As of now, I haven't seen many of Hitchcock's films, but I can say without a doubt that The Birds is my least favorite as of now. It's biggest crime is that it's just way too slow and boring. We spend 40 minutes building up this shallow, sappy romance when we just wanna see some birds. It's like the writers of a Godzilla movie trying to build their characters when all we want is some turn-your-brain-off action with some big monsters. Does having established characters make us fear for them more? Yes, if we actually like them. I can't say I felt for anyone in the film because they all kept making such stupid choices. When they weren't doing that they were arguing or complaining about their daddy/mommy issues. If it was compressed down to at most 90 minutes and rid of the pointless character development this might have been a pretty fun film.
As of now, I haven't seen many of Hitchcock's films, but I can say without a doubt that The Birds is my least favorite as of now. It's biggest crime is that it's just way too slow and boring. We spend 40 minutes building up this shallow, sappy romance when we just wanna see some birds. It's like the writers of a Godzilla movie trying to build their characters when all we want is some turn-your-brain-off action with some big monsters. Does having established characters make us fear for them more? Yes, if we actually like them. I can't say I felt for anyone in the film because they all kept making such stupid choices. When they weren't doing that they were arguing or complaining about their daddy/mommy issues. If it was compressed down to at most 90 minutes and rid of the pointless character development this might have been a pretty fun film.
