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Bogus Adventure posted:Also, I saw a performance when I was 14-ish where that one cat who loses her poo poo right at the end kept her scream going for what felt like a good minute, it was amazing.
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YggiDee posted:Basically in my head I compare it less to other plays and musicals and more to something like Cirque du Soleil. You're there to watch people in fun costumes dance and do backflips and sing catchy melodies. Why is this guy tapdancing and singing about a train? gently caress you, it's Skimbleshanks time. Why is this fancy lady singing while contortionists... Contort? gently caress you, it's Alegría. And you combine that with how much people like kitty cats and then go ham with the costuming and choreography because it's already weird as hell, might as well go all-in. And that's how you get technogoth cats I think. That and individual performances and studios have their own interpretation of the characters and costume styles, and appealing to local tastes and culture. Macavity looking like a luchador heel probably isn't a coincidence given that style of wrestling is pretty popular in Japan... and suddenly I'm feeling an urge to name an Incineroar after him.
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I like that the Japanese production takes a lot of makeup inspiration from kabuki theatre, looks rad.
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Yeeeeeesss the local indie theatre is having a "yowl along" screening next Friday and Saturday with "normal cinema etiquette" not required.
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I just want to say that I love you goons. Nobody else around me GETS Cats, so it's incredibly cathartic to be able to shitpost, lol, and quote lyrics about the greatest movie of 2019 with other people who appreciate the gift Hooper and Universal gave us.
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It took me about three weeks to go from 'I have vaguely heard of, but never experienced, CATS' to 'I am googling bootleg productions to compare choreography' so. I guess I just really like CATS. There's no 'ironic enjoyment' or whatever, it just punched me directly in my musical theatre loving heart.
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Does anyone have a gif of bustopher jones eating trash?
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YggiDee posted:It took me about three weeks to go from 'I have vaguely heard of, but never experienced, CATS' to 'I am googling bootleg productions to compare choreography' so. I guess I just really like CATS. There's no 'ironic enjoyment' or whatever, it just punched me directly in my musical theatre loving heart. ![]() ![]() MacheteZombie posted:Does anyone have a gif of bustopher jones eating trash? I have these: ![]() ![]()
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That'll do! Man I can't wait for a bluray release... so many gifts need to exist
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MacheteZombie posted:That'll do! Absolutely. I am hoping that they release both the pre- and post-touched up special effects.
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I can't emphasize enough the baffling disconnect between the bonkers cat-person SFX and Hopper's static, lifeless direction. If the film used the traditional cat costumes from the stage show, then the movie would just be close-ups of actors in silly makeup and it would be instantly forgettable. In a hypothetical Baz Luhrmann-style Cats film, dynamic camerawork and creative sets could make the CGI cat-people feel a little more at home in the world they inhabit. Hopper's non-directing really forces you to confront the awful CGI and insane performances with his agonizing, interminable close-ups. The combination of nightmarish characters and narcoleptic direction is what gives the film its special magic. What the gently caress what is this fetish poo poo he just straight up pukes at the naked female lead. In any other movie, that image would become a meme and endure as a reaction GIF long, long after the source material is forgotten. In Cats, it barely even registers. Ghost Leviathan posted:and suddenly I'm feeling an urge to name an Incineroar after him. meanwhile Skimbleshanks is obviously Mewtwo because both are the most powerful cats in their respective universes MacheteZombie posted:Man I can't wait for a bluray release... so many gifts need to exist I demand a Criterion Collection release. If Armageddon deserves one then so does Cats.
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Skimble has the ultimate power, a job
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Indie Rocktopus posted:I can't emphasize enough the baffling disconnect between the bonkers cat-person SFX and Hopper's static, lifeless direction. If the film used the traditional cat costumes from the stage show, then the movie would just be close-ups of actors in silly makeup and it would be instantly forgettable. In a hypothetical Baz Luhrmann-style Cats film, dynamic camerawork and creative sets could make the CGI cat-people feel a little more at home in the world they inhabit. I would KILL for a Baz Luhrmann-style Cats film, especially if he did it like Strictly Ballroom. By that, I mean hire Australian actors to just chew the everloving gently caress out of the scenery a la Bill "Barry Fife" Hunter. Pick posted:Skimble has the ultimate power, a job This cannot be emphasized enough.
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If Hollywood is just going to remake poo poo forever, the very least they could do is remake Cats. Cats by Christopher Nolan, involving tense music and Catception. Cats by JJ Abrams, a movie made with all the sound and fury of a braying dumbass who doesn't read his writing. Cats by David Lynch featuring Macavity with a horrible face. Cats by Bong Joon-ho, where mice and roaches are used to power the Night Mail train. Cats by John Carpenter, where The Rum Tum Tugger has such beautiful sights to show you.
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Cats by Guillermo Del Toro
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That guy hasnt made a good movie in like 14 years.
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It is 1998. There is a Cats! pledge drive on PBS. I watch it with my grandmother. I will receive the VHS for Christmas. It is 1999. I have discovered Yahoo Groups. Two Jellicle Cats ask me to leave their chatroom so that they can have privacy. A Web 1.0 coven calling themselves the Jacob Brent Guardian Angels fixates on Mistoffelees. I encounter the weird internet for the first time.
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Holy poo poo it still exists: http://www.angelfire.com/md2/jacobbrent/jbga_nonmembers.html
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Bogus Adventure posted:Cats by David Lynch featuring Macavity with a horrible face. The Cats we have now is already quite Lynchian. We have: Deliberately exaggerated and stagey performances Stilted dialogue A mystery plot that goes off the rails into nightmare logic and existential horror An ingenue Sociopathy Disfigurement Deliberately bad jokes Major celebrities in brief, unimportant roles Diegetic musical performances Secret knowledge deliberately withheld from the audience Surreal and animalistic violence Sexual depravity behind a veneer of wholesomeness
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Bogus Adventure posted:If Hollywood is just going to remake poo poo forever, the very least they could do is remake Cats. Cats by Christopher Nolan, involving tense music and Catception. Cats by JJ Abrams, a movie made with all the sound and fury of a braying dumbass who doesn't read his writing. Cats by David Lynch featuring Macavity with a horrible face. Cats by Bong Joon-ho, where mice and roaches are used to power the Night Mail train. Cats by John Carpenter, where The Rum Tum Tugger has such beautiful sights to show you. Wes Anderson's Mr. Mistoffeles Oh, well I never, was there ever a cat so clever Coen Bros. present Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer
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just another posted:Holy poo poo it still exists: http://www.angelfire.com/md2/jacobbrent/jbga_nonmembers.html ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Indie Rocktopus posted:The Cats we have now is already quite Lynchian. We have: Lmao, this is true MacheteZombie posted:Wes Anderson's Mr. Mistoffeles Tim Burton's Cats: All the male cats are played by Johnny Depp, all the female cats are played by Helena Bonham Carter. Score is redone by Danny Elfman.
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MacheteZombie posted:Coen Bros. present Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer gently caress YES
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Cats by Jordan Peele: Sillabub is the audience surrogate, and she is drawn into a Sunken Place by the hypnotizing songs of the Jellicle tribe.
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Sillabub/Jemima should have been the audience surrogate in the movie, imo. In the stage show Victoria is basically mute (fan theory is she’s one of those white, blue eyed cats that always go deaf). She only ever sings in the ensemble. In actuality they were supposed to be one role, but they couldn’t find someone who was equally as good at such demanding singing and dancing. So it’s weird that they made the protagonist the one that dances, not the one that sings. Besides, it’s all even more fake now so why not make them one character again, and if your actress isn’t good enough at singing, just dub her over? They did this with a couple of people in the 98 one, iirc Also she gets her verse in Memory at the end so you could have like, done a character arc where she learns to have sympathy for Grizabella or something I’m so ashamed I know all of this. It’s me, I’m the one with opinions about Cats ![]()
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Indie Rocktopus posted:The Cats we have now is already quite Lynchian. We have: code:
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Cats by Rian Johnson Comedy take: A movie about Dogs singing to avoid getting sent down to the Abyssal Zone. Serious take: A mystery movie about Cats using their various powers to save Old Deuteronomy from Macavity's perfidious clutches.
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CATS by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss Save cost by giving the lead actors/actresses nothing to do, filling the cast of CATS entirely using Hollywood extras. Grinning techbros with beards they found in the office down the street, and drunk friends of the producers, all hooting and hollering together in $100,000 costumes as they rush off into battle. Send them off against the dogs army on a suicide-charge where they immediately are written off and the main characters (not even cats) promptly forget them to do some CG fantasy poo poo. Elon Musk cameo as one of the extras. Meow.
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WachowsCats: Too Much Budget: Overlong, lots of leather, is this Catwoman?, class warfare, cat sex, empty characters Restricted Budget: Philosphy on should we let cats outside, how did cats Become This Way, even more leather, likely one of the best films ever made.
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YggiDee posted:Those aren't actually the lyrics. I’m not sure if my partial credulity in this matter says more about me or about Cats
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Cats by Joss Whedon Grizabella is chosen to go to the Heavy Side Layer, but she decides against it after meeting a really nice guy cat named Jossiles, a fat red tabby cat that is quiet and awkward.
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Bogus Adventure posted:Cats by Joss Whedon She also does kungfu
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Brothus hasn't been a Jellicle for a long time. When his littermate Strumwaltzer becomes the Jellicle Choice, Brothus realizes that that there's more to life than catnip, warm pavement, and open trash bins. Judd Appatow's Cats, coming soon.
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https://twitter.com/Novaya_Mod3l/status/1218036767712075776
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lmao
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just another posted:Brothus hasn't been a Jellicle for a long time. When his littermate Strumwaltzer becomes the Jellicle Choice, Brothus realizes that that there's more to life than catnip, warm pavement, and open trash bins. I assume that Brothus is played by Seth Rogan, and James Franco as Strumwaltzer.
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Bogus Adventure posted:Cats by Joss Whedon This is a really weird attempt to burn Whedon considering that fat people don't exist in his shows and his favourite character arc is 'quiet awkward person becomes a better person by no longer being quiet and awkward'.
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Taika Waititi's Cats: A group of stray cats living in the Greater Wellington Region sneak into a second-run theater and see Tom Hooper's Cats. Inspired by the movie, the group try to put on their own version of the show. Led by Stubbiejumper (Waititi), the cats have to deal with outrageous behavior of their Rum Tum Tugger (Jemaine Clement), the stage fright of Mister Mistoffelees (Bret McKenzie), and a sundowning Old Deuteronomy (Sam Neill). Also starring Lucy Lawless, Rhys Darby, and Keisha Castle-Hughes.
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MICHAEL BAY'S CATS A BOMB EXPLODES IN THE HEAVISIDE LAYER. TUMBLEBRUTUS (Mark Wahlberg) RUSHES TO TH
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 20:11 |
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If Macavity has broken every human law it means he’s a child rapist and a tax cheat. We do not stan.
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