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Cats the movie has some awesomely scathing reviews...

This looks like the most WTF movie to come out of Hollywood in quite some time. The first trailer became the laughing stock of the interwebs when it got posted a few months ago. I sort of can't wait to see this, fur-titties and all...

 
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I remember seeing Cats in the West End, and enjoyed it, just checked - it run for 21 years in the West End & 18 years on Broadway.

How the hell have they fucked this movie up? :hmm:
 
cupid_stunt said:
I remember seeing Cats in the West End, and enjoyed it, just checked - it run for 21 years in the West End & 18 years on Broadway.

How the hell have they fucked this movie up? :hmm:
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It a shit musical to start with and it doesn't have any sort of plot which may work for a show, but not for a film. The furry costumes, though also long the butt of jokes, just about work on stage where audiences are more willing to suspend their disbelief, but they decided to go for human-cat CGI hybrids, which look utterly horrific rather than cute. They should have gone for completely animated cats, rather than giving us The Kitty Island Of Dr. Moreau. The poor-taste-levels are through the roof.
 
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Reno said:
It a shit musical to start out with and it doesn't have any sort of plot which may work for a show, but not for a film. The furry costumes, though also long the butt of jokes, just about work on stage where audiences are more willing to suspend their disbelief, but they decided to go for human-cat CGI hybrids, which just look utterly horrific rather than cute. They should have gone for animated cats, rather than giving us The Kitty Island Of Dr. Moreau.
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Just seen the video you added to your previous post, yeah that's shit, isn't it? :D
 
The stageshow was considered absolutely groundbreaking at the time for .....reasons.... I've no idea but I do remember it was this massive and amazing "new" thing. Andrew Lloyd Webber stuff just sounds dated and awful these days though. To my ears at least. I guess that "Memory" song is still all right.

The CGI madness of this movie version looks like a real case of just becaue you can, doesn't mean you should :D
 
Mrs Miggins said:
The stageshow was considered absolutely groundbreaking at the time for .....reasons.... I've no idea but I do remember it was this massive and amazing "new" thing. Andrew Lloyd Webber stuff just sounds dated and awful these days though. To my ears at least. I guess that "Memory" song is still quite good.

The CGI madness of this movie version looks like a real case of just becaue you can, doesn't mean you should :D
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Never seen it, but from what I read it was the staging, with catwalks which got the kitty-actors close to the audience.
 
Reno said:
Never seen it, but from what I read it was the staging, with catwalks which got the kitty-actors close to the audience.
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I never saw it either but I remember it being a huge deal at the time. I was a kiddie in dancing school in the 80s and everyone was obsessed with it. It was on Blue Peter all the time as well.

I've only ever seen one ALW affair - Starlight Express - and that was absolute total and utter garbage.
 
TBH it'll be hard to top the channel 4 version from 2006.

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Mrs Miggins said:
Yes. Yes it can.
At least Mama Mia has ABBA songs. Have you heard much of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's oevre?
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Luckily I’ve listened to very little Andrew Lloyd-Webber. I assume you’d not recommend it.

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Never say things like this.
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Why? Mama Mia was awful. I’ve seen it 6 or 7 times, had to for work, and it’s never been worth the effort of watching it.
 
I'm glad it's so bad. Especially that it is bade enough to have garnered these reviews.

If it had been good I wouldn't have watched it because I hate musicals (esp. ALW musicals), and if it had been GREAT I'd have had to suffer people going on and on about it.

This way, I get some entertainment value from it.
 
Part of the problem, beyond the “uncanny valley” CGI cat boobs, is surely because the stage play doesn’t really have a story to speak of. Because it’s true to the TS Elliot source, it’s a succession of set-piece solo numbers for a large cast. Each cat gets a number either sung by or about them. On stage that works with a flimsy narrative conceit stringing them together, because it feels a bit like a music concert. Film has different expectations. Too many characters, each getting their brief and one-off spotlight means that it neither works as a classical narrative, nor an effective ensemble piece.

As a stage show, Cats was popular with people who didn’t like plays. It wouldn’t be my choice.
 
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