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I'm not sure if Ben & Arthur is a passion project from someone with no knowledge or experience in film and no money or talent or if it i clever ruse to get the director (Sam Mraovich) to make-out with a semi-attractive man. IMDB estimates that this film cost 40 grand and it shows. The acting is terrible. The entire thing looks like a shitty YouTube video from 2008. The score is all public domain songs, like The Entertainer and none of them make sense for the scene they are used in. The sets are terrible; they have exterior shots of a church, but the actual church set is made of tissue paper (where we can see light glaring through the gaps in the corners) and a cross that they clearly made out of cardboard. The effects are garbage with "tricks" like putting a cigarette in a fake gun to mimic the smoking barrel. The plot makes no sense both because things just happen for no reason and entire plot lines just disappear. Ben & Arthur is easily a half star movie, but it's enjoyable in a good bad movie way. It's unintentionally hilarious the entire time. It totally fails as the gay rights movie it thinks it is, but it offers plenty or laughs.
By : Greg Mueller | Date : 4 years ago
