I laughed so hard reading the reviews here, I just had to watch this. It's available on the Internet for free, so, I watched it. No one should have to spend money to see it. If I had paid to watch even part of this movie, I would have been really upset. Note: This review has many spoilers, so... you've been alerted.Sam Mraovich stars in the leading role - and also wrote, directed, and produced this movie intending it to be a serious drama about two brothers, one who is gay, the other who is a religious zealot.It's a topic that could have been addressed wonderfully on film, but, WOW, this movie really is as bad as people wrote. Through most of it, you laugh because every aspect of this movie is so horrible. It's like it was thrown together by a few gay drunk junior high schoolers. The entire thing is a mess, start to finish, and is difficult to watch (even for the laughs.) The acting is incredibly bad, as are the lines. Combine bad acting with bizarre and ridiculous lines, and you end up cracking up.For example, the following is one of many hilarious scenes: Victor hires a private investigator to follow his gay brother, Arthur. The PI shows up and knocks on Victor's apartment door, and after Victor opens it, the PI announces, "Hi, I'm the private investigator you hired" while standing outside the apartment.Once inside, Victor says: "My brother is a homosexual. He's marrying a man, and I need to find out what his next move is." The PI looks like he's about age 16, and Victor mentions that he looks very young to be a private investigator. The PI then explains that he's actually just an Intern, and this is his first 'case.' Well, that should have been obvious when he announced he was a PI outside the apartment in the hallway for everyone to hear.The Intern says his fee is $800 a day. Interns get $800 a day? And on their first case? Well, that's no problem for Victor, who pays up. The PI Intern, on his first case, is able to amazingly predict that he'll have everything "in two days" - to which, right after he says that, it screen-cuts to an audience announcement: "Two Days Later." Then you have the annoying fold-out card-table that is used in almost every scene, the same dream-catcher that seems to be a decoration for every room in the movie, a Crayon Jesus "painting" in the Priest's office, them flying on a FedEx shipping airplane for their Honeymoon trip, and the Casio keyboard music throughout the movie.While most of the movie is so absurd, you just have to laugh, there are plenty of other scenes that are downright ugly, creepy, disturbing and bizarre. Certainly not appropriate for anyone under the age of 18. Some of the scenes that left me wondering what kind of person Sam is to come up with (and then actually film) some of this stuff are: A Catholic Priest who repeatedly yells obscenities to his secretary over being out of white out, Sam's character Arthur happily "skips" to his car to get gasoline out of the trunk, which he then pours on the same Priest and lights him on fire, a scene where his brother Victor forces a fully NAKED Arthur to be baptized in his own bathtub, Arthur (played by Sam) getting punched in the face and literally knocked out by his spouse - because Arthur told him he could use his death insurance money to buy 100 bicycles, and a bizarre incestuous moment between the two brothers just before they shoot and kill each other. No, I'm not making this all up.You can get over an hour of that kind of motion picture quality on the Web, just Google the movie title. Oh, you can also use Sam Mraovich to buy or sell your house in Hollywood. Seriously. On his website about his movies he's made (and continues to make), he also encourages you to call him if you're looking for a good real estate agent. No, I'm not kidding.While a lot of the movie is unintentionally hilarious, it's equally just flat out offensive to the LGBT community (I'm gay, and it insulted me in a variety of ways), religion in general, an insult to anyone really trying to put together an Independent amateur film... and so poorly written, acted, and directed that it falls into that category "so bad, it's funny." The truth is, though, I honestly feel sorry for Sam. I'm sorry for him because he isn't embarrassed.

In the history of film, there are only a few pure cinematic perfection. One of those films is Ben & Arthur. Sam brought this to an high level of cinematic understanding, thus how the world communicates with us today. Mraovich wants his audience to express the experience of Ben & Arthur. For example: Arthur and The Detective driving the identical red car. Within the last 10 years of my life, Ben & Arthur really expresses my "emotions". One of my favorite actors throughout the film has to be Mildred. She is totally amazing, its not her acting that shows the audience, its her real emotions and appearance at the same time. Her dialog in the coffee shop is totally one of the greatest I have ever heard throughout my entire life. Mraovich is a truly inspirational man, there are only a rare few of men like Mraovich himself in the world. It is indeed sad how Mraovich himself doesn't work in the film industry any more. His talented work in Ben & Arthur is truly amazing. One also best scene is Arthur dancing in the nightclub. His dancing is also "amazing". So to all of you, you must experience Ben & Arthur. My rating is 10/10 Experience it. That is Ben & Arthur.

You know you're in for a real treat right from the beginning, as the EZ-Piano version of The Entertainer plays very slowly over the opening credits, who are mostly Sam Mraovich and other people named Mraovich. The direct-to-videotape quality is that of a very mediocre high school film project - made by people who have been held back so many times they're in their mid 20's.If you enjoy spotting plot holes, glaring inconsistencies and downright goofs, then this is a movie for you. They start right at the beginning and don't let up for an hour and a half.The movie opens as our protagonists, Ben and Arthur, are overjoyed to learn that gay marriage has been legalized in Hawaii. They immediately buy plane tickets, but their hopes are dashed a few hours later when the judge issues a stay against his own ruling (huh?), so they decide instead to go to Vermont (couldn't they have done that before?). At this point, Ben confesses that he still needs to divorce his wife. I gather they believe polygamy is legal in Hawaii, because this didn't become a worry until the change of venue. Ben's wife must not have noticed that he moved out and has been living with another man for some time, because she is caught completely off guard both by his revelation that he is gay and by the divorce papers, which she refuses to sign. Ben assures Arthur that he will contact his lawyer to handle it. This must be one hell of a lawyer, because they are able to marry just a few days later - among the gently swaying palm trees of Vermont! The ex-wife makes one brief appearance much later in the movie when she shows up and demands - at gunpoint! - that Ben remarry her, but he wrestles the gun away from her and we never see her again.The side story involves their rather meager existence. We are told Ben is a licensed nurse, but chooses to work as a dish washer because he "has his music" (nurses can't be musicians?). Arthur works as a waiter in the same restaurant, but quits after a run-in with a mildly rude customer. At this point, he realizes he has no skills and no education, and decides to hit up his estranged brother Victor for money to go back to school. His brother doesn't recognize him, because he hasn't seen him in "like seven years", but when he finds out who he is, immediately establishes himself as a "crazy Christian", by asking Arthur if he has found God yet. Arthur, in an attempt to charm his brother out of the money, tells him to stop with the "religious s&%#". Nevertheless, his brother insists that before he gives them any money both he and Ben must come to see him.This is when the movie starts to get really weird. There would be no problem building very sinister villains out of things mainstream churches have actually said and done regarding homosexuality, but this wasn't enough for the writer. He instead opts to introduce "christian" characters (they appear to be Catholic) whose actions are so bizarre and hateful they would make the Westboro Baptist Church blush. After not seeing his brother for seven years, Victor becomes completely obsessed with saving his soul. He kills (!!) the lawyer who has been helping them get their marriage recognized in California, but then goes really crazy after he's kicked out of his church for having a gay brother (again,huh?). In desperation, he offers to kill Ben and Arthur. The priest thinks this is a good idea, and hooks him up with a hit man, who only manages to wound Ben. This drives Arthur crazy and he kills the priest by dowsing him with distilled water and setting him on fire (note, at this point he has no evidence the priest was even involved).Yada yada, Victor shoots and kills Ben, then forces Arthur to get baptized (which the writer seems to believe Catholics do naked). In the end Victor and Ben shoot each other after doing a gay reenactment of the scene between Tony and his sister in Scarface.Oh, did I mention that there's a completely non-sequitur scene where Ben suddenly becomes abusive and punches Arthur (knocking him out) for being a whiny little bitch? No matter, it's just one of the many unintentionally funny parts.So congratulations, Tommy Wisceau! Now there's a movie even you can look down on.

When the film began, I was shocked to see it was filmed using a cheap video camera! In fact, the camera shakes and looks worse than the average home movie. Even direct to DVD films should have production values better than this! Heck, a large percentage of the home videos uploaded to YouTube have better production values! All too often, the film seriously appears to be made by sticking the camera on a tripod and turning it on--with no camera person! Closeups and anything resembling camera-work are absent in some scenes where they might have worked and in others there are too many or poorly framed closeups. Yecch! The film is about two gay men who want to become married. As if was made almost a decade ago, their only option was marrying in Vermont--times have definitely changed. However, the recent acceptance of gay marriage cannot in any way be attributed to this film--if anything, it set the gay marriage supporters back instead of helping as the movie stinks and never really tries to seriously address the issue. According to the film, religious people are one-dimensional idiots who carry Bibles EVERYWHERE and shoot people as well as wives who have gay husbands are narrow-minded when they learn their spouses have been living a lie--go figure. I'm sure glad it gives an honest chance to both sides on the issue! The bottom line--nothing about the film shows any professionalism at all and I even hesitate to call this a film. It's more like a home movie and doesn't even merit a listing on IMDb or even inclusion on IMDb's Bottom 100 list of the worst rated films of all time. The acting is horrible, the writing is horrible, the direction (if there even is any) is horrible, the camera-work is horrible and the plot is horrible. It's a home movie!! There is nothing positive I can say about this in any way except that it makes the films of Ed Wood seem like Oscar contenders in comparison and I am sure the ghost of Mr. Wood is smiling every time someone watches this mess! I don't care if you are gay or straight--this film is not worth your time and I don't know how they managed to create DVDs of it. I assume one of the actors burns them on his home computer during his free time! Seriously, this gives new meaning to the word 'bad'!By the way, if the one lady in the film WAS a real lawyer, wouldn't the ability to read be an important prerequisite?! I'm just sayin'.Finally, with gay marriage being such a serious and important topic, can't we have a film that's BETTER than THIS that addresses the issue?! This one, sadly, only invites laughter.