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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on May 7, 2015 12:43:44 GMT -5
Having seen both riffed life, I really can't make up my mind!
The Room is, of course, the most "famous" of the two, in terms of Worst Movie Ever contender, but Birdemic has that scrappy, can-do incompetence that you just don't find that often! And while actors in The Room actually auditioned, Birdemic seems to have contained mostly the director's friends who were doing something that turned out to be expodentially worse then helping him move.
Birdemic gets points for the craptacualr special effects, of course, but it's hard to discount the incredible Green Screen San Fransico of The Room.
And as far as Sex Scenes You Never Wanted To See Ever, of course, The Room cleans up--or filthys up, so to speak. Birdemic tries, but it just can't reach the depths of Please Kill me that The Room does.
So what do you think? Which wins the prize for "I guess I'm impressed that you carried it through--but why?" Birdemic? Or The Room?
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Post by nondescript spice on May 7, 2015 14:27:41 GMT -5
oh hai, mrsphyllistorgo!
i've never seen either live, but having seen them both on dvd, i think the room is the winner. birdemic is an awful, awful movie. maybe if it didn't have the craptacular special effects, i would have picked it. but the room is just so godawful bad without digitalized birds from your dad's first nintendo games. i always found it kind of sad that it was meant to be a serious film but tommy wiseau had to end up pretending it was more of a comedy, knowing all along that we were laughing at him, not with him.
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Post by Hey Cabot! on May 7, 2015 15:12:23 GMT -5
Birdemic is worse than The Room.
The Room is atrocious, of course. It has nightmare-inducing softcore porn scenes, baffling plot cul-de-sacs, dialogue that somehow gets character lines in wrong order and emotionally tone-deaf acting.
However, while the acting in The Room may be emotionally tone-deaf, it at least showcases something resembling emotion. Birdemic, by contrast features some of the most wooden acting I have ever seen in any movie. Our protagonist can't even walk convincingly on camera!
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Post by satmorning91 on May 7, 2015 16:40:02 GMT -5
What does the room mean? Lol. I never got any real meaning to what the title is referring to. Yea this movie has rooms in it. Should we call avengers the avengers:Age of the room cause at many points people are in fact in a room. ?
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Post by brandonakaxerxes on May 9, 2015 13:50:02 GMT -5
What does the room mean? Lol. I never got any real meaning to what the title is referring to. Yea this movie has rooms in it. Should we call avengers the avengers:Age of the room cause at many points people are in fact in a room. ? I believe it was called "The Room" because originally Tommy Wissau's idea was to just have the film take place in just Johnny's living room (or most of it anyway). The title meaning got lost when Wissaeu starting writing other settings though (the balcony, the food place, the alley, etc.). As for which film is worse. I'd argue "The Room" is, since Wissaeu *thought* he was making a great film. The makers of "Birdemic", kinda fall into the category as the ones for the Syfy movies. They know they're making a crappy film, but they're just rolling with it. |
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Post by dph on May 11, 2015 5:26:50 GMT -5
For me it's the room. I could probably watch Birdemic without riffing, but with riffing, it's one that I can go back to time and time again. The Room is hard to watch, even with the hilarious riffing, because it's like being stuck on the worlds slowest, most depressing carousel.
Where as Birdemic is so bad, you can get a good laugh at the sound drop outs, acting, and SFX, The Room just makes me think "That's what they went with? That line/take?" or "Did he/she/they just say that?"
If I ever run into a thug called "Chris R" I think I'd laugh myself into oblivion.
Side note: I was surprised none of the "Britney Spears lookalike" jokes made it into the Live show.
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Post by nondescript spice on May 11, 2015 15:27:31 GMT -5
that's a good point. i could watch birdemic without the rifftrax treatment on its goofiness alone, but not the room. because i HAVE seen the room without riffing and it was TORCHA. i won a contest a few years ago and dr. z sent me a copy. woof! never again.
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Post by toonfeline on May 11, 2015 18:17:02 GMT -5
I have yet to see 'Birdemic', but I saw 'The Room' last Wednesday. It was really awful. The guy I was sitting next to at the theater said that it was worse than 'Manos: The Hands Of Fate', and I'm afraid I would have to agree with him.
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Post by travis on May 13, 2015 7:54:52 GMT -5
This is like MANOS vs. MONSTER A-GO-GO
I'd have to say BIRDEMIC. Though Lisa's physical attributes in THE ROOM won me over, it's really the "we're not even going to TRY" bird FX in BIRDEMIC that push it slightly over the finish line for me.
I'm really looking forward to MIAMI CONNECTION. I'll go see SHARKNADO 2, but it seems like a bit of a reach for the RiffTrax crew.
BTW, their animated musical intro is annoying as sh*t and needs to go away. These guys really don't need an introduction.
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Post by Cubey on Jun 6, 2015 10:29:14 GMT -5
I haven't seen "the room" but 3 words come to mind for birdemic's story/writing: "fifty percent discount"
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