Ben-Spurgin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Frost'D]

OMG!!

I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard at a Flash!! "Get the fuck out of the way!" HAha! I was dying!
Great work as always!! Loved the backgrounds on this one. Did you use painter?

MindChamber responds:

nope just photoshop, and thanks man!

[The Retro Skateboard]

Sweet!

The beginning is like a music video! I love how music conjures pictures in my brain and then Flash lets me bring them to life! Cept for me it's mostly classical action movie soundtracks. Right now I'm diggin' on 10,000 BC! That's definitely what I'm making my next movie to!

LinkXRetro responds:

thanks! =)

[With My Mind's Madness]

Awesome, as usual!

Hmmm... crucifixion as a super power. Who woulda thought!!! It's so great how music can inspire a whole cartoon! I must have a hundred cartoons in my head that are yet to be made from all the classical soundtracks I listen to. Too bad my graphics tablet is busted!! :/ Keep 'em comin, always happy to see new stuff from my best bud!
Also... "DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!"

MindChamber responds:

I love you bro, we need to collab already, for cereal

[Taking over me]

Good job!!!

That's always the biggest challenge of a director ... to provoke some sort of emotion. Even more challenging with Flash!!

OurGuardian responds:

Thats what I search in my flashes, emotion. I think emotion is really important !

[Sureal Halloween short!]

Cmon man

Surreal is spelled with two "r"s you look like a moron when you spell it that way

Sureal-Inc responds:

Not to make you look stupid but it's my company logo and it's spelled like that puposly!WOW YOU CAN READ!!!
WANNA COOKIE?

[(2003)Jacob II]

WTF

That was hella stupid

Knox responds:

yeah and a guy killing abunch of sticks......very...clevor...

[Detective Frofrog 2]

Hmm

Pluses - Nice art, fun preloader games. Wacky abstract storyline.
Minuses - No humor (at least none that appealed to my particular sort of humor. Perhaps Eskimo Bob fans or stick fans might like it), the beginning was a "look how much work I put in vote me higher" plug that was unnecessary. 8 months? Try 1.5 years for Pimp's Quest and going on 2 years for Pimp's Quest 2 or 8 months for 1:30 Lords of Battle and so forth. <flash tip #4,000: When shading your guys, imagine where the light source would be and draw darkness on the opposite side.> Audio was rather terrible. I know you did it all yourself, but since you're not making any money you are covered under fair use so you don't have to worry about copyright infringement so GET SOME GOOD MUSIC. And I KNOW you'd do wayyyy better if you had some other voice talent. Maybe just do a cameo or something but I'm sure you can find better!
OK i'm done.

McRhyme responds:

Okay, first off:

- I'm sorry Ben. It is not obvious to me that I have hurt your feelings. I remember I reviewed one of your movies and told you it was worth a 6/10. Well, forgive me. I change my mind. I'd say it's worth at least a 8 or a 9. But I was being hard on you. I really wanted you to push yourself. Know what I mean? I really felt that that movie was just the same ol' thing from you. I had NEVER reviewed the movie if I hadn't cared for you. Ok?

I will not comment any of you things you wrote here. I just hope we can be friends instead. We are two great flash animators, you and I. We should stick (bad choice of word) together!

[Barge of a 1000 Bullets]

Heheh nifty!

Looks like you're giving my boy Randy a run for his money. I totally loved ur rainbow stuff back in the day, I used to show it to everybody.
Keep it up!
-Ben

JeremyLokken responds:

I just wanted to see what it was like to do a pixel movie. Sounds like I'll have to make another, but I'm really down with hand drawn toons. Videographer in Seattle, that's like 5 hours away from here (EWU). Did you go to AI of Seattle? Or elsewhere?

[Robocop:001]

Wow

Nice music hehehhe I guess great minds think alike ;)
Now I have to go change my pants, as that was the most beautiful 3D I have ever seen in Flash! You were the one who made me take Flash out of the trash almost 3 years ago, and you haven't stopped being my favorite Flash artist!
-Ben
P.S. Thanks for being Stick Slayer!

MindChamber responds:

Hey Man thanks for the props!.. And I'm glad I could help.. becuase now we inspire each other.. (Circle Of Life)0_0`

Thanks for the honors of StickSlayer dude! I hope I do him justice!

[Pleasure cruise Part 5]

Advice:

You can get rid of the synching problems by putting 10 blank frames at the beginning of the scene. It just sucks otherwise.

MarioTheMonkey responds:

Thank you for your advice but I don't understand what you say... if I put 10 blank frames at the begining of each scene, the movie will stop 1/2 second more than 60 times... I don't like it!
Please give more details of your idea.