One of my favourite awful moments is when the guy walks into the gas-station convenience store and says...
GUY: Hi, the eagles killed our friend. Can I use your phone.
GAS STATION CLERK: No, I'm sorry theresahdjkldhklgfh;dfshfdfh;bhdfhytyer hejsdfl'd'gkj'ngj'.
GUY: ...Really? Damn it!
I love how they spend 90% of their time outside, having picnics and walking through the woods rather than taking cover from the killer birds. At the very least they could have taken a coat hanger with them for defense.
This is where the fish lives
So many:
"Where's Becky?" "She's taking a sh*t"
The pointless, awful basketball game.
Shooting into a bus full of people in order to kill the birds.
The board room scene where they're clapping for nearly a minute.
The fact that monosylabic Rod is a sales person (and his closing a million dollar deal by offering 50% off, which I'm guessing lost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars).
The constant "green" agenda that added nothing to the plot.
The ex-marine who says, "I'm sick of the *beep* killing. Why can't we give peace a chance?"
That this movie seems like one big practical joke played on Whitney Moore (Nathalie), the only one who can actually act.
Oh yeah the Girl and her Mother. Yup two best actors here at least the scene with them flowed like it should. Believable that she was the child of this mother..and said mother wanted her daughter to find a nice decent husband. I can belief that
Now I can't belief that .. this guy ...creep... no! Not even on a The Room Level.
The best performance in this movie was given by the actress who played the secretary at Dream Models. Alas, it was all too brief.
shareDefinitely one of the fake news reports in the beginning. The one with the 'green grand prix' It still had the gettyimages watermark.... Sadly it was all uphill from there.
shareThe forest fire scene and the choking when they come out of the clear, uncharred, prestine, not at all on fire woods.
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The part where it instantly goes from a scenic shot to clips of birds dive bombing into copies of the exact same explosion. The sound effects of the dive bombing birds had us in stiches.
I also like the part where the background sounds cut in and out. Or does that happen throughout the entire movie?
Becky: Sir, don't you know that these birds are attacking people?
Dr Jones: These birds? [points to dead birds]
Becky: Yes.
Dr Jones: No way. They're dead from the, uh, bird flu virus.
The gas station explosion. We just see a big blast in the middle of the gas station but the gas station suffers no damage. Plus the blast is semi-transparent.
I don't have a signature.
People going about their day at the beach as our heroes enjoy their educational picnic lunch. It's hard to believe they were in danger of being floated and squawked at the whole time.
Also the fact that, most of the time, the bird sound fx were gulls, not eagles.
The whole movie is just one long bad moment! But I love that the guy owns a plug-in hybrid Mustang -- probably the only one in the world.
And how about at the end when the bird nosedives into the windshield and just plops there dead on the hood of the car?
Oh, one more thing -- it's convenient that the Marine has a machine gun with a seemingly endless supply of ammunition in his crummy van.
But wait, there's more -- they were driving around with their windows open while killer birds hovered outside.
The birds could shoot fire and spit killer goo, but apparently not all the time, like when they were chasing our heroes.
"Wait, I hear a mountain lion!"
That we're supposed to believe that Rod...
...a guy with a BS in computers (who then gave it up to become the world's most successful telemarketer - even though he hangs up on customers before getting their info)...
...who has his own start-up company with some kind of radical design for solar panels that are far more efficient than any other on the market (even though he's about to have another company's panels installed on his own home)...
...can't remember to charge his cellphone and manages to lose his car keys in a room smaller than that in a Motel 6. I mean, the only furniture it could have been under was the bed because that was all of the furniture! And they, turned that over!
Maybe he should ask Nathalie to jump up and down...see if she jingles or the car alarm disarms? I mean...there weren't many other places for them to disappear!
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Last night, I was lying back looking at the stars and I thought...where the *beep* is my ceiling???
In some scenes the birds look like they are flying right in front of you, yet when they dive, they explode and cause a fire over a mile away.
The circle of coat hangers defense strategy.
The eagle attacks are so devastating that the price of gas increases to $100 a gallon, and yet emergency crews, police and the military are nowhere to be seen.
Rod and Nathalie have the brilliant idea of cooking fish and seaweed ON THE BEACH (why not pour out bags of bird seed while you're at it).
Did love the crap at the second gas station....the guy who could only say "$100 a gallon" clearly.
And then he can ring up Rod's credit card purchase even though he claims that the phone lines are down....
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Last night, I was lying back looking at the stars and I thought...where the *beep* is my ceiling???
How about the guy who steals the gas from them and as he backs away (which is in the wrong direction of his truck) one single bird comes out of nowhere and slices his throat. Then in terror, the other guy (rod? rob? whatever?) races back to the van, but "carefully" maneuvers around the truck and slowly back onto the road.
Its like, IM TOTALLY SCARED, WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!! But lets make sure we don't hit Phil's Dodge Dakota when we pull away.
And doesn't bother to get the can of gas or the gun (bullets could come in handy too).
Also...were the kids in the back of the van drugged through all of that? You'd think that some guy pulling a gun on these two perfect strangers who are driving around aimlessly with them (as opposed to maybe finding a cop and handing them over so they can get back to whatever relatives they have left) might have inspired a scream or a yell or something....
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Last night, I was lying back looking at the stars and I thought...where the *beep* is my ceiling???
I just now got the part with the birds attacking, so most of my moments are the first half.
-A fashion model, who lands the cover of Victoria Secret, does photo shoots at a one-hour photo shop
-Any conversation between the two leads while they are falling love
-The mere coincidence that the Rod's co-worker happens to be dating the best friend of Natalie
-Any scene involving the two leads dancing
-After viewing "An Inconvenient Truth", Rod's co-worker, who indicates a desire to buy a sports car in prior scenes, declares his next car with be a hybrid
-Anytime Alan Bagh speaks (he always seems to be reading off of cue cards or looking down at a copy of the script)
-The unintelligible newscasts given by the newscaster
I could go on, but these are all I could think of off the top of my head.
There are few things as fetching as a bruised ego on a beautiful angel.
Rod's 50% discount...the sale came out to be 1 million dollars, so can we assume it was 2 million dollars before? So Rod just lost his company a million dollars, which he celebrates no less.
How the combination of Rod's bad acting and the terrible script made him seem slightly (or maybe not so slightly) mentally retarded.
Also love how the movie abruptly changes from a dating movie into a horror movie halfway through.
The pure randomness of:
"Hey those people on that bus are being attacked by those birds"
also love the entire scene with the tree hugger and of course "Just hangin out! Hangin out! Hangin out with my family! Havin ourselves a party!"
"Walk down the right back-alley in Sin City, and you can find anything...."
How about:
"And where are you going to install the solar panels?"
"Follow me and I'll show you."
They walk outside, salesman points to the roof.
"And that, sir, is where we'll install the solar panels."
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Also, for some reason I thought this shot was funny:
*walking on the beach*
"The sea is so beautiful"
*cut to shot of rough, angry sea, then back to couple*
"Yes, it is."
Don't know what made this funnier, the fact that the director thought it necessary to put a jump cut of the ocean in or the fact that the ocean didn't look particularly beautiful that day.
Apologies if someone mentioned this but the scene where they all get coat hangers to defend themselves against the birds and the blonde "actress" is trying so hard to not laugh that she's practically choking.
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