More silly than scary

Rating: 5/10 (23 May 2016)

I think The Birds is a good example of a movie that doesn't hold up as well today. Sure it still manages to provide an interesting narrative about killer birds, but manages to make it feel quite underwhelming. There's a scene in the movie where a bunch of birds fly into a chimney into a house, I'm talking hundreds of these animals. However, instead of attacking the people inside the house, they just kind of fly around, being a bother.
I also found the main character, Melanie, to be extremely unlikable. She spends a lot of the first half of the film lying for no reason. She still manages to get the guy though somehow, despite the fact they only spend about three days together in this movie. As that's how love works.
The ending is quite underwhelming too. I'm not asking for an explanation on why the birds are evil or anything, I just want a bit more than a "they drive off into the distance towards an unknown future" ending, I don't really feel like that fit the movie.
The Birds isn't a total waste of time to watch, and it still manages to be a fun movie. It feels more like a B-picture than an actual horror movie, and who doesn't like a good B-movie every now and then?