The Best Movie Ever Made

I was only one of a few hundred who volunteered the time and effort to help out in the production that turned out to be a $7,000 budget film that completely filled the theatre for two showings on it's premier night in Scottsdale, Arizona. We had over 150 Mimes in over 115 degree Arizona heat with no casualties. I can still feel the grease melting as it ran down my face. I do remember that there were two cameras that did not hold up to the heat. It was a lot of fun and quite an experience. I would enjoy doing it all over again. Should Chris decide to make the sequel.

Created on a shoestring budget of around $7000, "The Best Movie Ever Made" was an epic undertaking by directors Bencich and LaMont, formerly known only for the public access television shows "TV or not TV" (a sketch comedy show shown only on Phoenix public access) and "Moviehouse" (an innovative movie review/sitcom show that they had hoped to market onto cable TV), TBMEM was a sketch comedy movie not unlike the Kentucky Fried Movie, staged with the plot device of the viewer flipping idly through channels between segments of the movie "Battle for the Planet of Cheese." Working from various locations in Phoenix and a rented sound-stage, Bencich, LaMont and their crew of unpaid college actors manage a sketch comedy extravaganza that, while sometimes woodenly acted, still manages to be hilarious. Sure, the ending is lame, and some of the sketches are groaningly bad, but it's a damn good effort.

Just goes to show that we don't ALL believe everything that we read. Based on the votes, quite a few folks disagree when they read that this is The Best Movie Ever Made. I'm with them. But I DON'T think that this is the WORST movie ever made, either. SOME of the humor DOES set off my laugh track: like - just what I think; or, wish I'd said that. In case you don't otherwise know, what we have here is a film that shows what a channel-surfer sees as he changes the television picture from station-to-station. This allows for a variety of unrelated skits but also our repeated return to the anchoring flick. It's even more tolerable if you're aware that this is an extremely-low-budget effort. Therefore, my opinion is that it is timeworthy and reasonably buy- or rentworthy.