Early on in the movie, the main character "Rod" (backwards is dor/door, Janus/Zeus is the god of doorways) is watching the news, and a reporter mentions "flocks of seagulls and crows found dead along highway 101 (11)". This movie was made in 2008, and it kind of relates to the mass animal deaths that were in the news a month or two ago. Right after that, the White Bear sync makes an appearance.
Rod mentions that he's an "Eagles" fan (the football team, not the band), perhaps in a sort of dumb foreshadowing.
If you look closely at this screenshot, you can see "St. MarTIN wildfire" in the lower lefthand corner.
Here we see T&K (20&11) food...
..And in the very next shot, "Hair" appears (Hare/Rabbit, 2011 is year of the rabbit).
The main character and his "girlfriend" are at some kind of pumpkin fair thing called "Half Moon Bay" or something like that, and they decide to point out this painting.
Literally nothing is happening up until this point in the movie. It's a monotonous, boring abomination. Then, for no apparent reason, everything is still and silent. After a minute or so of this film purgatory, a moment of relief from the staggering stupidity of the first 40 or so minutes of the "movie", a sudden piercing wail takes over the soundtrack, very much out of mix with the rest of the sound in the movie, and we see a bunch of awful, horrible CGI eagles (update: I just read that they were actually animated gifs!) flying about, somehow causing explosions. At this moment I realized this is movie hell, this was an experiment gone completely awry and I must abort before this thing melts my brain into pudding.
So anyway, the movie's got killer eagles in it, and it sucks. Enough said. This movie is the polar opposite of the holy grail and should be avoided at all costs.
If I finish watching this, I'll update it with whatever else syncs. So for now I'll leave you with a quote from the movie: "It's the human species that needs to quit playing cowboy with nature. We must act more like astronauts, spacemen taking care of our Spaceship Earth." (note: this is the exact line where I couldn't take anymore and turned off the movie. And it's not that I don't sort of agree with the "spaceship earth" thing, it was just so horribly delivered and hokey sounding. The movie has this whole "go green" thing to it that really has nothing to do with the so-called plot or any of the events taking place. It's never specified why the eagles start attacking, or why anything in the movie is happening. It makes no sense whatsoever!). That being said, this movie would be a blast to watch with friends over cups of coffee and riff.
update: Here's a picture showing "half Moon bay" on a bus. This image is shown for about 15 seconds while the eagle noise plays on repeat the entire time.
I have no idea what this guy's saying, but here's a 99 (the sum of the letters in the word "Jupiter" add up to 99, and 9x9 is the magic square of the Moon, linking Jupiter and the Moon) and a 224 (look at the price on the cash register)-
It's really hard to tell because the cameraman has decided to focus on the crap on the shelves in the foreground rather than the actors, but these kids are taking down big jugs of water (Aquarian vibes!)
This is about 15 minutes after the last screenshot, but he catches a fish (pisces). Good for him. Good thing they had all that time to go fishing out in the open while there's deadly eagles flying around. By the way, the eagles only attack you if you drive a car or use gas in any way.
The kids decide to play with a ball that actually looks alot like Jupiter:
This movie was really painful to sit through, but it had its unintentionally hilarious moments, which may or may not make it worth watching just to make fun of the complete lack of effort or creativity put into it. The acting is the kind of garbage rotting at the lowest layer of a massive landfill, the editing is akin to spending an hour and a half with someone who never completes sentences and gets off on awkward silences(many shots simply hang long after the scene is over, leaving the actors frozen in position, clearly anticipating hearing "cut"), the sound mix is full of ambient noise, cuts out between each shot and anytime the animated gif eagles are on screen they emit the most irritating "PEEP PEEP PEEP" and it's way louder than anything else going on. The ending, if you can call it that, simply has the eagles attacking the main characters and then suddenly flying off into the distance while the main characters watch. This scene lasts about a minute and thirty seconds, nothing is explained, nothing is resolved, it simply ends. Which is kind of a huge relief.
Overall, thinking about this movie is making me feel odd. I kind of want to watch it again to see all the worst scenes (which is, well, the whole movie), but at the same time I want to see it flung back into the black pit from which it crawled, like a dirty diaper being disposed of. I guess that's what I get for watching a movie called "Birdemic" in the first place.
Sync-wise, it was pretty amazing. But sync can turn just about any movie into gold, like alchemy. When I heard there was a movie where freaking Eagles are the villain, I knew I had to see it, both in a masochistic morbid curiosity kind of way, and because the Eagle is such a strong sync symbol. Besides, it's been a while since I've watched a movie just from hearing how bad it is. This movie has a sort of internet cult status attached to it, which it probably deserves. It was definitely way, way worse than I expected, which was both a good and a bad surprise. Anyway, don't watch it, but do watch it. Wait, what?
1 comment:
"It was spawned in some sort of nether void of shittiness and somehow escaped into our reality."
too funny.
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