QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Judi Dench was due to be in the original London production, playing Grizabella (who sings "Memory"), but was injured so had to drop out
I too do not understand the allure of James Corden!
Cats the movie has some awesomely scathing reviews...
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I too do not understand the allure of James Corden!
FridgeMagnet
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To me this seems to be one of those circular assumptions. One could simply not include James Corden in anything and nobody would notice the difference, apart from that the everything was better.
rekil
to menny cranks
How did Corden happen. There has to be a satanic pact involved. Anything with him in it gets a rock hard no from me in all circumstances but he always manages to get through the net and turn up in slop like this that I see by mistake. Begin Again (2013) - IMDb
Reno
The In Kraut
The director Tom Hooper has been working on this movie from the start to the end and was the first choice since his godawful musical adaptation of Les Mis.
I believe we have Alan Bennett to thank, of all people
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Must have been the choreographer then... Also heard Taylor Swift was the 'loveliest of them all', handing out gifts and actually talking to the dancers.
edit: ah there it is 'Cats' Movie Details, News, Cast, Date - Taylor Swift, Judi Dench, Idris Elba Cast in Cats Adaptation
After the Royal Ballet's Wayne McGregor had to drop out for scheduling reasons, Cats has found its choreographer. Andy Blankenbuehler is most famous for his work on Hamilton, but also choreographed Cats's most recent Broadway revival.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
More of a Robert Carlyle answer, that.
Must confess when I read your reply about Corden my first thought was “thank fuck he isn’t Jewish!”.
I thought (possibly erroneously) that he had lost a lot of weight but happy to take the accusation of poor taste on the chin compared to the flack for a sick Holocaust gag on a light thread about a bad film.
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FridgeMagnet
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...that's a bold conjecture
Reno
The In Kraut
The reviews were mostly positive when the film came out. Titanic was predicted to be a huge flop before its release because it has gone far over budget and it was a troubled production due to technical difficulties.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Fair enough. I remember knowing well before it came out that it would be shit but I guess the critics weren’t part of that vibe.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Reno
The In Kraut
I find the way people feel the need to outdo each other here when it comes to being vitriolic about Corden a little weird. I’m no fan, I don’t watch his show, but he’s been fine in the few things I‘ve seen him in. He appears to be skilled when it comes to musical theatre stuff because he’s had that sort of training and that‘s why he gets cast in musicals. So far I haven’t noticed him being singled out in the many terrible reviews the film is getting.
What’s he done to you lot, set a bunch of kittens on fire ?
Manter
Lunch Mob
Not in the same league as the others though. Taylor swift, Idris Elba, Judy Dench....I thought James Corden was good in Into The Woods.
also like him or not he's obviously a massive star.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
He is a skilled actor as I think he's proved on stage and screen.
For me he just doesn't have a very likeable personality which is why I don't enjoy watching him.
Reno
The In Kraut
Due to his TV show he's probably a much bigger star in the US than Elba, whose film career never really took off.
Way bigger than Elba. Would have thought he's more of a household name in the states than Dench too tbh.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I suspect they thought it was going to be a winner of a film.
It had an excellent pedigree, a highly successful stage show by a powerhouse of musical theatre (whether you like him or not) with a proven director of a musical film (whether you like that or not)
However this time is seems to have gone spectacularly wrong!
Manter
Lunch Mob
Ah, maybe. He’s just the bloke from a tv show I never watched over here but I guess with carpool karaoke and so on he is probably a grand fromage
Reno
The In Kraut
They hired Tom Hooper because he did the adaptation of the Les Miserables musical, which despite being a pretty poor film, was a success because it had a built in audience. With Les Mis he was able to fall back on his experience of having directed staid costume dramas for film and TV, so not too far out of his depth. But when they heavily went down the CGI route with Cats, they would have needed someone with experience in character design, art direction and visual effects. Hooper has shown himself to be woefully out of his depth by adhering to naturalism when he needed to go stylised. Because he simply went "cat people" but really realistic looking, all the proportions look wrong, not working as humans or cats. Because he (undeservedly) won the Oscar for best director a few years ago, nobody said "no" to him when they should have and the result is a major artistic embarrassment. While the musical is shit, there would have been a way to make this work visually if they'd hired someone who has design skills. This may still be doing well because fans of the show will go and see this and then Hooper may inflict another atrocity on us.
Moonlight? I loved that.
I bloody love musicals!! Les Mis is my favourite. Closely followed by Joseph and the technicolour Dreamcoat.
Voley
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La La Land.
SpookyFrank
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