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....Is more like it! Bumfights : A Cause For Concern : Volume 1 is a hash of fights and street people being paid to perform stunts. The two main "stars" in the video is, Rufus and Donny. These two "bums" are often drunk (or on drugs) when performing there bits. The video also has a Happy Campers soundtrack, which, may I say, suits it. Anyway, I didn't know what to think of Bumfights at the start, to be truthful I sort of liked it. But now, I hear the producers have gone to even sicker lows in order to sell there videos. Oh yes, this time it is people even more venerable than homeless people it is the mentally ill. And that's just sick. After hearing that, my view on there videos hasn't been the same, now I don't really care for "Bumfights".

Back to the matter at hand, most of the fights in the video are not between the "bums"(So, Why call it "Bumfights"?), it is pre-recorded fights between, teenagers and young adults, whom, most of either can't fight or there fights are just staged. And yes, Angela Taylor does appear in the video, but not naked, just in a bit of a saucy manner. The "bumhunter" segments are funny at the start, but soon, they tend to get boring. And the same guy who played the "Bumhunter" at the start doesn't play him throughout. Some other guy also plays him, and he is even crappier than Todd at playing him. Other footage in the video includes more fights caught on camera, on the streets. Overall, the hype of Bumfights is overrated. I can't say I was shocked by it, Cause I wasn't. If you really want to see "Bumfights" I'd recommend get a lend of a mates, because simply it isn't worth $20 bucks. The most shocking release of "Bumfights" I have seen is a mondo-Shockumentary, Bumfights Presents: Terrorists, Killers & Middle East Wackos....but we will save that for another time. Overall, 4/10.

Not Rated: Strong Language and Violence. (18+)

First time i watched this movie i felt disgusted and very angry. The second time i laughed, and the third time i began to realize that of which i have been hiding for, the truth about the whole system. The system that creates sorrow and pain, the system that won't allow you to have another go! The second chance is a corner stone for every democracy in the world. The change is not superficial and filmmakers should not be blamed for the dark corner they have shed a light on. The whole system is based on using and throwing, humans and our emotions included, everything has a price tag. Change the system instead of sitting there shocked and disgusted...

All right, I'll review this thing. I'm up to it. And I'll put the bottom line at the top: don't waste your money. Check it out as a curiosity if it's free but don't spend your coin.

The vast majority of the fights in the uh, film, don't involve bums, but rather teenage yahoos that have been watching too much "Jackass". Bad news that most of them appear to survive, which means that they will almost certainly reproduce. Watching fights on TV between people I don't know and who don't appear to be battling for any moral principle - real or percieved - isn't as compelling as you might think. I think the WWF realizes that, which is why they brew up a story to which the "fight" is the last act. Not so here. The fight is the whole entire play, and it's an unsatisfying one-act.

"Supermodel" Angela Taylor is there. Not much else to say about her.

The "Bumhunter" segments sound hilarious when you hear about them, but the don't live up to an actual viewing. It's not that the guy playing the Bumhunter isn't funny - he is - but most of the bums are just tired and seem content to wait for this weirdo to bug off once he's had his fun. Not that they have any real choice in the matter in some cases...

Best part are some of the pranks and stunts. I admit I laughed quite a few times at the (attempted) destruction of property and other idiocy. I don't know, there's just something about a guy pummelling a drive thru menu/intercom that I find amusing, probably because I've wanted to do it a few times myself.

This video might be worth an hour of your time, but as I said, borrow a friend's.

Half of this movie contains youngsters having a fight. I don't care about that, just let them. The other half though concerns making fun of the homeless, let them do humiliating things on camera and basically terrorize them. There's one thing to be said: this is truly shock cinema. In it's most disgusting way.

I just happened to find this on kazaa (I'm not even sure what I was looking for at that time), and had heard about it before so I decided to check it out, thinking it's just some sort of Jackass (love that show). But this is going way beyond that. This is going way beyond what you can imagine. This is way beyond humanity. It's sickening, disgusting, and a true horror to watch. Some would say that's exactly what it's meant to do, but this is too much for me to handle.

1/10.

First of all, I am not a prudish person. There are levels of indecency that could I watch and find absolutely hilarious, such as Jackass and CKY, because they ARE funny.

However, I have never, ever been so appalled at a piece of "film" than I have at this. It is utterly, unbelievably horrendous, but not in a good way.

Watching these cruel people tie up some poor homeless guy and doing a stupid "Steve Irwin" skit is simply not funny. It is humourless trash. As one of them said "What you doin' man, leave me alone, I ain't done nothing to you" I felt so terrible. Some poor guy down on his luck, tied up and made fun of. It ISN'T funny. I watched for about 10 minutes before I turned it off and threw it away.

There are levels of shock, certain things film makers can stoop to and still get a hit, be it good or bad. But this is just...a film for those without a concience. The vast majority of people who view and enjoythis will be sadistic idiots who get a kick out of the innocent suffering of others.

People will be touting this film on websites but PLEASE dont hand over your money for something so terrible. It will be the biggest waste for you.

Ultimately though, I guess the decision of whether to view this, is entirely up to you. But I will end by saying this: If you have any sense of decency, concience, morals whatever, you will avoid this film like the plague.

I love every minute of this movie. It is just awesome. I've never seen a movie like this, but now it has become one of my favorites. The Bumhunter is the best. I think the best line is when the big black bum is yelling "You In Black Territory!" . Anyways, this movie is just pure greatness, and would recommend it to anyone who likes reality, because this really shows the reality of the world of bums. LOL

OK bumfights got a bad rep over some random stuff that isn't a big deal. yes they have some homeless people do some stunts and fights. its mostly high school fights though. the majority of the video is random high school kids beating each other up in school parking lots etc. the only bum that really gets camera time is Rufus. whether the drunkenness is an account of whats morally right and morally wrong thats not for me to decide. but if you cant be responsible for your own actions when you drink (getting a bumfights tattoo on your forehead) then don't drink. honestly some parts are funny, some are mean, but most are just OK. not worth buying even though its impossible to find on an actual DVD now. just download it or borrow from a friend if you wanna see it. if you want better comedy watch CKY2K.

I wonder why there aren't more comments on this shockumentary. I think everyone's to ashamed to admit they saw this movie......I know I am, but someone has to say something. At first it seemed like a sort of Jackass on crack. Only difference is Jackass IS funny. Those guys do all the stupid stunts themselves. They drink their own p**s instead of letting a poor homeless penny-less drunk think it's a beer. Jackass is just plain stupid. The guys of the BFK (Bum Fight Krew)are cruel and use people. They kick them when they're down. I think the BFK are pathetic excuses for human beings. I hope Americans who saw this crap realize that it's their own anti-social society, their way of life that makes excesses like these possible. Me,me,me,me,me who cares what happens to anyone else ? Well I do and Holland does, we care and we protect our weak..... So Americans I say SHAME ON YOU and be scared, very scared. If these jerks can make bums do idiotic dangerous things like this. What happens if someone hands them a gun and offers them a couple of bucks ???

I don't even want to think about it.

HELP THE HOMELESS AND IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN CRUEL TO ONE, PLAYED A CHILDISH JOKE ON ONE OR EVEN SHOUTED AT ONE, BECOME A MEMBER OF THE BFK BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST AS BAD AS THEM. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM

I am one of those people that enjoy seeing shocking footage. Through the TV, Internet or DVD. I came across Bumfights couple of years ago, and since then i have had urge to find more of its kind through out the world. I must warn any one viewing the Bumfights collection (1-4) that it is not for the faint hearted and no one will care if you feel bad after watching the fighting, abuse of homeless and teasing of druggies.

Bumfights one was the original and best of all the ones i have seen so far, it is what started everything and now has moved onto bumfights 4 (2006) which i haven't seen myself. Basically, the DVD contains, prostitutes, homeless fighting, homemade footage of kids fighting and street gangs fighting. A lot of homeless drinking...homeless fighting....homeless shagging and a lot of homeless abuse.

YEAH, some people will think this is shocking and should not be aloud to happen, but this is getting the message out to the world about how badly some people are still living in high societies such as L.A las Vegas and etc...

I recommend the Bumfight series to more "extreme" people, or even people that are interested in this sort of cruelty a.k.a ME! If you have seen Bumfights already and enjoyed the first one, make sure you get to watch the whole package! The 2nd and 3rd instalment are not as good, but all 3 have their own style of editing, footage and "bums". There is another DVD which i would recommend being Indecline which can be purchased in their website, indecline basically is the old owners of bumfights (I believe). Very good footage, of graffiti and it is more focused on social problems of USA.

The websites which you can purchase the dvds are www.bumfights.com www.indecline.com I have never had any troubles myself ordering from these websites and will be ordering the 4th instalment very soon.

!Kalle!

Taking the jackass and Tom Green style thing way past funny and clear into the "mean" column, add some stupid aggression and misogyny, sprinkle liberally with lack of compassion for your fellow man.

This is the soul of sociopathy. It's one thing to see a fight break out and watch it, it's another thing entirely to stage them for your own amusement. That's the behavior of someone who views other humans as playthings.

The worst punishment you can hope for them is that one day they will realize what they have done.

That would be true if the people who created this were capable of empathy. So I say we leave 'em skid row for a couple days with no way out instead.

Well, thats its, the end of the film. Firstly to say it was disgusting is stupid, its not. In todays Television and films there's always a theme of 'Pushing the Bounderies' , upping the level. We've had 'Jackass', which was funny but sometimes a little perverse. Dirty Sanchez from some welsh drop-outs and now 'Bumfights'.

Bumfights is a collection of badly filmed camcorder footage filmed by college bums though were dreaming up an idea for this 'pushing the boundary'. Its basically the kind of filmaking real 'film bums' do. Instead of sitting down and coming up with a good, funny and interesting show they've just been plain lazy.

They've sat down and thought "Yeah dude, lets get some homeless guys and make them do disgusting things for cash, coz were such untalented guys that we don't want to endanger ourselves".

Thats pretty much it. The part that had a lot going was the take on Mtv's Cribs where the homeless man is showing round his doss under a bridge. I wouldn't recommend this films even to the people with morbid curiosity, its just not bad. Its just a few fights with some rock music and the fights are not bloody or gory(if thats what you were hoping for) there your basic 'scrapping' your friends have when their drunk.

The aspect thats also very annoying is the way people think 'fights', what goes with a fight? rock music!, It doesn't, its boring and unoriginal.

Please don't buy it, seriously, If its banned I wanted to see it, I've seen them all, I'm at film school, but its not worth it. These guys are making money from just your curiosity and working on their bad publicity.

If you want it, download it, its not worth owning. Believe me, See it once and you'll never get round to seeing it again. Unfunny, Unoriginal made by untalented dropouts. Its the case of spot the bums, the homeless or the writers

Bumfights is a crude, terrible film which exploits homeless people, through violence and humiliation. Having viewed this at a friend's house, I was shocked at the content. Please, do not buy this, and do not fund the producers by rewarding them for this sick, disgusting film. The fact that the producers have not been put in jail for a long, long time is also frightening, and I cannot understand why anyone would pay money for such a horrible film, which takes away the human rights of defenceless homeless people, and shows them up in disgusting ways. If your idea of fun is seeing homeless people being made to defecate, be urinated on, pull their teeth out with pliers or engage in fights with other homeless, then you must be just as sick as the producers. Such a sad, sad film!

The authors of this movie claims that they are doing something good for the homeless, showing their situation, that's stupid. All they are doing is making fun of bums and making them do humiliating things in front of a camera. They who made the movie seems to lack emotions completely. I can appreciate jackass and cky but thats an entire different thing, this is just plain evil. If you need to watch this anyway (and i can see why people would be interested in watching it out of curiousity) please try to download it from the internet so that you wont support the idiots who made it. I can see why it might seem funny at first but please think alittle of the people being exposed to this. How would you feel?

0/10

People say this movie is supposed to be funny, but that does not change the fact that they are exploiting the people's need for money can causing them injury for it. A lot of other reviewers have said that this is supposed to be funny, but it turns out to just be a crude collection of people whaling on each other with no real purpose. One scene shows someone sneaking up on a homeless man while he sleeps and ties up his legs and sits on his back while treating him like an animal. You have to be a low class of human being to find any entertainment in these people harassing people in a much worse position than them. I honestly don't even know if I can call Bum Fights a real movie, since there is no story, no pacing, no real scene structure, and half of it was just fights people happened to capture on video, and was thrown into a compilation of homeless people getting hurt.

Aside from the BangBros productions films of BangBus, I think this is one of the funniest amateur films made. Although it depicts homeless individuals engaging themselves in harmful activities, everyone must remember, they are doing it to themselves. As with homeless people being tied up, yes, but this was all staged, and they were compensated. Watch carefully, and it comes out. The main bum characters actually stated they enjoyed what they did, and had fun doing it. They were taken to Vegas, given nice housing, food, shelter, and whatever else they wanted. If you don't like it, then don't watch it, simple as that! The behaviors depicted are far less disturbing than say, Faces of Death, which depict actual final moments of peoples lives. Think before you comment.

It takes a hell of a lot to offend me, and to be fair Bum Fights didn't offend me as such, I just found it quite sad and low. I was watching it with roughly 5-10 friends, about 4 or 5 of them being girls, who didn't like the film so much, as they are girls. The lads however found it very amusing, the fact that bums (okay, hobo's, homeless people, whatever) are being abused and picked on is an extremely amusing fact to them. Whether or not someone will like this film depends on the viewers character. If the viewers finds amusement in harming people and insulting unknown, random people, indulge in petty crimes and are very immature then this is for them. Otherwise, this 'film' is not worth watching. 1) It is pathetically sad and 2) it is a sorrowing welcome to modern society. Consider the fact that the people involved in the film seem to be roughly in their 20's makes the film more pathetic. Personally, I think this 'film' is in no way funny and is mindless (if you haven't assumed that already). But people do get attracted to this, so if someone finds it funny, so be it.

Bumfights is a "direct to video" DVD that showcases staged fights between homeless people. The homeless are baited with promises of some food or cheap prizes and goaded into pummelling each other into bloody pulp.

The makers of this disgusting tripe should be taken to Cabrini Green in Chicago and made to go toe to toe with hordes of bums. They should get beaten up, allowed to rest, then beaten again. By the most psychotic bums available. Payback galore.

People who take advantage of others who suffer from mental disorders, drug/alcohol addiction and who have no money should not be allowed to market this kind of garbage. It's capitalistc opportunism at its worst.

Bumfights is the most vile, contemptible thing I've ever seen. The makers should be in prison.

This doco is like a group of deviants had no one sensible nearby to tell them not to do things, for that reason it is accidentally a critique on reality television and shock entertainment. But while Steve Irwin had a pretty good moral compass with animals and knew when it was exploiting or harmful; these filmmakers seem to have a fetish for abuse, which makes this a kind of amazing horror movie but then it borders on snuff even existing. It's an enigma it reminds me of Cannibal Holocaust, the kind of movie you hate and wish didn't exist but at the same time can't argue that it makes you question cinema.

Well, this is a quit funny movie. Some things you want to see more of like the "Bumhunter" or the street fights. Then there are things you dont want to see in this movie....real grose things...bläää.

Overall this is a nice little home made video. It contains lots of things you would never see for your self in the real world. (not if you live in Sweden anyway)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- It´s worth to see but its nothing for people who dosnt like voilence.

I have this movie and frankly i love it.

The Homeless people in this movie are rarely injured and when they are its extremely funny.

The homeless people are awarded for there acts and they like it.

If you don't find this movie extremely funny there is something wrong with you.

People who say you shouldn't take advantage of homeless people i agree but the homeless men are getting rewarded for it.

Keep an eye out for Bling Bling the crack head. He is the funniest thing in the whole movie.

This is just my opinion but others would agree.