I refuse to believe that this movie was created with the honest intention to be a good movie. I don't care how genuine and naive the director comes across in interviews; this movie has to have been made with the express mission of being an awful movie. Much like garbage like The Incredible Bulk, Birdemic is exclusively comprised of terrible acting, very bad CGI, an incoherent story, and the worst sound design I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing. There is no possible way that James Nguyen thought his leads were good actors; it is not humanly possible to watch more than thirty seconds of their performance and still be able to make the claim that they are good (or even passable) actors. Almost every scene is full off clipped sound because instead of reshooting the scene, Nguyen just cuts the audio. The cinematography is disgustingly bad, with off center shots and a painful amount of shot,reverse-shot conversations. The CGI birds are just pasted on top of the movie and have no physical presence in the movie; objects just move right through them and the don't move close to or farther form the camera; they just hover there and occasionally flap their wings. The story is chock full of plot holes, plot conveniences, and nonsensical decisions. Why are they driving with the window down? Oh, because the camera is outside the van and the actors aren't miked; got it. If this store has been looted, why on Earth didn't anyone take the package of 24 bottles of water or the premade refrigerated sandwiches? Why are they just shooting wildly into the forest while the drive down the highway? Why is he motioning to the girl with the gun in his hand if she's already afraid? Birdemic takes 47 minutes to even get to the Birdemic. The first half is an uncomfortable romance between a man who's dream girl is smart, funny, beautiful and loyal and a woman who's ideal mate (these are the actual traits she lists) is loyal, ambitious and wealthy. A man who just started a new company and literally just received ten million dollars in funding and has decided that now is the time to take a few months off and a woman who says she is a model, but gets her professional photos done at a strip mall 24 hour photo place. It takes over 45 minutes (much of which is devoted to watching an entire performance by a soul singer in an Irish pub and watching the main guy drive around aimlessly) to actually get to the birds. If you even make it to the end, be prepared for one of the worst conclusions ever. If this movie was an honest movie that just turned out bad (like Troll 2 or Wish Upon) it would be one thing, but every single second of this "film" screams out loud that it was made with the intention of being a "so bad, it's good" movie. If you work hard and pour your soul into a movie and it turns out you just make really bad movies (Neil Breen) we have something to work with. If you decide to make a movie that is intentionally bad with actor doing their worst performances and clip art CGI that you are using because you know that it looks terrible, it feels dishonest. It's like Nguyen thinks he's playing a hilarious prank on us. I love good-bad movies, but I hate movies that try to be good-bad; it's not something you try to do, it just happens. Birdemic is garbage made to be garbage and it shows.