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Ammanas posted:i just asked my cat, she said to mind your own business fucker
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josh04 posted:It's not that the hands were too human and had to be fixed, it's that in a few specific shots Judy Dench had her original hands including wedding ring and they'd either shipped the wrong version or the work came in too late for the original release. Either way it's not that someone sat down Sonic style and said "we're gonna fix Cats, redesign starts here" it's just that things were so chaotic that it got missed as the film went out the door. They all have their original hands. Judy just has a ring on. Fur blends at the wrist into live action hands on every character, you can see it clearly when Taylor is sprinkling the gold dust cat drugs.
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The Little Death posted:I also gotta say I appreciated turning Macavity from like a crime cat into some sort of feline Satan. It was another weird choice that I actually really liked. There's a bit earlier on where there's a poster of Morarity in the background that turns into Macavity, (Wanted for: Everything) though I'm not sure you could call anything in these movie subtle. When he's the closest thing the show has to an antagonist and you're already committing to all kinds of ridiculous poo poo you might as well go for it.
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Dec 29, 2019 06:28
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Did I miss something or did Taylor Swift's cat just like, disappear?
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Dec 29, 2019 07:57
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Does toonces live in the cats universe
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Power of Pecota posted:Did I miss something or did Taylor Swift's cat just like, disappear? Literally. After Mr. Mistoffelees brings back Old Deut, Macavity grabbed Taylor Swift, snarled, and the two vanished. She never showed up again that I noticed.
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Dec 29, 2019 08:56
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Taylor swift cat died on her way to her home cat planet Alternative : she was sitting in the clouds to murder Jennifer Hudson cat and take her place, to be the jellicle sacrificial cat
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The Saddest Rhino posted:That they added a subplot of him lacking confidence in his magic and required Victoria's horniness for him Misto is often, like, the most gay-coded cat in the musicals, pulling out rainbow scarves and wearing rainbow lights, and there’s the theory about him being female, so I’m honestly kind of disappointed they didn’t lean into it and go full woke instead
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Dec 29, 2019 11:25
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Misto is often, like, the most gay-coded cat in the musicals, pulling out rainbow scarves and wearing rainbow lights, and there’s the theory about him being female, so I’m honestly kind of disappointed they didn’t lean into it and go full woke instead There's also Rum Tum Tugger being his no.1 fan, leading both instances of his theme song which is all about how great and amazing and special Mistoffelees is. Given RTT is the cat that does the opposite of what you expect, him ending up with Mistoffelees despite almost all the girls loving him would play into that.
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That's one thing that sort of sticks out. Cats is very, very gay. Rum Tum Tugger is incredibly gay. The show is incredibly campy and feels like watching a drag show. The movie... does not feel like that. I'm still glad we got what we got, because it's amazing, but in my brain I'm trying to figure out who thought that you could play something like cats "straight" (in multiple senses of the word) and have it work. Like Jennyanydots does unzip a coat onstage, but it's an obvious prop that looks like a fatsuit, so that afterwards she can do dance numbers after being presented as a "Gumbi cat". Who watches that and thinks "so jennyanydots has the power to unzip her skin, of course!". Unless you were trying to make a nightmare movie.
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The Little Death posted:Who watches that and thinks "so jennyanydots has the power to unzip her skin, of course!". Unless you were trying to make a nightmare movie. Tom Hooper
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The Little Death posted:That's one thing that sort of sticks out. Cats is very, very gay. Rum Tum Tugger is incredibly gay. The show is incredibly campy and feels like watching a drag show. The movie... does not feel like that. I'm still glad we got what we got, because it's amazing, but in my brain I'm trying to figure out who thought that you could play something like cats "straight" (in multiple senses of the word) and have it work. Like Jennyanydots does unzip a coat onstage, but it's an obvious prop that looks like a fatsuit, so that afterwards she can do dance numbers after being presented as a "Gumbi cat". Who watches that and thinks "so jennyanydots has the power to unzip her skin, of course!". Unless you were trying to make a nightmare movie. Someone told me that this movie is the culmination of cis het white men trying to appropriate camp for their own profit, and failing in the only way cis get white men can
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https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1211412694156431374 yeah baby
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It’s entirely possible this movie is an irl producer’s scheme.
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I went in fully expecting the movie to be a poorly conceived and rushed out the door failure, and it certainly delivers in that aspect. What I wasn't prepared for is how amateurish the whole thing is, and how irritating that is. By the end I was just desperate for something to like about the film and there's just nothing. Okay, there's shared cultural knowledge that cat's always land on their feet. The opening number makes specific reference to this When you fall on your head. Do you land on your feet? So what kind of no-talent idiot decides to jump from there to Rebel Wilson and James Corden doing a bunch of pratfalls and other slapstick falls where they land on their head and poo poo? That's obviously not the only problem with the film, but stood out to me as the earliest example of them just getting something just completely wrong, that is conceptually really basic.
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Simplex posted:Okay, there's shared cultural knowledge that cat's always land on their feet. The opening number makes specific reference to this When you fall on your head. Do you land on your feet? So what kind of no-talent idiot decides to jump from there to Rebel Wilson and James Corden doing a bunch of pratfalls and other slapstick falls where they land on their head and poo poo?
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Dec 30, 2019 04:33
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Simplex posted:I went in fully expecting the movie to be a poorly conceived and rushed out the door failure, and it certainly delivers in that aspect. What I wasn't prepared for is how amateurish the whole thing is, and how irritating that is. By the end I was just desperate for something to like about the film and there's just nothing. I mean presumably the filmmakers were thinking of all those cat videos you see where cats fall off tables, etc. Because they can be adorable idiots sometimes.
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I think about all the insane, ridiculous, stupid content I’ve consumed throughout my adolescence and adult life, much of it found on this very website, and it was Cats that broke me
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Dec 30, 2019 06:33
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean presumably the filmmakers were thinking of all those cat videos you see where cats fall off tables, etc. Because they can be adorable idiots sometimes. Yeah, "cats always land on their feet" is bullshit, cats can be clumsy as gently caress sometimes out of nowhere. It's part of their charm.
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Dec 30, 2019 07:24
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Puppy Galaxy posted:I think about all the insane, ridiculous, stupid content I’ve consumed throughout my adolescence and adult life, much of it found on this very website, and it was Cats that broke me 
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Dec 30, 2019 07:51
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Puppy Galaxy posted:I can’t stop thinking about the train cat Oh, skimbleshanks, the railway cat? The cat of the railway train?
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Oh, skimbleshanks, the railway cat? The cat of the railway train? 
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I saw CATS (2019) with two friends. We saw it in a botique cinema with a bunch of baby boomers. We drank wine and winced. I actually think this movie was insulting to its audience. It was offense. I felt wronged. I am angry but in a tired sort of way. One thing for sure, it'll be the last film I see this decade. Cats, capping off a decade of cinema.
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Dec 30, 2019 10:03
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fauna posted:it's profound profoundly dumb, sure
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Dec 30, 2019 10:52
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How annoying is James Corden in this? If he’s too much I can’t bring myself to watch this, even to watch the train wreck catch on fire.
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He does one song about him being fat and then his his crotch, just about 5 minutes worth. He appears a little after that but rebel Wilson... Upstages him
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean presumably the filmmakers were thinking of all those cat videos you see where cats fall off tables, etc. Because they can be adorable idiots sometimes. You can have lazy or clumsy cats falling off tables and chairs or whatever. But in order for the gag to work at all, they need to land on their feet. It's the literal text of the movie.
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It wouldn’t have saved the film or anything but I kinda think keeping the human ears would have helped make the CG less distractingly grotesque
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BigglesSWE posted:How annoying is James Corden in this? If he’s too much I can’t bring myself to watch this, even to watch the train wreck catch on fire. His character has a grotesque number where he's eating trash, and he does it like he's a cartoon character, eating a prawn that's the relative size of like a gopher in one gulp. Other than that highpoint, he's mildly annoying.
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I thought this film was unironically amazing as a sort of strange satire of humanity, with these weird half cat/half person things performing acts nobody could possibly enjoy to win a prize nobody really understands, never letting you forget that ultimately these are animals with a massively overinflated sense of their own level of influence. But then it still says that solidarity is important to form magic and resolving trauma is the most meaningful form of accomplishment, so it’s not like it’s cynical really. It’s just strange and broken in a world I find strange and broken too, but for me that kind of makes it better? I really liked it; it was good
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Dec 30, 2019 19:15
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I’d like to talk about how horny the main cat was. I’ve never seen anything that horny in my life
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Dec 30, 2019 19:28
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Puppy Galaxy posted:I’d like to talk about how horny the main cat was. Please don't
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Dec 30, 2019 21:58
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If you're in Southern California-area there is a hyperlocal meme account-screening on New Year's Day, and from this screening can almost feel the tangible impact on the Cats bottom line lol... https://twitter.com/americanamemes/status/1211788646954590208
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I've seen this twice now, once on a milder psychedelic and once totally sober. Both times this movie owned. The only bad parts to me are Jennifer Hudson's solos because everything else slows down and its pretty much just a static close up of her cgi'd face. The rest is a charmingly bad rollercoaster that makes me want to see the play.
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Shrecknet posted:Please don't Yeah, I think discussing the weird tail erections at the end of the movie is a better discussion of the movie's "horniness." Why the gently caress did all the cats have tail erections at the end of the movie?
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I'm guessing because they ran out of time/money to bother animating them. Or there's some deep Jellicle reason for it that we're simply too human to comprehend.
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I saw this yesterday with friends and got pretty much what I expected out of it. After the initial discomfort of the terrible CG it just came off as pitifully uninspired and pointless. There was nothing about the direction or sets or anything that made this even remotely more interesting than just watching the theatrical production. The parts they added to make it a more “appealing” movie plot were terribly bland. I don’t think any of the singing was particularly memorable, though I did enjoy Ian McKellen giving it a go. But I mean I didn’t hate it. I was just unimpressed. The experience of seeing it with friends was great, though. We all had fun rolling our eyes and laughing at the train wreck. E: also I couldn’t stop staring at Judy Dench’s teeth
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Saw it again tonight at a "rowdy" screening at the Alamo Drafthouse, and watching it with a bunch of unsuspecting but very drunk people as they went through this mindfuck of a movie was one of the most fun movie experiences of my life. The entire theater just lost it when the cockroaches showed up. I kind of love this movie now. It's the first movie of the year I've seen twice in theaters.
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