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Best Worst Movies: "Birdemic"

What can be said about "Birdemic: Shock and Terror"? It's a movie about a computer salesman, Rod, and a supermodel, Natalie, who start dating. Then, birds start exploding. That's right, halfway through the film the genre changes completely from romantic comedy to horror as the couple tries to escape a fiery death. So, what makes this movie so bad/good? Well, beyond the ridiculous premise, the acting is awful. Line deliveries are all over the place, and the actor playing Rod seems to be reading the script as he does his scenes. The writing isn't any better. The dialogue is stilted to say the least, and there are so many padding scenes it's not even funny (okay, maybe it's kind of funny). Characters do random and stupid things, such as having picnics in the middle of empty fields during exploding bird invasions. There's also a moral about global warming (which is, apparently, why the birds are attacking and exploding) that gets hammered into your skull from the very start of the movie. The sound editing is also terrible, and the film editing is even worse. Sounds in the background drown out the actors, the ambient noise is almost never consistent between shots in the same scene, and dubbed lines are almost never synced correctly. Shots of nothing abound, and scenes go on for way longer than they should. Finally, and most importantly, the special effects are amazing. Almost none of the birds (including the ones shown before they start exploding) are real. They're all computer-generated, and it is glorious. The numbers of birds are never consistent between shots, and all of the birds are two-dimensional. They seem to run on .gifs, since they do nothing but stay in one spot and repeat the same noise and wing flapping movements to infinity. The fires set by their explosions don't match the backgrounds, and the birds hover in place and move with the camera. There's so much that can be said about this film: the coat hanger scene, the bus scene, the children, the cowboy. However, since I tend to try and keep these posts short, I won't go into too many details. Everyone should see this movie. It's of that special breed that you watch with a group of friends and make of from start to finish. If you can find it, watch it. You (probably) won't be sorry. If you need anymore convincing, here's the only picture that you need to see. Enjoy.

Best Worst Movies: "The Room"

Ever wondered what would happen if someone with absolutely no talent was given enough funding to produce a movie? Ever wonder what would happen if that same person also starred in, directed, and wrote said movie? If you said yes, then "The Room" will answer all of your questions. Tommy Wiseau directs, produces, writes, and stars in this film about Johnny, a man whose fiancee begins cheating on him with his best friend. Almost every single flaw in this movie can be traced back to Wiseau. His acting is hilariously atrocious. He goes through the entire movie without really changing his expression, and his accent is so thick and indeterminate that he could just be spouting nonsense (which is not far from the truth), and it would make just as much sense. The other actors aren't much better, but, then again, they didn't have much to work with. The script is very repetitive, yet it somehow still manages to not give us information that we, as viewers, want and need. Relatively important characters and plot points show up and disappear completely unintroduced and unexplained, people do and say random things that make even less sense in context, and the audience gets beat over the head with the same couple of scenes over and over. For example, Lisa, Johnny's fiancee, talks to her mother about not wanting to marry Johnny several times. Nothing new is added to each scene to make it any different from the last (except for the revelation that Lisa's mother has breast cancer, but that's only brought up once and is never mentioned again). Drama ends up becoming funny because of how poorly executed it is, and the lack of actual compassion that the viewer feels for the characters leaves you with nothing to do but laugh at them. This is another great movie to snark at with friends, just make sure that you're ready for long and uncomfortable sex scenes with terrible original music playing in the background.