Yeah. Wasn’t that the case with Rocky Horror Picture Show and Blade Runner?
This Cats flick may well turn out to be a future classic to be treasured for years to come.
Cats the movie has some awesomely scathing reviews...
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Yeah. Wasn’t that the case with Rocky Horror Picture Show and Blade Runner?
This Cats flick may well turn out to be a future classic to be treasured for years to come.
Reno
The In Kraut
A sleeper hit is a small film with little promotion behind it, which unexpectedly turns out to be a theatrical success due to good word of mouth.
Cats is an expensive film with plenty of publicity which may still become a so-bad-it’s-good cult classic like Showgirls. It also may do quite well once it’s released due to its inbuilt audience who love the show, so I would write of it’s box office chances yet. On the other hand it’s up against the new Star Wars. A "future classic treasured for years" it won’t be, this is going to be no Blade Runner.
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rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Cid
Proper break this time
So it is... All is forgiven Guardian. At least in this very limited context.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I spent 25 years of my working life closely associated with musicals, amateur ones mainly.
Some I love, some I hate and some, like Cats, I'm rather indifferent too but on the whole as a genre I do rather like them.
And if anyone wants to come and see me as the Wicked Witch of the West in "Wizard of Oz" you can do in April next year
Some I love, some I hate and some, like Cats, I'm rather indifferent too but on the whole as a genre I do rather like them.
And if anyone wants to come and see me as the Wicked Witch of the West in "Wizard of Oz" you can do in April next year
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
do they show their bumholes, these 'cats'?
Reno
The In Kraut
Is that what would prompt you to go and see this ?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yes, only interested if the cats are anatomically and behaviourally correct, so if there's no arsehole-sporting or -licking, no saleIs that what would prompt you to go and see this ?
Reno
The In Kraut
We all have our standards.
JimW
支那暗杀团
Idris Elba coughs up a very impressive furball
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I love terrible films, but you have to draw the line somewhere
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Do any of them push anything off a table?
Reno
The In Kraut
Morbid curiosity will eventually get the better of me but I'm not paying for it. With most so-bad-its-good films I don't last the whole film.
I thought it was an intentional joke.sorry, la la land. I loved it so much I didn't even remember it's name.
ETA Kind of like this:
London cinema admirably trolls audience in light of Oscars Best Picture blunder
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Manter
Lunch Mob
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ft critic calls it weird wonderful and worryingly erotic, gives it four stars then retires....!!
ft critic calls it weird wonderful and worryingly erotic, gives it four stars then retires....!!
Manter
Lunch Mob
Sorry, gift link. Cats lands on its feet with terrific choreography, Judi Dench, James Corden and Taylor Swift | Financial Times
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8ball
Maximum Facepalm
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
See. It’s starting...
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I love musicals, although more on stage than on film. My favourite at the moment is Bat Out of Hell - it is coming back to the West End in 2020 and I will go and see it again. I have also seen Joseph and the Multicoloured Dreamcoat many times, including in 1974, and Billy Elliot.
As a child, we watched the Sound of Music every Christmas (everyone did in those days)
I tried to watch La La Land, to see what all the fuss was about, but got bored less than half way through so never finished it.
I missed Cats when it was on the west end stage, but it was revived a couple of years ago and I went to see it then, having thought I had been missing out. I don't think anyone famous was in it, and it wasn't on for long, so I kind of figured its day had been and gone. I am glad I saw it, and the staging was wonderful, and the costumes were beautiful, the dancing was great... but it was a bit tedious and it felt more like a ballet with a few songs than musical theatre. I didn't work out the story.
I love the bad reviews which are making me want to see the film, even though I, like everyone else, can see how poorly the costumes and staging translate to screen.
As a child, we watched the Sound of Music every Christmas (everyone did in those days)
I tried to watch La La Land, to see what all the fuss was about, but got bored less than half way through so never finished it.
I missed Cats when it was on the west end stage, but it was revived a couple of years ago and I went to see it then, having thought I had been missing out. I don't think anyone famous was in it, and it wasn't on for long, so I kind of figured its day had been and gone. I am glad I saw it, and the staging was wonderful, and the costumes were beautiful, the dancing was great... but it was a bit tedious and it felt more like a ballet with a few songs than musical theatre. I didn't work out the story.
I love the bad reviews which are making me want to see the film, even though I, like everyone else, can see how poorly the costumes and staging translate to screen.
Reno
The In Kraut
I’ve always liked movie musicals but took to stage musicals relatively late in life. Once I reached gay middle age, my Sondheim-gene kicked into action and I went to see his shows whenever they were staged at a reasonable price in London. I could never afford West End prices unless there was some special offer but the likes of the Donmar Warehouse, the Southwark Playhouse and Menier Chocolate Factory do fantastic productions for £20 to £40 a pop. Sondheim was my entry drug into musical theatre and then I went to see other shows. Of the Sondheim shows the lesser known Passion at the Donmar blew me away and On the Town at the ENO was one of the best things I’ve ever seen.
However nothing could make me go see an Andrew Lloyd Webber show, just like nothing can make watch a Michael Bay movie. Loathe the music, loathe the man and something like Cats or Starlight Express looks like utter shite just from looking at one still of the show.
However nothing could make me go see an Andrew Lloyd Webber show, just like nothing can make watch a Michael Bay movie. Loathe the music, loathe the man and something like Cats or Starlight Express looks like utter shite just from looking at one still of the show.
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Reno
The In Kraut
The Daily Mail likes it, so it must be good:
“Moreover, I detect a strong whiff of metropolitan snobbery towards Lloyd Webber, one of the film's producers, who is so often and so unfairly belittled.
The truth, unpalatable to the liberal so-called intelligentsia, is that he's a genius, and a versatile one at that.”
Will Cats be the latest box office smash that the critics mauled? | Daily Mail Online
He predicted it will be a box office smash despite the critical mauling but according to early box office takings, it’s already flopped big time.
“Moreover, I detect a strong whiff of metropolitan snobbery towards Lloyd Webber, one of the film's producers, who is so often and so unfairly belittled.
The truth, unpalatable to the liberal so-called intelligentsia, is that he's a genius, and a versatile one at that.”
Will Cats be the latest box office smash that the critics mauled? | Daily Mail Online
He predicted it will be a box office smash despite the critical mauling but according to early box office takings, it’s already flopped big time.
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ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
My youngest wanted to see it so I took her today.
We both thought it was the worst film we've ever seen.
I do hate musicals though and it was that with nothing inbetween.
Made no sense, no plot at all, we didn't know what a jellicle cat was, all the lead characters were shit, especially Idris, and the endgame seemed to be getting fired at the sun. Wtf?
How has this been on the west end for 40 years?
We both thought it was the worst film we've ever seen.
I do hate musicals though and it was that with nothing inbetween.
Made no sense, no plot at all, we didn't know what a jellicle cat was, all the lead characters were shit, especially Idris, and the endgame seemed to be getting fired at the sun. Wtf?
How has this been on the west end for 40 years?
Mrs Miggins
There's been a slight cheese accident
There's a thread on twitter about Starlight Express. I'd forgotten it existed! I've been in hysterics laughing. Basically how it's Cats, but on roller skates.
It's here...
Starlight Express is abysmal. Take it from me! It has no plot, the songs are uniformly dreadful and the only thing it had going for it, the rollerskating through the audience thing, well that was shit as well as it was conducted at approx 2mph behind plastic screens.
Mrs Miggins
There's been a slight cheese accident
Same. I will defimitely be watching as soon as it's in Amazon Prime
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