The Birds

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Summary: Perfection!
Review: There is nothing that I don't like in this movie. The characters are all well-drawn and the plot follows along from life. So much of the world is beyond comprehension . . . even with all our knowledge of science and mathematics and philosophy, we can explain the "how" but not the "why" of things. And any attempt to do so would be meaningless, just as the phenomenon we see in The Birds is not just beyond understanding, but there is no attempt at explanations. It is not blamed on a divinity, nor on bad behavior of the people as a prophet would say. What's the point, that would just be idle speculation. My favorite scene . . the stares of the people in the Cafe looking out of the window at the man at the gas pump. Classic.

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Summary: failure to understand what hitchcock was trying to say
Review: this motion picture was made in the early sixties at a time when revolutionary changes were threating the calm peacful american scene and society. his view in this picture was that riots, demonstations loss of tranquility that we took for granted was soon to be ripped apart. the birds represent all of those social changes that were soon to tear up the fabric of american society.the attack of the birds was upon a peaceful normal small slice of ammericana.this indicated that no place was to be safe from the trumatizing effects of drugs, bizzare behavior, riots,crime,generation gap and all the other effects which were to destroy all that was held to be sacred. schools were attacked.childrens birthday partys were no longer safe.could the birds be held to represent all that was to soon render our society a fearful place to live in. even bodega bay? has anyone ever considered this point of view? if i am correct then this was the one and only prophetic and most horrifying of hitchcock`s motion pictures. I loved and hated it for that reason.

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Summary: way great
Review: A simple idea that turns to horror. A woman in a bird shop sees a good looking dude come in. She falls for him hard but the dude is playin her for awhile. She finds out where he hangs and buys some birds to take to him. Later they get together and the dude starts to like her too. As romance blossoms, all of a sudden there are groups of birds forming small attacks on the village. The town flips out as ordinary birds begin to attack and peck everyone when they go ouside. Soom there are so many birds everyone is in fear as they rip the dudes house to pieces to get to the people inside. Man, I am tellin it straight up you will remember this flick forever.. VERY VERY GOOD. The acting is superb and the charcters are all well cast as they draw you in to Hitchcocks evil mind and feel the terror of The Birds.

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Summary: Tippi Hedren in The Birds (1963) and The Birds II (1994).
Review: An Alfred Hitchcock classic! If you like thrillers, you'll like this one. A woman, Melanie Daniels, played by "Tippi" Hedren, is interested in some special birds in a San Francisco Bird Pet Shop. A gentleman, Mr. Mitchell Brenner, played by Rod Taylor (The Time machine [1960]) also comes in for some love birds. Miss Daniels takes a sudden interest in this dashing man, so she pretends to work in the shop for the man who requested her help. However, he just so happens to remember who she is and where he saw her before, in court. So Miss Daniels becomes more inquisitive about Mr. Brenner. She decides to put it upon herself to travel to Bodega bay to deliver two love birds to Mr. Brenner for his girl's birthday. In Bodega Bay, she encounters some interesting people (Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright). The birds in this small bay town don't want to welcome her. The terror starts when the birds begin mass attacks. Morgan Brittany is the child in the light blue dress. You may recognize the bird sales clerk. That was actress, Ruth McDevitt. You have seen her in the tv series' Bewitched, Love American Style and the film, Change of Habit (1969). The scared mother in the cafe is Doreen Lang. It is well known that Miss Hedren was injured during filmimg by real birds they were using and her ankle was hurt. However, she did work for Hitchcock again in MARNIE (1964). Tippi Hedren also appeared in the cable tv-movie sequel, THE BIRDS II: LAND'S END (1994).

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Summary: The laws of nature are not on our side
Review: Very good movie. Superb. Alfred Hitchcock really made it good when he made this movie. I saw this when I was nine. When I saw the ending I was like, "What a rip off". But then I realized, since it was such a good horror movie, most horror movies are ruined by the ending. This one was just best left alone.

Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a mistaken woman who has a lot of spare time on her hands. Maybe too much. Though she may be one for pranks, she decides to make a special delivery to Mitchell Brenner (Rod Taylor) with a present at hand for his sister who's birthday is coming up. Things start to become a little strange around the sleepy little town of Bodega Bay once she arrives. A gull swoops down and hits her for no reason. Crows are gathering around childrens playgrounds, and they even invade houses trying to kill people. Nothing seems to be adding up. Why the sudden change in the birds activity. What could possibly be going on that is making them go against humans? Maybe it was the humans in the first place.

The plot was really exciting in this one. When the birds attacked, it was just out in the open. There was no music which made it even stranger on account of you never really knew the mood of the present time until it happened. You weren't sure when they were, or weren't going to attack either. It took over 3 years to make this film with of all the trick photography at hand. For those of you who have seen this movie, the birds was supposed to have an alternate ending where the four survivers drive into San Fransisco and find it invaded with Birds. But Alfred hitchcock decided to cut it thinking it would give too much away. I would recommend The Birds II: Lands End also, because it was more of a make of the book instead of a sequel.

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Summary: the pigeon legion
Review: What I wanna know is how the chickens and the penguins fared in in the birdzkrieg.

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Summary: Classically cold..
Review: I decided to see The Birds for the simple reason that Alfred Hitchcock directed it(and also has a blink and you'll miss it scene outside the pet shop where he is walking two dogs). Melanie Daniels meets Mitch Brenner in a chance encounter at the pet shop downtown where he is looking to purchase some love birds. Later on, after finding out where Mitch lives; a coastal town called Bodega Bay, Melanie(Tippi Hedren) goes down to visit him so they get get aqainted better and she brings two love birds with her for his daughter Lydia. On the way over she is strangely attacked by a seagull which is later dismissed by the town as being an odd accident. The film drags on a bit and features a cool scene (SPOILER) where one of the men in the movie gets his eyes gouged out by a crow.Other than that the movie has no music score which I found incredibly amazing! Usually in movies the music works up when a suspense moment is about to happen and because there is none in the movie everything is so eerie and unexpected.

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Summary: Classic horror
Review: Spoiled socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor). Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday. He recognizes Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to buy the birds and drive up to the quiet coastal town of Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother. Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull. This is just the start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds. The film has several attacks in which adults and school children are ravaged and the air assaults are frightening to watch. The dangerous birds' unexplained sheer destructive force is displayed in the attack in a bedroom where the unfortunate Ms. Daniels is trapped, and their determination to destroy every human in their path is awful to behold.

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Summary: Not Hitchcock
Review: 'The Birds' is one of his "classics", but it is not a good movie. The concept is bad, the graphics are bad, and it is too simplistic of a story to be Hitchcock.

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Summary: Intense thriller That gets under your skin
Review: This is a must see film . It is not a gorey grusome film, but is intense because of all the perfect camera angles. it is not just the devastateing bird attacks but the silent suspence between the attacks. hitchcock is master of suspence. you have to see this film.