CATS | DIGITAL FUR TECH TO LOSE 113.2M IN LITTER BOX | December 20, 2019 | #ReleaseTheButtholeCut

[CoolioD1]

tom hooper started the decade with the best picture winner of 2010 and he's about to end it with the worst picture winner. i love a career arc.

[Poseidon]

Why would this have any effect on future musical-adaptations?

This is not a failure of the source material, this movie was DOA as soon as the trailer hit.

 

 

I still can't believe that a bunch of pros didn't see this coming when greenlighting the film.

 

There were no unfinished scripts, there were no problems at set.

 

It was just a massive misjudgement of epic proportions. 

 

Let's see if it can still crawl to $200m+. 

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, Poseidon said:

Why would this have any effect on future musical-adaptations?

This is not a failure of the source material, this movie was DOA as soon as the trailer hit.

 

I'm pretty sure there is no universe in which a film adaptation of Cats would've turned out well unless they had done a complete makeover of the source material. This isn't a Jersey Boys situation where it ended up in the hands of the wrong director.

[Poseidon]

6 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I'm pretty sure there is no universe in which a film adaptation of Cats would've turned out well unless they had done a complete makeover of the source material. This isn't a Jersey Boys situation where it ended up in the hands of the wrong director.

Hooper thought he could do is, so he is to blame, that he tried. 

[Cap]

I actually really like some of the creative choices -- particularly the set design of everything's BIG and their cat size.  It gives it a weird feel, which works, cause Cats is a weird show.  They just went so wrong with the CGI.

 

TBH, and maybe it's just cause I'm working on it, the whole thing reminds me a bit of Hello Dolly!'s Parade Scene.  Just because you CAN spend $3 million dollars and have 2500 extras on screen, does't mean you SHOULD.  Why are you spending more money on a musical in 2019 than you have to?  You are not going to recoup your budget with Digital Fur Technology.  Just put them in the damn fursuits.  

[Krissykins]

Woke up to this being at 16% lol. 
 

Can’t say I’m surprised, already booked in for Saturday. 
 

“Congratulations to dogs” lol 

[AndyK]

Man I would love to see how starlight express translates to the big screen. 

 

 

Edited December 19, 2019 by AndyK

[AndyK]

Telegraph gave it zero stars - lol

[bleachella]

Ah well there goes my "Cats is going to have better reviews that TROS" prediction. At least my girl Taylor and her song is seemingly getting praised

[Krissykins]

3 hours ago, AndyK said:

Telegraph gave it zero stars - lol

This review made the news on TV this morning here in the UK.

 

It was actually an item on Sky News 😂

[gadd]

Sounds like this is to cats what Show Dogs was to dogs.

 

[AndyK]

47 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

This review made the news on TV this morning here in the UK.

 

It was actually an item on Sky News 😂

Unfortunately its a paywall, so can't read the actual review.

[Krissykins]

Up to 17% lol 

[1Robert1]

28 minutes ago, AndyK said:

Unfortunately its a paywall, so can't read the actual review.

Once seen, the only realistic way to fix Cats would be to spay it, or simply pretend it never happened. Because it’s an all-time disaster – a rare and star-spangled calamity which will leave jaws littered across floors and agents unemployed,  

Cats is a "nightmare production" with "nauseating lurches in scale and perspective."

"The Frankensteinian marriage of live performance, 'digital fur technology' and human/cat anatomical splicing – the boobs! they have boobs??!! – has such endlessly sinister impact that the film's U certificate ought to be an 18," says Robey."Finding any high point in Cats," signs of Robey, "takes some serious scratching."

For the first time since the head-spinningly dire dadcom Old Dogs in 2010, I'm giving a film no stars.

 

 

Edited December 19, 2019 by 1Robert1

[CoolioD1]

this movie's fate was sealed when you could tell the first trailer tried to sell it as an oscar player. they've since pivoted the marketing to "no it's supposed to be camp! we're totally in on the joke!". but it's too late we already know.

[Hatebox]

I saw Tom Hooper wandering around central London about month ago, no doubt deep in the editing process. I wonder how he was feeling back then. 

[Lucas]

3 minutes ago, Hatebox said:

I saw Tom Hooper wandering around central London about month ago, no doubt deep in the editing process. I wonder how he was feeling back then. 

He looks a little off

[gadd]

In the midst of the pans this movie and Hooper in particular is receiving, a reminder that The Damned United is probably his best film and well worth watching.

[MrGamer]

11 hours ago, CoolioD1 said:

tom hooper started the decade with the best picture winner of 2010 and he's about to end it with the worst picture winner. i love a career arc.

It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

[Nova]

Taylor’s performance being praised amidst the lashings this movie is getting is not something I expected.