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Friends Are Evil posted:Growltiger only gets like 5 lines yeah but just imagine the possibilities can't you just see the movie completely grinding to a halt as a digitally de-aged + heavily CGI'd Ian McKellen has an overly long swordfight with ethnic caricatures straight out of a 1940s film reel?
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caligulamprey posted:I will upgrade to 4K for this. it's gonna be like the end of In the Mouth of Madness
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Puppy Galaxy posted:just saw this and although I saw a bunch of twitter posts about this movie I was not prepared. Why is there a train cat Skimbleshanks is my favorite part of this whole thing. Every other cat is somehow related to what's going on. Early on the crew is being shown to Victoria, so non-sequiturs like Jennyanydots and Bustopher Jones work, and their songs are pretty low key and goofy. The bigger, more bombastic songs are devoted to cats who have something to do with what I'll generously call the plot. And then there's Skimbleshanks. He has gently caress-all to do with anything else, he doesn't really interact with anyone else, and yet his song has all the bombast and enthusiasm of an entire town gathering in front of City Hall to sing about the glory of Santa Claus at the end of a Christmas movie. Everyone seems to absolutely adore this one random loving guy, and it rules. Also, weekly font posted:I think my ironic enjoyment of this movie has crossed fully over into genuine appreciation for it after my second viewing. I'm so happy it exists in an age where every movie is safe, studio micro-managed and focus grouped.
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Dec 27, 2019 00:17
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I also enjoyed that during the big escape sequence he just tap dances at someone and somehow wins
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Dec 27, 2019 00:31
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God, I'm so jealous... nothing like this happened when I went, just a family with young kids and some bewildered old people. This movie shoulda come out when I was in college... Yeah, I thought it was kinda great; has a good "theater kids putting on their first show" energy, and you can't say it's safe. Shrine to Tom Hooper's hubris though it may be, I can't remember a film this year that is a more singular, original vision than this. And I kinda loved it for that; this is the kind of thing a man like Hooper should be doing.
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Dec 27, 2019 00:35
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Cats is to its core as sincere as it is genuinely very, very fuckin' weird. There's been nothing like it before and good lord, there will never be anything like it ever again. In a cinematic landscape where people keep saying there isn't a single new idea in Hollywood and how the Disney machine has decimated any sort of individuality in film, Cats crawls up from the depths and assures you of the magic and possibilities of the movies. Hold it close to your heart and never let it go.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I also enjoyed that during the big escape sequence he just tap dances at someone and somehow wins
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Dec 27, 2019 00:48
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Well, just watched it. I wouldn't say it's good but I enjoyed myself and now I'm probably going to check out the 1998 version to see how it compares.
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Dec 27, 2019 01:26
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YggiDee posted:Well, just watched it. I wouldn't say it's good but I enjoyed myself and now I'm probably going to check out the 1998 version to see how it compares. Gus is better with the song performed largely about him, not by him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCFZgLWdjFI
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Dec 27, 2019 01:31
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YggiDee posted:Well, just watched it. I wouldn't say it's good but I enjoyed myself and now I'm probably going to check out the 1998 version to see how it compares. Were you on substances
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Dec 27, 2019 01:34
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No, I'm too square.
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Dec 27, 2019 01:37
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Dec 27, 2019 01:48
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I'm a simple woman, I like singin', I like dancin', I like cats.
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Dec 27, 2019 01:50
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YggiDee posted:I'm a simple woman, I like singin', I like dancin', I like cats.
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LGD posted:yeah but just imagine the possibilities But Ray Winstone is Growltiger
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Dec 27, 2019 02:02
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Just saw it. Probably the most uncomfortably horny movie I have ever seen. Also weirded out by the choice to have Macavity lose the coat at the ball, it makes him feel more naked than the other cats, which makes it even more weird and horny. That said, better than Star Wars.
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Dec 27, 2019 02:34
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Dec 27, 2019 03:39
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I think the idea with Grizabella is she's "the fallen woman", Norma Desmond type, that poo poo was already getting old when this premiered but now it feels very out of place. Bear in mind that I have never seen any version of Cats all the way through.
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Dec 27, 2019 04:59
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The mention she went with Macavity makes me think she did a bunch of cat war crimes or something but wasn't scary enough to still be respected for it.
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Dec 27, 2019 05:01
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i thought "she went with macavity" meant that she made love to him in the manner of the cats
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Dec 27, 2019 05:07
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i cannot express how uncomfortable the word "jellicle" makes me. it sounds nothing like a cat word, and it makes me think of icicles and of jelly, neither of which are classically sexual words but in this context the old rules of classic sexuality no longer apply
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Dec 27, 2019 05:09
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we have broken new ground. 21st century sexuality is upon us, and in the words of bob dylan, i better start swimming or i'll sink like a stone
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Dec 27, 2019 05:10
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fauna posted:i cannot express how uncomfortable the word "jellicle" makes me. it sounds nothing like a cat word, and it makes me think of icicles and of jelly, neither of which are classically sexual words but in this context the old rules of classic sexuality no longer apply I was hearing genital, jellicle, jericho and about 6 other things throughout the movie until I went home and looked it up and still didn't really get it.
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Dec 27, 2019 05:12
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Like a huge part of the... thing about Cats is it's taking the poetry of an American modernist poet who was feeling whimsical and playful and filtering it through an early 80s Broadway/West End mentality. It's taking Eliot's weird little turns of phrase and taking them extremely seriously.
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Dec 27, 2019 05:15
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It's better than Pollicle dogs
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Dec 27, 2019 05:20
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The language in Cats isn't really much stranger than Alice in Wonderland (and it only has slightly less structure), the original poems just never got a classic Disney cartoon to ease people into that particular brand of bullshit.
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Dec 27, 2019 05:29
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https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1210019019371302912 the word ghosts is really awkward when sung. Especially the sts part ghosstttsss
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fauna posted:i thought "she went with macavity" meant that she made love to him in the manner of the cats ah that's why everyone knows. cause theyre Loud
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Dec 27, 2019 05:33
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fauna posted:i cannot express how uncomfortable the word "jellicle" makes me. it sounds nothing like a cat word, and it makes me think of icicles and of jelly, neither of which are classically sexual words but in this context the old rules of classic sexuality no longer apply I've always assumed it's a reference to evangelical, since the play revolves around the cats weird reincarnation beliefs and rituals.
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Dec 27, 2019 05:40
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it means "dear little". yeah it's a poem thing.
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Eliot’s godchildren couldn’t pronounce ‘dear little’ and said ‘jellicle’ instead. Then their poet/bank manager godfather wrote them some cat poems and now Universal has made a 100 million dollar (with rumours from The Guardian that it actually cost 300 million) movie.
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I haven't seen it, but I found this review, and I'm somewhat more afraid that I might somehow get exposed to it."Tyler Smith posted:The nightmare ends with grandiose pretensions of profundity, and, as we emerge back into the normal world, we puzzle over what we have just witnessed. A surreal circus of man-animals whose insane musical ramblings frequently cross the line into the realm of madness, but somehow still managed to ensnare us, against all odds and our own best efforts.
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Dec 27, 2019 06:34
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Ccs posted:Eliot’s godchildren couldn’t pronounce ‘dear little’ and said ‘jellicle’ instead. Then their poet/bank manager godfather wrote them some cat poems and now Universal has made a 100 million dollar (with rumours from The Guardian that it actually cost 300 million) movie. They're certainly folding in the cost of aborted Cats adaptations.
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I'm not sure what people expected from cats. Like it was definitely weirdly erotic in a way even the stage show isn't, and there's technical glitches and bad editing and set design. But like, I feel like a lot of these complaints centre on the plot, which is just Cats. Like that's what you get. E: seriously thinking of getting Macavity as my av. Who doesn't like Furry Idris Elba.
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This was legit one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen and I will never ever forget it. I laughed so hard I cried when Ian Mckellen was meowing and hissing. I'm just sad its making no money because we will never get a Starlight Express movie
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The Little Death posted:I'm not sure what people expected from cats. Like it was definitely weirdly erotic in a way even the stage show isn't, and there's technical glitches and bad editing and set design. But like, I feel like a lot of these complaints centre on the plot, which is just Cats. Like that's what you get. What I'm guessing people were expecting of Cats was a roughly 45-55 Metacritic score and some low effort reviews with cat puns in the title that would all be forgotten about by the end of January and not... this. This is some next-level poo poo, like one of those legit moments that only happens once every few years. Something that's not only bad but also deeply weird and uncomfortable to watch, to the point where you legit have to wonder what the goddamn hell everyone involved in its production was thinking. I have a feeling people are going to be talking about Cats for years to come, just not in the way the studio intended. What a way to send off 2019.
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This is absolutely going to become a cult classic bad movie. It's unbelievably weird but also 100% sincere.
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