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The BirdsRating: 5 - Another Outstanding DVD release from Universal! Forget the fact The Birds has never looked better on a television screen, presented here in widescreen format, with surround sound, and in a luminous, digitally remastered transfer. Forget about the fact that this DVD edition contains an original, outstanding documentary, "The Birds is Coming." If you are a fan of Hitchcock, this DVD is worth seeing for the screen tests alone, which are among the most valuable extras a studio can include on a DVD (let's face it, most audio commentaries are mediocre and vastly inferior to what can be found in print). If there was ever any question regarding the ambivalence of Hitchcock's relationships with his leading ladies, one need only watch these absorbing, yet profoundly disturbing screen tests, in which Hitchcock, in a stern and chilling tone, orders Tippi Hedren to try on various dresses and poses. As with Kim Novak in Vertigo, one senses a certain desparation in Hitch's direction of Hedren, in both this film and in Marnie. Tippi Hedren is no Grace Kelly, just as Grace Kelly was no Ingrid Bergman or Madeleine Carroll. Nonetheless, this is an outstanding picture and a highly recommended DVD special edition. Rating: 5 - The 11 year old below THE BIRDS is a wonderful film, intensely touching with it's much analyzed symbolism of human fragility. It is also scary with imaginative attacks and wonderful sequences. The Tides Restaurant sequence is a wonderfully black sequence of comedy, terror, and logic ending at the only conclusion: if it's true, "we haven't got a chance..." The subplot of Lydia, Annie, and Melanie is wonderful to analyze. Every time you watch or read about this film, you learn more about it's symbolic undertones(coincidental or intentional, I don't think it matters). Watch again and again for it's cool and cold atmosphere and clever sequences and directing by Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, who definitely suceeded in this film. Personally, this is my 4th or 5th favorite film, the first four being REBECCA, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, and SHADOW OF A DOUBT, and REAR WINDOW. For the VERTIGO, PSYCHO, and NORTH BY NORTHWEST fans, I love those too, not too far behind. Rating: 5 - A good idea made into a great movie As long as I can remember, I've always heard people brag about how good of a movie "The Birds" was. I finally got to see it on television and I agree with everything I had ever heard about it. It is a great, classic horror movie. Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is on a short trip from San Francisco to Bodega Bay, California in order to deliver a couple of lovebirds to Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), for his younger sister's birthday. All the while, Melanie, Rod, and the others are noticing some strange behavior in some local birds, especially the seagulls and the crows. If you like great horror movies, I definitely recommend getting "The Birds." Don't think that just because it was made in 1963 that it's not a good horror movie, because it is, it's a classic from Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock definitely did a good job directing the movie, and everybody in the movie did a good job of acting. All the horror scenes, especially the one where the birds are almost pecking through the wooden door and the major attack on Melanie at the end of the movie are well done.
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