The Birds (2009)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884788/ ^

[BenLurkin]

All I can figure is that youngsters see the original’s special effects as what oldsters would call “corny”.

It isn’t enough for the current generation of dumbed down movie goers to see fake blood around the eye sockets — they want to see the eye being picked out and rolling on the ground.

[savedbygrace]

Here’s a Hitchcock film that was never made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5nAxzH4OPs

Watch carefully all the way through.

;-)

[VietVet]

Perhaps, instead of remaking Hitchcock's film, they should plan on making a new version of the original De Maure story.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Perhaps, instead of remaking Hitchcock's film, they should plan on making a new version of the original De Maure story.

Hithcock is an icon of film making. A Hitchcock movie's storyline is secondary to fans like myself. It's the Hitchcock's method that is essential. No one could direct actors like he could. You could tell what a Hitchcock character was thinking just by the expression on their faces.

He is considered the master of suspense. The Hitchcock method was copied by director Paul Verhoven in his successful 1992 thriller "Basic Instinct".

[weegee]

I find computer animation to generally look bad in live action films. The motion is “too fast” and bears little resemblence to reality.

The rotating camera “spins” don’t make the effect any more convincing.

The old effects may be “corny” but they are no less convincing than the modern techniques.