View Full Version : Anyone seen Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ?
bogan_blue
6 Oct 2003, 13:22
It is a delighfully funny 2 hour romp, featuring killer birds.
It's meant to be an suspense film (don't think it's grusome enough to be 'termed' horror) and at times it does get very tense (first time you watch it anyway) but you can't help but laugh in scenes when the old lady (Mitch's mother) finds an old dude in his house with his face pecked off.
Hitchcock movies are always pretty cool (except for Topaz which was rather dull I'm afraid) and the Birds is one of my favorites.
Mobbenfuhrer
6 Oct 2003, 15:17
Go find an aussie movie called "Long Weekend" which basically borrows off the Birds but pads out the story with a bit more real umph.
Much better film.
bogan_blue
6 Oct 2003, 15:29
Go find an aussie movie called "Long Weekend" which basically borrows off the Birds but pads out the story with a bit more real umph.
Cheers I will ! :rolleyes:
Mobbenfuhrer
6 Oct 2003, 15:41
Not convinced?
Docker_Brat
6 Oct 2003, 15:51
Love the rip off of this in the Simpsons..
"Uuhhhhhhh Baaaaabies..."
Mobbenfuhrer
6 Oct 2003, 16:07
Originally posted by Docker_Brat
Love the rip off of this in the Simpsons..
"Uuhhhhhhh Baaaaabies..."
Don't recall that one ... :confused:
Originally posted by Mobbenfuhrer
Don't recall that one ... :confused:
"A streetcar named Marge"
It's the ep. where Marge joins the theatre group doing "A streetcar named desire" and Maggie gets put into day care. All the babies do a "great escape" type movement to get their confiscated dummies.
When Homer goes to pick Maggie up there are babies everywhere and all you can here is the sucking sound from the pacifiers.
:D Yes, I’m a Simpson fan.
Mobbenfuhrer
6 Oct 2003, 16:15
Oh yeah I know that episode ... when Marge gets too carried away with stabbing Flanders with the bottle, hehe and the baby escape ... thought that was a rip off on Aliens rather than a rip-off of The Birds, though.
Originally posted by Mobbenfuhrer
.. thought that was a rip off on Aliens rather than a rip-off of The Birds, though.
Yeah I think you're right. The rip-off of "The Birds" is from a Halloween ep. where all the dolphins go crazy and kill everyone, and as everyone is walking out of the town hall, there are dolphins on top of cars, power lines and the like.
Thanks for pointing that out! :)
Mobbenfuhrer
6 Oct 2003, 16:27
Originally posted by Beffery
Yeah I think you're right. The rip-off of "The Birds" is from a Halloween ep. where all the dolphins go crazy and kill everyone, and as everyone is walking out of the town hall, there are dolphins on top of cars, power lines and the like.
Thanks for pointing that out! :)
Haha! I must not have seen that episode. Sounds great!
sandeano
6 Oct 2003, 16:43
Originally posted by Mobbenfuhrer
Go find an aussie movie called "Long Weekend" which basically borrows off the Birds but pads out the story with a bit more real umph.
Much better film.
And far creepier too.
I've never seen a dugong in my life and since seeing that film I don't even want to hear one!
I run a movie forum and a yank poster caught the film playing on cable over there. Raved about it for days as one of the great lost horror films of all time.
I felt a little ashamed to tell him that bugger all people know of it in Australia, either.
Mobbenfuhrer
6 Oct 2003, 17:02
Originally posted by sandeano
And far creepier too.
I've never seen a dugong in my life and since seeing that film I don't even want to hear one!
I run a movie forum and a yank poster caught the film playing on cable over there. Raved about it for days as one of the great lost horror films of all time.
I felt a little ashamed to tell him that bugger all people know of it in Australia, either.
Yep, probably just you and me :)
As a 4 year old this movie scared the **** out of me and scarred me for life. I don't like birds. :(
It's dated like hell and it now officially sucks.
North by Northwest is still one of my favourite movies ever.
Still one of my favourite Hitchcock films, although I think Tippi Hedren is poor replacement for the brilliant Grace Kelly.
My three favourite Hitchcock classics are the three he made with Grace, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Theif. For me Rear Window is Hitchcock's masterpiece, it's funny, suspenceful and the new print holds up very well today.
Mobbenfuhrer
7 Oct 2003, 14:07
Dial M I don't mind ... haven't seen them all though.
Originally posted by FIGJAM
It's dated like hell and it now officially sucks.
Really? 28 years later and I'm still too scared to watch it.
Originally posted by mandy5
Really? 28 years later and I'm still too scared to watch it.
I can sympathise with that, I mean I'm not scared of birds but I saw 'The Shining' when I was very young and still to this day can't watch it.
Rusty Brookes
8 Oct 2003, 09:20
Originally posted by Beffery
Yeah I think you're right. The rip-off of "The Birds" is from a Halloween ep. where all the dolphins go crazy and kill everyone, and as everyone is walking out of the town hall, there are dolphins on top of cars, power lines and the like.
Thanks for pointing that out! :)
The Streetcar episode of the Simpsons definitely paid homage to the Birds. Just as the Simpsons leave the child-care centre, Alfred Hitchcock walks past. Hitchcock always made a small cameo in his films.
Mel Brookes' High Anxiety is another well-known spoof of Hitchcock films. The Birds scene is pretty damn funny.
Asgardian
10 Oct 2003, 02:44
I love old movies, friends ask when will I open a video/dvd shop?
Just got on DVD an old Charles Laughton film, "The Private Life Of Henry Vlll", made in 1933, an excellent movie
The British War Collection on DVD is well worth the money, you get "The Dam Busters", "The Cruel Sea", The Colditz Story" and "Ice Cold in Alex", all fine movies
"Journey to the Centre of the Earth" & "The Day the Earth Stood Still" came out recently, must haves in any collection, plus "The Stranger" & "The Third Man" have been out for a while
Mobbenfuhrer
10 Oct 2003, 07:46
Originally posted by Asgardian
"Journey to the Centre of the Earth" & "The Day the Earth Stood Still" came out recently, must haves in any collection, plus "The Stranger" & "The Third Man" have been out for a while
Journey To The Centre etc starring The Mase! I have that on sell-through video, great film. Day The Earth Stood Still I have a dub of, go the book too. Another is Day Of The Triffids (Howard Keel), great film.
Into the bargain I recommend any old Leo McKern film, eg "Day The Earth Caught Fire". Top dialogue.