I’m not a huge fan of “the so
bad-its-good” genre. Most of the time these so-called movies are
really, truly terrible and unpleasant to sit through (Garbage Pail
Kids, Battlefield Earth, Star Wars: Episode 3). But every so often,
ineptitude and fate converge on the event horizon of cinema’s black
hole (read: anus) to produce an experience so bafflingly sucky
and confusing it borders on the remarkable (Plan 9 From Outer Space,
Cool As Ice, The Room).
Birdemic: Shock and Terror falls squarely in the latter
category. Who knows what was going through visionary
director/software programmer James Nguyen’s head when he ‘wrote’ and
‘directed’ his modern homage to Hitchcock’s The Birds. Honestly, I don’t think he
knows. (“If you want to send a message, use the post office,” he
said to the audience before the New York premiere last Friday.)
Honestly, I don’t care. There’s so much wrong with this movie – the
acting, the videography, the Nintendo 64-quality digital bird effects
– but none of the suckitude is achieved at the expense of
quality, so you don’t feel like you’ve been cheated out of anything.
Have a taste:
See? Birdemic isn’t so bad it’s
good. It’s so bad it’s amazing. Go see it and help Nguyen raise the 20 million dollars he needs to make Birdemic: The Resurrection (in 3-D).
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I don't think you're enough of an established personality on this site to open your first article since 2008 with "I."
Aww… My first comment is my first troll. You've made me so happy.
What the first commenter said. And fuck off, that shit looks terrible. Not good-terrible, but an extraordinary waste of my time-terrible. You know…the actual definition of terrible.
BIRDEMIC is amazing, but it certainly has some boring, repetitive stretches. Perhaps with a rowdy audience it will fare better in that department…
Wait, there was a third Grindhouse movie!?
Although I don't care for you popping out of nowhere and needlessly dissing Revenge of the Sith – I DO apprecaite the almost snort inducing trailer there. It all looks fairly crappy and amateur but then when the CG birds make their appearance. WOW. This thing looks crazily bad. Maybe this is like one of those trailers for a big Blockbuster where the director then steps froward and spins the 'the FX aren't fully rendered yet' line. Or may they really DID use an Amiga to do their CGI.
You mean "Birdemic: The ResurrEGGtion". Thanks for your time.
I'm pretty sure someone else posted about this a while back…
Yeah, it was Alex. /articles/articles/22366/1/SEVERIN-UNLEASHES-A-BIRDEMIC/Page1.html
Yes, that post was about the film getting picked up by Severin. Now it's actually got an extended release schedule.
Maybe you should've made that clear in the article instead of just throwing a link in at the end. You know, the way a journalist would.
You know I really enjoy Chud, but its too bad most of their readers all seem to have eight foot long sticks shoved straight up their collective asses.
I also enjoy Chud, but its too bad that when its writers do a sloppy job they get all passive aggressive when people point it out. "He's criticizing! He's a troll!" It's getting like the Bush White House around here.
I must say, Mega Piranha also looks like a timeless masterpiece: http://www.collider.com/2010/03/30/marvel-at-the-badness-that-is-syfys-mega-piranha/
Ian, is your last name "S"? I thought Nick didn't like people not using their real names, because it is unprofessional and retarded.
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I mean, come ON. Check youtube for the director's speech at the film's premiere. The guy honestly believes he's making great films. I really thought he'd be a fat kid with Asperger's and loaded parents, not the quiet unassuming asian guy. I can't believe someone's bankrolling this crap.
Very sloppy article. Filed under "News" of course, yet failing to mention actual news. Embed here, link there…done. I really hope you don't get paid for this shit.
No. This movie is not so bad it's good. It is just bad and crap like this shouldn't be lauded as anything but crap.
Oh I thought you meant the eagles and vultures had sex with each other. Someone buy this kid a key light, and a couple of radio mikes.
That was really hilarious. Who cares about the quality of the article? It was fine. I think a lot of chud's bitchy commenters are just jealous that they aren't writers for the site. All I know is I just had an amazing laugh. Did the guy really get compared to John Carpenter???? Hilarious!!! Although after 'Ghosts of Mars' I guess I can see the parallels.
something about that last extended shot of the trailer made me think that this whole movie was done tongue in cheek. At least, I hope it was.
Dr. Boll had a kid?
yay, another hack horror director getting undue praise and love from an easily amused child blog poster.. the future is so very bright..
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