The director made a terribly aweful movie, but he did it masterfully. You can't fake something like this. He must be a real student of film and watched a billion movies before being able to get the timing down for this. He held on just long enough to get the laugh, pure genius filmmaking. I hope I'm making myself as clear as I'd like. I'm not being sarcastic, you have to know what you're doing to it this badly.
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while I do it agree it's masterfully bad I think it's ridiculous to give it a 10. It's a terrible film, luckily some laughs can come from it but it doesn't deserve anything over a 3, it's that awful. Plus the fact that the director was actually serious and not attempting to make anything humorous makes this film even sadder.
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shareFor me, the laughs pretty much stopped at the 2/3 mark, around about when my ears became entirely fatigued by the relentless onslaught of ear-piercing weapons fire and constantly looping bird squawking.
shareIt turns out, it's actually social commentary on same-sex marriage. I heard it from a screening from the director.
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I'll give it a 10 for the sheer amount of enjoyment I got out of it. Seriously, me, my friends, and everyone else in the cinema were laughing uncontrollably.
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But its not a comedy, it shouldnt have made you laugh uncontrollably. It obviously failed as a HORROR film. Thus it doesn't deserve a 10, or even a 5.
When you rate and review movies, it helps to actually know what you are talking about and what the director was going for. I highly doubt he was going for laughs, or he wouldnt have sold it as a HORROR film. Apparently the director failed on several levels- actor choice, dialogue and graphics. Thus this movie does not deserve a high rating.
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It shouldn't matter what the director went out to make, it is what it is, it's its own entity now. Regardless of intent, it's hilarious. Who cares if the director was trying to make a thriller/romance/horror, it turned out to be a pretty decent comedy to me and a whole lot of other people making it a successfully entertaining film.
We all live in our own worlds and see things our own way, everyone isn't going to feel the same level of emotions for every single movie. Why does the success of a film have to be dictated by its intent?
I could name 50 bad movies more entertaining than Birdemic.
shareI will give it a 10 after writing this post, and it deserves it ("it" being the movie, and there will never be any other "it" in my life).
I came to see this movie after I found the legendary coathanger-scene on Youtube. When the movie started, and started at, uhm, a very slow pace, I endured it because I KNEW what was going to happen and was looking forward to that. So the minutes passed, and I got impatient. And more minutes passed, and I got angry. More minutes passed, and I got desperate. And then, at some point, I lost all hope. Not only my hopes regarding that movie, but my hopes regarding ANY movie that was or will be made, lost any hope that life, my life, will ever be good again.
And in this state of bleak acceptance came the attack, and I got scared. No other movie, no other creature has ever made me want to scratch my eyes out of my skull, tear off my ears and trample on them (both, eyes and ears), it was the pure horror. And when it ended, I was so full of joy, I fell to my knees and praised the lord, since I had seen the other side and came back to start a new life.
This movie will trigger every human emotion possible, you will gain new insights on what is possible in life, in cinema. It is a masterpiece, an enigma, that waits to be solved, but I guess the solution will be on a spiritual, individual level, differing for each viewer.
I think I'm on the right track with my religious interpretation, though. It seems to have been some kind of purgatory in which the protagonists were thrown (similar to some theories regarding the series LOST before the final episodes). They have been in their own personal hell, in a twilight dimension overlapping our own reality. Hints? For example, look at the scene at the side of the highway, when they find the dead people and rescue the kids: The birds attack, but look close at the other vehicles on the highway: they pass and drive along AS IF NOTHING HAPPENS. This makes pretty clear that everything is just happening in the minds of the protagonists, kind of a dreamlike state (think "Inception"!).
Or you might as well read a social commentary into it, that the other drivers are blind to what happens on the side of the road, the ignoring of all the bad things in the world that happen around them, yet they continue their lives as if nothing happened.
One way or the other, there is no doubt that this movie is a milestone in cinematic history. Should be mandatory to be shown in schools. Or universities, since schoolchildren probably are not mentally equipped for the powerful thruths shown in "Birdemic: Shock and Terror".
You all gave it a 10 because you wanted to be different. Stop acting as if there was anything meaningful behind it or this movie.
That being said, it was hilarious.
> but look close at the other vehicles on the highway: they pass and drive along AS IF NOTHING HAPPENS. This makes pretty clear that everything is just happening in the minds of the protagonists,
Actually, what is clear is that the director didn't bother to look for a road that had less traffic on it. The traffic clearly clashes with the "terrifying" scene that they were filming of birds attacking and killing cars and people on the road.
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I would agree with your points with "The Room" but this has no sense of anything being done on purpose in my opinion. The "mistakes" in this film feel like a really lazy student film rather than somebody failing at an attempt to make a real movie. What makes me love "The Room" is that I can honestly believe Tommy Wiseau thought he was making a masterpiece in that demented mind of his and had the right resources. Even if the filmmaker for this thought he was doing something, it's obvious he just didn't have the means to do it.
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