Just finished the movie tonight and researched as many video reviews as I could. Wasn't impressed with the movie for many reasons: (1) lack of character depth, (2) blended genres that weren't done well, and (3) I thought the ending happened at three different points. What on earth was that random faerie lesson at the end? Like RUN you guys are fighting for your lives lol.
It was a very confused movie, apparently there's time set aside to stop and talk exposition when you're running for your life. Can't say I get it either
They changed several key parts of the book and talked on that dumb "twin sister" crap. And the forest wasn't some magical thing either. It was just a forest in the middle of nowhere and there are monsters in it. The end of the novel is COMPLETELY different and ends in an unsettling tone.
4:00 completely agree, the fullscreen aspect ratio is amazing and I don't understand why every movie doesn't use it. +I like the watchers +the irish folklore and bunker reveal +husband's fall death was great at the beginning -fricking jumpscares, this movie would literally be scarier without the stupid sound effects -Dakota Fanning's acting -This movie needed to fully commit to artsy, irish immersive folklore horror, it was caught halfway between that and generic american blumhouse teenybopper and that held it back unnecessarily. but overall I liked it, 6/10
I fully agree that a commitment to being the folk movie it wants to be would have made the Watchers a better film. If the characters are weak, but a movie doubles down on the mystery and the lore it can still make for a really good time. Missed opportunity
honestly i enjoyed the movie a lot! until it pretended to end. and then the plot twist was AWESOME, and then the actually ending was awful. the build up to learning what the monsters were was awesome, than the movie got kind of bland
In the book ending, Madyline comes to Mina in the guise of an old man to warn her that she was wrong- Madyline isn't unique and some of her kind are already in society- and that Mina needs to get away because they've noticed her and she isn't safe.
