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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $13.99 You Save: $5.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Collector's Edition • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 28 March, 1963 DVD Release : 28 March, 2000 |
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The Birds (Collector's Edition) description Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes." From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the coastal town of Bodega Bay to hook up with a rugged fellow (Rod Taylor) she's only just met. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds, and Hitchcock's skill at staging action is brought to the fore. Beyond the superb effects, however, The Birds is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of violence, loneliness, and complacency. What really gets under your skin are not the bird skirmishes but the anxiety and the eerie quiet between attacks. The director elevated an unknown model, Tippi Hedren (mother of Melanie Griffith), to being his latest cool, blond leading lady, an experience that was not always easy on the much-pecked Ms. Hedren. Still, she returned for the next Hitchcock picture, the underrated Marnie. Treated with scant attention by serious critics in 1963, The Birds has grown into a classic and--despite the sci-fi trappings--one of Hitchcock's most serious films. --Robert Horton |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Real Cruddy... Actually it's fantastic. I love it! |
| First off, let me give the nerds the afternoon off and pre-spam my review with insensately hostile personal attacks because I have the audacity to have an opinion which differs from those of the herd.
And now on to the review. The movie is shockingly bad. It starts off with Tippi Hedren being filmed through vaseline every time the camera lovingly ogles her starry-eyed face. She is a spoiled Paris Hilton type who pretends to work in a pet shop so as to get some face time with a total hosehead who goes in there to buy some birds. This hosehead is supposed to be something to yell for, but instead he has about as much charm as a guy in a hemorrhoid commercial. Tippi then decided to chase this hosebag all the way to a small town, find out about where he lives, rent a boat, slowly make her way across the bay... The screenwriter should have been taken out and shot for being criminally boring. The movie has an interminable and completely unnecessary and uninteresting "human interest" premise which involves Tippi basically stalking hemorrhoid man. The two are destined to be destined for each other. But you, the viewer are simply destined to waste two hours of your life watching this claptrap. Moviegoers must collectively insist on not being bored to death. Movies are supposed to be MORE interesting than real life. That's why they are called "entertainment". Okay, I owe the movie the sincerest apology. It's like I've just suspected: the film is a masterpiece. It's a message picture. The message is, "People are garbage; the birds can't take it anymore. The birds must kill." It's just like David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World, only its The Angriest Birds in the Town. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! Ok, to recap... the movie takes far too long to get going. And NONE of the characters are even faintly likeable. But once the birds really take a special dislikin'... all hell breaks loose. The scene in which the gas station explodes I dug special. Pure chaos. If I could change my rating I'd now give the movie four stars, subtracting one star for how mind-bendingly boring the first half of the movie is. But the film is basically Peyton Place with birds attacking. Plus the leading "man" has got some kind of Psycho situation going with that battleaxe of a mother of his. He's a real mamma's boy. Calls his mother "Dear." So the birds can't take it any more and they let loose on the town. And rightly so. The movie ends with the crummy people, now throroughly humbled, quietly mincing off while the birds, who've taken over, are basically saying, "Yeah, that's right: take a walk, buster!" The movie is an early prototype of Jurassic Park, which was obviously based directly on The Birds, though nobody seems to have noticed this. In Jurassic Park there are even repeated references to how the dinosaurs are the ancestors of... you got it: birds. The movie dramatizes some primal expectation that the earth will surge primitive and humans will be bundled off like refugees, like the rabble they secretly know themselves to be. Fan-freaking-tastic!! |
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