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Birdemic

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85 feature instances
29 referencing feature instances

Birdemic	type	TVTItem
Birdemic	label	Birdemic
Birdemic	page	Birdemic
Birdemic	comment	Birdemic: Shock and Terror is a 2008 American independent horror film written, directed, and produced by James Nguyen. It's a Whole-Plot Reference to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and tells the story of a romantic couple whose relationship is interrupted by a sudden attack of killer birds, with a very overt Green Aesop.Made with around $10,000 and vigorously promoted by Nguyen through means including driving a minivan blaring bird noises and adorned with stuffed birds, fake blood and paper signs (some of which misspelled the film title) around the Sundance Film Festivalnote In case you're wondering, the festival rejected the film, the film was shown at a couple festivals in 2008 and 2009, and then had a small theatrical run in 2010.The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in February 2011. It got early press attention from several horror sites as well as having its trailer featured on Attack of the Show!, but it was introduced to the wider world by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and has since become infamous for its So Bad, It's Good nature.A sequel, Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, was released in 2013. Three years later, Nguyen announced plans to make a third installment titled Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle. Crowdfunding efforts for the film did not go as anticipated — an Indiegogo campaign with a goal of $500,000 raised $596, and a subsequent Kickstarter campaign with a goal of $200,000 raised $230. Despite those setbacks, filming began in May 2021, and the film eventually premiered at Fantastic Fest in September 2022 before being released on streaming platforms in January 2023.
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Birdemic	processingComment	Dropped link to AnInconvenientTruth: Not a Feature - ITEM
Birdemic	processingComment	Dropped link to Fanservice: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Birdemic	processingComment	Dropped link to JulieAndJack: Not a Feature - ITEM
Birdemic	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBeatles: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Birdemic	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBirds: Not a Feature - ITEM
Birdemic	isPartOf	DBTropes
Birdemic / int_11ec1fd5	type	Off-the-Shelf FX
Birdemic / int_11ec1fd5	comment	Off-the-Shelf FX: Leading to the film's infamous Special Effect Failure.
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Birdemic / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Birdemic / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Rick and Mai are basically non-celebrity versions of John Lennon and Yoko Ono with the Serial Numbers Filed Off. A Caucasian male/Asian female couple who strongly resemble the famous couple physically could be chalked up to coincidence, if not for the part where Mai spends most of the film wearing a shirt with the URL for Yoko's website. Bonus points for Danny Webber, who plays Rick, being a TV music composer.
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Birdemic / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Birdemic / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Rick thinks "a day without sex is a day wasted." (This character was reused from another film by Nguyen, Julie and Jack.) Nathalie also mentions more than once that Rod is different from all the other guys she's dated, who were only into her for the sex. So apparently All Men Are Perverts, Except Rod. Even then, it's a Broken Aesop: Rod tries to invite himself in to Nathalie's apartment after their first date. Though, it might be argued that Rod's intents were virtuous and Nathalie didn't want to tempt herself.
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Birdemic / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Birdemic / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Dr. Jones, who doesn't let the Birdemic distract him from his job and clearly doesn't fear that the birds might attack him. He still keeps a gun on him, just in case.
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Birdemic / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Birdemic / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: So abrupt, you can hear the gearbox break!
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Birdemic / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Birdemic / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Word of God is the only source of information on the birds' bizarre attributes.
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Birdemic / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Birdemic / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Did you know eagles could hover in midair like hummingbirds? According to Word of God "Global warming has caused [the birds] to be mutant, toxic, and flammable. That's why, when they take a kamikaze drive, they explode, and when they drop bird fluid on some of the cast, they get burned." Genetics and evolution don't work that way outside of X-Men. There's also the spontaneous combustion. Even bombardier beetles don't explode when falling. They also sound like Stuka bombers when they dive, which is a fairly impressive biological feat. The mutated birds all sound like bald eagles, which is ironic considering that bald eagles are almost always dubbed with another species of bird with a more impressive screech.
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Birdemic / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Birdemic / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: The solar panel salesman is unusually soft-spoken and seems to be intimidated by Rod throughout their scene for some reason.
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Birdemic / int_20917b55	type	Milking the Giant Cow
Birdemic / int_20917b55	comment	Rod in many scenes, such as his muted reaction to Nathalie walking out of their hotel bathroom in her underwear, killer birds attacking him and his company, and selling his company for one billion dollars. About the only time he shows any sort of emotion is when he makes his million-dollar sale near the beginning, where he shouts "Whoo-hoo!" while Milking the Giant Cow. He's back to his normal bland self seconds later.
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Birdemic / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
Birdemic / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It Rick thinks "a day without sex is a day wasted." Rod tried to invite himself up to Nathalie's place at the end of their first date. This is despite both he and Nathalie stating at various points that he's not just interested in sex.
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Birdemic / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Birdemic / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: The man who tries to rob Rob for gas is probably the only person who displays any hint of survival instinct in an apocalypse situation. Not that it helped him.
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Birdemic / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Birdemic / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Unintentional examples. There are numerous points during the bird attack where people, cars, and actual birds can be seen simply going about their daily business in the background. During one scene, normal highway traffic is passing — in both directions — during a scene in which everyone was supposed to have evacuated the city.
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Birdemic / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Birdemic / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Birds tend to explode (what?) on impact with things. If it's near Rod or Natalie, they simply die and lay completely still wherever they impacted, be it the ground or a tilted windshield.
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Birdemic / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
Birdemic / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Rod gets quite mush-mouthed at times, especially when he's talking about his great inventions, slrpnls. The gas station attendant charged $100 for a gallon of gasoline. The fact that Rod understood what he said (and responded in English) is the only proof we have that the man was speaking English.
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Birdemic / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Birdemic / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Rod's bright idea to try and cook a fish without cleaning and gutting it first. Apparently, this leads to Susan getting sick and dying in-between the first and second movie.
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Birdemic / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Birdemic / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The hawks make divebomber sounds when attacking buildings. They also cause the buildings to explode.
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Birdemic / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Birdemic / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: After Becky is killed, Ramsey punches his van's steering wheel and angrily yells that "the eagles killed Becky!" — just for the benefit of anyone who didn't hear Nathalie repeatedly screaming that little fact out loud moments beforehand.
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Birdemic / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Birdemic / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Rod, Nathalie and the children are saved by doves who chase off the eagles. Never mind the fact that eagles prey on doves.
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Birdemic / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Birdemic / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: The kids are supposed to look bratty for wanting a happy meal, rather than the food Rod had cooked, but likely would have gotten poisoned from the unprepared fish Rod had cooked. Considering it consisted of unprepared fish cooked with seaweed Nathalie randomly found lying around on the beach and according to Birdemic 2 it killed Susan (the little girl), finding a McDonald's not being attacked by gif birds would be the better solution.
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Birdemic / int_42064d3c	type	Left It In
Birdemic / int_42064d3c	comment	Left It In: There are numerous instances where the characters flub their lines, but behave in such a way like they were expecting to cut and redo them the right way, but were never asked to do so. The worst one is probably Nathalie's mother during her "just keep me informed along the way" line. The actress obviously gets tongue-tied, nervously laughs, and then keeps going as if she expects the director to cut and ask her to do it again. Instead, the completely mangled line makes the final cut of the movie, to be awkwardly enjoyed by all. Alan Bagh regularly misses words or mispronounces them, like "so you're a cats lover" or "part times Eagles fan."
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Birdemic / int_480ee6dc	type	InsurmountableWaistHighFence
Birdemic / int_480ee6dc	comment	Insurmountable Waist-High Fence: Dr. Jones is guarding a bridge across two small ponds which would take only a couple minutes to walk around.
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Birdemic / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Birdemic / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: The actor playing Tom is obviously wearing a long hair wig intended for a woman.
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Birdemic / int_48dfb7e4	type	Stock Sound Effects
Birdemic / int_48dfb7e4	comment	Stock Sound Effects: Bicycle bells are bizarrely used as the sound effect for phones, and birds sound like World War II Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers.
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Birdemic / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Birdemic / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Discussed. While revealing to the protagonists the Birdemic's origin, Doctor Bridge says that It's the human species that's dangerous; menacing terrifying animals.
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Birdemic / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
Birdemic / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking Is Love: Most models aren't charmed by tech salesmen following them around. Granted, Bagh's bad acting makes him seem creepier than he might otherwise be, but his behavior is still odd. And during their first conversation, she seems to be humoring him while trying to get away, right up until the point that she hands him her business card.
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Birdemic / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Birdemic / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: They use coat hangers to fight off the birds in the first scene with them. The coat hangers weren't part of Nguyen's original script. Rod and Nathalie were supposed to grab a shower rod from a room to fend off attacking birds. There were no rods available at the Motel 6 where they were filming the scene, but there were coat hangers. The actors were aware of the narm. The actors also use a camera tripod, apparently a spare one from the production.
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Birdemic / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Birdemic / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Ramsey is either a survival nut or a domestic terrorist, considering how he just happened to have a bunch of loaded guns and tons of ammo in his van when the birds started attacking.
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Birdemic / int_521f5afe	type	Incorrect Animal Noise
Birdemic / int_521f5afe	comment	Incorrect Animal Noise: The "golden eagles" and "turkey vultures" make a constant, repeating seagull cry while attacking.
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Birdemic / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Birdemic / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film begins and ends on a shot of the Pacific Ocean.
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Birdemic / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
Birdemic / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: Characters speak highly of green technology before Gaia's Vengeance rears its head and various characters assert that global warming is killing the Earth.
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Birdemic / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
Birdemic / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Rod defends Nathalie to Rick, who implies she's a Gold Digger (or, at least, that women are swayed by material wealth).
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Birdemic / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Birdemic / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police apparently need to be called because they didnâ€™t notice the birds attacking buildings and exploding.
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Birdemic / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
Birdemic / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: Used inside the convenience store to seemingly attempt to prevent getting sued by the various candy companies for having their products on screen without a product placement legal agreement.
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Birdemic / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Birdemic / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Rod drives to a diner to have breakfast, then goes home and has a second breakfast before driving to work. The group seems to drink huge amounts of water. When the birds attack and they first stop, they get a 24 pack of water. At the next stop, they get 2 gallon jugs of water. That wasn't enough apparently, because they had to stop a short while later to get water from a stream. All of this is in the same day. To be fair, hoarding water is a reasonable reaction to a natural disaster.
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Birdemic / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Birdemic / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Ramsey suffers one and "rescues" some people best left unrescued. And the audience.
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Birdemic / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Birdemic / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Green Tech â€“ to the point of giving Rod a hybrid Ford Mustang. In Nathalie's photoshoot, she wears Vietnamese fashions like an ao dai. For their date, Rod and Nathalie go to a Vietnamese restaurant (though the sign on the outside says Thai...). Director/Writer/Producer Nguyen is from Vietnam.
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Birdemic / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Birdemic / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: The protagonist of this (and those of the director's other two films) are tech salesmen. Guess what profession the director used to work in?
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Birdemic / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Birdemic / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Ramsay introduces his girlfriend by pointing to her and saying "girlfriend Becky".
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Birdemic / int_6eeaa3c4	type	Bus Full of Innocents
Birdemic / int_6eeaa3c4	comment	Bus Full of Innocents: A bus full of people are trapped by birds. The heroes "rescue" them. Or try to, as they, and Ramsey, all die within seconds of stepping off the bus.
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Birdemic / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Birdemic / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: "From writer/producer/director/visionary James Nguyen The Master Of The Romantic Thrillernote Read: a guy who had directed two movies before, which could loosely be called romantic thrillers but cannot even loosely be called proof of "mastery" of the genre comes the story of a sexy lingerie model (Whitney Moore) and a successful software salesman (Alan Bagh) on a weekend getaway to a quaint Northern California town. But when the entire region is attacked by millions of homicidal birds,note Read: two dozen badly done superimposed CGI birds, while real birds go about their business ignoring the human characters their picturesque paradise becomes a winged hell on earth. Can mankind now survive the avian onslaught of BIRDEMIC? Hollywood legend Tippi Hedren of Hitchcock's The Birds co-starsnote Meaning appears in archive footage. From Nguyen's other film. On a television screen. For one scene. in the global cult movie phenomenon that Videogum says might end up being the greatest film of all time!"note They were being sarcastic.
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Birdemic / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
Birdemic / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: Ramsey says he left the military because he was tired of all of the killing. Yet he keeps a loaded M4 carbine in his van, which is also an unlawful firearm in California.
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Birdemic / int_7831b670	type	Gaia's Vengeance
Birdemic / int_7831b670	comment	Gaia's Vengeance: The birds have become mutated suicide bombers due to global warming, apparently in the span of a day. They movie even suggests (very bluntly) that the birds are intentionally targeting sources of pollution such as cars and gas stations, somehow understanding the complexities of man-made global climate change well enough to know its source.
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Birdemic / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Birdemic / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Rod decides to introduce Nathalie and the kids to Tom by pointing his pistol at them while he names them. Rod also points his gun in the general direction of the young girl when trying to coax her out from under a car. Nathalie also points her gun at Rod when she runs up to the car to tell him and Ramsey that Becky is dead. Rod and Ramsey fire wildly at a double-decker bus where survivors have decided to take refuge. The survivors stand at the windows and wave wildly instead of trying to hide.
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Birdemic / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Birdemic / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: It takes half the movie for the eponymous Birdemic to appear.
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Birdemic / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Birdemic / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ramsey "rescues" several people who are hiding in a bus for safety by forcing them against their will into the open, where they're all immediately killed by a bunch of acid SPIT from the birds!
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Birdemic / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Birdemic / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Oh Jeez. Just as some eagles are about to kill the heroes, some doves show up out of nowhere, and somehow convince the eagles to just fly away with them.
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Birdemic / int_85b3a814	type	Stuka Scream
Birdemic / int_85b3a814	comment	Stuka Scream: Somehow, the birds are capable of doing this when they attack.
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Birdemic / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Birdemic / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Nathalie's mother is featured heavily, but once the birds attacked, she is never mentioned or heard of again. She's revealed to be alright in the sequel, but then disappears again before the next bird attack.
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Birdemic / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Birdemic / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: At one point, a man tries to steal gas from Rod and the other survivors at gunpoint. After getting the gas, the man is killed by a bird. Rod drives off, and leaves the gas can, as well as the abandoned weapon on the side of the road.
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Birdemic / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Birdemic / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: There is a stranger with a gun who forces Rod to give him a tank of gas. As he backs away (from his own vehicle, keep in mind), an eagle slices his neck.
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Birdemic / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
Birdemic / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: The heroes, including a supposed soldier, fire hundreds of rounds at birds and rarely hit any of them. Mind you, birds are tiny, fast targets, and they don't have any birdshot. Though the "fast" part is mitigated by their hovering.
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Birdemic / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Birdemic / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: At the end of their double date, Rod helpfully points out to the others that the movie they just finished watching was An Inconvenient Truth. It's shoehorned into the dialogue so awkwardly that it's clear Nguyen was desperate to name drop it, and couldn't afford to do anything more subtle, like show them walking out of a theater with the title on the marquee. Considering the film was shot two years after Truth had a theatrical release, Nguyen obviously couldn't afford to borrow a theater and put a title and poster on the marquee.
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Birdemic / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Birdemic / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The movie shifts abruptly from a poorly executed romance to a monster movie thriller at the halfway point. Besides the two brief encounters with CGI birds, no suspense is built up prior to the Halfway Plot Switch, unlike The Birds.
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Birdemic / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Birdemic / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: The movie doesn't even try one. Rod sees Nathalie at a restaurant, stares at her creepily, then follows her out like a stalker. He strikes up the world's most boring conversation with her and somehow gets her phone number.
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Birdemic / int_ace24b2c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
Birdemic / int_ace24b2c	comment	Halfway Plot Switch: The first half is a romance, while the second half is a horror movie, mirroring The Birds.
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Birdemic / int_b03634f8	type	Right Through His Pants
Birdemic / int_b03634f8	comment	Right Through His Pants: Apparently how Natalie has sex, given how she wakes up in the hotel. Credit must be given to Rod, though, who apparently had sex wearing a tanktop, slacks, and a belt.
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Birdemic / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
Birdemic / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: The clumsy editing and slow pacing lead to a lot of this. There are numerous overly long establishing shots, and there are countless shots of people walking in and out of buildings, parking and pulling into traffic. The Rifftrax of the film insists that parking and pulling out scenes are the heart and soul of the film.
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Birdemic / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Birdemic / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Not once do you see Rod or Ramsey reloading their weapons, and they fire a truly psychotic number of rounds at the birds. Just dozens and dozens of bullets without cease.
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Birdemic / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Birdemic / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Dr. Jones's comment about "playing cowboy with nature" seems like a slap at George W. Bush, who was in office when the film was made, was known for having something of a "good ol' boy" persona and wasn't known for being environmentally friendly.
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Birdemic / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Birdemic / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Rod and Ramsey fire wildly at a double-decker bus where survivors have decided to take refuge. The survivors stand at the windows and wave wildly instead of trying to hide.
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Birdemic / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Birdemic / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Nathalie's mom, who — despite saying she is happy about her daughter's success as a model and her new job as the cover girl for the Victoria's Secret catalog — is extremely vocal about her belief that Nathalie should give up modeling to go into real estate.
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Birdemic / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Birdemic / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: In the middle of the birdemic, characters are introduced solely to deliver a speech about how global warming will kill us all, then leave never to return.
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Birdemic / int_ba0d9b95	type	Doves Mean Peace
Birdemic / int_ba0d9b95	comment	Doves Mean Peace: At the end of the film, as the protagonists are about to be attacked by eagles, a flock of doves swoop in, save them from the hawks, and chase after said birds. Considering the fact that the movie ends abruptly at this point, it could also be argued that the doves helped end the titular Birdemic.
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Birdemic / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Birdemic / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: In spite of their usual inaccuracy, the heroes manage to shoot down a bunch of birds directly between them and innocent people hiding in a bus. They hit nothing except birds.
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Birdemic / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Birdemic / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Tree-hugger Tom Hill casually announces that a mountain lion is approaching. He then strolls off screen in an equally unconcerned way. Rod in many scenes, such as his muted reaction to Nathalie walking out of their hotel bathroom in her underwear, killer birds attacking him and his company, and selling his company for one billion dollars. About the only time he shows any sort of emotion is when he makes his million-dollar sale near the beginning, where he shouts "Whoo-hoo!" while Milking the Giant Cow. He's back to his normal bland self seconds later. Ramsey doesn't seem terribly upset over Becky's death. But neither is the audience, since the suspenseful music is playing for a good 15 seconds before the bird actually kills her.
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Birdemic / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Birdemic / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After the birds attack, Nathalie doesn't even mention her mother, much less the fact that she's probably dead. Or perfectly fine and safe in her house.
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Birdemic / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Birdemic / int_c691d3f4	comment	When we first see Mai, the camera hovers over a hilariously conspicuous poster for www.imaginepeace.com she seems to have put up in her hotel room — which apparently enjoys Offscreen Teleportation, since it appears in frame in shots from different angles. Later, the only outfit she is seen wearing includes a t-shirt that's identical to the poster.
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Birdemic / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Birdemic / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Several. At one point, the characters go out on a double date to see An Inconvenient Truth â€“ reportedly one of James Nguyen's favorite movies of all time. Ramsey's line, "Why can't we just give peace a chance?" is one to the Beatles. There's also several references to another one of Nguyen's favorite films, The Birds. Both movies start out as romances, then switch into horror films at the halfway mark. Both films have a dead shopkeeper with their eyes pecked out. The male lead is named in honor of Rod Taylor, the romantic lead actor in The Birds. Nathalie's name could also be a reference to the actress who played that film's female lead â€“ Nathalie "Tippi" Hedren. Both films have an environmentalism theme, though Hitchcock's ecological message was subtler by far. Hitchcock had the birds attacking whenever smoke was visible in the background. Nguyen just has random fires and smoke clouds show up. A shot of Tippi Hedren interacting with birds is visible for a moment on a television, from Julie and Jack.
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Birdemic / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Birdemic / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: All over the place. Rod is supposed to be a great salesman, yet he's a marble-mouthed speaker. In an opening scene, it's unclear whether he gives the buyer a massive 50% discount or points out that his service is much cheaper than the competition. Neither strategy takes any skill in salesmanship. Rod somehow invents incredibly cheap, efficient solar power between scenes. He never displays the intelligence to pull off such a feat and can barely pronounce the term "solar panels." The actress playing Nathalie is plenty attractive enough to play a model (in fact, Whitney Moore is a model, as is Alan Bagh [who plays Rod]), but for someone who just landed a Victoria's Secret gig, no one seems to have any confidence in the future of her career. According to Nathalie, Rod is intelligent and charming. We never see any evidence of this. One would assume that Rod and Nathalie are both very wealthy, seeing as the former closes a massive contract and starts up an immediately successful alternative energy company, and the latter is a Victoria's Secret model. Yet neither of them show any signs at all of being wealthy, and when they go on vacation together, the best they can afford is a Motel 6. Nathalie is supposedly pulling down gigs so big they gain the notice of Victoria's Secret, yet in the only scene we see of her actually modeling, she's doing a shoot at a 1 Hour Photo hut.
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Birdemic / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Birdemic / int_cc4b45f6	comment	According to Word of God "Global warming has caused [the birds] to be mutant, toxic, and flammable. That's why, when they take a kamikaze drive, they explode, and when they drop bird fluid on some of the cast, they get burned." Genetics and evolution don't work that way outside of X-Men. There's also the spontaneous combustion. Even bombardier beetles don't explode when falling. They also sound like Stuka bombers when they dive, which is a fairly impressive biological feat.
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Birdemic / int_cd1b0fcc	type	Prima Donna Director
Birdemic / int_cd1b0fcc	comment	Prima Donna Director: Production videos show that Nguyen is quite the "my way or the highway", abrasive director, which might explain why so much cringe-worthy dialog remains in, as he's seen angrily telling people to read the script as is. He then attacked the maker of a parody of Birdemic.
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Birdemic / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Birdemic / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Dr. Jones's lecture on global warming is set to rousing, majestic music that lends total authority to his words. The ending scene, which consists solely of the main characters standing around watching the birds fly away, is set to an epic, heroic fanfare.
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Birdemic / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Birdemic / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Ramsey wishes people could "just give peace a chance", but his van is filled with loaded pistols and assault rifles even before the birds attack.
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Birdemic / int_d820f28	type	Reaction Shot
Birdemic / int_d820f28	comment	Reaction Shot: Neither movie apparently trusts the audience to believe that a character is dead when they've clearly been killed by a bird. In both movies, each time anyone is killed by a bird, it always cuts to a reaction shot of their dead body, as if to confirm for the viewer each and every time that, yes, this character is now dead.
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Birdemic / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Birdemic / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: It turns out Rod's best friend and Nathalie's best friend are dating. This has absolutely nothing to do with how they meet. Later, even though Rod and Natalie have been driving around aimlessly for most of the movie, they somehow happen to come across their best friend's bodies on the side of the road.
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Birdemic / int_dd91f8d8	type	Audience Participation
Birdemic / int_dd91f8d8	comment	Audience Participation: Coat hangers and applause.
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Birdemic / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Birdemic / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: The birds often explode on impact, which the creator has stated is a result of their mutations.
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Birdemic / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Birdemic / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Unintentional example. Becky gets attacked by a bird. Nathalie empties her gun into the bird sitting on Becky's face, then runs back to the car screaming "She's dead! I didn't do anything!"
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Birdemic / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
Birdemic / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop: If you contribute to global warming, the polar ice caps will melt, pine beetles will breed out of control, and angry, exploding animated .GIF birds will attack you.
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Birdemic / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Birdemic / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: The movie does not so much end as coast to a stop. After spending the second half of the movie trying to survive the bird attacks, the remaining characters stand by the seashore and watch doves chase the eagles away. Then the closing credits roll.
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Birdemic / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Birdemic / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Cameron's Pub (where the bar date with Rod and Nathalie took place) has actually received a small popularity boost, and has even held a Birdemic Fest with Nguyen and "Just Hanging Out" singer Damien Carter. Also inverted with many brand logos being blurred out. When we first see Mai, the camera hovers over a hilariously conspicuous poster for www.imaginepeace.com she seems to have put up in her hotel room — which apparently enjoys Offscreen Teleportation, since it appears in frame in shots from different angles. Later, the only outfit she is seen wearing includes a t-shirt that's identical to the poster.
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Birdemic / int_f6e10f3e	type	Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
Birdemic / int_f6e10f3e	comment	Tree-hugger Tom Hill casually announces that a mountain lion is approaching. He then strolls off screen in an equally unconcerned way.
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Birdemic / int_fab3235a	type	Easy Evangelism
Birdemic / int_fab3235a	comment	Easy Evangelism: All it takes is one viewing of An Inconvenient Truth to convince Rick to be more eco-friendly. Rod and Nathalie listen to a couple of speeches about the dangers of global warming and accept what they hear without question.
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Birdemic / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Birdemic / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: A meta-example. Nguyen managed to get this turkey shown at Sundance in 2009, and assumed the crowd loved the Anvilicious Glurge, when they were laughing at it. invoked
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Birdemic	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_9cd57175
Birdemic	hasFeature	Reckless Gun Usage / int_9cd57175
Birdemic	hasFeature	Sarcasm Failure / int_9cd57175
Birdemic	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_9cd57175
Birdemic	hasFeature	So Bad, It Was Better / int_9cd57175
Birdemic	hasFeature	Space Whale Aesop / int_9cd57175
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TimAndEric	seeAlso	Birdemic
JonTron (Web Video)	seeAlso	Birdemic

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