History YMMV / BirdBox

* CounterpartComparison:
** There was understandably a lot of comparing to ''Film/AQuietPlace'' (another film about parenthood and surviving the apocalypse based on one of the senses), just with a different sense.
** The film is described as ''Film/TheHappening'' if it wasn't completely stupid.

* NightmareFuel: Unknown creatures of some kind are killing humans, but instead of doing it themselves, they make ''you'' kill yourself if you look at them, which means you can’t rely on the sense you use the most to navigate the world.

--> '''Description:''' [[Film/TheBossBaby Boss baby]] ain't takin your shit no more!

* HypeBacklash: A lot of reviewers think that 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.

* HypeBacklash: A lot of reviewers think that 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 OvershadowedByControvesy where viewers attempt dangerous challenges while blindfolded to imitate what happens in the film.

* HypeBacklash: A lot of reviewers think that 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.

** While the movie largely operates on NothingIsScarier, [[spoiler:Gary's]] various drawings are pretty unsettling.

* 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.

** The lead up to the disaster progresses much in the same way it would in our current real world. It starts with strange reports from different countries appearing online. Then Malorie notices quite a lot of the houses have their windows blocked. She is still absorbed in her mundane every day problems until disaster strikes.

* LesYay{{/}}IncestYayShipping: 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.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie instantly became a huge hit for Netflix, pulling in somewhere between 26 and 45 million viewers its first week depending on who you ask, dramatically overshadowing the book in the public eye.

* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: [[https://external-preview.redd.it/XubXdioTrkFFy9zf5u7VwkJQz2yoYM5wambzxLTeUbU.png?width=891&auto=webp&s=254f62ca941e164d01c3ccc08f3a43f9d23aaa44 And Bird Box is an analogy for itself.]]

* TheWoobie:

* NightmareRetardant: In a case of WhatCouldveBeen, [[https://hellogiggles.com/news/bird-box-monsters-giant-toddlers-pictures/ the scrapped designs]] revealing what the monsters would've looked like [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm (at least for Malorie)]] feel pretty anti-climactic to say the least.

** Though it's questionable how many are genuine versus spoofs, the Bird Box Challenge involves having someone film you trying to do some complicated task while blindfolded. Netflix was understandably rather leery about how badly these could go wrong and was actually driven to put out a message urging people to cut it out.
** The premise (people moving and doing things while doing their best to not catch so much as a peek of their surroundings because of the instant-MindRape-if-you-see-them monsters roaming around) became so interesting that the Internet created a challenge almost instantly: the ''"Bird Box" Challenge'', in which people see how long they can go with their eyes bandaged while doing activities like pitching balls or driving cars or walking through forests. [[https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/what-is-the-bird-box-challenge-and-why-has-netflix-warned-against-it-a4029961.html It got so bad]], with many people getting injuries, that Netflix had to release a tweet [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing asking people to stop]].

** There's also the way the creatures affect those that ''aren't'' driven to kill themselves upon looking at them.

** 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]].

* AdaptationDisplacement: the movie instantly became a huge hit for Netflix, pulling in somewhere between 26 and 45 million viewers its first week depending on who you ask, dramatically overshadowing the book in the public eye.

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

* MemeticLoser: Olympia, for letting a man in [[spoiler:who ended up being an insane person in disguise who ended up killing all but 2 people and 2 babies, including herself]].

** Much like the memes of what it would take for [[Film/It2017 Pennywise]] to convince you to join him in the sewer, a lot of memes for ''Bird Box'' are on what it would take for the entities to make you take off your blindfold. [[spoiler:The scene of Gary forcing Cheryl's eyes open is also getting some mileage, with everything from unpleasant porn to the reason why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch serving in place of the entity.]]

* NightmareFuel: Unknown creatures of some kind are killing humans, but instead of doing it themselves they make ''you'' kill yourself if you look at them, which means you can’t rely on the sense you use the most to navigate the world.
** The lead up to the disaster progresses much in the same way it would in our current real world. It starts with strange reports from different countries appearing online. Then Malorie notices quite a lot of the houses have their windows blocked. She is still absorbed in her mundane every day problems until she has to escape her home.