The Watchers is Hot Steaming Relish
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Oh boy. Ishana Shyamalan's directorial debut (The Watchers) boasts promise, but is a mess of a movie. It's hot steaming relish. Here's why. #TheWatchers
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Seeing Dakota Fanning grown up like this, remembering her vividly in War of the Worlds (how little she was) made me realize even more how quickly we age.
(Christ im getting old) 😭.
Thanks Lee, have a great/safe weekend everyone!
Right? I still remember her from I Am Sam and Hide and Seek. She was so young. Time does fly by
@@TheStoryTaylor Faster every year.
@@TheStoryTaylor Tomcats is Dakota first debut film in 2001
When a film goes from a slow burn to boring, we all got a problem.
Okay so from a writer's point of view we do tend to put a ton of stuff in our first big thing if we are allowed to go unchecked. My first book (The Children Must Feed) was doomed from the start because I wrote every idea I had for that book as if everyone would want to read every single detail, I thought it was great. That made it a terrible read because it was just overstuffed. I later went back through it after my 2nd short story started to get good reviews & did an edit trimming almost 100 pages of fat.
Sounds like no one was there to say, "Hey this isn't working." I was pumped for this and will still see it just to support horror. Hopefully the reviews can do for her what the reviews for my first book did for me, force me to take a step back, see where I went wrong, and make the needed adjustments to my writing style. I'm sure she'll be just fine even if her first go at it wasn't. Thanks for the honest review peace to all as we go into the weekend.
creatives that rely on help from staff should be aware that a yes man is the worst thing to have. Everyone should keep a creative consultant, aka a "no man" around to let them know when they've taken the idea too far off the tracks, and how to get them back on.
I am tired of people really wanting to downgrade a classic or it's creatives behind it with theories based on production rumours. i don't believe either that star wars was saved in the edit or that jaws only became scary due to the technical difficulties of the animatronic!
I like Dakota Fanning. I have not seen this movie but it doesn’t look very good at all just from watching the preview for it.
Thats disappointing cause i thought it would be decent since Dakota Fanning is in it. Seems like a wasted potential. But hey at least we have Maxxine Longlegs and Alien Romulus to carry horror this year.
don't forget Cuckoo!
Lol no sir!! 😤 Don’t you dare cut her slack because it’s her first feature. In a violent nature and the first omen were both debuts and they were brilliant!
I thought it was a good movie
Not great but good
Had its problems for sure like how the chick seemed pretty chill with 3 strangers telling her to stand still and look at a mirror and not running and saying yall are on 💉
Dakota Fanning finally stars in a movie that I might be interested in, and it sucks? Boo!
I may see this b/c I have a movie pass and just for the heck of it. Just see it to see it. I wish to offer you a suggestion sir, just a suggestion. Maybe it is not the best idea to put on the thumbnail that you basically felt it was a lousy movie. I myself will watch you regardless, but if you were not in my circle of top UA-camrs, I would have just looked at it hot relish and say to myself he felt it stinks, so I do not necessarily need to watch the video. This is just a helpful suggestion b/c I feel this is how some viewers look at it. I want you to do as well as possible b/c you are good at what you do, dang good actually! BTW I never look at my phone to see how much longer your reviews are b/c they are great.
I wonder if this is better than lovely, Dark and deep because as much as I thought it was filmed good the trailer was deceiving which also stars Georgina Campbell who I really like.
The set up is confusing. Why allow these people to escape/leave the room during the day. I get they are allergic to sunlight, but it provides 12hrs or more for them to plot an escape. Especially if they can find a bike or something.
That’s one of 10 questions one might ask about the set up in this movie.
Here in England it's called The Watched :)
Tho imo the movie should be called ''Watching'' as all everyone does is stand around Watching everyone xD
Good review Lee :) I liked this movie. Can't wait for Quiet Place day 1 next. I had no intrest in seeing the first two in cinema, But this one has me wanted to see on the big screen. It needed a Prequel
Glad you enjoyed it brother!
5:11 Nepotism film and lacks basic storytelling
Spielberg's 1974 cinematic debut The Sugarland Express is worth checking out. Great performances from Goldie Hawn and William Atherton.
i love that movie, such a awsome movie.
It's absolutely fantastic.
3:02 Rest in peace to Susan Backlinie
Right on Kev
@@mattymac1399 thanks Mat
I'm sorry you didn't like this movie hopefully trap will be better because I'm looking forward to that movie.
Well DD you are kinder than I because this was a genuine snooze and for the record SS had plethora of cinematic experience before Jaws and it was his and all concerned that made it what it was. Anyhoo this never engaged me with the characters, plot and I got bored very early on and felt like I was dropped into the middle section of a bad segment of Night Gallery as it was being written and literally groaned at the stupid ending. This is bad and think she needs to spend less time aping M. Night's wildly overrated ass and find her own way cuz the more I think of this movie I find myself at the edge of The Village. Great review, always a pleasure 👍✌
Nice review
Mr. Lee
Well it sounds like
M. Nights daughter inherited her dad's hit or miss gene
When it comes to movies and this sounds like a miss
Like father like daughter.
Nepotism 🤦♂️
Great review, I might check this out when it comes to a streaming platform ; I don’t like formulaic, cliche filled movies.
I am planning to watch this movie, I like Dakota fanning,, I thought it had something to do with watchers in woods, from Disney, hopefully I will enjoy it more than you did, thanks for the review, Lee,
Absolutely love Watcher in the Woods. Don’t watch the 2017 remake.
Can you review In a Violent Nature?
I did.
Better off watching the disney movie Watcher in the Woods with Kyle Richards from Halloween 😂
Love watcher in the woods. I reviewed a couple of years ago. I have fond memories of that movie.
So it's pretty much a convoluted Outer Limits episode? Well thanks for watching it for us lol!
I was really disappointed with this movie. It had too many plot holes, off putting pacing issues and it had zero subtlety.
They literally telegraphed the twist as soon as a certain character appeared. And Mina almost immediately adapted to her situation without any real sense of urgency or panic.
It was extremely distracting and annoying.
Watching it right now. Had to get on my phone to distract myself from this mess...waste of the actors and waste of cinematography...the harry potter adventure music really let me know i was in for relish
It’s very disappointing that this movie is hot relish because it had high effort and realistic potential to be a well made movie Lee.
Now not entirely negative if the Director new to the Movie Director league can learn from the mistakes of his first movie he directed so that he makes a well made movie for the second movie he directs if he gets that opportunity.
yeah its a shame i thought this would be a great movie but its not the acting is weak and that ending wow smh 2024 bad movies bad shows its like Hollywood gave people who cant write movies and shows greenlight everything for them to make and fired the real movie writes who knows how to tell a story and how to threat the actors in the right way. and Hollywood wonder why people don't go to movie theaters anymore because of movies like this that are best to watch free on streaming because its not wroth paying to see these movies smh
Spielberg had raw talent even with little experience and little money. DUEL one of his earliest movies is still one of my favorite thrillers of all time. This Shyamalan nepo baby clearly has all the advantages of daddy’s connections and money handed to her on a silver platter. The fact that this movie is garbage says a lot.
Definitely agree with that.
This movie had absolutely no tension which seems like an impossible task to pull off given the premise
The month of June doesn't look good in terms of horror, hope a Quiet place day one will be good
I wouldn't count on it based off the fact the last two movies were trash
You're out of your mind the quiet place was good my whole thing is I hope they don't make it woke@@Lifesizemortal
@@paulcarpenter7844oh they 100% will.
@paulcarpenter7844 How on God's green earth could they make a horror film about alien monsters woke?
Oh by the way my son and I have taken your previous UA-cam advice and we are 67 away from 1,500 subscribers
Dude that's awesome!
It’s very disappointing, some of the details you described make it sound somewhat interesting; I will wait for this one on VOD!
Ill pass on this having read the book.
Reading books especially this one had more story
Dissappointing. I was looking forward to this.
You made a great point about CGI. I can accept it in SciFi and Fantasy. But NOT in horror.
Boring? Hmm, sounds like a typical Shyamalamadingdong film to me. Like father, like son, in this case, daughter, I guess.
I'm pretty mixed with him. I like a good bit of them though.
4/10 for me, my personal culture is Irish, so I do like cinematography, music scores, and beautiful shot film. 8:15 You are right. This to me will put me to sleep 😴 3:02 RIP Susan Backlinie. Im definitely skipping this and going right to MaXXXine.
Yeah man it's a shame she died. Iconic character in Jaws.
I’m still supporting this director in her debut, I haven’t read the book but everyone says the criticisms from the movie are similar to the book so I’m willing to give it some grace but then again I’ve seen a vast amount of all good and bad so maybe I’m numb to it anymore
Awesome!
LEE ?!?!? My friend! Lol. Oh I hate that you didn't get anything from this movie .
But , as we both know , if Bascin Robbins had 3 flavors ....oh wow. But thankfully they have A LOT of flavors, and we , as a people are full of opinions.
So we had completely different experiences with this movie.
I went into it EXPECTING not to like it , lol. But I was going to give it a try. I was surprisingly entertained and happy with this movie.
I'd give it a 7/10 .
Now , some of this may be my niavity going into the movie. My thought process was taking me in a different direction I thought the movie was gonna go, so I was pleasantly surprised with a different outcome .
That final scene, l again, I didn't see it coming, lol. So the movie got me, lol. And I was like , " Oh wow ! I love this !"
If your curious , I thought the movie was going to go into a therapy session ending to it. That the older lady was actually a plant, a type of therapist , and the peole in there with her were directed her way by their families hoping to help them get past the emotional trauma that effected them.
I did pretty much lose that theory once it showed up the shape of these creatures , lol.
I also did get invested in the characters . Not thst is gave us all that much, but I felt it gave enough to care about them and hope they would survive everything.
And I'm not trying to talk you out of the things you didn't like , please don't thing that. But with Dakotas character and not acting over the top freaked out , I felt she had just become numb to life issues with what happend to her. And that she didn't easily show feelings and hadn't for a good while . That's just me, adding my own back story to the character, lol. I appreciate you tremendously my friend, love your reviews ! Have a
fang-tastic day . 👻🌙
Awesome so glad you enjoyed it brother!
i think imitating her father is the wrong way to go. sofia coppola produced films very different from her father, almost completely in the opposite style.
Yeah definitely don't imitate. Form your own voice.
Sucks that great horror is so rare nowadays. This and the other new movie look the same - lame. Feels been there, done that, but better in years past.
Immaculate, First Omen, and Infested are all great. In A Violent Nature has some merit.
Nepotism at its finest.
I actually feel mostly opposite of you in a lot of ways lol. I understand where you’re coming from if it’s just not for you. Not saying I loved it but I enjoyed it. The mystery of what the watchers were and how the movie plays out kept my attention the whole time. The only part I didn’t like was actually the ending. I found it to be just ok. To me this was better than anything her dad has made since The Village. Overall I wouldn’t watch the movie again but I enjoyed it as a one time experience.
Yeah I've seen quite a few of my friends enjoying it. I like that.
Great review man
lol it’s based on a book by A.M Shine. She was really wowed by the book just how M. Knight was with Knock at the Cabin. I’m curious how faithful it is to the book. I can see it going slow since the book is pretty short.
similarly how M Night was enamored with Sandcastle but completely missed the point when he adapted it to suit his needs and made it into an inferior product
Saw it today and it worked for me. Thankfully there wasn't a big M Night twist at the end. I think most viewers should figure out the ending before it takes place though. It was well paced and never dragged imo. I thought it was quite a good film for a 1st time director. It was a good double feature with In A Violent Nature yesterday. Some of the criticism with that film was it dragged and I thought it was well paced as well.The yoga kill has to be a top 5 all time slasher kill. Just epic slaughter!
As a wrestling fan, I see A LOT of nepotism, so for me, she would have to prove herself regardless of who her dad is, and this doesn't sound like it is, chief. Anyways, thank you, Lee.
Dominik mysterio???
@@gaba-goo3733 I was thinking more David Flair.
"I think he did a movie called Duel."
You should watch Duel. Do a Duel/Joyride double feature.
I've always been curious about it.
@@DrumdumsMovieReviews
It's not a surprise that he made Jaws soon after. Not that Duel is a shark movie, but it executes its basic premise very well.
I just got home from seeing THE WATCHERS. I liked it, but yeah it did have problems. I read the book the movie is based on a few weeks ago. The writer of the movie changed quite a bit from the book. The book was much better than the movie.
This is what I was curious about. Did they still go with the book ending or did it change?
Alien: Romulus is gonna be the horror movie to see
And MaXXXine
As a HUGE movie lover/fanatic especially suspense, thriller, horror movies and aspiring actress I’m really excited for the month of August with the release of Trap, Alien Romelues, Blink Twice and the Crow remake. ❤❤❤❤
You give great reviews!!! Don't stop!!
If anybody grew up through 80s90s and is up to date with the movies, you've seen a lot and then another lot again or lil different. We are the first generation who went through many stages of the entertainment and right now will be very difficult to be "original". Many things today are like film version of the "cover band" quality. I love eclectic art when is individual and naturally inspired but this approach to mix genres because you want as much box office as possible is what is destroying pop culture. Terrifier is great because Damien is 100% inspired and focused on the genre. Art is new Freddy in my opinion. Sienna is my top 3 ultimate girl already.
The only reason I'm considering watching is because the director is cute
Horrible reaason to watch a movie
Disappointing to hear because the trailer was quite interesting, I will probably watch on streaming. 👍🏾
Love your review Lee
Sounds like I won't be *puts on sunglasses* watching this one.
Jokes aside, the trailer didn't hook me, and it sounds like something I wouldn't go out of my way to see.
Sounds like, father like daughter. I wonder how he gets away with 😂😂
I loved it, i love the book too. Sad to see the hate😢
Awesome!
The Watchers is an ok movie with an interesting premise in my opinion. ❤❤❤❤
Word for evidence if you don’t like the trailer a 90% of the time it’s going to be bad
Love your review Lee
Thank you!
It has to be better than that bullshit Strangers remake
It is.
@@DrumdumsMovieReviews lol
Well this movie sounds disappointing
I know we’re suppose to be supporting the cinema but from the sound of it, this is the one you wait to watch for streaming. Bad Boys 4 was dope though!
Yea just saw watchers and bad boys 4. Watchers was so bland that you are better off seeing it on big screen just to enhance your experience...Would be a boring waste to watch it at home! Badboys 4 has rewatch value
@@gaba-goo3733 yeah I’m going for round 2 with my “Mike Lowry” today. Saw it solo last night. Will probably check out The Watchers on Sunday night when I have absolutely nothing else to do. Sucks cause the trailers made it look somewhat creepy and we all assume all the M Night descendants are weirdos 😂 can’t wait for Trap though.
Really wow
the trailers looked really boring.
Groovy
Damn, it's been a pretty rough year for movies hasn't it
Not really. We had movies like Late Night with the Devil.
No it’s just horror movies it’s been a little rough for them
Honestly I’ve loved this year for horror until June
Good review and cool video Lee!👉🙂👈
Thanks Hector!
@@DrumdumsMovieReviews 😊👍
What a shame, the trailer for The Watchers was pretty darn effective. How disappointing! It did not perform well at the opening weekend box office. Should fall apart quickly and head to the MAX streaming service.
Yeah the trailer had me intrigued.
Nice review!
rip dakota fanning's career. Her sister Elle is in all the good movies now
Trapped on a deserted island level huh NICE…
Not quite.
Saw it today and this wasn’t great at all, could have been a lot better. The ending was just boring lol. Not one scary moment, they could have made the old lady much more eerie or unsettling. The twist felt flat.
Yep!
Shamalamadingdong
another movie I highly recommend reviewing is Michael Mann’s Collateral
Love Collateral.
@@DrumdumsMovieReviews I highly recommend it and Public Enemies
First? Do I win a prize? haha. Great review.
How many movies came out in the last 5 years called the watchers
I was thinking the same thing.
Lol UA-cam is a s.o.b.
you have been on a hot relish streak lately every 2024 movie it seems you watch in may to now that is hot relish
Yeah the year started off quite strong. But we’ve had some stinkers too.
@DrumdumsMovieReviews to be fair you did have some not stinkers like Furiosa
It's called The Watched here in the UK. Not sure why.
Weird.
Heard you guys have already have a current tv show called the Watchers. Perhaps there's a conflict there.
Maxxxine is a month away. So damn excited.
Completely disagree, if you're not into nordic, greek or any other cultural mythology and folklore, this move is out of your concept
Bullshit. I wanted more from the characters, and story. I’ve seen plenty of great mythological movies. But glad you liked it man.
I figured. Not surprised whatsoever anymore.