Bums
Year: 2005
Director: Brett Butler, Jason Butler
Stars: Brett Butler, Jason Butler, Tammy Gerus
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Substance Production
Running Time: 75Mins
Review Rating: 5 Stars
Official Website: http://www.subprod.com/
Brett and Jason Butler are a directing team out of Toronto, Canada, who directed Confusions of an Unmarried Couple last year. The film has been positively reviewed on various websites including this one here. I highly recommend you check this film out, as it's being sold on their website. Before that movie came out, Jason and Brett Butler had a film that was shot in 2005 called Bums. Their second film took eleven days to shoot in and around Toronto, Canada.
Bums follows a group of three men and three women in one day's time. They are searching for love and happiness. Soon, their relationships begin to blur into each other and soon it beings to produce love, laziness and all sorts of foolishness and shenanigans. It also provides fun and a perceptive look at life and relationships from two different points of view.
I wish Hollywood would take note and make these types of sex comedies where dialogue and acting takes precedent over gross out humor that’s seen in many of these types of comedies. Brett Butler and Jason Butter are two of the best directors in the independent /underground film scene today. They seem to do a very good job with very limited resources, as this is the second film of theirs that I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing. Bums is a very funny and entertaining film. The humor in this film was very good. It was timed very well and wasn’t stupid or repetitive. Their screenplay does a great job getting both the male’s and female’s perceptive of being in a relationship, which made the film very interesting to watch. It’s something that you don’t see many films do these days. Those films always tend to focus on one perceptive of a relationship. The directors also used the split screen method, a couple of times during the film. I actually enjoyed this because it keeps the viewers attention, when there’s lots of dialogue being used. Sometimes without it, the mainstream audience tends to be bored.
The acting was very good in this film. All the actor’s performances were entertaining. The actors were very engaged in their roles, as their twenty-something characters were interesting characters, instead of the annoying and dumb characters you see in these types of films. They seemed to really enjoy their roles. They injected personality into the characters and seemed to gel with each other onscreen very well. The characters weren’t boring or formulaic by no stretch of the imagination.
This is a film that I would strongly recommend to all Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater fans. You will enjoy this little film. Bums is a very funny and insightful look at relationships from both points of view.
Dvd Extras Include:
Commentary from directors and stars Brett Butler and Jason Butler
Outtakes
Photo Gallery
Music Video
Bums Trailer
Alive and Lubricated Trailer
Year: 2005
Director: Brett Butler, Jason Butler
Stars: Brett Butler, Jason Butler, Tammy Gerus
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Substance Production
Running Time: 75Mins
Review Rating: 5 Stars
Official Website: http://www.subprod.com/
Brett and Jason Butler are a directing team out of Toronto, Canada, who directed Confusions of an Unmarried Couple last year. The film has been positively reviewed on various websites including this one here. I highly recommend you check this film out, as it's being sold on their website. Before that movie came out, Jason and Brett Butler had a film that was shot in 2005 called Bums. Their second film took eleven days to shoot in and around Toronto, Canada.
Bums follows a group of three men and three women in one day's time. They are searching for love and happiness. Soon, their relationships begin to blur into each other and soon it beings to produce love, laziness and all sorts of foolishness and shenanigans. It also provides fun and a perceptive look at life and relationships from two different points of view.
I wish Hollywood would take note and make these types of sex comedies where dialogue and acting takes precedent over gross out humor that’s seen in many of these types of comedies. Brett Butler and Jason Butter are two of the best directors in the independent /underground film scene today. They seem to do a very good job with very limited resources, as this is the second film of theirs that I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing. Bums is a very funny and entertaining film. The humor in this film was very good. It was timed very well and wasn’t stupid or repetitive. Their screenplay does a great job getting both the male’s and female’s perceptive of being in a relationship, which made the film very interesting to watch. It’s something that you don’t see many films do these days. Those films always tend to focus on one perceptive of a relationship. The directors also used the split screen method, a couple of times during the film. I actually enjoyed this because it keeps the viewers attention, when there’s lots of dialogue being used. Sometimes without it, the mainstream audience tends to be bored.
The acting was very good in this film. All the actor’s performances were entertaining. The actors were very engaged in their roles, as their twenty-something characters were interesting characters, instead of the annoying and dumb characters you see in these types of films. They seemed to really enjoy their roles. They injected personality into the characters and seemed to gel with each other onscreen very well. The characters weren’t boring or formulaic by no stretch of the imagination.
This is a film that I would strongly recommend to all Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater fans. You will enjoy this little film. Bums is a very funny and insightful look at relationships from both points of view.
Dvd Extras Include:
Commentary from directors and stars Brett Butler and Jason Butler
Outtakes
Photo Gallery
Music Video
Bums Trailer
Alive and Lubricated Trailer
You can pick up the film at http://www.subprod.com/
Sounds good. Great review.
great review! It makes me really wish I would have gotten this one. Sex comedies tend to fall in a gross out humor, very unintelligent trap, so I am glad that Bums is smarter than that.