History YMMV / BirdBox

%%** The spin-off sequel ''Bird Box Barcelona'' would shed more light on these "seers", specifically [[spoiler:through the eyes VillainProtagonist Sebastián]]. It shown that the creatures' seers aren't just the mentally ill but anyone that suffers from some sort of trauma [[spoiler:with the trauma of Sebastián caused by the death of his daughter leading him to become a seer]]. His own point-of-view [[spoiler:

* LesYay: Quite a few viewers mistook the Hayes' for a lesbian couple in their initial scene together, before it dawned that they were sisters and that Malorie was pregnant by her ex-boyfriend.

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* LesYay: Quite a few viewers mistook the Hayes' for a lesbian couple in their initial scene together, before it dawned that they were sisters and that Malorie was pregnant by a man.

** Plumbing doesn’t work since things went to hell so survivors have to resort to taking their feces and urine outside to dump. At one point they’re all too scared to leave the house so the feces and urine filled buckets pile up in the basement.

* HarsherInHindsight: One could make comparisons between the blindfolds and face-masks as of the COVID-19 pandemic. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement But that's as far as we'll go]].

* HypeBacklash: A lot of reviewers think that [[SoOkayItsAverage the movie is only OK at best]] and many people think that the movie received unnecessary hype due to Netflix's overblown marketing and people making memes of it to no end. It also doesn't help that the film is being OvershadowedByControversy where viewers attempt dangerous challenges while blindfolded and base their actions on what happens in the movie.

* SoOkayItsAverage: Overall people's consensus of the movie, even from people who only [[WatchItForTheMeme watched it for the meme]]. While the idea may not be original, but the cast's performance and the direction are stellar enough to be entertaining.

* AmericansHateTingle: The movie is not well liked by French-Canadians thanks to one of the archived footage used in the movie being that of the 2013 tragedy in Lac-Mégantic. Not helped when, even though they apologize for this, they decided to keep the footage.

* HarsherInHindsight: One could make comparisons between the blindfolds and face-masks as of the COVID-19 pandemic. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement But that's as far as we'll go]].

* NauseaFuel: Malorie and her children go on a trek towards safety hopefully in a boat. River water sloshes in the bottom of the boat until Girl decides she needs to pee and the river water in the boat is soon mixed with pee and blood (from when Malorie got injured by a wolf) which seeps over into Malorie’s shoes and splashes against her ankles. The trauma of the situation as well as the increasingly unsanitary conditions of their expedition causes Malorie to vomit on herself and after she comes to after passing out she smells pee and vomit on herself.

** This also isn't the first time for a movie with a premise where people commit suicide for no reason other than in contact with invisible forces. Creator/MNightShyamalan's ''Film/TheHappening'' took this similar premise but with a heavy handed GreenAesop message.

** Jokes that compare this film to ''Film/AQuietPlace'' and ''Film/{{Hush}}'', but with [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a nonsensical last line in play]] -- eg. [[Film/BirdBox Can't see]], [[Film/AQuietPlace can't speak]], [[Film/{{Hush}} can’t hear]], [[Film/MeanGirls can't sit with us]].

* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Bird Box'' was criticized for being a copy of ''Film/AQuietPlace''. The novel that the movie is based on actually predates ''A Quiet Place'' by four years.

* {{Narm}}: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmI15dzhKVY scene]] where Malorie and the kids are accosted by an infected, insane man during their covert river trip. The man suddenly appears out of the fog screeching "TAKE YOUR GODDAMN BLINDFOLD OFF! TAKE IT OFF! TAKE YOUR BLINDFOLD OFF!", trying to pull them into the water. The actor goes [[LargeHam 110%]] as the zombified, deranged man, while Malorie tries to kick him again and again and eventually resorts to stabbing wildly in the dark to try to get rid of him (which he still doesn't have much of a reaction to). The scene stretches on just long enough to become more hilarious than frightening.
** When your protagonist is shouting "GIRL, BOY! BOY! GIRL!" it's kind of hard to take the situation seriously.
*** Malorie's screams of "BOY!" in particular bring to mind an infamous MemeticMutation from ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWar2018 God of War]]''.

*** Malorie's screams of "BOY!" in particular bring to mind an infamous MemeticMutation from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar2018''.

* {{Narm}}: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmI15dzhKVY scene]] where Malorie and the kids are accosted by an infected, insane man during their covert river trip. The man suddenly appears out of the fog screeching "TAKE YOUR GODDAMN BLINDFOLD OFF! TAKE IT OFF! TAKE YOUR BLINDFOLD OFF!", trying to pull them into the water. The actor goes 110% as the zombified, deranged man, while Malorie tries to kick him again and again and eventually resorts to stabbing wildly in the dark to try to get rid of him (which he still doesn't have much of a reaction to). The scene stretches on just long enough to become more hilarious than frightening.

* {{Narm}}: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmI15dzhKVY scene]] where Malorie and the kids are accosted by an infected, insane man during their covert river trip. The man suddenly appears out of the fog screeching "TAKE YOUR GODDAMN BLINDFOLD OFF! TAKE IT OFF! TAKE YOUR BLINDFOLD OFF!", trying to pull them into the water. The actor goes 110% as the zombified, deranged man, while Malorie tries to kick him again and again and eventually resorts to stabbing wildly in the dark to try to get rid of him. The scene stretches on just long enough to become more hilarious than frightening.