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Cats (2019) was the last film I saw in 2019, the same day COVID was first identified in Wuhan. I am morally certain the two are connected.
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I got super high a few months ago and watched CATS projected on the ceiling and it ruled and I wanted to die. Also when theaters inevitably never come back it will go down as the last movie I saw in theaters and I am fine with that.
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josh04 posted:Cats is still the last film I saw in a cinema. Same lol. poo poo
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josh04 posted:I... it what? Bit late, but it was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tYcPuVYDHw&t=3s TS Eliot was kind of a jerk actually! And that makes it pleasurable that Webber looked at it and saw just cats, and that Hooper looked at that and got... Cats (2019). Meow.
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https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1337430527557726208 A) Butthole cut is real B) We'll be the judge of that
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overmind2000 posted:The last three films I saw in a theater were Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Cats, and Cats again. I should have taken the money spent on Star Wars and used it to see more Cats. I didn't see Cats twice but I both wish I had and that I'd done the same with my TROS ticket money instead.
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It's been at least a year, hasn't it? And Skimbleshanks has stuck in my head over any Christmas music.
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I meant to post on the anniversary, a year on Monday since I saw Cats (2019).
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RC and Moon Pie posted:https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1337430527557726208 Nice job trying to own the film of which you were by far the worst part, Corden
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James Corden and Rebel Wilson kinda seem like jerks. Michael Caine knew how to be in a bad movie with style and grace. I wish I could say that Cats was the last movie I saw before the pandemic, but it was the second-to-last and the honor goes to Brahms: The Boy 2, which is an okay consolation prize.
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Corden is apparently pretty much a giant rear end in a top hat, so really every cut with him in it is the butthole cut.
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Yeah Corden has a pretty bad rep. I'm not sure if Rebel Wilson has any problems BTS, it may just be that there's one character she can play and it doesn't really fit Jenny Anydots (who's supposed to be actually good at what she does.)
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Dec 27, 2020 02:35
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josh04 posted:I meant to post on the anniversary, a year on Monday since I saw Cats (2019). it literally was all downhill from there
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Dec 27, 2020 02:37
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I've yet to see the movie but lurking in this thread and revisiting it over the year has been bringing me a bunch of joy. So thanks, CATS & thread, I suppose 
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Hempuli posted:I've yet to see the movie but lurking in this thread and revisiting it over the year has been bringing me a bunch of joy. So thanks, CATS & thread, I suppose I haven't seen the movie and posted maybe twice before getting a gangtag. So thanks, CATS & thread, I suppose
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Cats is the Rocky Horror of this generation.
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Rocky Horror arguably succeeded at what it set out to do, mind.
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If that goal was "show Tim Curry be absolutely loving fabulous" then yes, it did succeed admirably
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The camp-cult aspect really took over me and my friend group. We smuggled in some beers to the theatre and laughed til we cried and had Cats-mania for probably 4 months, introducing it to whoever were around at campus, changing our messaging group name to "The Jellicle cats" and so on. It might be some sort of popular opinion contrarianism or just my appreciation for the avant-garde, but I really see the movie as an instant cult-classic. Which is also kinda contradictory due to my dislike of many of the actors and general disdain for pop culture. It's truly unique in a "mistranslated" musical to movie way.
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Sweboys_NoxFox posted:Cats is the Rocky Horror of this generation. I’m still skeptical about it having a midnight fan base and it certainly won’t surpass The Room in this regard. I’d go though.
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Stunned bafflement seems pretty key to the Cats experience. I wonder if there's a way to lure in some first-time watchers for the benefit of the rest of the audience.
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Alhazred posted:I haven't seen the movie and posted maybe twice before getting a gangtag. So thanks, CATS & thread, I suppose I worked on this movie for 10 months, I feel like I should get a gang tag. There is no butthole cut, the characters weren’t modeled with them. Sometimes the fur groom clumped up in render and ambient occlusion shadows would look suspicious though
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Sweboys_NoxFox posted:The camp-cult aspect really took over me and my friend group. We smuggled in some beers to the theatre and laughed til we cried and had Cats-mania for probably 4 months, introducing it to whoever were around at campus, changing our messaging group name to "The Jellicle cats" and so on. It might be some sort of popular opinion contrarianism or just my appreciation for the avant-garde, but I really see the movie as an instant cult-classic. Which is also kinda contradictory due to my dislike of many of the actors and general disdain for pop culture. It's truly unique in a "mistranslated" musical to movie way. The original material is already so completely ridiculous and twee with so many made up words it feels only partly in English as is. Add completely mishandled CGI with a production that's going for some level of surrealism but still can't decide on a tone and you have something that aggressively attacks the concept of sense.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah Corden has a pretty bad rep. I'm not sure if Rebel Wilson has any problems BTS, it may just be that there's one character she can play and it doesn't really fit Jenny Anydots (who's supposed to be actually good at what she does.) The BTS part i learned was that her song is not a solo but a three person chorus and that makes so much more loving sense. Imagine if Skimbleshanks was a solo.
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Ccs posted:I worked on this movie for 10 months do you still dream of CATS?
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Ccs posted:I worked on this movie for 10 months Was there any sense among the crew that what you were working on was going to turn out to be… how should I put it: strange? Alarming? Off-putting? An unintentionally Cronenburg-esque fever dream?
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Ccs posted:I worked on this movie for 10 months, I feel like I should get a gang tag. Why did the cockroaches have tits?
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Ccs posted:I worked on this movie for 10 months, I feel like I should get a gang tag. Get this poster a gang tag
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Lid posted:The BTS part i learned was that her song is not a solo but a three person chorus and that makes so much more loving sense. Imagine if Skimbleshanks was a solo. SO MUCH of Cats 2019 changes songs from third person to first person and it doesn't work at all!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqGq-Kr9Hs
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Revisiting this thread has reminded me that long, long ago - April - I was going to attend an area university's production of CATS. Obviously, that didn't happen and I am sad again. My last film in a theater was also CATS. I have the ticket somewhere and want to think I saw it December 31st.
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weekly font posted:I’m still skeptical about it having a midnight fan base and it certainly won’t surpass The Room in this regard. It was already building up steam with the midnight fan base during its initial run, I saw it towards the end of its run at a sold out late night showing full of drunken yahoos
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steinrokkan posted:Nice job trying to own the film of which you were by far the worst part, Corden yeah james corden acting like he's too good for literally anything is rich
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Chicken Butt posted:Was there any sense among the crew that what you were working on was going to turn out to be… how should I put it: strange? Alarming? Off-putting? An unintentionally Cronenburg-esque fever dream? Oh yeah. The original cut of the trailer when the actors were in the "mocap" suits actually gave people chills because the actors were great and the song was good. But as soon as people saw the concept art when they joined the project there was a big "uh wtf" thing going on. And we figured it would look better once it was actually in 3d. And it did.... but it still looked super weird. Part of that is that even though they did have some mocap suits on set, the data wasn't really useable. Everything was keyframe animation, with help getting the faces and wrists and ankles to match up through matchmove software. So the final animation is a strange hybrid of keyframe and matchmove's generated movement with some composited parts of the real actors showing through. The cockroach designs were actually toned down a lot from the initial concept art. They were supposed to be a lot more sexual and the faces were supposed to be integrated a lot better but time ran out and there was so many of them than I think they just had to keyframe them and not even bother to matchmove the face area. They probably also didn't have time to do face rigs for them, whereas all the main character had full facial rigs so only the eyes and lips and teeth are from the filmed footage. All the cheek and nose movement is keyframe animation. There was also a lot more piss jokes in the original cut. Some fx artists spent months doing fluid simulations of Jennyanydots pissing for a few shots. Then they eventually took those out in order to get the rating they wanted.
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Ccs posted:There was also a lot more piss jokes in the original cut. Some fx artists spent months doing fluid simulations of Jennyanydots pissing for a few shots. Then they eventually took those out in order to get the rating they wanted. Release the Piss Cut
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Ccs posted:
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So was there any like casual talk of "what in god's holy name are we bringing into this world?" or did everyone did just assume it'd work out for the best and the studio knew what it was doing?
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Necrothatcher posted:So was there any like casual talk of "what in god's holy name are we bringing into this world?" or did everyone did just assume it'd work out for the best and the studio knew what it was doing? No, pretty much everyone was sure the movie wouldn't finish on time, and they only got it made by having a budgeted crew of 900 vfx artists scale up to 2100 vfx artists working out of Vancouver, Montreal, London, Adelaide, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Compositors were working from 9 am to 3am for months in order to finish the footage, and every other department was on mandatory 9 am to 10 pm shifts. We all hoped it would be a surprise success because the studio pitched it as counter-programming to Star Wars. The idea was you couldn't bring you grandma on Christmas to see Star Wars, so all the families would go see Cats. But that wasn't very convincing. It was bad for Universal but it was a bigger problem for the vfx company, and everyone in management who bid on the show was fired.
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Ccs posted:No, pretty much everyone was sure the movie wouldn't finish on time, and they only got it made by having a budgeted crew of 900 vfx artists scale up to 2100 vfx artists working out of Vancouver, Montreal, London, Adelaide, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Compositors were working from 9 am to 3am for months in order to finish the footage, and every other department was on mandatory 9 am to 10 pm shifts. jesus christ it's like this movie only gets more nightmarish the more you know about it
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Release the Piss Cut Release the sexy cockroach and piss cut
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