Anybody remaking ANY Hitchcock film is doomed to failure. How do you improve on perfection?
““In the original, the birds just showed up, and it was kind of like, why are the birds here?”
In the original did not the lady bird expert in the diner offer some environmental reason for the birds? Seems like she had some sort of theory. ?????
Maybe it’s just that most of the movie makers these days are making crap. The remakes of Flight of the Phoenix and The Four feathers to name just two.
If the critics like it “Stay Away”.
Some are better. The Departed....wow can’t think of any more this past year...lol.
We get it from both sides, from folks who think that a stripper with a machine gun leg is "art" to the morons who attack the academy for not nominating dreck like Happy Feet and Veggie Tales for best picture.
part of the spookiness of hitchcock’s version was never knowing why the birds were there.