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Meinberg posted:I have gazed deep into the abyss that is CATS, and the abyss has stared back at me. Yeah, I have gained enlightenment but at what cost? I have a month left of hell nightmare studying and I've been dying to get back to table top. I will absolutely buy this come March. ThePopeOfFun posted:Tellin you this is CIA poo poo. MayoPete has shown as that CIA poo poo has no imagination and can't even succeed at failing.
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I will bet anybody that there will be a parody movie in the Scary Movie vein, called DOGS It'll surely include parodies of other movies too ofc but I feel pretty good about this prediction
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The upcoming Cats Blu-Ray on Amazon currently has 42 customer reviews and an average rating of 3.1/5 stars. 37% of reviewers gave it 1 star. 41% of reviewers gave it 5 stars. All is as it should be. EDIT: Ooh, there are Special Features! Special Features posted:9 Lives: The Cast of Cats Indie Rocktopus fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Feb 10, 2020 02:13
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Oh boy, these two aren’t stopping with the Cats mockery. It was probably sold to them as an Oscar contender so they’re getting some revenge. https://mobile.twitter.com/VFXSociety/status/1226708675680559104?s=20
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Yeah this was how I found out Parasite won best pic, just wonderful
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That seems surprisingly cheeky given the Cats musical is famously despised by critics.
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Ccs posted:Oh boy, these two aren’t stopping with the Cats mockery. It was probably sold to them as an Oscar contender so they’re getting some revenge. this dumb one-off costume they put on for the oscars literally looks better than the expensive cg wax wing monstrosity they attempted for the real movie.
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https://twitter.com/emamma_mia/status/1226657371172286464?s=19
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piratepilates posted:this dumb one-off costume they put on for the oscars literally looks better than the expensive cg wax wing monstrosity they attempted for the real movie. They should have at least fully committed to the weird horny. The fact they CGI'd out the male actors' bulges is some lame rear end poo poo. They didn't flatten the ladies' breasts!
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We're never getting those gang tags are we 
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I just re-watched the 1998 musical, and like, Macavity definitely dies during it. Not sure how common this theory is but it holds up. Macavity isn't just touching two wires together to make a blackout and daring escape. He's zapping himself because he longs for death. The Jellicle Cult won't let him leave imprisonment, ever since they started using him as the movement's designated scapegoat for literally every crime -- from cheating at cards to crimes worthy of Scotland Yard -- even though they openly admit that he wasn't present at a single crime and left no evidence. The brainwashed Jellicles truly believe that Macavity escapes containment every night undetectably to do subversive acts against the cult, which the cult explains away its own failures with. The prisoner finally hatches a plan to escape using a fake Old Deuteronomy costume. (Old Deuteronomy is not the leader but the cult spokesman, by the way; Munkustrap is clearly the cult leader since the cat orgy is for him. He's the recruiter, enforcer, and narrative-spinner for the Jellicles.) The escapee gets beaten up by an outraged and fiercely threatening Munkustrap, then gets completely surrounded by the other cats, to whom he appears as a bloodied monster (due to the prison's poor conditions and their own delusion). Having exhausted all other options, desperate to end his misery and imprisonment, he elects to head for the electric wires. e: Rum Tum Tugger must be the Tom Cruise of the cult. Happy Thread fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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Grizzabella also dies, of course, but as that video posted below points out, it's not arbitrary. They kill her off because she demonstrated a will to leave before, and is likely a danger to the cult's cohesion. Gianthogweed posted:This just came up in my youtube feed. With Macavity being fake and all, there's no real threat against a Jellicle who leaves, besides ostracism. So that's their tool to make Grizz come back. The Jellices ostracize her until the sense of guilt and shame drives her mad, convinces her of having a monstrous appearance, and drains her of confidence to dance. She comes crawling back to the Jellicle Cult to make amends for her "mistake." Cult policy is to use these moments as an opportunity to teach the others. Munkustrap prefers the carrot to the stick, always dangling the prize of the Heaviside Layer that "one cat ONLY" will get to see. Cats who go to the Heaviside Layer certainly die. But the prize of reincarnation is real, at least to the Jellicles. That's where Old Deuteronomy comes in, the teddy-bear-like cult spokesman and public-facing leader (in name only). For though he is not the true top of the chain, Old Deuteronomy still reaps rewards from his status in his decline. His philosophical musings are his purpose -- they keep the promise of reincarnation on everyone's mind, and the fear of death at bay -- he reassures them that their "moments of happiness" gain extra meaning in death from the next generation of reincarnates' experience. Conveniently enough, by convincing the cats to unknowingly seek suicide via the Heavicide layer the cult can easily get rid of the problem cats, all the while convincing the cult that a beautiful act of grace and forgiveness has occurred that they can all aspire to get someday. With one fewer dissident cat, the cult finishes its compaction cycle and hardens itself. Happy Thread fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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Macavity doesn't die because Macavity isn't 1) alive or 2) a cat. Okay, Macavity's whole thing is that he's just a really weird reference to Professor Moriarty. They're both described as tall, thin, having a domed head and sunken eyes. Also, both have been called 'the Napoleon of Crime'. The thing is, Moriarty as written in the original Sherlock Holmes stories barely exists. He was invented for a single story, and his purpose in that story was to 1) be the master criminal who is the previously unseen source of all crime, 2) kill Sherlock Holmes, and 3) die in the process. Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to stop writing Holmes and thought that Moriarty would be enough of a 'final challenge' to do it. It didn't work Moriarty makes no further appearances in the series (being dead) and was not present in the earlier works (not having been invented yet) and thus I propose that Moriarty isn't a person but rather a literary device. Macavity takes the conceptual framework of Moriarty (both a master criminal and a device) but filtered through the fantastical nature of poetry and theater, and in this way the Criminal becomes Crime. Macavity is Crime, he is the very spirit of law breaking and strife that, from time to time, has taken the shape of a cat. Thus he has a similar role-- he 1) breaks every human law 2) becomes and antagonisy for the Jellicle Tribe to stand against and 3) dies. This of course is why, at the scene of the crime, Macavity isn't there. Because he never was. He's an infection, and idea, and that's why his song and fight has this almost compulsive, mind-control quality to it and why his power is finally broken with the catchiest song-and-dance routine they have (second catchiest, but they already sang Skimbleshanks, y'know?)
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macavity dies every morning, and returns to life at sundown
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hallelujah posted:macavity dies every morning, and returns to life at sundown Hell, same.
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hallelujah posted:macavity dies every morning, and returns to life at sundown the dream...
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You guys have the cult thing all wrong. The Jellicle rebirth is absolutely real, and we see it happen in the film. The key is that this rebirth does not mean transcendence to a higher plane of existence. We are specifically told the the soul is reborn into a new "Jellicle life." Consider Grizabella: The "fallen woman" stock character, if permitted redemption and rebirth, might very well choose to return in the role of the ingenue. Her faded grey coat, signifying sin and decrepitude, might very well be cast away for one of purest white. Thus Grizabella's "rebirth" is revealed as a cruel joke, a wish granted by a monkey's paw - she remains trapped in the closed spacetime cycle of Jellicle London, her suffering compounded as her bifurcated self becomes both actor and audience of her manifold damnation - because every time she ends the cycle, every time she approaches the Heavyside Layer, she is instead cast down like garbage into the trash-strewn alleys of Jellicle Hell, to meet herself and sing to herself and chain herself once more to that rising chandelier. And who is responsible? What infernal authority orchestrates her agony? What gleeful demon stuffs her back into that bag, again and again and agian, and flings her from the car? We never see that woman's face. Only her hands. Her human hands. Look closely, and you may notice: she is wearing a ring.
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TrixRabbi posted:We're never getting those gang tags are we i try 
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piratepilates posted:this dumb one-off costume they put on for the oscars literally looks better than the expensive cg wax wing monstrosity they attempted for the real movie. which is what the client wanted Cats reboot starring Lin Manuel Miranda as Mcafferty and Daveed Diggs as Rum Tum Tugger
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It's a bit hard to read the text.
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just lol if it's not a Digital Fur Technology goatse, complete with wedding ring
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I think it's cute
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Now make one with Mistoffelees' roses exploding from Old Deut's cooter.
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old deut's coots
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Get down, turn around, go to town Deut's Coot boogie
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Can't believe anyone would consider a gang tag that didn't feature Skimbleshanks: the Railway Cat.
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The cat of the railway train?
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He's a cat that cannot be ignored!
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So nothing goes wrong on the Northern Mail When Skimbleshanks is aboard.
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But how could one capture the magnificence of Skimbleshanks in a small gang tag?
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I keep imagining just one of those where the words appear in sequence SKIM BLE SHANKS THE RAIL WAY CAT over and over.
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HopperUK posted:I keep imagining just one of those where the words appear in sequence With Skimble staring directly at you from the screen, because it's certain that he wouldn't approve of goons
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Skimbleshanks is kind of a cop, huh
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link me some prime skimbleshanks gif
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Lol love it
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The Saddest Rhino posted:link me some prime skimbleshanks gif Russell Hotel, not Overlook Hotel!
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Macavity!
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The Saddest Rhino posted:link me some prime skimbleshanks gif Here's three I found real quick   Whoops, imgur won't take the third.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:link me some prime skimbleshanks gif It's glorious!
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