Birdemic

[Dartful Dodger]

It really sucks.

It sucks to the point that I’m pissed the Director is getting famous off of this.

I watched 15 minutes of this movie and then fast forwarded to the end in hopes the ending would be better.

The end wasn't even worth the hassle of skipping ahead for. The birds just fly away over the ocean during the credits and the only people that survive are the main guy and girl and the two kids.

Ooops, was I not suppose to say that?
I guess my movie reviewing skills suck as much as the director’s directing skills.


The people I work with think this guy is for real. I think it’s an act and the movie is a scam. It's not like it's bad and the people tried to make it good. It's bad because they tried to make it bad.

Every mistake the independent film makers I know do was done in this movie and it’s exaggerated.

It’s funny relating to independent films, but this movie isn’t funny. The scenes aren’t funny they’re just stupid. This is not a spoof on independent films. It’s a way for this jerk to get famous.

Lighting sucks, audio sucks, I don’t even know where to begin with the acting.



Look up the interviews with the director on YouTube. Nobody can be that oblivious to how bad this movie is.

The movie is on Netflix, but everything you need/want to see is on YouTube. Trust me you don’t want this guy getting any cash from you through Netflix.

The movie sucks, and not in a cheesy, campy way, but in a cheap I’m going to make a movie that sucks and pretend that I think it’s a good movie to upset Dartful Dodger and when he talks about it on the arcade board I’m going to make a few pennies from everyone who watches it on Netflix way.


The movie sucks, the director sucks and I suck for helping to prolong this guy’s 15 minutes.

[Dartful Dodger]

independent film spoofs that don't look like mistakes in this movie...

They are using the same 3d bird flying cycles over and over again, and when there are multiple birds they don't even try and stagger the cycles, all the birds are flapping the same way at the same time.

There is a scene on the beach where this couple is having a conversation. Instead of trying to get the scene in one shot they just spliced together all good lines. The camera is at the same angle facing both actors yet the scene just keeps cutting between the dialog. I doubt they even messed up their lines, the editor just added extra cuts to prove it was being edited badly.

The dance floor scene just happened to a friend of mine. He needed dozens of people to fill a dance scene, so I showed up with my gf. It was raining so only 6 people showed up, I felt bad for the guy. He shot a close up of the main couple and the rest of danced around them. He had us out of focus so you couldn’t tell there were only 3 couples. In Birdemic he just had the main couple on the dance floor and didn’t try to cover it up.

There was a series of scenes where two couples were running from the birds. In one of the scenes the woman in the second couple wasn’t there. It wasn’t explained. I thought she had died, but then she just returned in the next scene. It was like that actress had to work late that day so they shot the scene without her. Which does happen, but again they try to cover it up.


I looked up the main actor on IMDb, It says he’s in Redtails. I looked him up in the cast for Redtails and he’s listed as “WW II U.S. Officer (uncredited)”

This is what every independent film "actor" does. They add themselves to the credits of a real movie even if they were just extras.

Another friend of mine was asked to remove an actor because his independent film was the first thing to come up on this actor's profile. He wanted the "(uncredited)" acting parts to show up first because they were block buster movies.

The Birdemic guy isn’t added to any film earlier than Birdemic and he's only added to one blockbuster movie that isn't even released yet.  It was like they told him to become an extra on any film being shot currently so we can add you to its credits.

[hypernova]

Sounds like you really enjoyed this film... 

It also sounds like a chore to watch it.

[Mikezilla]

I have never even heard of this. I want to check it out because you hate it so much. 

[Dartful Dodger]

If this movie was made to be a real movie and the director really believed in it, it would be the funniest movie EVER, but it's all a scam.

The company I work for has a video production house. Every time we hire a college grad to be a film editor they are always trying to make their own movie. They try and be professional, but because of their lack of experience, low budgets and unprofessional staff, funny things happen. That's why I loved being part of an independent film crew. Nothing ever goes right and the editors and directors have to get imaginative to cover up the nonsense. Everything I ever saw happen on an independent film set happened in this movie and the director/editor did nothing to cover it up. It even looks like they had to make it look like mistakes happened.

What really pisses me off about this whole scam is that I may have been just one independent film crew volunteer away from thinking of this myself. Heck the director is even a computer programmer who watched other people making movies and decided he could make his own.

The video people I work with swear this is for real. They don't think anyone can fake his sincerity. That's because they are video people and their films (no matter how bad) are like their children. This guy isn't a video guy, he's like most of us on this board. He's just some a-hole making fun of movie making.

[Dartful Dodger]

I have never even heard of this. I want to check it out because you hate it so much. 

Like this movie my ranting are a scam, because I wanted you to force yourself to watch this whole movie and claim you liked it, just to spite me.

[SavannahLion]

Didn't Birdemic come out a while ago? Like a few years now? I think I remember that too, only reason it made any money was because of the negative reviews, made people want to see for themselves.

I didn't bother wasting the time or money.

Something similar to the dance thing happened to me years ago. I needed a crowd and only a dozen or so people showed up. So the best I could do was take the camera into the "crowd" and let the guy get jostled by everyone. I was never happy with the scene but every single person that reviewed it said it was realistic and convincing. Damn "yes-men" piss me off.

[Benevolance]

Redneck Zombies at least sounds like it should be entertaining, in an Evil Dead kind of way.

[Mikezilla]

I have never even heard of this. I want to check it out because you hate it so much. 

Like this movie my ranting are a scam, because I wanted you to force yourself to watch this whole movie and claim you liked it, just to spite me.

DD that one made me laugh!  

[Dartful Dodger]

Redneck Zombies at least sounds like it should be entertaining, in an Evil Dead kind of way.

I agree, if it's streaming on Netflix I'm going to add it to my list.

Room on the other hand doesn't have the same appeal to me.

[DrumAnBass]

Adam Carolla interviewed the director of Birdemic on his podcast, and the director didn't realize that vultures were scavengers...

http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/2010/04/11/adam-and-john-nguyen/

[dugg8]

I like how the eagles are acting like kamikazes crashing into houses and cars, and the sound effect puts you right in the action. This movie looks like a first project for an animation class in college.

[yotsuya]

The Room is awesomely bad. Or badly awesome. But bad and awesome needs to be in there somewhere.