"Benjamin Merrymeadows and the Four Holed Button From Hell" - A Matt Stuertz Film

I loved this film, I was rolling on the ground on that first scene. It was very corky and odd. When button man smacked the other guy, I lost it again. Great work on cinematography and humor. Great job guys. :)
 
I like the humor and your lead has a fantastic face expression, but the word f*ck seems to be a little bit overused in your film.

Susanne
 
Loved this movie (..or maybe it was just late at night and I've watch 49 before this one)! Very different & creative. Good shots and camera movement. Liked the edit too. To me, I think the ADR through the whole film made it THAT much funnier (laughed my ass off). Main character blew me away.

The 'bleeps' in the beginning where just a tad much for me...and i lost count of the F-bombs thrown here...but it worked.

This is one of my favs of the fest!
 
HOLY ****ING **** THAT WAS A MUTHA ****ING FUNNY ****ING GENIUS ****ING MOVIE!!!!!!!
Props on brilliant use of a HF100!!
 
Thanks for watching everyone!

@*#(@#*$!()*%!)(@)#$_!#~_)@(!_)(%!)_%$!)_+!!)*!!*! *^*!^! BALLS!
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I kinda got a kick out of how wacky the first few shots were. However, about 10 seconds in I felt it quickly turned into high school/frat houset humor which just isn’t my type. What I did like was how you shot the piece. It was well framed and had decent enough lighting. The voice over had a very anime quality to it… that hollow room tone (bad if that wasn’t what you were going for, good if it was). Anyway, competently made and guiltily funny, but not my cup of tea.
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Thanks! This was the first real movie I shot with a 35mm adapter, so I'm glad you could appreciate it!

Yes, the beginning was hilarious! This is also one of the best shot films I thought. The composition was excellent throughout. Too much ADR, but great music!

The story started to lose me as it went on though.

Still, I'm interested in seeing part 2.
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Glad you like the visuals! Hopefully once you see part 2, the story will be a little more coherent!

THIS MOVIE IS BANANAS
"B""A""N""A""N""A""S"
"BANANAS"

I thought the ADR worked for it. Worked with the absurd cartoon feel.

Are any of the cast members the filmmakers?
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Good thing I like bananas!! Thanks, man, I really appreciate it! For this film, it was pretty much me (Matt Stuertz) doing the behind the camera stuff, and I'm not in the film. However, all of the actors in it are filmmakers as well, whether its working with me or on their own. Brian Bear (Benjamin) collaborates with me a lot on coming up with ideas and just figuring out stuff that's funny. The whole button flying off thing was something we came up with while watching TV one night a while back. AJ Meadows (Timmy AKA "sore balls") does a bunch of filmmaking himself. http://www.vimeo.com/anthonymeadows

Pretty much any film that I work on will have Brian in it / helping out in some way, and I hope to work with AJ again soon.


Thanks again everyone!! I'll reply some more in a few hours!
 
Crap man, where to even start? A friggin' riot all the way through. Your actors were awesome. Nailed it in every scene. Had my smiling, laughing, shaking my head, and then laughing again. Kick ass.

I love the editing and your camera work in a lot of this. It keeps things at such a frenetic break neck pace the viewer has to work to keep up with it. But oh what fun that is.

The ADR wasn't perfect but still worked for me. Sounded fine on POS speakers.

Excellent job and btw fantastic open!
 
I loved this film, I was rolling on the ground on that first scene. It was very corky and odd. When button man smacked the other guy, I lost it again. Great work on cinematography and humor. Great job guys.
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Thanks! We realized that swinging your arm like a whip into someone's face ends up being really poo pooing funny!

I like the humor and your lead has a fantastic face expression, but the word f*ck seems to be a little bit overused in your film.
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Yeah, he is very expressive! Once the whole movie is done, I may end up making the "poo pooing" edition so the whole family can watch!

I'm looking forward to viewing your film. Good luck with Twilight Fest. Should be exciting!
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Hope you enjoy it!!

Loved this movie (..or maybe it was just late at night and I've watch 49 before this one)! Very different & creative. Good shots and camera movement. Liked the edit too. To me, I think the ADR through the whole film made it THAT much funnier (laughed my ass off). Main character blew me away.

The 'bleeps' in the beginning where just a tad much for me...and i lost count of the F-bombs thrown here...but it worked.

This is one of my favs of the fest!
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Glad you loved it! It seems like most people don't like to do ADR, but I actually find it pretty fun - a lot of times we end up with stuff thats way funnier than the real take. (for example: the f*ck the DVX line was added just a few hours before we submitted) Plus the actors always have a good time yelling at my computer screen!

I hope to have some more Benjamin coming your way before the end of the year as well!


HOLY poo pooING shi* THAT WAS A MUTHA poo pooING FUNNY poo pooING GENIUS poo pooING MOVIE!!!!!!!
Props on brilliant use of a HF100!!
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Thanks for the great poo pooing review!! The HF100 is a great little camera.

Crap man, where to even start? A friggin' riot all the way through. Your actors were awesome. Nailed it in every scene. Had my smiling, laughing, shaking my head, and then laughing again. Kick ass.

I love the editing and your camera work in a lot of this. It keeps things at such a frenetic break neck pace the viewer has to work to keep up with it. But oh what fun that is.

The ADR wasn't perfect but still worked for me. Sounded fine on POS speakers.

Excellent job and btw fantastic open!
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I appreciate the kind words!! All the actors were great to work with, and we had a lot of fun on set. I'm certainly looking forward to doing it again soon! Hope to have part2 ready soon as well!


Also, if any of you were disappointed/confused that we didn't show "Jessica" during Ben's stakeout - we filmed her stuff this weekend, so it will be in for the full cut. Should be pretty funny.
 
Lol :D

Very good one, though I see it's just the first part? Or I misjudged it?

Benjamin is GREAT actor-at least for this kinda stuff. I found his appearance and style very funny, and the voice also.

The trickiest part here I found is when button escaped-if it only was some normaln object to shoot, but this is BUTTON. I had a picture of you guys getting to shoot, and then the button stopped, or fell into some hole, or anything else. I loved that button scene, looks like you had some real fun during shooting.

Music is ok, when button escapes and Benjamin sees it I think he had button there on a coat, and as for all the other stuff-can we see the 2nd part?

Good job, particulary as there's no a lot of comedy on Twilight fest.
 
Hey Guys,

Just caught the flick. Very fun. I really enjoyed the tone of this. I thought, for me, it was serious at times and very very funny. I thought you did a great job with the actors playing it "straight." They didn't seem over the top or overdone, despite the situations. The beginning left me torn between feeling incredibly sad and wanting to burst of laughing. Nice work.

Production value was top notch. I thought your mix of styles fit the tone of this piece really really well. The snorrie-cam stuff of running, as well as when Benjamin swings his button around is just great.

The story was very odd. In fact, I have no idea what this was about. But you mastered the tone and the comedic elements. And (like the marbles, etc.) the randomness very well. I had a good time watching.
 
I absolutely love when he throws the DVX!!! Great stuff . I was laughing my a$$ off while watching this. The entertainment value is quite high with your movie. Also, your camera work is really good, the sound worked well, your characters were hilarious, etc.

Keep up the great work... I want to see more!

:beer:
 
I liked this movie, you got really good expressions from your actors which is great, I did not like how you bleeped out a lot of words, although it did make me laugh. OH NO THE DVX!!!!!!
 
Loved the opening to this. 5 of us watched it and it was the biggest laugh of the fest. I'm not sure the ending quite lived up to the promise of the opening, but all in all it was so refreshing to see this in twilightest. Well done and I do hope you continue it!
 
awesome!!!

laughed my a## off. the acting was top notch. best punch/slap in the fest by far. no idea why he was possessed by this button and didnt give a damn either, this was a lot of fun to watch.

keep filming! you are twisted and i mean this in the best way possible!
 
"And yours just went back in... I guess that makes you a *****!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! What a seriously fun entry. Who wrote this? It was hilarious! I loved it.

One thing though. YOU MISTREATED A DVX! OH THE WRATH OF THE UNIVERSE WILL BE UPON YOU! How dare you. Ugh. It makes me sick.
 
Wow...really funny entry. The black and white really works for this film and you've got some great shots, angles, depth of field, etc. going. The actors did a great job and really sold it. Quirky, funny, and well made. Not much else to say. Great movie. :beer:
 
Wow, really good. Funny as heck and I was totally engaged in these characters. Nicely done! Great job! One of my favs!
 
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