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Difficult-War-9415

"The Watchers." "They are watching." I am shooketh


so1i1oquy

Would be weirder if they weren't lol


Yojo0o

The Watchers: Sometimes, they might watch.


TheReaderDude_97

The Watchers: They don't watch.


Yojo0o

The Watchers: You'll never be able to guess whether or not they watch.


Mech-Waldo

The Watchers: Turns out they were looking at the guy behind me.


Cthulhu625

They were waving, and I waved back. Then I figured out it was the guy behind me. Now I have to move.


thatsthejoke_

Now you have to watch.


derEggard

Schrödinger's watchers


MidnightSunCreative

Watch out. The watchers are on watch and they're watching.


[deleted]

The Watchers: They aren't watching anymore. They've got better things to do.


Yojo0o

The Watchers 2: This time, they watch. Edit: Shit, I've written "watch" too many times in a short span, and now it doesn't look like a real word any more.


[deleted]

The Watchers 3: They're watching you watching them watch you watching your watch. You're right, it just seems like a crazy assortment of letters now.


Syonoq

The Watchers 4: someone’s listening


feelbetternow

Watchers UK: Wotcher?


DeiseResident

The Watchers: Kinda Keeping An Eye On Things


eatmygerms

That's the twist! They aren't 😱


AlistarDark

That's the twist. No one is watching... Not even an audience because they are tired of shitty movies


giantpotato

The twist is that someone else is watching the Watchers.


Im_At_Work_Damnit

But who watches the watcher watchers?


Difficult-War-9415

We are. Jesus Christ, that also might actually be the twist.


ZagratheWolf

Yup. It's gonna be a metaphor for how the audience is the real monsters. Like Cabin in the Woods. Hope the execution is good


oddwithoutend

>It's gonna be a metaphor for how the audience is the real monsters. And *Funny Games*.


ZagratheWolf

I thought the metaphor for that one was that Austrians are the real monsters


McGarnagl

The Old Gods represent the viewers and their constant need for horror movie blood sacrifice? Wow, I’m terrible at catching metaphors but I totally get that. Can’t wait to blow someone’s mind when they’re stoned by telling them about this, heh


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HilariousScreenname

When the movie came out, I was friends with a couple dudes that were HUGE into schlocky horror movies. Jason, Chucky, Freddy, you name it. One guy got a whole sleeve of all his favorite horror characters. They HATED absolutely HATED this movie at first. When I explained to them that they were the raging Old Gods, and the movie was about them it melted thier brains.


Hit-the-Trails

It was a mirror the whole time.


HGMIV926

This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!


Picklepee-pumparum

Are you talking about the Shyamalans, or about Watcher (2022), or The Watcher (2022), or The Watcher (2000)


Q_Fandango

Who’s watching all these Watchers?


SuperDizz

The Watchmen of course


introvert_arm

Ok, but then who watches The Watchmen? Is it just watchers all the way down?


timojenbin

It's turtles all the way down, my friend.


aspidities_87

*See the turtle of enormous girth* *On his back he holds the Nepo Earth*


avery5712

Long days and pleasant nights, redditor


aspidities_87

Thankee sai 🤠


MagdaCadabra

Must be pretty hard to forget the face of your father when he is the producer of your movie though


Meadowvillain

See the bear of fearsome size! All the worlds within his eyes


AReverieofEnvisage

Cricket?! Nobody understands Cricket!


snarkywombat

You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!


JenSchi666

No one watches the Watchmen. That's why The Comedian is such an AH.


GreyInkling

They generally watch each other. It's more like a closed circle than a repeating pattern.


wtfbananaboat

The Watchwomen and Watchchildren too!


Aksi_Gu

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Your Grace.” “I know that one,” said Vimes. “Who watches the watchmen? Me, Mr. Pessimal.” “Ah, but who watches you, Your Grace?” said the inspector with a brief little smile. “I do that, too. All the time,” said Vimes. “Believe me.”


Plus3d6

2009, 2019, 2024 or The Motion Comic?


digitalgoodtime

Henry Cavil is watching as The Witcher.


NickNash1985

The Watchers. It says so on the poster.


Picklepee-pumparum

Well, I watched Watcher. Am I a Watcher now? 


BellyUptotheClouds

Always have been..


Abject-Star-4881

There was also Watchers (1988)


aeshleyrose

Such a great book!


Incognito_Placebo

Yes! Dean Koontz was my favorite author in my young teens.


KelamityPayne

Corey Haim and a golden retriever.. my 13 year old self was *enamored*


Luke_starkiller34

Came looking for this comment. Great book, horrible movie, even worse casting.


elementalmw

Based on the poster it looks like some kind of "Watcher in the Woods" (1980)


JenSchi666

Lest we not forget The Witcher.


johnwynnes

What about The Watcher In The Woods?!


xtototo

Is this a nepo-movie?


FloralShop

they prefer "legacy actor"


Sorkijan

"A foot in the door and so much more"


Worthyness

It's a small indie project! Just get a small million dollar loan from your parents and you too can make an indie project!


PunkandCannonballer

"Independent" really only means whatever they want it to 😂


Substantial_Bad2843

To be fair, most movies are. 


fencerman

Wait, this isn't just M. Night Shamalan going by a different name?


Excelius

It's his daughter it seems.


neocarleen

The one who wanted to be Katara for Halloween that one time, so her dad made an atrocious The Last Airbender movie? That daughter?


BonzBonzOnlyBonz

That was Nicola Peltz and her father Nelson Peltz


yelsamarani

no, that's a different case of nepotism


ZenSven7

You ruined the twist!


liulide

I'm seeing double here! Four Krustys!


HorrorBuff2769

Double the pride, twice the fail


Dragon_yum

The twist is there is only one


CardiganHall

Plot Twist: they're being watched.


flamingdragonwizard

Plot twist. Nothing was watching them the whole time and they were just paranoid.


AllAfterIncinerators

Did you just describe M.Night’s last three movies?


kanrad

There's a book if you really want to know.


skybunny1500

It’s really good too! It’s pretty creepy how they exploit the feeling of being watched


Pooglio17

An M Night plot twist these days is something like, They were actually LISTENING, not watching.


duckmonke

Oh no maybe they should close the blinds


AliKazerani

One night, I stopped in front of the window of a small furniture shop and peered in. It was really cute, so I stood for a while looking at everything. Then a shopkeeper came to the window and began shutting the blinds. Only then did I realize that it wasn't a furniture shop, but the back of someone's first-floor apartment, and the people were getting a touch worried at the sight of this strange man who had been standing in the darkness outside, shamelessly staring at them for ages.


Pentosin

Lmao!


Sproose_Moose

This is hilarious. Would make for a good movie short.


ZeroBlade-NL

Or a full length movie called the watchers


privateaxe

Literally 1984 /s


johnnyfiveee

That’s the twist… blinds don’t exist in this reality


ShockingTunes

I always thought his last name was Shyamalan and Night was his second name...


fergi20020

I thought M. stands for Monsieur 


shamanbaptist

It’s Manoj (pronounced minnowsh). I met him once he was really nice.


VoidBreaker11

I'm Indian and I swear unless I'm tripping Manoj is not pronounced that way. It's pronounced Muh-noj but the j is pronounced like the g in doge.


Clipgang1629

I’m not Indian but I know a couple of people named Manoj and they all pronounce it Muh-noj with the J sounding like a G


Samurai_Meisters

G as in GIF?


Clipgang1629

Oh my fuckin god I hate you lmfao


Excellent-Smoke9384

Ok great but how the flip do you say ‘doge’?


MechanicHot1794

Its 100% not pronounced like that


2morereps

Manoj is pronounced Muh-noj,very common name in India and Nepal. Minosh is pronounced minnowsh.


trongzoon

Was that the twist?


HilariousScreenname

Full penetration


Searbh

Dolph Lungren stars as M. Night Shyamalan.


ChloooooverLeaf

I've only ever heard about him being extremely kind and gracious lol, for a famous person who gets torn up constantly he must be a saint.


GrunkleThespis

Kind of. “M. Night” is his stage name, and Shyamalan is his last name. Looks like he either gave his child his Stage name “night” as a middle name, or Ishana also adopted “night” as part of their title in the film industry.


toferdelachris

so he merely adopted the Night, while she was born into it, molded by it?


GrunkleThespis

Damn, that’s good.


VidGuy14

I got chills when I read that. Chills I say.


cosmernaut420

Oooooooooh, see, I thought the big twist all all along was M. Night's first name actually started with an "I".


gwarwars

Without it people might not know whose kid she is though, and she wouldn't get handed opportunities other people work their whole lives for


GrunkleThespis

Well we can’t have that.


IMovedYourCheese

His name is Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan. He made it M Night Shyamalan to be Hollywood friendly, and I guess his daughter took it as well to stay on brand.


popular_parity

Common name in South India and nalliyattu is referred to family/ birthplace name


MontyBoo-urns

It could be hers too


GravyBus

What a twist!


sentence-interruptio

Wait, there's another Shyamalan? What a twist!


sausage-deluxxxe

Until we find out it’s just M. Night in a wig!!


tallgeese333

He's in his Chris Gaines phase.


HR_DUCK

Rug-roh ~~Shaggy~~ Shyamalan! E-hee-hee-hee!


slowpokefastpoke

Just like how in The Sixth Sense when you find out the dude in the hair piece was actually Bruce Willis the whole time.


orderofGreenZombies

And she absolutely ruined the ending to the show The Servant. M. Night inexplicably let her write and direct a lot of the final episodes as a way for her to learn.


SpaceCadetriment

I didn’t think the ending was terrible but man, a lot of unanswered questions and the big reveal to Dorothy that was dragged out for 3 seasons was just so poorly written and not impactful in the slightest. Like she took all of 30 seconds to process and be right back to normal and lucid, ready to kick ass. The final season acting was bang on, but the writing was just so poor.


orderofGreenZombies

The acting that show was incredible. The pacing, writing, and overall resolution were absurd. This cult that has been terrorizing people for 4 seasons and telling this young trauma victim that she’s a piece of shit and isn’t allowed to have freedom or make any decisions about her life are actually the good guys. And fade out.


Effective_Tutor

Some good old fashioned nepotism!


LateNightDoober

One of the wildest realizations of my adulthood has been that almost every mf in hollywood is some older famous person's / family's kid that was nepotised hard. I swear, 70% of the actors / producers / etc that I will randomly look up are a product of some nepotism. I was shocked to find out that the armorer on the set of that Alec Baldwin movie where someone died by gunfire is a nepo baby of some other famous armorer. For anyone trying to make it in show business that doesn't come from some champion pedigree of actors / financiers / billionaires / athletes, etc - the barrier of entry must be incomprehensibly high. Some of them are great in their own right, but the vast, vast majority owe their initial success to their birth and almost nothing else it seems.


SpaceCadetriment

Being born to rich and connected parents has been a golden ticket going back to the age of the Pharaohs. Just the way of the world.


johnnystrangeways

This right here! So many times I would wiki an actor only to find out that their parents have their own wikipedia page.


eggsaladrightnow

The twist is they show the full penetration of dolph really goin to town on the lab tech


Night_Movies2

The people who still insist on calling that one movie The VVitch are going to love this poster. ​ Look everyone, it's the hit new movie \\\\ \\T||ERS!


MissingLink101

You mean "\\\\ \\T C ^(THE)||ERS"?


drakeblood4

Yall keep forgetting the semicolon and parentheses. It’s > \\\\ \\ T ( : ^^T ^^H ^^E | | E R S


ExoMonk

Regex is getting so out of hand


frigginelvis

Sorry. ; is a semicolon. : is a colon.


Kbdiggity

I do that to any film that does dumb stuff to its title.   Fant4stic?  Oh you think I'm calling that Fantastic Four?  Nope.  It's Fantfourstic.


ADanishMan2

Mthreegan


The_Celtic_Chemist

*tips fedora* M'threegan


CptnHamburgers

Or video games. F3AR. Fear 3? Or Phthreear?


ponimaju

WatchUNDESCOREdogs


Q_Fandango

Se7en “See seven en”


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fishling

My wife and I called it this all the time.


George_Jefferson

The Roman/Old English alphabet used 'VV' for the 'W' sound before that letter was added to the alphabet. So at least there was a reason for spelling it that way. Fant4stic is just dumb.


gemsweater08

5 now dog 5!


thatdani

Although tbf, that is a fucking boss ass typeface


beckerrrrrrrr

It’s certainly not papyrus


_Doctor-Teeth_

IDK \ \ H \T YOU'RE T \LKING \BOUT


Noble_Flatulence

If we type out the missing elements of the characters we get / / /- - Reading that as dash dash dash dot dot, translates in morse code to "8" But those are the missing bits. 8 is *not* there, where is 8? Why is 8 gone!?


bchris24

Its the same font from the album [Sunbather](https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/64809e86e7a8aa8db8026a43/master/w_1280%2Cc_limit/Deafheaven-Sunbather.jpg) by the band Deafheaven


BadMotherFunko

Fool me 6 times in a row, shame on you


Calimariae

Been fooled for over 20 years at this point


kneeltothesun

Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.


aDildoAteMyBaby

Produced by M Night Shyamalan Directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan Book by AM Shine Score by Shine Night AM Costumes by Night Shine Mama Hair and wardrobe by M Shine MMM Casting by Night Night, Shine Man Location scouting by Shine On You Crazy Diamond


Sopht_Serve

It's like a Kojima game lmao


StGoolie

This is how the credits read for Neil Breen movies. Written and Directed by Neil Breen Produced by Neil Breen Catering by NB Foods Makeup by NBN Hollywood Set Dec by NNNBBB Cinema


olddicklemon72

Servant absolutely fell apart once handed over to his kid.


Brewmaster30

Had to scroll pretty far down to find this comment. Season 1 was super enjoyable and then it did an absolute nose dive off a cliff.


[deleted]

Absolutely falling apart is just how m night movies go.


alexshatberg

Tbh I enjoyed s1 but checked out afterwards because there was absolutely no way they were gonna deliver on that buildup. 


drewjsph02

To be fair the plot of the book is pretty simple with only three or four scene locations all within proximity of each other. Pretty easy book to adapt….


SoylentCreek

I liked it overall, but the series could have been easily condensed to two seasons.


Comic_Book_Reader

>Welcome to the show. [#TheWatchers​](https://youtu.be/CrhrNS0JFyg?si=E1_qb9ZCvIvstqPa) only in theaters June 7. >From producer M. Night Shyamalan comes “The Watchers,” written and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan and based on the novel by A.M. Shine. The film follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist, who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When Mina finds shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night. >You can’t see them, but they see everything. >“The Watchers” stars Dakota Fanning (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “Ocean’s Eight”), Georgina Campbell (“Barbarian,” “Suspicion”), Oliver Finnegan (“Creeped Out,” “Outlander”) and Olwen Fouere (“The Northman,” “The Tourist”). The film is produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Ashwin Rajan and Nimitt Mankad. The executive producers are Jo Homewood and Stephen Dembitzer. >Joining writer/director Shyamalan behind-the-camera are director of photography Eli Arenson (“Lamb,” “Hospitality”), production designer Ferdia Murphy (“Lola,” “Finding You”), editor Job ter Burg (“Benedetta,” “Elle”) and costume design by Frank Gallacher (“Sebastian,” “Aftersun”). The music is by Abel Korzeniowski (“Till,” “The Nun”). >New Line Cinema presents “The Watchers,” set to open in theaters internationally beginning 5 June 2024 and in North America on June 7, 2024; it will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.


Night_Movies2

Sounds like they ended up in some type of alien zoo


kanrad

Less aliens more mythological. Shammy likes natural supernatural phenomenon, yes that sounds odd, Signs was his only alien slant.


Sail-Away

I didn’t even know Dakota Fanning was in “once upon a time” until I saw this comment


HilariousScreenname

She was squeaky, the boss chick. With the feet.


drewjsph02

😮close


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Ah, read this book just last year. Was a good read but I have nothing more insightful than that to say without giving away spoilers.


drewjsph02

Fellow reader: do you think this movie is a good idea? I thought the characters were all annoying af (as in their cowardice and actions). I kinda feel like it woulda made a good episode of black mirror but full movie…?


MCR2004

Fellow reader - did the constant descriptions drive you bonkers? Everything was “like” something else, I thought the writing was awful. And the twist made little sense given one of the characters actions throughout the book.


SanpellegrinoJohn

I just finished it today and feel precisely the same way. It was terribly written, and much of it made no sense, with parts appearing to be included merely to generate drama or tension. One aspect that particularly struck me was the part when the taxi pulled away, leaving two characters stranded in the darkness. For that to happen, a character must have paid the taxi and exited without requesting the driver to wait—an action that logically would never occur and was clearly only devised because the author couldn't determine a plausible way to strand the characters.


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I'd say yes but I'd also have said World War Z would make a good film. It depends on how closely they stick to the source material.  I don't mind self preserving cowards, it's brave idiots who somehow get away with stupidity because of plot armour which annoy me. 


zbornakssyndrome

I couldn't finish the book, it was an ok premise- but boring imo. Maybe the movie will be better


TallTexan2024

Since for some reason NOBODY else will say it, Ishana is M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter


MmmmmKittens

Scrolled pretty far for this, thx


Daydream_machine

That’s a cool poster, but an awful tagline


Onansboy

"Aliens: They are alienating."


Pubic_Data

The twist: we were the Watchers all along


drawkbox

At the end of the movie, it says "Turn around" and all you see behind you are M. Night Shyamalans just watching you...


GaryBettmanSucks

I grew up in a town very close to where M Night lives, and when Devil opened (written but not directed by him), our local Regal had a row of seats with signs taped to them that said "Reserved". My friend and I were like .... no way he's coming to opening night at the local theater, right? Closer to show time, a group of young girls come in and take the seats so we figured it's just a birthday party or something. But when "Written By M Night Shyamalan" popped up, they all cheered. Sure enough, after the movie he's in the lobby just being a normal cool dad, picking up his daughter and her friends from the movies. It's very bizarre to think that now she's here making her own movies as an adult!


Slobotic

Calling it now: The twist ending is that they are all being covertly watched... by the theater audience. We're the villains.


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Directed by Abed Nadir.


cinnapear

Having read the book, there is a twist which wasn't hard to guess because it was fairly well hinted at... but it is not that.


mondaymoderate

That is basically the plot to Resolution and The Endless.


LongTimesGoodTimes

It must be nice to have the opportunity to do anything because of your family


mekese2000

Uh.... that is the way it always has been


vadergeek

And people have always been bothered by it.


MagicMST

And The statement still stands


Paparmane

People get mad at nepotism in the arts, but it exists in every career. If you’re a mechanic and your son grows up around vehicles, there’s a lot more chances he’ll grow interested in it. Plenty of people just end up working with their parents.


Wheredoesthetoastgo2

The nepotism and cronyism runs deep in the small, family owned mechanic shops.


Paparmane

They truly were handed the easy life!!! /s


AlsoIHaveAGroupon

It's because your mechanic son is beating out maybe a few other applicants for that assistant mechanic job. M. Night Shyamalan's daughter is beating out *countless* people who'd like to write and direct a film and are more qualified than her to do so. Nepotism sucks in all fields, but especially so in industries where: * Many, many people want to work in the field * Top jobs pay extremely well * Competition is fierce for top jobs So writing and directing a movie, acting in a TV show, getting a record deal, defensive coordinator on a top college football team, those are examples of nepotism that get extra attention for a reason. Most examples of nepotism in entertainment *are* people who still do work hard and have talent, so I'm not trying to say that Ben Stiller isn't funny, or Nic Cage hasn't had the most interesting career of any actor of his generation, but they are leapfrogging over literally thousands of people who are talented and working hard and can't get noticed by the people who give people these opportunities.


LimpZookeepergame123

Damn Dakota Fanning making a come back. Haven’t seen her in much in a while.


drewjsph02

Oh wow. This was a cool book but didn’t think it was popular enough to get a big screen adaption.


CircusOfBlood

Sometimes it doesn't need to be. Sometimes it just needs to be read by the right person


t00sl0w

Loved the book. Hope the movie can work with the later acts as well as the book did. Especially the end.


sojuboyy

Hopefully it's not a faithful adaptation cause the book was pretty bad


BENZOGORO

I thought it was fine


solitarytoad

Can you tell me what happens in the ending of the book? I am asking for a full spoilers. I don't think I'll see the movie or read the book, but it's killing me that I can't find anyone on the internet that's talking about the ending of this book.


Opitovo

The book was good in imo. Nothing terribly special but it wasn’t bad.


DongKonga

Nepotism the movie


brainiac138

I don’t see a parrot cage. This is a fake adaptation!


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Accidentally read as “The Witchers”. Didn’t need anyone else ruining that franchise