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Friday Fun Thread for June 27, 2025

Following up on Rear Window, I watched The Birds (1963) yesterday. Apparently Netflix licensed a bunch of Alfred Hitchcock movies; good to know.

Some thoughts:

  • We never find out why the birds are attacking, though the trailer implies they are rebelling against human abuse.
  • You know how modern horror movies will make you spend twenty minutes with jerks before the monster shows up and starts fucking people up? This movie takes a whole hour for the first major bird attack to take place; that's half of its runtime!
  • FMC is adventurous, perhaps a little too much so; lying at the drop of a hat, breaking into LI's home for a prank, etc.
  • The shot of the lovebirds leaning with the car turns was amusing.
  • LI's jaw could cut diamonds.
  • Smoker culture is prevalent, with people offering strangers cigarettes as they would a glass of water.
  • Phone calls are expensive enough that FMC offers to pay for them, but cheap enough that the postmaster eats the cost.
  • Special effects are a little dated; it's very easy to tell that the actors are in one layer and the birds in another.
  • Scariest part of the movie? The post office with a sign saying that dog licenses are issued there. "Oi, mate! Ya got a loicense for dat pupper?"
Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025

To this very day my boomer Dad recalls those photos of Iraqi women casting votes. That was powerful enough to him to support the war.