The Birds (Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Birds (Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: " The Birds"
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow what a classic! I am glad I finally got this movie. Great to add to your DVD collection.Movie Review: When Animals Attack
Summary: 5 Stars
With Psycho (Collector's Edition), Hitchcock managed to scare his audience halfway to death. Although every movie of his can be considered thriller, that and this one are the only two that accurately portray the horror thriller title.
The Birds is, quite simply, about killer birds terrorizing the residents of a small town. But nothing's that simple in an Alfred Hitchcock film.
The DVD includes a making of feature, the "alternate ending", and few other smaller features.
No Hitchcock collection is complete with it.
Must Have.
Movie Review: Hitchcock's top color film!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll open by saying that Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedron were perfect casting choices for this film. Hitchcock also hit a grand slam with the story, which tenons perfectly with the location, Bodega Bay (Northern California Coastal village).
The story is this: Rod Taylor (a successful playboy-type) gets the hots for Tippi Hedron whom he runs across in a pet store. Why is a playboy-type in a pet store? To buy a pet-gift for his early-teen baby sister, but he strikes out on the gift. Anyway, Tippi is sorta hot for Rod as well and she's the adventuresome type -- so, she buys a pair of lovebirds, (the perfect gift for a young teen!), finds out that Taylor lives up the coast at Bodega Bay with his widowed mother on the weekends, and proceeds to beat him home with the surprise.
After arriving in the village, Tippi rents a boat, crosses the lake to Rod's farm estate, and drops off the birds where he'll see them as he walks into the house, which happens right away. But as she retreats across the lake (playing hard-to-get!) in the boat, a seagull coshes her in the head in a deliberate surprise attack. Rod races around the lake in his cool, (well, it's cool NOW anyway), car and retrieves her from the boat, steering her to a nearby tavern-diner for some first aide and, additionally, some intimate conversation. The place is packed with crusty characters and curmudgeonly residents.
Tippi is noticed right off by the locals and sort of despised right away for all her city good looks, and, since she's made such a frivolous fuss. But Tippi hangs in there, deciding to spend the weekend in the village. She boards at the local school marm's house (another looker and former lover of Taylor who's bulging with great advice about the old boy), and it all goes downhill from there.
The school kids are subsequently attacked by hordes of squalling birds of all species. Many screaming residents retreat back to the tavern and, through a comedy of errors, there is suddenly an explosion at the local gas station and the entire town is thus set ablaze! The combination of the out-of-control fire and the monumental bird attack creates chaos on an unprecedented scale -- this is Bodega Bay's 9-11, to be a bit anachronistic.
Again, the locals give Tippi the old evil eye so Rod sweeps her up and carts her home where the ornithological situation deteriorates even further. A neighbor is killed (eyes all poked out and eaten away!) by the feathered assailants and the burden falls solely upon Rod to save his mother, his sister, and Tippi from the flying nemeses.
The camera angles, the cinematography in general, and the nostalgic details of Bodega Bay all contribute to make this masterpiece of horror films one of the best of all time.
I give this one my very highest rating and recommend it to all.
Movie Review: The Birds
Summary: 5 Stars
The Birds (Collector's Edition)
I am in the process of collecting my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies. The Birds, Frenzy, The Trouble With Harry, and my favorite of all time Rear Window.
Amazon always comes through.
Movie Review: Eh.. it is okay, I have praise and criticism
Summary: 4 Stars
Seems everyone thinks this is such a classic and hardly no criticism at all. I agree the photography was terrific. Especially when Melanie was on the water approaching the house.
What I found a bit off was Jessica Tandy's over-acting to the extreme. This is the same Driving Miss Daisy actress? The male lead was typical Hollywood Leading Man. And those pants, he could have hid inside his pants from the birds.
I just chuckled at the fact these people couldn't fight off a few sea gulls pecking at their backs. Also, I was left in the dark as to why the birds acted this way? Is it because mankind is over-crowding their territory?
Don't get me wrong, it was completely engaging and filmed wonderfully. 4 stars.