What have we learned?

[Road_Element]

I learned that a day without sex is a day wasted. Oh that must been from another movies. Everything in this movie is similar to that other movie. Only Natalie isn't Dead.

[Compound]

I learned that a 20Ghz chip was remarkably hard to sell in the early 2000s.  Considering such a speed was orders of magnitude faster than anything that existed at the time, when we were just breaching the 1GHz barrier, but is orders of magnitude faster than what's possible with current microchip technology.  Such speeds are only just now being conceived of using radically different  microprocessor technology.

But some dumpy schlub who can't seem to buy a suit that fits him right can't even sell a 20Ghz chip in 2003.  Man, people back then were hard sells!

Ah,but it wasn't 2003. It was THE FUTURE! And in THE FUTURE with 3D Virtual Reality Dating, 20 GHZ chips are like sponges. Yeah they exist, but if you're making a living selling them, you're basically a step above barista.

[dt55555]

I learned that people with perfect networked virtual reality software only use it to experience places that are a short bus ride from where they live.

I learned that the best computer programmers prefer cumbersome, long out-of-fashion programming languages.

I learned that Alfred Hitchcock really did ruin Tippi Hedren's career.

[Tony Farms AKA Puma Man]

I learned that "I always imagined myself falling in love with someone who is alive" might be the greatest quote in movie history.

And sex-crazed douche friend like to make love to women who are fully clothed

[ScottotD]

I learned that Kevin hit the "Wait, what?!?" point at about the same time I did when I first watched it.

Same here

Me too! I was thinking "where is this going" and then "WHAAAAAAAA?!?!"

[Trekker4747]

I had the same reaction at around the same time and basically had to pause the movie so my friend and I could laugh and talk about how no part of the revelation made sense especially given his computer and the simple VR gear he had. Somehow that was giving him an immersive  experience that he couldn't distinguish from reality and allowed him to move his limbs and have some form of tactile feedback?  Whaatttttt?  And not long after that my friend and I (correctly) guess the girl wasn't real and only existed in a computer.  Which even *that* didn't make sense.

And I was honestly expecting a bit more of a "pay off" or connection between her story and his real-world story.  That this incredible, unworldly, impossible to exist, 20-ghz chip his company was struggling to sell could be used on the computer that housed Julie's essence to make her existence more stable. Which, I get that she was rich so it was probably easy to achieve, but you'd think in his research he would have found the server/computer she had set-up somewhere to contain her essence and operate it. I mean, she had to buy-out something somewhere to have this, linking her name and such to it.  So why couldn't he find this during all of his searching? Certainly it's on some public record somewhere. 

[MerryWanna]

I learned that apparently Nguyen loves my home city of San Francisco yet still has no freaking clue that people don't work in Silicon Valley and live here - it's always been the other way around. Of course, the whole VR thing kind of confuses things - though it does seem to make it look like Jack actually lives in San Francisco and works 100 or more miles away.

[Road_Element]

I learned that apparently Nguyen loves my home city of San Francisco yet still has no freaking clue that people don't work in Silicon Valley and live here - it's always been the other way around.

I would love if he made a movie in Downtown Detroit. I think it would be a great pair. His directing and writing skills vs the total craphole that is Detroit.

[ManUnderMask]

I learned that Jack looks amazingly like former WWE Superstar Edge.

[soguru]

I learned that... well, immortality is just a soul upload away!

[caleb]

I learned that I'm going to tell my daughter Ada that I named her after seeing this movie

[kunedog]

Wow, this riff was such a pleasant surprise.

I learned (or, rather, was persuaded) that Birdemic is a bona fide effort.  I had always been suspicious that it was intentionally made to become a bad "cult classic" instead of naturally becoming one through grassroots popularity like The Room or Troll 2.

But here is another movie by the same director with the same style and production values, which doesn't feel artificial at all.  In fact, it has a heartfelt story to tell, which I cared about more than most hollywood plots.  I can't point to any substantive difference between this and Birdemic except the SFX.  Bad CGI really can ruin everything, even campy fun.

[Darth Geek]

I can't point to any substantive difference between this and Birdemic except the SFX.  Bad CGI really can ruin everything, even campy fun.

It would have been just as funny if they had done Birdemic with superimposed video of cheap puppets. Not sure it would have made that movie better, though.

[Trekker4747]

Wow, this riff was such a pleasant surprise.

I learned (or, rather, was persuaded) that Birdemic is a bona fide effort.  I had always been suspicious that it was intentionally made to become a bad "cult classic" instead of naturally becoming one through grassroots popularity like The Room or Troll 2.

But here is another movie by the same director with the same style and production values, which doesn't feel artificial at all.  In fact, it has a heartfelt story to tell, which I cared about more than most hollywood plots.  I can't point to any substantive difference between this and Birdemic except the SFX.  Bad CGI really can ruin everything, even campy fun.

Everything I saw/read/heard about James Nguyen before watching Birdemic told me it was a genuine "effort" at making a movie. It is, afterall, pretty hard to intentionally make a bad movie that'll become a classic, usually such effort show through because the attempts are to hard and come out loud and clear.  To pull it off, Nguyen would have to be a brilliant director and all of the background info on the production revealed that the project was plagued with problems and Nguyen genuinely was trying to make a movie that "meant something."

Birdemic 2, however, is another matter altogether and is an attempt to make a "good bad movie" on purpose and it really, really shows.

When I saw this was something he made before Birdemic, I knew I was in for a treat.

[Darth Geek]

I learned that it took him 3 months to think of simply googling her name. And that when he did, her obituary wasn't one of the first things that came up.