THE WITCHES (2020) - A Cringe Induced Nightmare
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In the novel, the kid is happy being a mouse with a short lifespan specifically because he doesn't want to outlive his grandmother.
Wat about the other kids
I mean, I can relate bro, I love my gramma
a gen z before his time
That is a dumb ending
@Samantha Shapiro I just don't buy a kid doing that
Anne Hathaway is not a bad actress herself, she just was terribly miscast. She doesn't fit the tone of this movie
Seconded, when I think of Anne Hathaway, "The Princess Diaries" comes to mind, she's just not cut out to play a villain, even though she's very talented! 😔
I was so confused when I saw she was leading this. She's so obviously wrong for the part that I assumed she'd done a Heath Ledger and pulled out such an amazing audition that she made the role her own. I now know this was not the case. I wish every remake didn't have to be made sexy.
Tilda swinton would have been perfect
michelle gomez will be a oscar winner in this movie
@@npcimknot958 the director isnt bad tho he has amazing movies behind his name I think he just picked a bad movie to direct a different director or even having the original author of the book down to give her vision of the book on screen to make the movie better
The witches in the original film were so creepy. They had patchy skin, no toes, and purple eyes. They all acted completely depraved. The ladies in the remake just look bald and bored.
This is so true. It’s so funny that he said after seeing the 90s movie for the first time when he was younger he started looking for witches everywhere bc I legit did the exact same thing😂
I love it when movies effect us enough to carry over into the real world. That doesn’t really happen much nowadays, it’s usually just frustration with the them being awful again and again. It’s like they don’t care at all about actually learning from their mistakes and failures. Hopefully movies with great dialogue, casting/acting, cinematography, and special effects will come back into the limelight eventually😩
So true I feel like whenever people try to remake a movie again it just ruins everything 😒
That was the thing about the 1990's version. They looked freaky, they made the effort, now they look like Chemo patients with joker scars. (head only)
I guess to many 'witches' would claim discrimination if portrayed like the original version huh
Can _totes_ relate..!
...except for the *witch* & *ladies* part...
Some of the witches in the first one, in the hotel conference suite were men dressed up as witches!😂😂 Watch it its so funny when you realise!
My favorite fact about Roald Dahl is that before he died, on his death bed, he told his family that he isn’t sad just that he will mis them all so much; he was then given an injection of medication to ease whatever pain he was feeling, to which he reacted with his last words: “ow, fuck”.
a legend
Oh man .... that's classic.
Anne Hathaway sounds like a Sims 4 character I'm crying lmao
Omg xd
@Alfie Martin it’s the roblox anime bro
@Alfie Martin first one is... idk, big mouth? Second one is Clannad.
I wouldn't be surprised if she came out with a "SOOL SOOL! MIFOULAAAA!!!"
@@LoreleiCatherine oh god I can hear this in my brain lmaooo
I hate how they made the witches talk wierd and fancy. I liked how they seemed normal in the old version but were snarcky and rude. What they did was so dumb
Welcome back to kek or cringe with Joel from the last of us and in my opinion the witches (2020) is cringe
@@biker_buckets3629 Welcome back to kek or cringe with Engineer from Team fortress 2 and in my opinion the witches (2020) is MEGA cringe
@@pigeonsareawesome2071 welcome back to kek or cringe with Richard from hotline Miami and the witches is cringe
it...was actually in the books
@@biker_buckets3629 Bobux gaming
Being stuck in a painting for the rest of your life sounds existentially scary.
Hell yeahhhh
Dr. Whité, we need to make the methé
I was always thinking this while watching the Harry Potter films.
mr whote, whee is my 20003 km/h of methe???
*Luigi's Mansion*
You know, i remember reading the book as a kid, and the mouse transformation scene is honestly pretty disturbing-
It's written in detail how the main character could feel thousands of needles poking through his skin as fur started growing out of it and his body morphed into a mouse
I had it on audiobook, and it was always so chilling when I going to sleep :’)
@@lilypad2714 the boy’s monologue is some of the best monologue Roald Dahl has ever written.
I can guarantee if it wasn't for that mouse spell, that kid would fight every witch in the room for the chocolate and win
That's a real mood
Hella mood
@@kiwimay6080 qqqqqww
That is if the kid was instead a crack addict teen with the craziest fucking crackhead strength
The thumbnail made me think of mileena, but the intro shows me sheeva.
Who is it then?
The Witches (1990): monstruous hagraven-like covent
The Witches (2020): support group for women with cancer
Literally...
It do be like that
😂😂😂
Lol
I see you are a cultured man of skyrim as well
I will always love the 1990 version even though I haven’t watched it when it came out o-o
In the book the kid isn’t mad about being a mouse because he knows his grandma is going to die in a couple years too, and the kid doesn’t want to be anywhere but with his grandma. It’s a shame they didn’t add that detail in this movie because that is one of the more vivid memories I had with this book in my childhood and I think it hits really deep.
Still not a fan of the book ending if only because it just feels so defeatist and short sighted as he's ready to give up his future just to not live without his grandma
So becoming a mouse helps be with his grandma how? Is it cause he is gonna die sooner like she is? That's retarded and it's a good thing they left it out just saying.....
are we reading different book? at the end, the kid was happy he was a mouse because the kid said he will die at the same age as his grandma
@@tartpickle we are reading the same book, I said that too
@@jacksonsinclair2615 The boy would rather be dead than not have his grandma, so he’s happy that now he gets to be with her until he dies, so he doesn’t have to live without her.
the real thing that traumatized me was mister bean talking
@Wilmer Waarbroek haha
He talks in the live-action Scooby doo movies too.
Have none of you people seen Blackadder? He also voices Zazu in the original lion king.
Y’all haven’t seen johnny english??
@@busthana5667 Oh yeah, that too
In the original movie, I was HORRIFIED when that girl was stuck in that picture!
Oh for sure. It's right at the start too. As a kid I couldn't watch past that scene and couldn't look at wall pictures for like two weeks
It was even scarier in the book in my opinion. That was a scary ass book.
How's it scary? I just found it sad. She was stuck there till she grew old and died, all alone.
It's extremely erie and pure existential horror, it was one of the many details that gave the original am extremely creepy and unique dream-like atmosphere
@@Synthxt1cc I think they just mean that the prospect of being subject to that type of torture by the witches is scary, not that girl or the painting themselves were scary
“A summoner has reconnected” lmao that was golden
Ye it was
Who knew...
Witches were in the internet. lmao
I died Laughing
That's something you will hear while playing a moba game
I thought I had the game open in the background
"they didnt have CGI so they had to be creative"
the difference between movies in a nutshell
Amen
Agreed
What really scared me about the 90's movie as a child was the "secret society" kind of shit. Like a large group of people you know possibly being evil, let alone monsters, really fucked me up as a kid. Not being able to trust anyone because anyone could be a monster hiding behind human flesh.
Btw the Grandma in the book is just straight up badass, she did tell the stuckup rich parents their son turned into a mouse cause she felt sorry they didn't notice he was missing.
LOL savage
Hell yeah
Don't forget about the part where she impersonated the Chief of police over the phone
Movie adaptations nearly never do the book justice.
Just told my mom they did a remake of The Witches and the look of fury and disgust that came over her face cannot be put into words.
Why am I crying?
That's how you know you got a cool mom.
They need to stop making remakes. There was a time when remakes were often better than the older versions. Not anymore. They just ruin them now.
Tell her they are remaking The BFG with The Rock as the giant.
This was my reaction too 🤦🏻♀️
That "shorter livespan" you mentioned made me remember a kind of sad scene in the first movie where the kid is a mouse and asks his grandma how long mice live. "about 5 years, i am so sorry" said his grandma. "thats nice, ten we can die together grandma" and it really hit me
That scene is in this movie too.
I remember him asking how long mice live, but I don't remember her answering, and I recently watched that film too. However, her tears is enough to answer the question.
In the book too
he is ridding the lego train near the end when asking it in the film
@@arroeducarlion4990 yes, but she didn't give an answer.
I loved all Roald Dahls books and read them as a child prior to seeing any film adaptations. Matilda is probably one of the best underated adaptations,
Underrated by who? Everybody says wonders about it all the time 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Damn that movie was my childhood bruh
@@zoazede2098 The people that know about it, yeah.
@@Ungtartog it’s not underrated, stop with the generic underrated comments that are everywhere on RUclips. Matilda is well known by millions and there’s even a Hollywood movie
@@chris7921 Fr my younger brother claimed COWBOY BEBOP WAS UNDERRATED?! even tho it was extremely popular when it aired in1998-99 like HUH?! istg 💀
at the end of the book he insists on staying as a mouse, his nan tells him mice don't last very long, and he tells her it's ok because they'll probably both die around the same time, they then head off to the next witch meeting with all the potion they got, as a new grand high witch would have already been appointed.
Oh this is kinda sad I forgot about that when I read the book
I loved the book so much as a child
@@togarmah9848 it's very dark, remember the beginning? with the past witch meetings, families going to shooting parties and unknowingly shooting their children which had been turned into pheasants. a chef discovering a boiled baby alligator in the soup
@@fredbirdcinema very tru. I even remember my heart stopped wen in primary my teacher read out "the teacher reading this to you could be a witch also" (something like that). had me paranoid for a month or so
@@togarmah9848 Classic! I live in Newquay, where they filmed the original movie (The Headland Hotel), always been a thing for me since i was little, and still is my favourite book haha. In that film - when they drive up the road and turn into the road leading to the hotel - they actually drive up from a car park on the beach to the hotel, haha
In the book the kid literally just said he was ok with dying early so he didn’t have to live without his grandma, it broke me!
His life was pretty fucked not gonna lie. With his parents dying and everything
Why did Anne have to apologize for the hand "offense" when it was the director and the makers of the movie that designed it.
i dont think the disabled community was even mad at her either, which makes it really weird imo. i completely understand where theyre coming from, this movie used olidactyly (idr how to spell it, im baked) as a way to make them look creepy/evil bc limb differences and certain other disabilities have that stereotype. i have a limp, which has a similar stereotype, so i get it. imo its lazy character design and pretty offensive. but anne hathaway probably didnt know that, and she didnt write the characters, so it made no sense for her to get involved. she couldve said something about how she didnt agree with that and is now more aware of that community, but there was no need for her to apologize really. most people were just saying to boycott the movie (or at the very least be aware of that stereotype when you watch it, esp since most people pirate anyway), not really asking for an apology of any sort
@@somedude172 Oh no, they where very mad. Rightfully so.
@@supershepherd Not really, humans usually have 5 fingers so it makes sense for an uncanny valley effect they'd play with the idea of the witches having misshapen limbs and missing fingers but all the CGI looks like ass 🤢
@@somedude172 I know of a few people in the Ectrodactyl community that voiced their displeasure, my mom and I aren’t part of that group but as people in the disabled community we were upset, especially since my mom knew a guy with ectrodactyly
@@corncrackerkid5092if that's the case every movie everywhere would have to apologize to somebody with some sort of disability it's still bad. what if they made her with long freakishly hands well guess what there is a people out there that have long freakishly hands where they have to apologize to them. or what about the toe situation there's people that are born with no toes or one toe and they're going to have to apologize to them too. or how about the fact that all the witches are bald what about cancer patients are they going to apologize to them as well. what if they made them freakishly large what about people who have that gigantism disease or disability should they apologize to them too period or made them really small then you'd have to apologize to the people with dwarfism. or maybe they would give her more than 4 fingers maybe 6 fingers oops then they would have to apologize to the small group that has more than five fingers like me I was born with a six fingers instead of five. they are witches and it wasn't the three fingers that made them evil they were evil to begin with they weren't making fun of the witches because they had three fingers they weren't even making fun of The wishes at all they were scared of them because they killed children and that's it the features was just to be able to tell who they were to know that they were a witch and not a human being sheesh at what point do you have to say I can't complain about everything if you are and it disability community but you're constantly screaming about wanting to be treated equally not special and treated normally then like any normal person you should be able to watch a movie that has features that might look like yours and not get frustrated or upset or triggered.
I remember there was one kid in the book who was turned into a statue. The messed up thing is that his family kept him around as an umbrella stand. In the book, it was even stated that the parents of the fat kid were probably going to kill him because they didn't want to have a mouse kid. Roald Dahl was a man with a lot of issues.
"They may as well be wearing clown makeup"
Honestly I think replacing the witches with clowns would be scarier.
another It reboot?
*Thinking*
😲 NO! Don't give them anymore ideas!
A coven of Art the Clowns. I’m down.
Imagine a room full of people tearing down their facial flesh just to all be Pennywises. That would be a movie im willing to watch.
I think your idea is is amazing am thinking they should make a movie called the clowns and the boss can be pennywise
Omg an army of evil demon clowns posing as nice clowns would have been awesome
According to IMDB, Guillermo del Toro wanted this to be done in stop motion.
If only they had listened to him...
@Alexis Eronmwon Exactly! Stop motion is the scariest form of animation. It makes even harmless, baby content fucking _terrifying._
Damn that would've been beautiful and scary. This is sad now. ):
They're too lazy nowadays for stop motion, that's why they use cgi for everything :(
@@jexxer except for Pingu
@@lordhawkridge4116 You are entitled to your opinion, but I respectfully disagree.
In a movie filled with horrifying af imagery, it was always the girl trapped in the painting that scared me as a kid.
yup, even to this day i stil feel really sad when watching the movie :C
I've only just heard about this
And it terrifies me
That is serious horror material. I have never seen the old version, but is it supposed to be a movie for kids? I´m sure I would handle movies like Predator easier than this stuff.
Same,it still bothers me even as an adult. I just watched the original again a few days after the 2020 version and the kid in the painting is still the most terrifying part yet.
@@Mysikrysa book is even worse if imagery isn't what scares you
The 1990 version was really good, and was so accurate to the book, that seeing the 2020 one made me generally upset that they just- DID THAT WITH SUCH A GOOD- hh
It follows the book pretty closely, except for the ending and what happened to the other kid.
@@pizzarat3275 I meant the characters but you have a good point! :D
Anne Hathaway gives off more "my older rich husband died in a tragic accident" vibes than "I am secretly a witch" vibes, and that casting choice really hit this movie hard.
She looks like she'd be more at home playing Meryl Streep's character in a remake of Death Becomes Her lol
@@hermionestranger4964 Don't worry. They'll remake that one too, eventually.
@@hermionestranger4964 tbh you are totally right.
I remember having the book as a kid and reading the cover as "The Bitches"
that reminds me when i was 6 years old I was in bed with my sister and she took up to much space so I just said “move over bitch.”
THE B I T C H E S
@@michaeltracy9932 i can just imagine a 6 year old saying "Move over bitch!"
@@kingvonafterdark in a 30 year old man voice
Maybe it don't come in the mail or people stole
1990 Witches: Fine Wine
2020 Witches: Spoiled Milk
Spoiled out of the box.
Spoiled milk left in the sun
And 2021 Witches: The witch hunters
What’s the difference jk I just don’t like wine I’m 14
@@Shakodox Well, good wine, if kept properly, can last for years, even getting better with age. Milk on the other hand spoils within days, even with refrigeration. I.e. the first movie aged nicely, the remake is crap.
"If the main characters are kids, it's for kids"
It: HAHAHAHAHAHA
*no*
Aka the promised neverland
south park:
Poor Anne Hathaway, she's a good actress constantly in shit.
So many Nolan actresses ended up like her. Coincidence?
Bro Joseph Gordon levitt? 😂
What are you talking about
yes
@@haydenbragg7637 a c t r e s s
aka female actors
I think it was shit direction. Think she could have been a great witch
The novel is probably one of the greatest stealth horror novels ever written. You talked about the painting girl in the 1990 movie, but the novel has even more of these bizarre kids assassinations that really showcase just how twisted Roald Dahl's imagination was. Definitely scared me straight as a 9 year old.
truuu; in primary we loved all his books anyway, but witches was by far my favourite as a child (but grew up to hate horror...)
@@togarmah9848 Same.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory taken out of context is scary too.
@@sillyguyfred how?
@@icantspell210 I've heard theory's and seen RUclips videos where the kids became ingredients in the candy (Epic movie). Or the whole golden ticket thing was a set up. Because you have 4 brats and one sweet child. I smell bs here.
The fact that even Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer and Stanley Tucci can’t even save this mess of a movie says alot.
I could even see the disappointment in my mother's eyes when she saw the movie.
I think if they did a remake to the witches they should have done a stop motion version Maybe in the same style as Coraline or Corpse Bride
A stop motion version of the witches would be pretty neat tbh
That was the original plan. Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón were the ones who put the remake into motion and they even had a scriptwriting session with Roald Dahl's daughter at his house. It was going to be stop motion and one of them was going to direct, while the other one was going to produce. Sadly, they ended up stepping out. Del Toro still got a screenwriter credit.
100% agreed! The TNBC or Coraline style would've fit the story way better than live action/CGI.
That car?
That would've been pretty awesome tbh.
You need to pitch that
Ok to be fair, I don’t like the performance, but Ann Hathaway looks like she’s having a lot of fun
Honestly yeah
Fun =/ quality
I'd be having fun fun too doing this crap while getting paid millions haha
@@kalleroseworld1919 BASED
@@kalleroseworld1919 haha perfect!
I feel bad for anne. She was really trying.
It was a bit cringy, yeah, but she was trying
For real you cant blame them because its obvious there was awful direction. Like Elvis said, they probably went and asked her to overact
she tried too hard
How do you know she was really trying? Seemed pretty phoned in to me
She was trying TOO hard if u ask me 🙄
Cate Blanchett would've been the better casting choice imo
@@kjbeast677 Meryl Streep, man!!
Have yet to see anybody mention how Anne was actually mimicking Miranda Richardson's voice for the Grand High Witch when she was reading the audiobook... Anne did a great job in that aspect, it sounds identical
Had a feeling this movie wasn't gonna be good based on the bad CGI in the trailer
I see all the Destiny 2 references down there, here's my message
Huckleberry is a pocket Suros Regime and is actually stupid good, works well with Peacekeepers on titan.
Rip the recluse
R.i.p the book
F for recluse
@@VirozaTheWitch f
I knew it was gonna be bad I watch the original one and it was good but the new one I felt it was bad and it was
To be fair, “Blind in one eye and can’t see out the other” is a very common phrase where I live
Yeah, I've heard that before, and there's a lot of other expressions in a similar vein. But if you've never heard it before, I can see why you'd find it weird.
Was going to say the same thing. My mom still says it frequently.
I was just about to comment this. I'm from the deep South so my family says this
Does it have any meaning behind it or is it just "Im blind"
I had never heard it before but assumed it was a real phrase glad to see that it is lol
I loved the original movie and the book. This remake is horrid. The camera angles and make-up designs in the original made the witches look so creepy. This was just slapped together in an attempt to make some quick bucks
I agree, even though Dahl hated how they changed the ending to Luke and the other children being changed back into humans, it still felt more chilling and scary compared to the subpar remake!
@@trinaq that painting scene is terrifying. Having the girl be turned into a chicken instead was dumb.
Yeah It was much better when the kids stayed mice and the main character and the child said that very dark line
I rember reading the book and watching the movie as a kid they were both great this remake is shit
Kaeded lol
The scene where the witch tries to kill a women's baby in the 1980 version is so shocking really stuck with me as a kid
the grandma telling the fat kids parents he's a mouse is in the book and it is part of this heartwarming message about caring for people whatever they're like
And with a dash of hard reality, as the grandma also said that she wouldn't be surprised if the dad drowned his kid mouse in a bucket.
the painting scene still terrifies me to this day
Yeah, Its absolutely horrifying.
i was scarred for life. the idea of it.. what a way to live.
I still s think about randomly sometimes 😭
Agreed!
Me too especially when you hear the Papa papa fading.
The best thing about the original witches is some of the witches were dudes.
Yep, was looking for this comment before writing it myself.
ok
Do you mean the book? Bc there were no male witches in the book
@@KhaosDancer male actors in the original movie played some of the witches.
Yeah, probably saved them some money on baldcaps.
The book ended with the potion plan with the pea soup working, and there was a pretty suspenseful scene where the child-mouse barely gets out alive of the kitchen when he's spotted, with his tail being chopped off in the process, an aspect of his new body which he was just beginning to like. The book finally ends with the grandmother going to the witches castle, where they release a bunch of cats, and the book ends, preying on them like they do children
Well it doesn't actually end with them *Actually* going to The Witches castle, Grandma was only talking about doing it.
"Grandma was my moma's mom."
Holy shit, he figured it out.
Well it could his father's mother
@@IntrovertsanI was wondering why noone else picked up on that
@@nunpho Right? Like, it could be his mother or father's mother...
Grandma in this movie looks so young
Instead of Anna Hathaway, they should have casted Eva Green and just let her do her thing
OMG!!! Eva Green really has that witchy vibes esp with her piercing green eyes👌🏼👌🏼
Yes
She played a witch before, and she wasn't that good, maybe it was the movie? I can't remember the name; but Johnny Depp was a vampire.
@@somejew9163 Dark Shadows. The best part was how the witch died.
@@armouredjester1622 Doesn't she explode? I can't remember.
The painting scene from the original still freaks me out.
THANK YOU! It's haunting.
me too. I have always remembered it and I always thought it was soooo sad
When the faint "papa" comes from the painting. The sound effects freaks me the crap out. So good.
@@cameronmackay9666 "haunting" that is the perfect word
same. It traumatized me a little when I first watched it. I never knew it was a kids movie
I actually watched this movie recently and I completely forgot who Luca was
Thats how forgetable this remake is. I watched the original when I was a kid and it stayed stuck in my head ever since, thats how you make a rememberable film.
why does anne hathaway sounds like she's trying to do an icelandic accent
The grand high witch was written in the book as having that accent.
@@kathryncollings704 oh okay, haha
@@kathryncollings704 It was written as a German accent.
Not Icelandic.
oooh it actually kind of does
@@BrookeEvangelineWinter it’s not a German accent in the book it’s just typed out how she says things it’s supposed to be a weird foreign accent nobody knows of
It's funny how Roald Dahl makes those addicted-to-chocolate kids so stupid (Augustus, the boy in Matilda, etc).
I like how the boy in Matilda was actually able to eat the whole thing and everyone cheered for him.
Roald Dahl had a chocolate fixation that he put in books so much because of experiences that he had in his own life as a boy....which you can read in one of his auto-biographies.
He got sent to a boys boarding school, (as a young boy, obviously) and it was a very hellish, strict place. One of the few joys he remembers is when a nearby chocolate company regularly used the students as a testing ground for their new chocolate creations, and gave each kid a sample box with the new flavours, which then the kid had to taste and write down what they thought of each one.
This is kinda the only treats they ever got, as treats and food parcels from home were routinely taken away from them by the school. Yeah...you couldn't get away with that shit THESE days...but you could then. You could also beat your students half silly, and draw blood with the beatings...which also happened regularly...which he outlines in his auto-biography of his childhood.
You should track it down and read it. It's very interesting!
I read all this stuff (including ALL of his books) when I was in primary school!
@@TheMurlocKeeper Wow... That actually sounds insanely interesting
"My mom's is better"
@@TheMurlocKeeper boy tales of childhood?
I’m tired of these garbage unoriginal money grubbing remakes 🙄
I don’t think adaptations count as remakes, even if there’s another movie based off it.
Nothing beats Cats the movie....
@@eatinganemone89 they kinda do
At least IT was better
@@eatinganemone89 I second this comment. If it copied exact shots or musical cues, they'd have a case. Far too many of these imbeciles ignore the source material when it's a literary work altogether. Goes to show how intelligent the moviegoer is, especially when the author's name is in the title.
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The sad thing is, since it's the 2020 version, they could have easily hidden the mouth scars with a germ mask. It would have been keeping with the times, saving on CGI and it would have been a really good excuse given the time period of the movie.
You can’t replace Jim Henson’s work with bad CGI. It doesn’t work.
I couldn't agree more! They really didn't have to remake something that didn't need that kind of treatment
💯
"In a perfect world, every day is Halloween"
Finally, a man of culture
And is he wrong for feeling that way? Not in the slightest! 🎃👏
In a perfect world.... people like me wouldn’t exist
Christmas on Halloween would also be pretty neat
@@Grgrqr Or Halloween on Christmas! Though we technically already have both of those ideals through the classic that is Nightmare Before Christmas. 🎃🎄
Yes, Halloween! ❤🎃👻 I like your profile picture, btw.
Random hotel fact: almost all hotels avoid potentially troublesome room numbers like 666 and rooms ending in traditionally “unlucky” numbers
I've heard there's some places in Asia that avoid entire floors depending on number
@@jacoboddie5364 the fourth floor, as the pronunciation of it is similar to the pronunciation of death in certain Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese
@@StormgemThunder I'm from Malaysia and this is indeed true
You should probably avoid room 237 as well. Bad things tend to happen in that room.
@@jacoboddie5364 true, I'm from Indonesia and so many buildings skipped the 4th floor and change it with 3b or 5
Elvis is the epitome of watching it so we don’t have to. It’s really a public service.
“What kind of parent would sign off on their kid going on a witch hunt?”
Probably the victor saltzpyre mains if they ever have kids
Dudes playing Warhammer respect
YOUR CRIME IS YOUR FOUL EXISTENCE, YOUR PUNISHMENT IS DEATH!
SIGMAR, BLESS THIS RAVAGED BODY
I think the main problem is that they didn’t go whimsical enough. It’s an adaption of a children’s book so they should have gone wild. It can be scary but it shouldn’t be super grounded.
Exactly. the fact that some parts looked too "realistic" makes it look like they could easily be real disabled people or whatever else. no wonder why the movie is getting flak for its' supposed Ableism.
As a deaf person, I was like "How can this movie be ableist at all? I read both the book and watched the original movie, that's so stupid!"
But after I watched this remake, my reaction was: "Okay, yeah. I can understand how they thought this was ableist.. this is training kids to be scared of people with missing toes and fingers, as well as people with cancer, etc. The original movies all had them look like trolls so there was no mistaking them for real people."
I thought theyjust didn't know what parts they should go crazy with and what parts they shouldn't. Like the accent? Too much. The stupid plan where they launch the potion into the witch's mouth from across the room? Too much. The witch's designs? Way too little!
I’m more scared of a teddy bear than Anne Hathaway in this role
Seconded, when I think of Anne Hathaway, I see a teenage Princess, not a Wicked Witch, which is probably the biggest problem with her casting!
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Especially a black and white bear?
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The Witches is the only book I remember not being able to finish as a child. I put it down after the boy gets turned into a mouse because it was giving me nightmares to the point where I was terrified to go to sleep. I've thought about picking it up and finishing it over the years, but have never been able to bring myself to do so.
It's definitely creepier than most of Dahl's books.
Witches 1990 ending: *happy pixar-like music*
Witches 2020 ending: *THE ONLY THING THEY FEAR IS YOU*
The 1990 version is a shitty disney esque ending that is completely different from the book. It lazily skirts around the fact that loads of children were turned into mice.
@D Zuke Actually, he never chose to stay a mouse, there was no way for the spell to be broken. Ever since the moment he became a mouse he asked himself: What's so great about being a little boy anyway?
My on problem with this film is that they didn't bring Rowan Atkinson back as the manager
the simple , short , non winded way of summarizing why this movie was weaker...
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Yes, I agree, I usually prefer the remakes but this... THIS TAKES THE F*CKING CAKE FOR THE WORST REMAKE I HAVE NEVER SEEN.
I wasn't scared of the ugly witches as a kid but the painting scared the life of me... I haven't been to the art museum since... In fact I don't even draw anymore
Wow
Damn
Kind of dumb, but alright
@@amvikki2894 it is but life goes on
I still remember the story about the one kid who was offered candy, then got turned into stone when they ate it, and the grandma even promised to show her grandkid that sight one day. Nothing like a little fun day sightseeing a family's petrified child.
I miss when the witches looked like witches instead of chemotherapy patients
i like the design, but not for the fact she’s a witch it doesn’t fit
@@tailsdoll454 I was mainly joking about it. The affects with big stretching smile. I think it could've done bettr in darker lighting aswell to make the smile less obviously cheesy. But serious comments that praise good jobs don't usually do well on RUclips
@John Gamer you misspelledd Goomba
Lol
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For the 1990 version, I didn't think that Miss Irvine was a "good" witch at the end, exactly. Even when I was a kid, I thought she was changing the mice back into humans just as a final "Fuck You" to the Grand High Witch.
not gonna lie I had a huge crush on her when I saw this film as a kid
I believe you're right on BOTH accounts.
Her appearance changed to that of a normal woman, though, indicating that she is no longer an evil witch.
The actress, Jane Horrocks, is a terrific voice impressionist singer.
She was good...
I got scared as a kid when they found out that the girl in the painting was the man’s daughter.
I mean, but is there *really* a place for CGI at this point? I feel like the only good CGI is CGI that you can't even tell is there because it's so subtle. EVERY time I see CGI in new movies it's this same ultra smooth, ultra refined look that's honestly quite off-putting. I've yet to see CGI done well is what I'm getting at, I guess
I mean look at avatar the movie is almost all with cgi
What the hell are you talking about. Plenty of shows and movies use cgi well, but it always needs to be used very very wisely. Watch Logan, for example.
If you think you have yet to see CGI done well, you just didn't notice it.
I know exactly what I'm talking about. The state of CGI seems pretty embarrassing considering the advances in technology we've made. You point out Logan, which I haven't seen, but look at literally any movie that tries to animate any animal and it's always artificially silky the way they move and look. Take the several "live action" remakes of classic Disney stories that were all flops, for instance. Gee, why do you think that was? I think it's because CGI is very off-putting and has an uncanny valley feeling to it. Jungle Book, Lion King (You'd think that would've been huge, huh?), Jumanji, Brightburn, just to name a few recent movies that were embarrassing. My opinion is that good practical effects will always have a place in cinema and are superior to look at compared to CGI. Animated movies are different, but CGI mixed with live action is just too bad to look at haha
@@RepresentWV Of course an animal is hard to make videorealistic. I'd say that's harder than most things. I think the fact that you jump to something so difficult means that yes, other stuff is looking pretty great at this point. Practical effects can be amazing, but it can also be limiting.
You should check out some videos from corridor crew
@@jankbunky4279 Building collapses, age altering on people, body transformations, action sequences, all things that could use a lot of work imo. There's something very smooth and uncanny about most CGI that I've noticed. The things people can do with video editing are phenomenal, I like practical effects, but I'm still not impressed with CGI in most movies
I'll give Anne Hathaway this: she put herself out there.
She certainly did.
With a very overblown impression of Anjelica Huston's classic portrayal.
I don't blame Anne, i blame the director for not pulling her back.
At best it was a portrayal that would have worked for the stage.
She did put herself out there, in a cringe-worthy kind of way. I'm not going to point fingers at anybody in particular, but I know for a fact that she has seen better days.
She definetely put her all into it. Her performance really isn't that bad, I feel like she just needed some better directed in order to just keep it grounded and less over the top.
In this role she reminded me a lot of Nic Cage. A really skilled and talented actor but just needs to be reeled in a tiny bit to smooth out the rough edges
@@danielpeters2501 I think you're the only "adult" that can appreciate this mess. Anyone not 6 or under wouldn't be caught dead watching this unironically.
If you look around, there's almost No kids-teens(corny/kid friendly) shows that are being watched. The Closest I've found that is, the How to train your dragon series, I'm sure is being dropped as soon as they hit like 7-8.
If this is aimed at kids and kids avoid these things like the plague, I guess you're the target audience, people satisfied with anything.
I'm guessing their "A for effort" passes for quality with people like you.
@@Resanctify if you can read to understand you'd know that I never said I liked he movie
I said I liked Anne's performance in it...it was exactly what was needed...cos the movie is kinda for kids
the problem with Anne Hathaway is she is very small in stacher whereas Angelica Huston is very tall and you can tell they made an effort to make her even taller by casting women who were shorter then her and always having the camera looking down at whoever she was talking to but they have to make Anne Hathaway look tall by having her float like a worm on a hook.
The problem with Hathaway is her real personality. She's definitely a witch on set to anyone who's had the displeasure.
Do you mean "stature"? (rather than stacher)
Feel free to berate your english teacher for doing a hideous job of teaching you the basics.
I knew how to spell that word, and quite a few other big words when I was still in primary school.
These days, they're churning out kids that don't have a clue, and once you're an adult, it becomes 100% harder to learn anything.
It's shameful what they're not teaching kids these days.
Not your fault, luv...but seriously, you should know how to spell by now. Someone needs to answer for failing you so badly.
Try reading more...doesn't even matter what. You'll learn what words look like through repetitiveness, and just automatically pick up correct spelling that way.
It's how I learned! I was a veracious reader when I was a kid!
@@TheMurlocKeeper *voracious
@@TheMurlocKeeper Jeez you dedicate an entire postto one misspelled word ? No life ?
@@TheMurlocKeeper I bet you’re fun at parties...
Ann Hathaway's performance in this sounds like a LeLe Pons character.
can we stop pretending anne hathaway is likable? lmao i feel that way about every character she’s played
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@@jillianc7485 i mean, she us a good actor.
but she tends to be miscast a lot.
The scenes in the first movie showing the young girl in the painting, being trapped in some other world, forced to live out her life in a desolate woodland farm and to never see her family again, still gives me chills to this day. It perfectly exemplifies why the original film will always be a million times more haunting and terrifying than this durge of a sequel.
It showed the witches as conniving and psychopathic in a different way. Yes, perhaps the girl is not tortured physically, but mentally, they torture her in the most bleak and heartbreaking way, by removing her from the safety and love of her family to some strange, lonely, desolate world she never escapes from. Also, its the 'uknown' sensation from the painting we get that adds to the horror. These witches have such power, that we cannot know if the painting truly expresses the girl's experience, or if it is merely the witches toying with the viewer, and in fact, she has met a far more horrifying fate.
The way the story of the girl is retold is done in such an atmospheric way, the echoing of her 'Papa, papa' as her poor father stares into the painting, the melancholy music, it all just paints such an eerie, old school nightmarish fairytale vibe.
The witches in the original were the kind you read about in Grimms fairytale books and pray you don't have nightmares about after.
After so many failed attempts you’d think they would finally realize: *Anne Hathaway+accents of any kind* =💩
Right? Lol. She is a fantastic actress but she cannot do any accent well.
@@lilscenechick1995 she’s ok, lol
And she literally knows it herself lol I watched an interview with her during Hustle release and she was like "my accents suck lmao"
Is Anne Hathaway speaking English? There is not one line where I'm not struggling to make out what she's saying.
I mean in the book she did have that accent
@@Stormtheartist1 you can do an accent that’s still understandable. It sounds like she’s speaking another language
@@disgruntledcashier503 I know sorry if I seemed rude
I don’t know why they had her speak with an accent to begin with. In the original movie the Grand High Witch was German. She spoke a little German in the movie and her cat’s name means “little love” in German. So it made sense for her to speak English with an accent. I don’t know what remake was trying to do.
@@Stormtheartist1 Yeah in the books it’s described to be some foreign accent and it sounds ridiculous but not to the point where we can’t understand her lol
When someone notices the scars on their face:
"You want to know how I got these scars?"
Adler
I wish some movies were left alone! The 1990 version was perfect, no need to remake it! An amazing book where Anjelica Huston brought the Grand High Witch to life like noone else could. Please stop Hollywood! Find new original scripts. Stop trying to "fix", "improve" or "update" perfectly awesome classics.
Honestly, the thing that bothers me about both the movies is that they told us the kid’s name. One of my favorite things about the book was that we never learned out main character’s name.
Agreed, though this one tried to do that. But as a visual medium having him be but a mere narrator would not work. And the narrations are clumsy. Better to read the book for that.
Wait... I'm reading the book right now and I never realized that!
@@simbameanslion4346 isn’t that interesting? I never even noticed myself until my third or fourth read through. It’s the little things that can make a book truly great :)
@@ladykatie8204 Yep lol
In this one they didn't give the kid a name, nor a personality, at least the original did the opposite, as well as for the grandma
I think there's too much focus on the advernturey, overly kiddy plot in this one rather than the horror and weirdness of children being forcibly turned into mice. It reduces it to any other forgettable kid's movie, when it actually does have a unique, interesting, scary concept.
yeah i couldn't imagine being turned into a mouse
I didn't know the main character is Mileena XD
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Mileena
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I LOVE the original film. Hauntingly nuanced with heart and soul… I tried watching the new one on a plane ride last month. Ohmygosh it was SO bad.
They Disney-fied it. And I hated Chris Rock's narration. This ain't Everybody Hates Chris! Rock's voice does not belong in a movie like this. It's like they tried everything they could to make us hate the movie.
Yes! I love Chris Rock, but he didn't need to be in this movie. It ruined the mood for moments that were at least trying to be emotional
Dont worry. Hopefully he would make it up for spiral From the book of saw!
Everybody hates Chris the Halloween special
@Ed Carone Spiral...
Ill tell ya this. I am not looking forward to saw spiral.... guarantee the only reason sam jackson was cast was so he could ask " you wana play a game mathafakka?"
That bit with the wee girl in the painting in the original is legit haunting. It's a kids film but you could take that whole part where she gets abducted and put it in a serious horror and it'd still work, cos it's shot and lit in such a realistic way.
Even that bit in the treehouse is genuinely suspenseful, cos the witch talks to Luke like a real adult, praying on kids fear of standing up to grown up strangers. You feel how helpless and afraid he is.
I mean, I like Chris Rock’s voice, but why did they use him for this movie
Because witches, they're real!
Because feelings..
Because Black Lives Matter
I hater the idea of using someone "young" like him. Hearing the exposition from a senior sounds a little more convincing, as not only is it a "grandma" thing to tell tall tales to children, but to a child, it always seems like the older someone is the more knowledgeable they are; they seem to have arcane knowledge, and in the case of the 1990 movie (and the book) that's actually the case.
Think it says something that I can’t recall having seen a single ad or commercial for this movie
I had no idea it existed
“If kids are the main character it must be for kids”
*stranger things*
It
Stand By Me
South Parks
South Park
Good boys...
Turns out, Rowan Atkinson was in the original. I guess I didn't notice while I was also being scarred for life.
“A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one”
Mr Bean.
@@SirDankleberry all while 7 year old me was scared out by the mouse transformation scenes! I never saw the entire film or read the book, but I saw that clip and was creeped out and equally weirded out. Honestly traumatized me.
@@uscman I have the same issue but with Indiana Jones... can't remember which one it was, I think it was temple of doom. But I saw one scene (The heart ripping out scene) at 11-12 years old. I am now 27, have all the movies and still have yet to watch them.
@@jetblack713 I remember seeing the Temple of Doom at the small local movie theatre, I would have been maybe 7 or 8, not the best movie for that age. Also it was just me and my cousins, we were aloud to go there and back by ourselves.
“A summoner has reconnected”, was not expecting that 🤣
Thank you! I've been looking for a comment mentioning THIS
What?
Oh a LoL reference
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I could still remember the Horror, when i watched the Orginal Witches with my Brother. I peed my bed that night and could not eat or see chocolate for 3 days. I was scared by older woman and even was joking that my Music teacher was a Witch. In generall my Grandma and Mother, mostly my Grandma. Showed me old Movies a lot. Lassie, Witches, The typical old fairy tail movies and other stuff. It generally made me apreciate old movies who did not use cgi yet. They maybe look outdated today, but they have a certain charm that remakes have lost. I have nothng against remakes or newer adaptation of old storries that already have a Movie. I just find it sad with Witches, that the Witches feel was missing. It missed the Unsetteling vibe and like you said the Horror aspect of the Witches power (Painting thing). Sure pushing the Baby shows some cruellity, but i find it more cruel to be stuck in a painting till you die, only watching your family from inside, growing old with no real company.
Ngl, the original film is absolutely horrific it’s amazing. The “remake” isn’t a remake. The witches just drugged the hotel’s water supply.
No, that was me actually... 😮
"What kinda parent would sign off for their kids to go on a witch hunt"
So I see you have never been on Twitter.
The parents that would let their kids go on witch hunts would probably be the crazy kinds of parents who read Chick Tracts
Sjw at it's finess
*flashbacks to people ruin everything*
*Shudders*
'''she's just doing a generic european accent"
gEneRiC EuRoPEan aCCeNt
bruh moment
💀
That one scene with the girl in the painting haunted me as a kid, and now I finally know which movie it is from! Thanks, this has been bugging me for like 10 years
witches in the 90s: nightmare fuel
Witches 2020: Disneys Baraka
*90s*
@@FailureToBe yes sir my bad
90's is better
@@harperthomas1477 not a high bar to pass
"49 seconds ago" is powerful
7 minutes ago works too
So is 11 minutes
14 minutes ago is...ok
22 minutes is nice to I guess
27 minutes ago is eh
The "blind in one eye and can't see out the other," in my opinion, isn't that bad. It sounds like something my grandma would say
@Nia Smith wait wasn’t the original set in England? Was this remake changed to be in the South?
Agreed, sounds like something my grandma or grandpa would say when they're mildly frustrated 🤣💗
08:06 wait hold on, this witch doesn't have toes. It's only the grand one that does, specifically the middle toe, which she points directly at the camera as she lifts off the ground in the next frame. This movie had to be satire, right? Right?!
In the book none of the witches have toes, I don't know why they gave Anne Hathaway that one toe because it looks stupid.