BIRDEMIC - the new Snakes on a Plane?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnNvBucoNSY

This painfully amateurish, zero budget homage to The Birds was written, produced, directed and financed by wannabe film-maker, James Nguyen. Birdemic: Shock and Terror ( a "romantic thriller") looks to become a viral 'cult classic'. It is kinda lol.

diggin' "natalie."

i think hottub time machine is the new SOAP

hot tub time machine looks amazing

Keen to see the context of the quote "this movie had to be seen to be believed"

I particularly like the way the birds seem to be twenty metres nearer the camera than the cast when they're standing outside the car, and the quotes from an IMDB User

The camera placement in those opening two-shots . . . dude, there's an imaginary line. Try to stay on it. Also, please not to read your lines off cue cards, you are not Marlon Brando.

Also, do people of that age say, "make a pass at?"

<3

You guys really need to see this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XVPOjXmCQ0

this actually screened in LA, I'm told.

bloody-disgusting.com also got the main blurb on the rambo (2008) dvd.

My dad seems to think this is a remake of "The Birds."

I lol'd at that. It's apparently The Birds, but in 3d.

It's one of the least embarrassing (read: racisty) comments he's ever made on my Facebook. I see it as progress.

this movie is in 3D??

It isn't, but my dad seems to think it is: "I saw the original Hitchcock so I think its just like everything else now days, an old movie made more real by adding computer graphics. You can't replace the style and eriness that was Hitchcock no matter how good the graphics, 3D etc. however."

they played a few scenes from this on "The Soup" last week...it looks incredible. basically there's this boardroom scene in which they sell their software for a billion dollars followed by a bunch of shots of people in the boardroom clapping. the awesome part is that they only start clapping when the camera starts rolling so the scene looks incredibly choppy, can't stop thinking about it

Mr Nguyen was on Adam Carolla's podcast a while ago, talking about how scary "birds of prey" are. Adam was like "I don't think vultures are birds of prey, right?" Nguyen then sort-of clammed up, and the interview got very awkward.

This movie is definitely worth watching.

But: you can't replace the style and eriness that was Hitchcock no matter how good the graphics, 3D etc. however.

just bought it on DVD, I'll talk more about it tomorrow but all I can say is that it was amazing, this is really everything that you hoped for with Snakes on a Plane

Okay...this movie has sufficiently blown my mind. It has to be the worst film of all time, simply because I cannot imagine one being worse. I don't mean it's like, bad with a wink and a nod the way Cannibal the Musical is; there is no intentional humor in this movie whatsoever. It's played entirely straight. All you want with a movie like this is the possibility that the director is somehow serious about this; James Nguyen has actually directed two other movies, both of which are a lot like this. It's entirely possible he's serious. 10 things you need to know about Birdemic:

1) The budget was $10,000
2) There is only one camera used and no boom mic. In some scenes the background noise drowns out the actors.
3) The main character (Rob) is awkward in literally every single scene; every movement he makes and every line of dialogue he reads are completely unnatural
4) There is a little girl who hides under a car, scared of the birds (of course). Our hero rescues her (while pointing a gun in her face, really), but not before she starts crying because "they killed my mommy!" Her next line of dialogue, 15 seconds later, is "I'm hungry"
5) Apparently there were no second takes, which is disasterous because Rob really cannot speak, which leads to him saying things like "millions dollars"
6) The female lead (Natalie) is really the only thing they got right; not exactly the "Victoria's Secret cover model" the movie casts her as, but very cute and you do get to see her in her underwear
7) The leads wind up meeting another couple to escape from the birds (or something...it is not clear what they are trying to do after the birds attack); the guy used to be in the military, has a van stocked with guns and ammo, and wears camo pants. At one point he open fires on a bus full of passengers.
8) This movie doesn't quite have a "motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane" type line, but there's one that comes really close - "I'm just tired of all the fucking killing in Iraq. Why can't we just give peace a chance?" Also: "Why would birds do something like that? Why would they just attack??" "...I...don't know"
9) "I like you because you are pretty to me"
10) Rob is apparently a big shot salesman at his company (it does not really say what they do), closing the biggest sale of his career by offering a 50% discount! The total sale equals a million dollars straight, which causes Rob to pump both fists and yell "WOOO!", even though he just lost his company a million dollars.

Oh, it gets better:

Evan Husney, who now works for the independent distributor Severin Films, was also at Sundance in 2009, where he spotted Mr. Nguyen driving a beat-up sport utility vehicle decorated with a prop eagle and fake blood, and blaring bird noises from its stereo.

“On the side of his car,” Mr. Husney said, “he had spelled the name of his own movie wrong. He had spelled it ‘Bidemic,’ without the R.”

it wasn't misspelled, that's a new project about the sexually curious attacking without reason

not to discount the amazingness of any given five minutes of this singular movie, but be warned anyone
thinking of watching this in linear order thinking it's going to be a naked gun laff-a-minute fun time.

the opening sequence is really drawn out and almost serious-art film in its boringness, and the way it's constructed,
there is absolutely zero payoff to watching things thinking one scene will build on the previous scene. it's a lot like inland empire,
and if you were to drop scenes from one movie into the other, I don't think anyone would notice.

this is definitely a movie that benefits from a shuffle mode, if such a thing existed.

the first 5 minutes are brutal. you have to watch that blue mustang drive around in traffic while the credits play over the same 30 second snippet of tense, low-budget horror music. the first line of dialogue, when it appears, is mangled. the scene where Rod and Natalie talk for the first time, Rod drops that line "don't I know you from high school?"..in any other movie that would be a sleazy pickup line, but no, they actually did know each other from high school. not because they didn't want Rod to be a sleazy guy, but because the director probably was not even clever enough to think of using a setup like that! I love it!!

so this guy is the new Tommy Wiseau then eh

more like david lynch + miranda july.
although maybe david lynch + miranda july = tommy wiseau?

I watched this at a drunken late night viewing and we were all given wire coat hangers as we went in. There was even someone who came in fancy dress with an outfit made out of coathangers.

It was probably the best environment to watch this film, and one of the most fun film events I've ever been to.

This may have affected my memories of the film (thought it was rubbish, but would watch it again as long as I have booze and other drunk people around)

this movie is a delight

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/ironicnotfunny/birdemiclol.jpg

Jill - I saw Snakes on a Plane in a big, crowded Chicago theater and it was kind of the same experience, people were making snake noises and throwing rubber snakes at the screen, it was awesome...I would imagine this is mostly the same way, though SOAP was kind of calculated to be that way, while this is a lot more subtle in its badness; I mean, aside from the obvious stuff, looking back, Nguyen really does not get anything right with this movie

I love the impromptu environmental lectures awkwardly sprinkled throughout the film

"Man, that was a good movie An Inconvenient Truth. That is it, I'm getting myself a car that is environmentally friendly!"

^Literally how the dialog sounds. I don't think there were any second takes on this movie.

"My car gets like 100 MPGs!"

btw listening to the commentary, that scene where they talk about Inconvenient Truth was filmed far away from the theater because they got kicked out of the main movie theater lot...niiice

also apparently the military guy nearly got shot by the police since they almost didn't see the camera during the scene where they pull the little girl out from underneath the car

it sucks this guy's next movie is going to have a much higher budget now :(

also apparently the military guy nearly got shot by the police since they almost didn't see the camera during the scene where they pull the little girl out from underneath the car

lol yeah i was thinking how they got away with that considering they were using realistic looking weapons on the side of a public road

Wow, this is jaw-droppingly bad.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the CGI birds at 45 mins in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVtUnGPl5c&feature=related

There's most of that board room scene there, which really captures the amateur editing used throughout the movie. After the CEO (who looks alot like Charlie's uncle from It's Always Sunny) announces the big sale the camera pans back and forth across the table to everyone clapping. The clapping starts to die out and then it cuts to another shot, of other people at the table, and the audio is from an earlier part when the clapping was louder. That starts to die out and they cut to another, etc. etc. Really funny, bizarrely made.

It's really amazing how stupid the plot of this movie is, too. The birds never break through windows or enter anyone's house, yet the main characters don't bother staying indoors for more than a few minutes. At one point while they are being chased by the killer birds, living in some kind of pseudo apocalyptic world where gas is $100/barrel, and they decide to all have a picnic at the beach. And it's like the 2nd time out of 3 or 4 times they decide to go to a beach for no real reason!

my favorite scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6YniCXpcMU&feature=related

"You guys have worked hard and you all earned your stock option. Congratulations... YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU!"
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Yeah I think it's best not to really think too much about the details of the plot. You have to wonder if Nguyen had them having a picnic in order to illustrate his point of "eating with nature", not really understanding why the main characters may not really want to do that. Just bizarre in so many ways. Makes a good double feature with The Room, which is enjoyable in similar but fairly different ways.

I got that Hangin' Out song stuck in my head a few times since seeing this.

The forced environmentalist streak in this is so funny. That hippy that literally lives in the tree ("Oh i hear a mountain lion, i gotta go, see you guys!") the car that gets 100mpg, that guy who holds them at gunpoint for gas. He's holding them at gunpoint and instead of stealing the car (which was just filled with gas) he wants to steal a 1-gallon gas can.

Did Rod just buy gas for $100/gallon when he had a can in his trunk the whole time? Or did he fill up the can first before filling up his car?

When they're on the beach eating the fish there are some really great pauses during the conversation between Rod & Natalie, pauses that last wayyyyy too long.

"I really enjoyed that movie, An Inconvenient Truth"

The thing about the hippy (who I could swear is Woody Harrelson) is that he's kind of looked as an ideal...the kids love his treehouse, he talks about how he works to preserve nature but can't help global warming...but he has to deal with mountain lions, and presumably dies when the forest is set ablaze (oddly, nobody thinks to help him)

I kind of wonder whether or not the "old man" on the bridge was really cast or if they really just found him there. Either one is plausible. Apparently he will also be in the sequel...doing what!??

"plug-in hybrid Mustang that gets 100mpgs"

god

damn

bark beetles

"Did Rod just buy gas for $100/gallon when he had a can in his trunk the whole time?"

rod was monied from the oracle buyout and maybe thought haggling was beneath him?

Loved this

WHY DID I WATCH THIS MOVIE A SECOND TIME

Although it was fascinating seeing the exact moments that my friends who hadn't seen it broke. You could tell, because they would start laughing hysterically out of nowhere.

yeah it's not just the bad SFX. literally everything in this movie is just as terrible - casting, dialogue, sound, plot, everything.

It's a spiraling descent into madness. The thing that's fascinating about it is how it oscillates from hilarious to painful and back again until your mind can't take it anymore and you lapse into temporary insanity to even be able to handle the film. Like, it's not just that any one element is terrible – it's the way they all work in tandem to create this perfect storm of terrible beyond your wildest imagination. The funniest thing to me, though, was the fact that my friend's girlfriend weathered the film okay, but what broke her was when we watched the interview with the director on the DVD and she realized that he was a seemingly rational, normal guy who thought he was making a great film.

That's really the value in it. It's so rare to find a director with absolutely no sense of self-awareness try to pull something like this off (I guess Tommy Wiseau is similar, but he had a much bigger budget at least), and for that there's a certain purity to all the camp humor here that would be tough to find elsewhere.

this is only a snippet, but if you watch the entire interview on the dvd, this local talk show host's disdain for and condescension towards nguyen is priceless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c777BPiEhoo

I couldn't tell if it was disdain or if the talkshow host was just a crazy person.

a little bit of both, i think. also the clips from his other movies...LOL

I don't think anyone ever told him that movies are supposed to have conflict. Or drama.

So sorry to have missed this, um, joy last night, but it was not in the cards.

We missed you. I understand the situation. Still, I think you would have found it very… Informative.

http://movies.yahoo.com/video/ymovies-6393699/birdemic-2-teaser-spot-29924075.html

Ho ho.

Oh man, it looks like he got the joke…

Fuck that

was that an homage to the avengers?

I mean, technically yes, I suppose?

Oh man, it looks like he got the joke…

Yes, "ho ho" was me splitting my sides.

No, I meant the director.

http://i.imgur.com/VuiKE.png
http://i.imgur.com/dF56v.png

this is very disturbing if it is a coincidence.

New trailer is up! http://thisisbirdemic.com/

Looks like they got the joke, but the director is still incompetent, so

Watched this last night at the Rifftrax Live event, first time I've seen it even though I've read this thread and the AV Club entry and whatnot. It exceeded all expectations. Highlight of the movie, and the best dialogue I've heard in ages:

"Where's Becky?"
"She's taking a shit."

still want to sabotage Woddy Harellson's wikiepedia page by casting him as "biredmic forest hippie"

do it o no one will change it

The office aquisition scene may be my favourite -

did you see this?

Oh yes, and I have a new initiate in the realm as well - they are as stunned as I was at first

I love how long the scene of celebration of that acquisition went on. It was like wave after wave of applause.

The pan across the mural at the Vietnamese restaurant also lasted a ridiculously long time.

Can someone explain what happened to the people outside the bus? Did the bird explode, vomit, poo? Were the birds filled with acid?

Why did the birds flying into things sometimes result in an explosion, sometimes just a splat?

oh, I was referring to the second one. anyone seen that?

there is a sequel to birdemic?

Yes, and there will be a sequel to The Cheetahmen. We're living in the golden age of trolling!

Birdemic was hilariously inept. Makes "Manos" look like the work of a professional.

once they know it sucked - they cannto go back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC0HkJLc5dw

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iveajD352lY

Cut and paste into your browser. Change the x's to t's.

its it too horric to be previewd in bbcode?

ahh, I see - what could they have been thinking? I guess "try to be even more famous"

rewatched this tonight, showed it to some friends for the first time, they laughed all the way through it. it is very Lynchian in its awkwardness! also in the soundtrack, particularly towards the end when they are in the woods. really amazing, baffling movie.

Rod is such an awkward person. is he a human? also the boss at their work that announced they are all millionaires reminds me of Charlie's uncle from Always Sunny.

that scene where they drive away without the gas tank that they just paid $100 for is baffling. the tank is right there! it's the largest thing on the screen! and then later he just pulls another one out... from where???

also that Eazy-E shirt

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/szMWn7Hibnc/hqdefault.jpg