THE WITCHES (2020) - A Cringe Induced Nightmare
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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
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
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
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
How is it possible that the remakes CGI affects are worse than the original
Pretty sure Jim Henson did the original I for sure could be wrong tho
@@MastersweetRAY I just watched the trailer for the original and yeah, Jim Henson worked on it.
@@MastersweetRAY Yeah Jim Henson is known for doing most of his effects with props if he could
It's because Jim Henson's the shit, and they had really well trained mice.
Cgi is also very noticeable when that's all the movie uses. When it comes to live action films, cgi is at its best when it supplements a shot made with practical effects because the viewer isn't expecting to see it.
@@camwhit8892 jim henson is the goat
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!
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.
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.
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
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
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 TH-cam. 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 💀
I could even see the disappointment in my mother's eyes when she saw the movie.
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.
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
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
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
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
"they didnt have CGI so they had to be creative"
the difference between movies in a nutshell
Amen
Agreed
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.
"If the main characters are kids, it's for kids"
It: HAHAHAHAHAHA
*no*
Aka the promised neverland
south park:
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!
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 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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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*
“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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
6:59
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.
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
@@deadcottoncookie8902 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.
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.
Elvis is the epitome of watching it so we don’t have to. It’s really a public service.
i love how authors/artists are like "look at this horrifying witch. so terrible!" and its literally just. a person with a deformity.
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
Im literally so pissed that in the new movie they made the grand high witch's room "666" like jesus christ stick to the book story and not some stupid devil number
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.
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 don't remember that in the first movie. I just rewatched it. Maybe you imagined it, since that happens in the book.
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
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.
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
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
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
Surprised you didn't mention Stanley Myers' fantastic soundtrack for the 1990 version. He creates such a deep rooted dread in the movie, especially when Luke first enters the meeting room.
I remember this movie when I was younger !! You just reminded me of childhood PTSD thank you =3
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
@roblox is not anime 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.
"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
The old one legit gave me nightmares when I was a kid. It was such a great movie and to see it being turned into this makes me kinda sad
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.
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!"
@@Unfunny1018 in a 30 year old man voice
Maybe it don't come in the mail or people stole
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
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 remember, I think it was the last few days of year 5, my teacher put the 90’s version of the film and I spent about half the film hiding in the bathroom because of how the the grand high witch freaked me out because I really didn’t like body horror and her face made me feel really uncomfortable
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 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
I can't stop binge watching your videos dude. keep it up. 💜🤝
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
The fact that even Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer and Stanley Tucci can’t even save this mess of a movie says alot.
"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
the fact there was a controversy over the witches fingers on a very rare disease that really looks nothing like this 🤦♀️
Okay yikes, but to be fair those mice are very well animated to say at least something positive :'D
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
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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
@@BrookeWinter82 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
13:29 the adds timing somehow made it feel like something from power rangers
How to do witches properly: TCOS, Hocus Pocus, STTW, and Halloween Town
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 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 TH-cam 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.
That girl cursed to live in the painting was in the original book. I remember because it traumatized me as a kid even more than the being turned into a mouse.
One of the most terrifying movies you've ever seen as a kid is the 1990 movie. Even way scarier than the 1990 IT.
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?
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.
I remember reading the book and watching the original. I wanted to grow up so badly because I thought it was real somehow😭😂
There’s no way they thought that nose thing would be taken seriously 💀
Also I’m surprised that he didn’t talk about the older movies rat transformation scene being super scary
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.
Didn't sound that bad to me either tbh
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 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!!
The most unbelievable part to me was how noone noticed the conference room had been smashed up.. at the very least I think the uptight manager would have made her pay for damages
I would immediately go watch the move if Anne Hathaway said "Do you wanna know how I got these scars"
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
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.
That one scene where she throws a podium absolutely destroys any thought in my mind of Anne Hathaway is an actual actors and not just some random weirdo they picked up off the street
I watched this as a kid, and the Grand High Witch taking off her mask TERRIFIED me. It still terrifies me to this day. Erica being trapped in the painting was horrifying… I just wish they didn’t change the ending. Dahl was known to not like any movie adaptations of his books, but I heard he liked Anjelica being cast as the Grand High Witch. He hated the ending though
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"
I can’t with their noses growing holy shit💀
When I was a kid, the 90s version really spooked me when I saw it on TV. Fast forward a couple of months, our school went on a field trip to see The Witches as a play. I saw the movie, so i was expecting some crazy shit. Then at one point, the witches started throwing sweets into the audience- gummy worms, chocolate bars, donuts... and everyone else was fighting for the sweets. Some fell into my lap and I gave it away, because I saw the movie and I refused to become a mouse. I felt so smart and smug about that decision back then while everyone enjoyed a nice unexpected snack.
Great video!!!
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?
@@AxxLAfriku bro you’re major cringe
“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
My niece has that had disfigurement and the first thing I thought when I saw the witches had that was "dang man she'd cry for days if she saw this, better keep it away from her"
Poor kid
the detail of no toes is supposed to be a tip on how to find a witch because they dont have the ability to where high heels, so giving them one toe kinda undermines that hole plot detail.
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
I got scared as a kid when they found out that the girl in the painting was the man’s daughter.
Me after everyone else has done their lines: 6:16
This video appeared in my recomendations on October 2021, so it´s an according watch to the festivities haha