Birdemic: Shock and Terror Review
I’m certain that I’m at least a decade late to the bandwagon of people shredding this movie (especially since not only did I watch the Jontron and IHE reviews prior to watching this, but also Chamber of Pudd’s tie-in parody, seeing as the song doesn’t really sound like it wants to be taken seriously). But at the same time there’s just too much to talk about from it. Whether it feels like Tommy Wiseau trying to remake Hitchcock’s The Birds after watching An Inconvenient Truth, or the kind of film Lee Demarbre might’ve inspired if you took everything I said about Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter and just left the last kind of movie (minus the desire to WANT to make a better film), you can’t really say this film deserves more than two out of five stars at best. It’s just still like I said: when you take the time to ingest the bad you’re going to end up with at least some semblance of good to counter it. At some point there are moments when the film, in a bizarre yet shockingly effective sort of way, takes its inspiration from an Inconvenient truth and the classic yet still horror based influence from that same Alfred Hitchcock film to return to the 90s. Meaning we get the deplorable CGI, oddly intimate (yet borderline cringeworthy) monologues about environmentalism, and even the somewhat emotionally nostalgic music that straight up transports us to that era. Yeah, it’s done in a way that can’t earnestly be taken seriously, even if you can still tell this was probably the kind of film James Nguyen wanted to make anyway. So really it’s pretty much a movie that was made because the director preferred to do it regardless of whatever end result his lack of experience gave us. Eitherway here are my favorite quotes if not the ones that really took me by surprise: “There’s dead people on the side of the road. Let’s go see if there’s any survivors” “People need to stop playing cowboy with nature” “Hey, the eagles killed our friends. Do you have a phone I can use to call the police?”