Sam Mraovich (Ben and Arthur) -

[telegramsamo]

Sam Mraovich is my all time favorite lolcow. He's the director of the the legendary masterpiece Ben and Arthur. He hasn't released a movie since then, instead deciding to shelve his follow-up film Steve's Hollywood Story, but he has left us with plenty of content including a Facebook page he occasionally updates.

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Some fake reviews Sam wrote for B&A on IMDb

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Here is Sam's long forgotten Angelfire website complete with an unnecessary picture of him shirtless on the beach and a seizure inducing black text on red background:

http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/benandarthur/

 

[Carlson]

Oh God, this fucking movie. I've actually sat down and watched it twice, and I'm convincing my kinda-girlfriend to sit down and watch it with me so we can riff on it.

I wrote a full review of it once about two years ago. Let me pull out some of the more interesting parts:

* The guy was a hairdresser and real estate salesman who wanted to break into Hollywood. He figured the best way to do this would be to make a direct-to-video film. Only problem is that not only did he have no budget, he insisted on doing everything himself: he's credited as director, producer, executive producer (don't ask how that works), writer, music director, editor, cinematographer, casting director, and lead actor.

* It was filmed on a Sony VX2000, a camcorder that achieved most of its prominence in the early 2000s by skaters. It's perfectly fine for home movies, but for any kind of professional film? There's ways to make an iPhone look good with proper lighting, settings, and framing. But not a VX2000. It doesn't help that the movie seems to exclusively use natural lighting, rather than any kind of lighting rigs. There's one scene where Sam wanted to shoot a dark bedroom with the lights actually turned off, which means that Ben moving around is basically black on black motion. The Youtube copy of this film includes annotations by the uploader saying exactly what's going on. Also, the film has zero camera equipment beyond a tripod. And zero audio equipment beyond the camera microphone, which makes the film a pain to listen to with how terrible the sound quality is.

* Sam just used whatever he could film of planes taking off for the couple's trip to Vermont for a gay wedding. The first one is I think an Alaska Airlines plane (clearly does not go from LA to Vermont), but the second is a FedEx cargo plane.

* The short little gunfight at the end. Victor has his own gun (a painted water pistol) and Arthur has a gun (I think an airsoft Beretta 92) that was acquired earlier in the film. Problem is, the guns end up not only randomly switching owners right before the final scene (with Arthur pulling Victor's gun from the drawer and Victor having the Beretta), but the guns constantly change hands during the shootout. I mean, that goes beyond continuity errors into complete mental retardation.

 

[telegramsamo]

Oh God, this fucking movie. I've actually sat down and watched it twice, and I'm convincing my kinda-girlfriend to sit down and watch it with me so we can riff on it.

I've actually seen it five or six times. I think it's why I'm such a bad person.

 

[Carlson]

Oh God, this fucking movie. I've actually sat down and watched it twice, and I'm convincing my kinda-girlfriend to sit down and watch it with me so we can riff on it.

I've actually seen it five or six times. I think I've become a bad person because of this.

Not as bad as taking the girl who has a romantic interest in you and making her watch it. That might actually be illegal somewhere.

 

[telegramsamo]

Oh God, this fucking movie. I've actually sat down and watched it twice, and I'm convincing my kinda-girlfriend to sit down and watch it with me so we can riff on it.

I've actually seen it five or six times. I think I've become a bad person because of this.

Not as bad as taking the girl who has a romantic interest in you and making her watch it. That might actually be illegal somewhere.

I don't know. Maybe if you guys go through something this tragic it'll bring you closer together.

 

[Saney]

Not as bad as taking the girl who has a romantic interest in you and making her watch it. That might actually be illegal somewhere.

I don't know. Maybe if you guys go through something this tragic it'll bring you closer together.

Have to agree with telegramsamo, doing traumatising things with each other makes for a better relationship.

 

[telegramsamo]

Sam came out of hiding and did a little interview.

 

[OBAMATRON]

First thing I thought of when I saw his face was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_John_Bardo.

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[Papaya23]

unnecessary picture of him shirtless

http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/benandarthur/

*scrolls down to shirtless pic*

see that's just the kind of shirtless pic that is entirely neces--

*finds actual shirtless pic of Sam*

I see what you're saying

 

[Watermelon1337]

Is it mandatory for lolcows to be named Sam/Sammy, nowadays?

 

[Dark Mirror Hole]

Here it is, Ben & Arthur:

btw can the mods please move this to the Multimedia forum instead? Nowadays, Sam Mraovich isn't really a HUGE lolcow and it's always nice to have an 'official' Ben & Arthur thread.

 

[telegramsamo]

btw can the mods please move this to the Multimedia forum instead? Nowadays, Sam Mraovich isn't really a HUGE lolcow and it's always nice to have an 'official' Ben & Arthur thread.

Should I change the title or leave it as is?

 

[Dark Mirror Hole]

Should I change the title or leave it as is?

You can always add Ben & Arthur in parentheses but it really doesn't matter.

 

[exball]

Thread needs Jaysus.

 

[Dark Mirror Hole]

A gifset of Sam Mraovich dancing is mandatory:

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[telegramsamo]