For a movie about changelings, the fact Mina is a TWIN and that's utterly unused is so wild.

Rocklin graves reviews is where it's at

The trailer really creeped me out, the idea of making eye contact with yourself for twelve hours while something else is staring at you got under my skin. It could have been so much better.

I haven't trusted anything with the Shyamalan name on it for like 20 years. If it's good, that's a bonus. He's had a few movies that have worked for me since his heyday but I would call those the exceptions and not the rule. And I don't see any reason why his daughter would break that mold. In the world of 'nepo babies', directors rearing their kids to be directors tend to have a LOT of their style transferred. You tend to get very competent directors who do a lot of what their parents did. For better and worse.

I love how KZfaqrs are saving me so much time and money lately because of all the reviews I missed going to see The Strangers in a violent nature and now this movie so thank you guys

To be fair, she did grow up listening to Lady in the Water as a bed time story

Never understood copyright striking someone promoting a product. You're showing minimal scenes on your videos. Have most of your strikes come from WB?

when watching this, i want you to realize why people are against nepotism and the idea of sharing your wealth with your children. sometimes you give a leg up to a person who doesnt deserve it.

It is her first movie...just because she is his child does not mean she is him...she will be better in time.

Not everyone starts with an Ari Aster debut 😂 I believe she'll learn from this. Maybe her father can write her something and then she can direct it. Talk about vibing 🤙❤

Hey if you want a cool horror movie based on Irish folklore, try The Hallow! I think you’ll love it honestly

I just want to say that I discovered you this morning, have been binging your videos this whole lazy Saturday and I gotta say that I really like your content! :) great mix of a good selection of horror movies, reviewing/critique and well timed jokes. Thanks! 🙏🏻 I subscribed!

Unrelated but next year on the 45th anniversary of Friday the 13th, there’s a Friday the 13th that lands on Jason’s birthday. I’m not saying you have to do a review series on it, I’m just heavily suggesting it.

Love your channel, I just found it a few weeks ago !

These reviews are so good I could make a channel reviewing your critiques of films. Absolute fire reviews bro🤙🏾🏆🥇

Thank you king! I also was mixed having seen this and glad to know I wasn't the only one who felt that way

I just watched it yesterday. It was okay, faithful to the book.

I also think there's an issue that's present in many horrormovies, which is that characters act in ways that are not logical or rational. One of the few that do not have this issue was movie called "Barbarian", I was pleasantly surprised watching it because when I screamed "do that/do this"the character eould actually do exactly what I would've done. People think characters need to be stupid to make things instresting but it only makes the movie frustrating.

I’ll circle back to the spoiler part after I decide if I’m going to watch it next week.

The lore was super cool, I wish the execution was better.

I read the book recently and I’m blown away by the fact that one could look at that source material and so obviously fumble it! The book isn’t trying to trick you, or “get you” with twists, it is all about the tension and emotional bonds between the characters (mostly portrayed through their internal exposition). From reducing Mina and all rest of the cast to shells of who they are in the novel for the sole purpose of fitting into an edgy horror ideal, to not playing with the books biggest strength (survival horror), to deciding to attempt to make the movie deeper than it really had any business being. The movie is obsessed with aesthetic and mimicking (much like the Changlings) the appearance of other acclaimed horror movies that it fails to actually do anything well with the source material. It’s truly a missed opportunity and I recommend that anyone who felt let down by this kind of skeletal/bare bones premise, check out the book!

Too bad. Thanks for the input!

Hahaha that dramatic red and distorted editing when you said you weren't saying it was atrocious 😂

I Love your reviews and the WAY you pick a part the movies. It’s fascinating. I’m interested in other reviews from you: The Village, for example. Hated by many, loved by few. Also: love horror but very open to hearing other movies from you too!

To anyone perusing these comments as I have been, mine will contain some spoilers! I relate to many of your sentiments. I saw it last night and honestly found it to be a fairly dreadful experience. I thought it was shot pretty well and can get behind your note about the lighting and such, but I couldn't agree more that the writing was just overall pretty weak. I also found its editing to be far too quick and choppy throughout most of the runtime. One of my biggest "what the heck" moments was when one of the stated rules was "never turn you back to the mirror" and then literally every character turned their back to the mirror on innumerable occasions and just nothing ever happened because of it haha. I agree that Ishana has some talent and certainly seems capable of something better than this, and it's clear that a lot of people worked hard on this project so I'll always commend films for that! I could nitpick this movie for the rest of my life so I'll probably just stop here. I've become a big fan of this channel over the past few weeks and enjoy all of your videos even when our opinions do not align! Keep it up and looking forward to the next one

My wife and I binge horror movies hard, and we watched this without having ever seen a trailer for it or knowing anything about who made it, and I jokingly said "Jesus, this really feels like a shyamalan" at the end...and...well. SHYAMALAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!! *Shaking fist angrily at the sky*

Hi, have you seen "the boys from county hell" I heard it's base on irish folklore.

Do you ship cheddar internationally?

I’m a HUGE movie lover/fanatic especially horror movies and aspiring actress. I watched the Watchers today. It was an ok movie with an interesting premise to me. This was another good movie recently.❤❤❤❤

First off! Super proud of you for the growth. Second…this vocab!!! I feel like I’m getting more smarterer just by watching 😂

Hi, Neighbor! Great review as usual. Nice to know Shamalat made a copy of himself (his daughter). So, i know it'll be a gamble if the movie will be a hit like the Sixth Sense or just meh like The Village

Irish Folklore, Irish Mythology, Greek Mythology, Celtic/Gaelic Myth. The book plays with even more.

M. Night is probably trying to make sure his daughter succeeds. Unfortunately having some entity at WB won’t help.

A film with good direction but a bad script? Reminds me of the most recent Candyman flick

the book from A.M Shine was absolutely phenomenal (so is his other book "the creeper") so I was SUPER excited for the movie, but I did feel a little let down and didn't get the same feeling that I got from the book! I think I will rewatch the movie again to give it another go, bc there were elements I definitely did like :))

Omg he’s so cute 😭 and has a brilliant perspective? Hubby material 💕

My issue with M Night, and now his daughter…they grab these short stories and pretend it’s their work. Or maybe it’s the media and audience that goes “front he mind of”. This and “Old” are both pre written short stories or lore or poems etc, and all they have to do is make it fit for the theater….but they failed. Also also, M Night will never learn his lesson because he has been using his own money and has low budget films that typically do “well” or break even. So he doesn’t get a chance from studios, but he actually calls his own shot. Which is great, but his execution is typically the same. I do hope his new one “Trap” is much better, yes I’m part of the problem. I see his movies and now his daughter’s opening day hoping for an Unbreakable/Sixth Sense all over again.

Im still going to hold out hope that I somewhat enjoy this movie when I view it this weekend. Im going in with the idea its going to be like "Lost" the movie. PS. would love to see your thoughts on Gretel & Hansel (2020) - one of my favourite horrors of the last 10 years. Keep the great vids coming 🧟🧛👻👹💀

I was disappointed by this too and really wanted to like it. I read the book last year after hearing about the film and liked, but didn’t love, it. It definitely has a solid premise and story that could have made for a good film. But the film left me disappointed. It wasn’t a bad film and it was wonderfully shot. But it was just okay for me. It was just whelming. So I have to give the typical “the book is better”, and I’d recommend it for anyone who likes the premise. There are some weird changes to the premise I felt were unneeded and better done in the book.

It's not amazing, but I do think she shows a lot of promise and I'm curious to see what she does next. I also really hope we can get more fantasy horror tbh.

I only read this recently. Book had so much potential. The lore is very interesting but author fails to expand on it and make the characters believable.

I was so stoked for this movie that i even bought the book it's based on as a warmup. I had the same experience with it as you seemed to have with the movie. It's paced in a similar way, but with two wildly different arcs, which was refreshing. But confusing, since it made a really short read feel so much longer than it was. It could have been twice as long, or divided into two books this way. May be just a personal reference, but nothing i was prepared for. And it suffered from the same "plot has multiple points when it could have ended". However. The dialogue was at a creepypasta level. Plot was incredibly predictable and the constant social commentary became tiresome real quick, it's not even subtle about it. The book had the cheesy plot-twist and the even cheesier 2015's style horror ending (no spoilers). Since the movie seemed to have a lot of similar traits i wonder if it's an amazing adaptation of the source material. Just the fact that the source material was not that good to begin with?

Just saw this today. One of the biggest problems i had other than the movie being pretty boring for most of the runtime was how quickly Mina just accepted everything as fact. Like she learns all this exposition about the watchers and is immediately just like “well shit i guess this is my life now”. Like yeah she starts trying to get out pretty quickly but why does she just immediately accept what she’s told as reality? Also ok a nitpick but how the hell did that building get built? Like they show it was the professor but how did he build and furnish ALL THAT without getting killed? And who is paying for the electricity?

Me and my bf were so excited for this because we just finished reading the book and so curious how they would adapt it. But ummm… it just missed the plot and it’s very disappointing.

I’m waiting for my cheese now 😋

I really wished the movie followed the book because the twist in the book was way better

i noticed everyone mentioning cheese in the comments and i didn't understand, so i googled and found my answer on urban dictionary... 😂😂😂 glad i'm not the only one who finds evan gorgeous, though!

where do i submit the address for the cheddar cheese ?

Same, everything I'm hearing is NOT GOOD. I'm so distraught. I'll still catch but will certainly wait until it's streaming. Just sucks.

pause at 0:00

daniel seems to be more of the main character than dakota

[Watching the trailer] Oh, this movie looks cool! [Reads the reviews] Never mind.

This movie was exactly what one would expect from the offspring of a hack filmmaker

Don't sugar coat it, Dude, you didn't like the movie.

I stayed for the whole video because I never watch anything on films before viewing them, but.. can I still get a slice of cheese sent to my coop in the secret forest?

Thank you for my cheddar slice.

The only character I cared about was Darwin, the cute birdie.

I actually liked it en9ugh i dont like that the marketing was what it was like it def wasnt what was advertized lol

That's disappointing. I was looking forward to this and even picked up the novel it's adapted from (A.M. Shine hit my radar pretty hard when I first learned of this movie).

i feel like i’m the only one that sorta liked it

The book was one of my favorites last year, so this is really disappointing (although I expected as such from the trailer, I held out hope). Edit to add: except the last chapter, which was unnecessary

*SPOILERS* So I normally love your reviews, but this is one where I have to disagree with you. I think a key part you are forgetting in your review is how it's stated the forest messes with your mind. They all start acting weird during winter because it got worse for them. Which leads Daniel to tying up Madeline's character because he doesn't trust her. Minas trauma point is revealed as a way of the Fae learning more about her. The whole "tell me something only X would know" scenario. And the fact of her being a twin, when the Fae mimic people is an interesting point in itself. (Also her copying accents and dressing up as others ties into the mimicking of Fae.) The Madeline twist isn't that she's a Fae, but that she's a hafling. A day walker. And it explains why she knew so much and was able to guide and protect. And she even explains her self she had trapped them to learn from them and teach the others. When it comes to the bunker I'm not sure how you saw that coming cause that twist was crazy. And really smart seeing it was made of steel and Fae can't touch steel so it was a true safe haven. And with them stopping in the forest for exposition it's shown by the sky that they clearly have more time especially with them being so close to the forest edge already. I don't know man, it just feels like we watched two separate movies. But this is points from someone who genuinely enjoyed it.

I keep forgetting to tell you you look like Corey Cunningham

Lol I’m watching this while on my way to go see it and knowing it’s gonna suck 😂

It really irritated me at the start of the film when the main girl kept talking to herself or apparently the “parrot” like her lore dumping to herself about her mothers traumatic death annoyed me that is not how normal people act!

I’m not sure WHAT is going on with her father and now, her. He made a few good movies, but in recent years, his movies has been getting pretty bad and now …. Sadly, hers. They start off well and then you sent into a rabbit hole of maze, daze and confusion.

I tried twice to read this book and gave up. Glad to know i can skip the movie too.

This is one of the times I strongly disagree with you. The plot turns in it took me completely off guard (and everyone else in the theater with me). In my opinion, one of the best movies of the year.

The Watchers could break though a steel door however they couldn't break through a glass window? The movie was TERRIBLE!

M. Night movies you have to watch reviews for first before committing the time to watch. Looks like I'll be skipping this one

It's a M Night movie. I think if you say his movies are great, you're kind of lying to yourself to make it true.

I disagree

the book was better

You kids don't like anything.

This movie was hot garbage. Glimmers of a decent movie absolutely kneecapped by plot holes, a shitty main character, and awful dialog. Some visuals are cool but you should never ask Shyamalan to punch up your dialog. He can't write!

This movie was so bad

The fannings are terrible actors. Pass

It was terrible!

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