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** Ramsey's guns, which he apparently kept in his van. He says that he used to be a Marine but he quit because he was tired of killing. [[Fridge Logic|So then why did he keep his guns?]]
** Rod suddenly finds fishing equipment in the back of the van they've been using to escape the birds.
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* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Alan Bagh (who plays Rod) seems hyperconscious of the camera, trying his ''hardest'' not to look into it. The fellows at [[
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* [[Critical Research Failure]]:
** Rod doesn't bother ''cleaning'' the fish when plopping it in a bucket of water to cook. No wonder the kids are [[Squicked]].
** There's also the ornithologist who refers to himself as an "orthologist", which means someone who speaks correctly or who makes the correct use of words. The irony is delicious.
** There are many serious ecological concerns associated with global climate change, from abnormally short or long seasons to widespread flooding to powerful hurricanes to [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|more]] [[Know Your Vines|poison ivy]]. However, "exploding mutant birds" is ''not'' one of them.
*** Nor is bird flu.
** The hawks sound like seagulls.
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* [[Narm Charm]]: This is the rare movie where there's so much [[Narm]] that it goes all the way back around to being charming.
* [[Snark Bait]]
* [[So Bad
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: Oh, Dear God, yes.
** A dead bird is a cartoon clip art of a bird superimposed on the screen.
** Most of the "flying" birds are just superimposed animated .GIFs of the same bird.
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** The birds don't so much "fly" as "hover while slowly flapping their wings". They look worse than the aerial mounts in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. ''Far'' worse.
** Enjoy the "television news set" on the news program Rod watches at home.
** The spontaneous forest fire consists of several small fire and smoke animations randomly stuck on trees.
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'''Bill:''' With small pinpoint blazes that are not spreading in the least! Help!
'''Mike:''' And which are handily contained to tiny patches off the road itself making safe passage quite easy! Help! }}
** The guns' recoil, muzzle flash, and sound effects are almost never timed so that any two of them occur at the same time. And instead of making the birds an [[He Who Must Not Be Seen|unseen, mysterious enemy]], which would have worked on their budget, the birds are always shown in broad daylight, for long, extended takes, revealing every possible flaw in their looping animations.
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* [[Wangst]]: When Becky is killed, Nathalie's screams, "Oh my God! She's dead! Rod! ROD! BECKY! SHE'S DEAD! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! SHE'S DEAD!"
** It takes a special movie to make someone actually ''[[Wangst]]'' about the touchy and tender subject of death. Birdemic is that special movie.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: EVERYBODY.
** During a massive bird attack, the first thing you want to do is have a nice picnic on the beach. Hey, they're extremely lucky that birds hate picnics.
** The trapped people in a bus don't bother to hide when two fellows with automatic rifles start firing wildly trying to shoot birds. Rather, they keep their heads exposed screaming and pounding on bus windows. These same people then leave the safety of the bus and STAND STILL in the open waiting to be attacked, although [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Ramsey sort of forced them out of the bus,]] and had no real plan on what to do next.
** At one point, a man tries to steal gas from Rod and the other survivors at gunpoint. After getting said 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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