The Witches, Lost in Adaptation ~ The Dom

The Dom takes a look at the film that scared the poop out of many people's childhoods to see if the book is to blame.
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[@lucasroote1563]

The year is 2020, the world is locked down, he calls himself Dominic Smith now and he was absolutely right about the future witches movie

[@arandil1]

Holy shit! He really did... now he has to compare all three...

[@PriyaPans]

@ erm... And what about white actors constantly getting parts originally written for POC? That's a MUCH bigger problem.

[@TheNotverysocial]

@@PriyaPans I only care when it impacts the plot, and this time it does not.

[@TheNotverysocial]

@@PriyaPans I'd say it's more insulting they switched the British setting for an American one. Roald Dahl was about as British as they come, born and raised, with a Norwegian granny, just like the ones in the book. Read anything by him, and everything is heavily British as can get, which is a core aspect of his work. Americanise it, and it doesn't seem like a retelling of a Dahl tale. His name shouldn't be in the title of the 2020 movie since this one is overall more faithful. Just end this one one scene earlier and it's the best.

[@PriyaPans]

@@TheNotverysocial yeah I didn't understand why they did a remake tbh (other than. Let's make some money) because it was like a carbon copy bar setting and other changes, plot wise it was the same pretty much. Maybe if they'd done a spinoff version in the same universe I'd understand why they made another movie. Because I'll happily watch the original versions of Charlie and the chocolate factory, the witches, James and the giant peach, home alone etc. (home alone light hey a full remake which is why I'm throwing it into the list)

[@TheDunnDusted]

He was right, now we got Chris Rock doing Everyone Hates Mice.

[@bizarroguy6570]

Yeah, though the witches aren't exactly sexy...well, ok that depends on what your into.

[@TheNotverysocial]

@@bizarroguy6570 Observation: the titular witches are a mixed crowd in both movies. In both for every three to five women there is a man in the crowd. And Quentin Blake's illustrations show each third, four or fifth witch being masculine looking, too.

[@laureate90]

​@@TheNotverysocial One of them is Michael Palin in drag ;)

[@TheNotverysocial]

@@laureate90 I think we should be glad they remained true to the tradition of a high percentage of the witches being men with most still being women. It aesthetically wouldn't be the same without them, would it?

[@laureate90]

​@@TheNotverysocial Indeed, and it reinforces the idea that witches aren't truly female, male or even human, but something more sinister that assumes human form. Not that that's supported by the text, but it's an interpretation I enjoy :)

[@chillpenguin4118]

From what I hear Dahl REALLY hated the ending, he even threatened to have his name removed from the credits in protest, basically because it was, as you say, a cop-out.

[@ForrestFox626]

I always felt Dahl was kind of hypocritical in that regard

[@th3rasave]

@@ForrestFox626 why's that?

[@ghughesarch]

Well, Dahl adapted other writers' work for film - often changing this considerably (notably Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the film version of which is almost entirely unlike the book) - but always seems to have been quite arsey about film versions of his own books.

[@GibbyCat]

9:27 Well, It's 2020, they're rebooting the Witches on HBO with CGI mice and Anne Hathaway as the head witch, so--everyone marvel at the Dom and his psychic powers.

[@pintsizedpicasso3402]

Dom: I'm gonna go ahead and predict a big old reboot of this film in the future filled with CGI mice and uncomfortably sexy witches." The Witches 2020 trailer comes out Welp, sadly he hit the nail on the head😓

[@MsUchenna12]

1990 version is way better 💯 Fun fact :although Roald Dahl hated the (1990) movie, he loved anjelica huston as the grand high witch

[@aniieesteiner]

Rewatching this in 2020, an Dom absolutely nailed his prediction. The Witches was remade with CGI mice and quite sexy witches.

[@maliaferry8212]

There's a remake?

[@daniboy4153]

​@maliaferry8212 Yeah and it's not that great

[@Peteman]

Eh, you want causes involving vampires, here's my favourite: Solar Power: Kills more vampires annually than fossil fuels do. Clean. Safe. Feared by the Accursed Undead.

[@scp--297]

Yes.

[@meandmybobbygee1812]

Sí.

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

No, no, no, they don't die, they just get their cover blown with all the shining. Has Twilight taught you nothing?!?

[@Canadamus_Prime]

That works for me.

[@NouveauArtPunk]

I work at a specialty children's bookstore and you bette bet I go out of my way to sell this exact book to 8 year olds.

[@FenrirEX]

+DatRyanTho You're a special kind of evil. I approve.

[@Azmodeus87]

+DatRyanTho The Joys of mortality, Child predators, conspiracies, old scandinavian folk lore & genocide. All in one just-scary-enough package. Azmo Approves!

[@MrsXanatrix]

+Azmodeus87 The witches described in the book have very little to do with scandinvian folklore

[@basedbattledroid3507]

DatRyanTho Parents must love you, lol

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

I was five years old when I read this book. No, seriously, I was an advanced reader. I don't think I was scarred by this as much as I should have been. That chapter, "Metamorphosis"...never ever going to read that out loud to a kid. I didn't even know what the word meant at the time, but I knew exactly what the chapter was about. And it's PAINFUL.

[@George-Hawthorne]

9:16 HOLY SHIT, THE DOM JUST PREDICTED THE FUTURE.

[@jeniferjoseph9200]

We don't ignore your people, Dom, we just tend to make them villains. It's better this way.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

On What We Had To Watch, they mentioned that in the Pokemon 2000 review. "This is our villain. He doesn't have a name. But he has a British accent, so you know he's evil."

[@sabaaqaisar800]

As a British citizen myself I find that quite rude 😛

[@lokephoenix1039]

Sabaa Qaisar it’s always a kind of Chelsea accent as well 😂 I’d love to see a scouse, Geordie or pure Yorkshire British movie villain

[@hamsters7760]

It's for historical accuracy.

[@Biouke]

And as usual, the feud between Brits and Frenchies goes on, this time over who are the best 'murican movie villains :p

[@catierobinson4880]

for once I've actually read the book and not heard of the movie

[@jeniferjoseph9200]

+Catie Robinson This movie gave me some serious nightmares as a kid. It's one of the ones that, like Matilda, fully embraces the insanity of the universe.

[@catierobinson4880]

+Jenifer Joseph I never imagined the witches looking this creepy, but the transformation into the mouse made my skin crawl just from the description in the book.

[@Appletank8]

+Catie Robinson Yup. Like, I knew the Matilda film existed, saw like 10% of the end (kinda doubletaked at the ending there too) but wow, childhood creepiness.

[@camomiletea7357]

I saw the film and didn't know it was based on a book by Dahl, I then read the book after I got it with a bunch of other by Dahl.

[@ginabell694]

Other way around for me. I just read the book last week.

[@stellamuka1087]

Because of this book I was seriously convinced that my teacher at the time and my mom might've been witches. The conspiracy didn't end there, because I was still contemplating whether or not my mother was an actual witch (which made me a witch as well) or if my mother was a witch disguised as my mother and thus I had to save my real mother. For some reason, I did trust my grandmother and warned her for other witches. In other words, Roald Dahl's books made me very imaginative.

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

Checking on this again after the trailer of 2020's "the witches". And boy... why did the dom have to be so accurate about the reboot prediction...

[@MetalSonic2000x]

You called it 4 years ago! They are making a new "The Witches" movie. Hope to see you review and compare it to the book and previous movie.

[@aarien_of_aurolyth]

complete with bad cgi and Sexy witches. It's a shame this is going to suck so much because it'll be painful to watch Stanley Tucci, Anne Hathaway, and Octavia Spencer in such a cheesy film.

[@emilky924]

I've only read the book, and it's one of my childhood favourites. And I always admired how the boy accepted his fate at the end. I have no idea how I feel about the film tbh

[@ForrestFox626]

I never bought that. Any kid thinking that is a fine fate needed therapy

[@yes5937]

@@ForrestFox626 What’s traumatizing is that the grandma notes the boy only has a couple years left to live as Mice don’t live as long as humans, quite depressing

[@Hanyoumaru]

It is sorta amusing to me that the Man could write "kid logic" better than Any other kids' author I know. But naturally it does not exactly translate well to Adults. But hey, I still get quite amused with the Things he Dared to do with kids, Especially compared to today's Standards.

[@dan4lau]

"...kid logic" Yes. That's a very interesting observation, and probably goes a long way to explaining why so many books most popular with children are so hated by adults... who didn't read them as children for the most part I'm guessing. Thinking particularly here of Enid Blyton's books, Audrey's Railway series and The Chronicles of Narnia. They all have the strong sense of justice and order, but with that streak of harshness bordering on cruelty too... I think because while children have a firm idea about fairness and right and wrong, no one but a child knows just how inevitably cruel and unfair the world can be sometimes... that there's no such thing as really happily ever after.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

@@dan4lau That's why I criticise Enid Blyton's books. If she doesn't like a character, no one else is allowed to like them. If a girl doesn't like sports, she's lazy. If a girl cares about her appearance, she's shallow. If a girl doesn't know her place, she's an awful person. If a girl tries too hard to be a good person, she deserves to be ostracized, teased and called names. If a girl doesn't get good marks, it's her fault and the teachers have no blame even though they humiliate them and label them so they probably feel less inclined to try. If a girl has a barbed tongue, however, she's smart and popular. My favourite St Clare's character is actually Alison O'Sullivan, the so-called feather-head because she often worships other girls or teachers, doesn't like games and likes to look pretty. The book goes on about how there's nothing much below the surface, but she's actually one of the kindest in the whole form. The reason she dropped her besr friend in one book is because her friend was really horrible about another girl's poor, old-looking, shabby mother when her own mother was a spoiled brat and even called the French mistress an "awful old woman" well within the poor woman's earshot.

[@dan4lau]

​@@strawberrysoulforever8336 Well... going to play devil's advocate here as I'm a Blyton fan since my milk-teeth days haha. But I'll warn you this is VERY long, as I think things to death I'm afraid. I won't be offended if you give up before the end. I have to admit firstly that I'm not as familiar with her boarding school stories as I am with other series she's written. Truth to tell, I would be surprised if any author wants their readers to like characters they don't like. Unlikeable characters are there... to be disliked, to be antagonists. Is it not possible that you have cause and effect a little confused in some of these cases? What I mean is, perhaps the character is meant to be lazy, and her ambivalence about games is the easiest way for Blyton to 'show, not tell' that? Same with vanity. Ironically of course you could say this is laziness on Blyton's part. I can't comment on a girl not knowing her place... except to say that by my reading of her works, Blyton holds snobbery as a very bad trait indeed, so I would be surprised if that was what she intended. As to trying too hard to be good, I'd need a specific example to really judge, and it depends what you mean by 'be good'. Nobody likes a goody-two-shoes though, someone who obeys all the rules all the time and tut-tuts at others for their lapses. Being teased and called names is probably what would happen to such a person. As to bad marks, you have to remember that this was a time in which anyone junior was very much the inferior, and especially children and adults. I think it would have been inconceivable to almost anyone in those days that bad marks were anything but the child's fault. We can't expect 21st century nuance from the people of the 1940s and 1950s. I suppose what Blyton is going for with sharp tongues is that they come with keen intelligence, and usually her blunt-speaking characters don't really bare any malice, they're just easily annoyed... don't suffer fools gladly as it were. Again this perhaps represents attitudes of the era. I do know however that Alicia from Mallory Towers, certainly a sharp-tongued character, falls rather in the heroine's estimation as the series goes on. Perhaps Blyton had mellowed a little by the time she wrote those. From what I've read both in other boarding school stories and about actual schools of that era, I doubt that such attitudes as you describe were uncommon. It was... as is often said, a more innocent time, and that came with its dark side as everything does. Things were viewed much more in black and white, and it was definitely a time when people worried far less about others' sensitivities. If you weren't up to scratch you were told so in no uncertain terms, and there was no point whining about how much someone had hurt your feelings. The only way to improve your lot was to bottle up and knuckle down pretty much. You didn't bother others with your emotions and troubles. In some ways I think Enid Blyton is actually progressive for her time, with older girls and even mistresses encouraging younger girls to come to them with any problem they might have. I'll own that there are uncomfortable passages in some of those books... for us at least, where characters we're supposed to route for really are quite nasty to others. As I say though you do see similar in works by similar authors, i.e Angela Brazil, though she did write at least thirty years before Enid Blyton. Oh and as to Alison, I can't... quite get my head around her being anyone's favourite character, as she is a bit of a drip especially in the beginning, but while they do call her a featherhead, I don't think anyone suggests that she's not basically nice. I will admit though that sometimes others could be kinder to her. But it all falls back to kid logic. Someone like Alison is never going to be popular, especially in a community of hard-working, hard-playing teenage girls... who as we know can be very cruel indeed. As J. M. Barry said, children are gay, innocent... and heartless.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

@@dan4lau Some of the characters who dislike games are lazy, but others aren't. Claudine, for instance, hates games and swimming and cheats during lessons, but she's extremely industrious at sewing. Her lack of liking games is more of a show about how she gets out of things she doesn't want to do, like purposely getting mending to do in her own time so she can get out of games and walks. The girls who are good at sports are held in higher regard than the girls who try but aren't very good, too. Well, Blyton doesn't go with being classist. She's particularly negative over St Clare's girls Angela, a beautiful snob and Pauline, who acts like a snob but turns out to be lying about her well bred family (she goes on and on about how rich she is when she isn't, but keeps saying she doesn't show off her possessions because she's so well bred). She's ageist. All the older girls say the younger ones are "babies", which included girls one year younger than them. Apparently fourteen is just SO much older than thirteen. While I don't mind the St Clare's tradition of the younger girls waiting on the older ones, I wasn't very happy with the way the older girls acted. They complain if the girls take a little while coming, and then don't even say "please", just give their orders and then tell the girls off if they do the least little thing wrong. For good people...well, I was thinking of Catherine from Malory Towers. I mean, yes, she's annoying and should really be herself, but she's not doing anything wrong by trying to be good and kind and self sacrificing. However, the girls laugh at her, draw pictures of her to mock her and call her names, making her miserable. Why couldn't they just have explained to her why they didn't like the way she was acting? In the end, she had to settle for just being nice to one girl, who didn't tease her. I'll let the bad marks go, but I did feel a bit bad for Gwendoline in the first Malory Towers book. It wasn't really her fault she was so backward, because her governess hadn't taught her very well. She could have caught up more in later books, but I didn't think it was fair for the teachers to just write her off in her very first term. At the least, they could have offered her extra coaching. You mentioned Alicia. She was meant to be very hard hearted and unkind with her sharp tongue, as well as being top in her class. However, Blyton did show this negatively. She didn't seem to think it was too bad a flaw, but purposely punished Alicia by giving her measles in exam time to give her a taste of what it felt like to have trouble with schoolwork, and she says later on that she's tried to be more patient since. I think my favourable opinion of Alison may partly be the Pamela Cox books. Cox seems to really like her and makes her a good, sweet, loyal friend and has a few good ideas. In the Sixth Form book, they even give her a role reversal where the first former who does her jobs adores her and wants to do things for her all the time. Eventually this leads to a plot point where the first former, on orders of an older girl who is blackmailing her, steals things from the sixth formers but purposely leaves Alison out. Still, with the original books, the way she dealt with Miss Quentin after she heard what she really thought was a good move, and I liked her standing up to Angela in the last two. She'd clearly learned a lot more than she was given credit for.

[@jasdanvm3845]

Wow, you were absolutely right about the Reboot. Cgi mice, sexy witches and all!

[@ryandowney8743]

Who else is rewatching this after the new trailer for the remake dropped? And yes, your precognitive powers seem to be quite accurate.

[@SuperSongbird21]

I suppose if you wanted to you could suggest both the book and film endings are perfectly valid. The protagonist and his grandma have a pretty solid plan to rid the world of all witches in the book, so that ending works. And in the film, you could argue that the abused former PA turning on her evil brethren and Luke becoming human again shows that they both have witch-thwarting futures ahead of them that'll ultimately have the same result (especially if you take the realistic view that wiping out the witches would take longer than the grandmother's lifetime and she'd probably be proud for Luke to carry on for her), so that ending works too.

[@carolinemcgovern4488]

Yes. I can see in the future the former PA and Luke working together (of course when the Grandma is still alive, the three forming a badass Witch-hunting team with the PA's inside knowledge), and if Luke ever married and had kids, I can see him passing down the witch lore, and that family essentially becoming the Winchesters of the Roal Dahl film universe.

[@Myself23512]

I love the PA. She seems so kind. Like a teacher.

[@SuperSongbird21]

@@Myself23512 I guess there's an exception to every "norm", so even though all the other witches are evil it's not so impossible that at least one of them would be capable of good.

[@Myself23512]

@@SuperSongbird21 Well I disagree with that. In the book, Dahl makes it quite clear that witches are their own species and that killing children is in their nature. So I don’t think he’d say that it’s possible for a witch to be good. However, the PA clearly isn’t the same species as the other witches. She has fingernails (instead of claws) wich I suppose means that she has real hair and and toes. Maybe she’s a distant cousin. That’s why she was capa of good and maybe that’s why the other witches were so awful to her. A form of racism or specimen?

[@SuperSongbird21]

@@Myself23512 They never reveal how witches reproduce - can they interbreed with humans? Is she a half-breed?

[@fionastirling986]

Dominic Noble’s precognitive powers are scarily accurate

[@joanahkirk338]

Judging by what I know of Roald Dahl, he'd love your description of him.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

He'd love it even more, though, if you knew which of his characters was based on himself and just referred to him as that. Hint: He thinks kindness is the greatest virtue you can have and he is tall, but sees himself on the side of the little people.

[@TwelvetreeZ]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 wait seriously?? Yeesh. I always thought psychopathic Willy Wonka was closer to Dahl tbh 😅

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

@@TwelvetreeZ I agree with you, but he didn't. He even sent Quentin Blake his sandal to copy for the illustrations.

[@LORDOFDORKNESS42]

I AM MARVELING AT YOUR PRE-COGNATIVE POWERS!!!

[@madalinam6183]

If you gave thumbs down to Rowan Atkinson our "beautiful friendship" would have been in serious trouble I had to pause the video just to tell you. This is how much it means to me

[@Dominic-Noble]

+Madalina M I'd never do that m my man Rowan.

[@Tollero999]

+The Dom I don´t know what is wrong with my computer but it sais you wrote this reply 5 days... ...Love your channel!

[@madalinam6183]

+hakon mortensen It's nothing wrong with youtube. His videos are available a day or a few days earlier for his Patreon sponsors. I usually just Like his videos before they become public. It's the first time I commented before the video was made public, but the subject matter was important to me. The Dom is also on the list for which I'd pause a video to comment if he got the thumbs up or down from someone whose opinion matters to me (this counts as a double compliment for him)

[@Dominic-Noble]

Dammit Madalina this was a perfect chance to make people believe you could time travel XD

[@madalinam6183]

I can neither deny nor confirm that I am or am not in the possession of time traveling technology

[@Cyborcat]

For what it's worth, I used to have pet rats and they could take a pretty big fall, considering their size, pretty easily. Not that I tested that theory on purpose or anything, but I kept their cage in a high spot and they'd occasionally get out and end up taking a 5-foot drop to the floor. Of course, I realize that mice are not rats, but since they're similar I'd assume that they're similarly hearty and that 3-foot drop or so from the nice witch's hands probably wouldn't have hurt them. I mean, obviously it's kinda mean and they wouldn't like it, but it's not at the level of something that'd traumatize them. Also the tail thing ... not sure if I'm missing something in that clip, but if it's just someone hanging onto the mouse's tail for a few seconds ... rodents' tails are very strong. It'd have been a minor annoyance at best. Not trying to be argumentative, just wanted to point that out in case it makes you (and/or your viewers) feel any better.

[@BigGator5]

Agreed. I honestly don't see any out-right cruelty here.

[@TheBMovie3]

+Cyborcat I tried to pull my pet rat out from under a couch by the tip of his tail, and about an inch of the skin came right off the tip, like a glove. IT looked like one of those trumpet-chip things. I felt so bad. I was maybe twelve or thirteen. Careful with those little ratty tails.

[@leshyaedawnfire]

Very small animals like rodents and baby birds are able to fall great distances (for them) without a scratch. Their tiny, light-weight bodies hit the ground with significantly less force than a larger creature, and the fluff on them acts like a cushion. An extreme example of this is the Barnacle Goose, who nest in high rocky cliffs above where they forage for food. The flightless goslings have to jump off the cliff and hope they don't land wrong if they want to eat, often bouncing off rocks on the way down.

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

Dreamer Rose ouch!

[@thepip3599]

Dreamer Rose Really? Wow. I guess Mother Nature has a slapstick sense of humour.

[@tristanconway1455]

OH MY GOD THEY JUST ANNOUNCED A NEW WITCHES REMAKE WITH WITCHES THAT ARE UNCOMFORTABLY ATTRACTIVE

[@laureate90]

Dom accurately predicts reboot... Definitely a witch.

[@jasonpratt5126]

AZKAB--! ...wait.

[@natchnieni0]

Angelina Hudson? you mean Angelica Houston?

[@planetX15]

Anjelica Houston*

[@MissB2483]

@@planetX15 Anjelica Huston*

[@planetX15]

That's interesting, at the time I wrote that I did the research of her name and it had a O in it, mysteriously these days it doesnt.

[@duckykittn]

@@planetX15 you've been Mandela-ed!

[@beerock79]

I came here to see if anyone else heard Angelina Hudson lol

[@nickleturtle]

I just finished watching the 2020 reboot so I had to come watch this because I haven't read the book or seen the other movie. I really enjoyed the new one, I'm glad the witches weren't as freaky looking as in the 1990's version. It would be great if Dom covered that adaptation as well!

[@justsomeokami8867]

Guess what Dom! A reboot is being made. I bow to your powers sir

[@pinkbutterfly8710]

I'm not usually a fan of reboots but I wouldn't mind seeing this one as long as they are more loyal to the book

[@robertadler4354]

The new adaptation coming next year by Robert Zemeckis with Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer will even take more liberties with the story, from what I've read spoilers so far.

[@osmanyousif7849]

Reboot has came out. And it failed. YOU WERE SAYING!?!?

[@pinkbutterfly8710]

@@osmanyousif7849 I stand by what I said. The reboot wasn’t loyal to the book.

[@TheNotverysocial]

@@pinkbutterfly8710 Only insofar as the transformations induced being permanent and irreversible, the only place this second adaptation was more faithful than the 1990 film. And not escaping the conference room as a human and actually witnessing his parent's demise. Had they ended the 1990 one one scene sooner and not included that final scene it would be the best. It also flies in the face of them being demons in human shape.

[@KristenRowenPliske]

😁 Oh, dude, You called it! There’s a reboot coming with Octavia Spencer as the grandmother!

[@NightEyeStudio1995]

The Dom is a cat man? He's automaticly an even awesomer person now!

[@jaynodubya4300]

You said to make a note: I’m here from The Witches remake trailer 😂

[@CaptnNimor]

Holy shit dude your prediction at the end was spot on! The trailer for the new Anne Hathaway CGI fest version dropped like a week or two ago.

[@daniellado2523]

I loved reading Roald Dahl's books. This was one of the books I read and the reveal of the head witch was very disturbing. Never saw the movie though.

[@hunnykun101]

I remember this movie Btw James and the Giant Peach nest maybe?

[@jeniferjoseph9200]

+hunnykun101 Man I did not like that movie. Which is weird cause it has a lot of things I like in it. But none of it works.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

It's a very weird adaptation. They completely changed one scene in particular, and the moral was changed. I like that the movie had James learning to overcome his fears and this later gave him the power to stand up to his aunts (whereas they died after being crushed by the peach in the book), but it was almost its own thing.

[@93MANIAC]

He's psychic 9:16 and I really hope that this means that he's going to take the remake to the woodshed or better yet to the woodchipper

[@DBfan12]

Yay! I hope for even more Roald Dahl Lost in Adaptations later! When I was little I was scared to death by the book!... Yes.... the book. I couldn't even finish it, thats how terrified I was! I made my brother hide the book for me, and I would be scared shitless whenever I saw it somewhere. I FINALLY managed to finish the book many years later, but I didn't find out there was a movie until I was 14-15 years old! I watched it and was actually pleasantly surprised by the Norwegian. I'm norwegian myself, and that may be part of why I later on liked the book, but I had NOT expected norwegian in the movie! It was awesome watching an otherwise english movie, and then BAM! My language!

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

+DBfan12 Fun fact, I don't think Dahl liked any of his book adaptions. The closest was when his wife said he probably would have liked the Henry Selick version of James and the Giant Peach. Even then, I think she was just being nice.

[@LordSvzklx]

+Tyler R I thought there was that animated version of the BFG he was supposed to have quite liked?

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

LordSvzklx Perhaps, I admit I have never read the BFG, but if that's the case, then it was a one time thing. Hell, I am pretty sure he would have hated all future adaptations, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factor, and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

[@Moonbeam143]

I remember watching part of the movie years ago. It was the part where the witches were at the meeting and turned some people into mice, and started stepping on them. This made me so upset, because I like small rodents so much, that I stopped watching it.

[@thealjohnsonshow2188]

9:17-9:23 You are almost right on the money. The remake is releasing this Friday on HBO Max, with Robert Zemeckis directing it (since he directed the original 1990 movie as well). CGI mice? Yes Uncomfortably sexy witches? No, but we have Anne Hathaway as The Grand High Witch. I'm intrigued to see it.

[@emmanuelruiz1000]

Well that remake prediction came true with Anne Hathaway and Octavia spencer which is pretty cool

[@riptobias]

The Dom: The child magically being turned into a part of the painting is taken straight out of the book!!! Along with a bunch of other odd choices, like turning another child into a dolphin, as opposed to actually killing them.

[@kelzling]

Just found your channel and have been watching through old videos, saw a trailer for a reboot less than a week before this video, so your prediction is rather amusing me!

[@merrittanimation7721]

Wasn't one kid turned into a painting in the book?

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

Yes, her name was Solveg. There was also Rangchild who just got taken away, Bridgid who became a chicken, Harold who turned to granite, and Lief who turned into a porpoise.

[@NapaCat]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 Harold became granite and used as an umbrella holder by his parents, Solveg is highly implied to have lived her life in the painting, moving around and dying in the artwork.

[@NapaCat]

Not turning into a painting, banished into a painting.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

@@NapaCat That's right. Although it was spelled Harald. Probably the Norwegian spelling. Apparently this was normal in Norway because a lot of witches lived there. There were less in England, but they were more dangerous.

[@zombieguy4444]

Yes One was put in a painting One was turned into a chicken One was turned to stone One was turned into a dolphin

[@cebeez]

So you could accurately foretell events from 2020, but chose not to warn us? That is cold.

[@logangove6943]

you are right just seen witches reboot trailer

[@Marauders4EVR]

They just announced that there's going to be a new adaptation of The Witches with Anne Hathaway so yes, Dominic, having made a note of this in 2016, I now marvel at your precognitive powers!

[@rebecca7948]

I came to check if anyone else had mentioned how he is in fact psychic! Although we still have to wait to find out if it's hot witches!

[@greenhowie]

Thanks, hadn't heard about this - hopefully they go in a different direction and it doesn't go the way of Total Recall and Robocop.

[@atlantahunter4401]

CGI mice and uncomfortably sexy witches✅ Not that we doubted you.

[@reissflament1658]

Predication confirmed, CGI mice and sexy witches all in! Marveling at your precognitive abilities, Dom

[@TyrelleWells]

Good call seeing how they are in the works of making a new witches movie

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Oh please tell me you'll be doing Matilda soon. I'm just eager to see you tackle that story.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

I'd like to see that too. While I like the movie, I really have to remove it from the fact that it's an adaptation to fully appreciate it. That's how much better the book was.

[@nicholassims9837]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 Out of Curiosity did Roln Dai made a shared universe meaning Maildis and Charlie Buckets could meet face to face or Witches and Giants are in a Evil vs Evil type feud.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

@@nicholassims9837 Not that I know of. Apart from two books about Charlie, and the BFG making an early appearance before getting his own book, his books were mostly standalone.

[@nicholassims9837]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 so no Ronald Cinematic Universe? What was BFG early bird cameo ?

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

@@nicholassims9837 It's "Roald", not "Ronald". It's a Norwegian name. The BFG was originally a story told in "Danny The Champion Of The World". His dad tells him all about how he blows dreams into children's rooms and claims to have actually seen him once. Not sure why Danny's father seeing him was any different from Sophie seeing him, but I suppose he knew a bit more and wasn't scared so nothing gave him away.

[@billuraral1870]

Come 2020 and they're rebooting The Witches with Anne Hathaway. First he predicts the Netflix A Series of Unfortunate Events, now this? Dom, if you're actually an oracle, blink.

[@sambee8982]

Unlike Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I have to disagree with Roald Dahl hating the film adaptation of The Witches because in my opinion, the ending in the film is better because of Luke getting transformed back into a human boy again thanks to Irvine, the only good witch. Whereby in the book, it's more bittersweet and he remains a mouse forever.

[@nefarioussness]

When I was in the 3rd grade my teacher read this book to us. When she read the beginning bit about how a witch could be any woman in your life in disguise, I remember it said, "It could even be your teacher who's reading this book to you." My teacher just smiled knowingly at this bit and carried on. What's really freaky is that she looked like the Grand High Witch from the movie, only with gray hair.

[@KhaosAdmiral]

Lost in Adaptation: Watership Down Anyone

[@kaybranden3672]

Yeah! I'd love that 🐰

[@victoriashevlin8587]

Fuck No. I was horrifically traumatised by both as a child.

[@shaynabarnhard2274]

@@kaybranden3672 Yeah, I've been waiting for that for years!

[@Raina92]

This movie terrified me as a child!!

[@mixwidman5458]

This man predicted the new witches film.

[@RhyperiorRanger]

I never thought I’d hear the term “uncomfortably sexy witches” in my life

[@nicholassims9837]

What about in Sabrina?

[@liesebeam8910]

All i remember about this movie is being batshit terrified when they first turned the boy into a mouse. I ran out of the room crying and couldnt sleep for weeks

[@dexstewart862]

It was my favorite movie when i was 4. 😂

[@tessadequirini3221]

This book traumtised me, especially yhe description on how the children die in the beginning. There is a girl who lives her life in a painting in the book too though!

[@JCLegendary]

I'm just here to marvel at your precognitive powers.

[@ThomasdWell]

3:43 a fear that still haunts me in my adult years.

[@StormTimber]

I'm watching this video in 2020. That prodiction you made at the end was halariusly acurate!

[@chibiktsn3]

Domstradamus! The new high witch is Anne Hathaway!

[@lizard_the_queen]

Had forgotten about the prediction and actually am marvelling at the powers. Wowie 😁😁

[@SarahJaneOmega]

Please could you do a LiA for Matilda? It was one of my favourite books as a child, and I also really enjoyed the movie. I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

[@NafNav32]

The girl being put into a painting in the beginning freaked the hell out of me as a child...

[@leshyaedawnfire]

You were right! They've rebooted it!

[@undeadladybug7723]

Okay, that "kid transforming" is legit terrifying...

[@paranoidBat]

I remember when the witches remake was announced and my first thought was oh my god he fully predicted it

[@lucasford2557]

That whole thing about the new Witches film has just freaked me out 🤣😂

[@oliverpony]

So apparently the witches reboot is coming out this year And in this new version Luke is going to be black and it's going to be set in Alabama.

[@greenhowie]

That sounds awesome!

[@joshslater2426]

Almost as bizarre as Dom accurately predicting the remake, the Grand High Witch’s assistant is played by Jane Horrocks, aka ‘Babs’ from Chicken Run.

[@Plantster15]

Well I'll be damned Dom is a psychic after all

[@riptobias]

2020 remake: CGI mice - check! Uncomfortably sexy witches... Uncomfortable, yes, sexy... Aside from Anne Hathaway looking pretty as always, I'm gonna say no on that one...

[@justinwhite915]

You were right and I hope you talk about it.

[@innerguardianXIII]

I'm convinced Roald Dahl was actually trying to scare children with his stories, but he accidentally became a children's literature icon because kids really love some messed up things.

[@thatvintagechick2923]

Oh my God you were so right you predicted the new adaptation and Anne Hathaway is playing the grand high witch

[@adambesley4455]

I've read somewhere that Roald Dahl was indeed upset about the film's happy ending after seeing the completed film pre-release. He apparently pleaded with director Nicholas Roeg to change it but was ignored. In fact apart from the animated BFG film Dahl disliked all the adaptations he actually lived to see.

[@melodyjones4978]

Dom you called it. The Witches remake in cinemas October 9th 2020

[@AlfieEdwards]

I remember absolutely LOVING this book as a kid. I enjoyed the movie too, but I liked the book more, especially the dark ending

[@mcoteish]

4 years later, and I'm marveling at your precognitive powers. Wth

[@dylan_colon_three]

I found it quite nice how they filmed in a irl English hotel (the headland Hotel) for the out side and inside if I'm not mistaken (haven't been in the headland for a few years) so mad props film makers!

[@surfin392]

And........A remake is now official.......

[@estefaniaperez-vera4600]

Holy sh*t. Dominic predicted the reboot of the Witches down to the CGI monstrosities and the sexy witches!!!

[@Beevenhouse]

When you reviewed The Wizard Of Oz, you mentionned how we all have things that terrfied us as kids while it didn't seem such a big deal to anyone else. That scene with the kid stuck in the painting. I don't know why, but that terrified the crap out of me as a kid. It may still would if I watched that film again today.

[@sabi_ne]

This movie scared the shit out of me as a kid....

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

"Angelina Hudson." Ha! I forgot about that flub.

[@pinkpincol]

I watched the movie when I was younger and didn't think anything of it but I just saw the clip of the hotel and it suddenly hit me that I've stayed there before

[@Thumper17]

Oh god! This movie resurfaced from the darkest nether reaches of my mind. crazy nostalgia! I remember being creeped out by this movie but I do recall liking it, surprised I forgot this one.

[@SRHunt85]

I'm 18, I never saw this movie as a kid, and I'm scared shitless by this movie!

[@Myself23512]

Wow! He calle it alright! He perfectly described the new movie!

[@thexplodenator3007]

We had to read this book and watch the movie in third grade and it scared the CRAP out of me. I had night mares and was anxious a witch would come kill me. I hated it. I was so scared. Nothing against my teacher though. She was actually really nice and I had her again in sixth grade

[@cosmichal9548]

My dad showed this moved to me as a kid and it scared me out of my mind, to the point where I wondered if it didn't really exist until I found your video. So...thanks/how dare you?

[@MsUchenna12]

Dom accurately predicted reboot

[@Starlightthedark]

i saw this when i was 6 at school we had to take a permission slip home with us to watch it the next week with the 10/11 year olds. its scared the the hell out of me and i loved it.

[@christinaballagh5050]

9:17 wth!!! you are a genius

[@mediafox797]

You heard it here first folks, The Dom knows all 😶

[@AH-is5yg]

I like the 1990 film ending, I thought there was going to be a sequel of the boy and his grandmother come up with plans to kill every evil witch around the world when I saw the movie the first time. The practical effects, the makeup, and Jim Henson's puppets were amazing.

[@SnowWolfAlpha]

Please don't forget the animated BFG movie and the recent Dressmaker adaptation. I'm glad they did the whole "trapped in a painting" scene in the film, it was so creepy.