they woke up, but oh well, BH scaring them afterwards was funny. And then, we see the one thing that deep sown we were all expecting: Blockhead rowing on a skateboard; that was definitely hilarious. Then we see the muscled up cop who arrests BH. He probably enjoyed riding in the back of that police wagon for all we know. It’s funny how he’s so stupid as to say he’s going to break into some houses to a policeman. Plus, that house he was by looked pretty sweet. Oh, and I loved the Tongs Radio bumper sticker. He manages to get out, while he actually thinks he was being helpful. Hopefully he didn’t get hurt when he was run over when the flash ended.
Great graphics and sound, humor was more hit-and-miss than I would have liked. Overall not my favorite, but great.

The-Swain responds:

Haha, you know, I just went to smoke-show's "No - 2000" cartoon to watch it again after a year of not having seen it, and I noticed the review you left it in '05. I then thought I'd check your reviews to see if you had taken a look at Blockhead 8. I didn't expect that it would also be the latest review my cartoon had gotten. How's that for coincidence?

First, I thought I'd comment on the sleeping couple in the final part of the episode. See, on my monitor the darkness obscures the woman's features and any attempt I made at detailing were abandoned. On top of that, she's so small in that shot that I didn't think anything of it.

Now, as for his song... :) I am no operatic singer or anything, but I animated a lot of his movement before I recorded the song, and in some of the shots it looks a bit like he is straining to produce a sound. I mean, I sing in the car a whole lot, but I imagine that Blockhead has never had that luxury. Plus, it's a lot easier to try to sing worse than it is to try to sing better :)

And I imagine the TV has probably changed at least once, because I finally got around to adding a green on-light to it, now that I'm no longer using JPG backgrounds.

Oh, and as for Blockhead's house. Maybe one day I'll explain why things seem to "fix themselves" after Blockhead destroys them, but I can't really explore that just yet. Let's just leave it within the realm of possibility, where you'll also find such questions as "why does Blockhead even own a house to begin with?"

Also, Blockhead's stuttering isn't a speech problem so much as he's got a problem coming to terms with certain concepts, such as "love". I mean, he is part stupid, but he's also part insane, and the insanity was really starting to win out in this episode.

And Blockhead has survived more than one car accident already, so I'm sure he'll be fine. He is immune to slapstick.

[Steve Irwin: A Tribute]

Nice

Why did he have to die? Anyway, this wasn't necessarily much of a flash. At the same time, it wasn't meant to be. It was really just some pictures with music. The music itself was very good and fit well with the flash. I guess I was expecting more besides this, maybe some animation or something. It's hard to do one when smeone dies unexpectedly though. RIP Steve.

Frenzy responds:

Yeah, but thanks for the review, wizardman!

[Blockhead: Quick Shot 1]

Great

I'm not going to give 10's across the board since it's technically not a full episode, but this was in fact very good for what it was. It was nice to be able to see the Time Squad characters, adn of course their amusic is awesome. The preloader was pretty cool, even though it wasn't as detailed as your other one. The TV show was kinda weird, with the whole teeth thing rearing it's head (I never quite got the teeth joke, but it's still pretty funny). Of course, Blockhead remains himself as becomes a great guy to laugh at again, as he's only interested in watching the show. (Although the TV is off when the Time Squad characters come and go, just a little nitpick I found. Or maybe he turned it off at the exact moment they showed up? I dunno, maybe they have special powers to turn off tv's or somethign without doing anything.) Of course, throwing in the laugh track makes the show great as well. The conscience at the end was good, but he felt kinda out of place at the end there. still, can't complain about seeing Blockhead again. Looks like you'll win daily 2nd today though, meaning you'll have all 5 daily awards. I'm sure only a handful at most can say they have that. Now to finish workign on the you-know-what.

The-Swain responds:

I wouldn't mention it except that you brought it up, but I'll point out a few things about Blockhead's TV. See, I am kind of writing around the idea that it doesn't work and never has. He never actually turned on his cable in Ep.1, and in Ep.6 the TV show he was watching ended up being in his head as soon as the Conscience showed up. The TV being off in this cartoon wasn't a mistake at all :D (though I was thinking of putting static on the screen to indicate it, but decided against it since there was no static in Ep.1 or Ep.6). Glad you noticed though!

And the cartoon ended the Newgrounds day in fifth, but at a 4.0 score. Can't complain about that!