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

[RichWS]

11 hours ago, Krissykins said:

Cats relies heavily on viewers having seen the stage show: there isn't much plot. 

 

Makes sense because I had virtually no idea what was going on. 

 

I can't believe this was only three months ago. Feels like years.

[filmlover]

5 minutes ago, RichWS said:

I can't believe this was only three months ago. Feels like years.

It feels like the past week alone has been 100 years long so the feeling isn't unfounded.

[Lucas]

53 minutes ago, RichWS said:

I can't believe this was only three months ago. Feels like years.

well...

[CoolioD1]

while bored at home i admit i'm re-reading the reactions in this thread from back when the trailer first dropped. fun times.

[Eric Duncan]

 

[Webslinger]

7 hours ago, Eric Lightfoot said:

 

YES! I caught this earlier and it was every bit as good as I’d hoped it would be with Ellis working in her ALW wheelhouse.

[grim22]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-edited-the-buttholes-out-of-cats-it-was-a-total-nightmare?ref=home

 

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Cats was already halfway complete when the buttholes first showed themselves, a source who worked on the film’s visual effects recalled in a recent interview: “When we were looking at the playbacks, we were like, ‘What the hell? You guys see that?!’”

“We paused it,” the source said. “We went to call our supervisor, and we’re like, ‘There’s a fucking asshole in there! There’s buttholes!’ It wasn’t prominent but you saw it… And you [were] just like, ‘What the hell is that?... There’s a fucking butthole in there.’ It wasn’t in your face—but at the same time, too, if you’re looking, you’ll see it.”

Multiple times during our interview, the source described Hooper as “horrible.” Other adjectives included “disrespectful,” “demeaning,” and “condescending.” “When you go into a conference room, you’re not allowed to speak,” they said. “And he talks to you like you’re garbage.”

“It was pure, almost slavery for us, how much work we put into it with no time, and everything was difficult,” the source said. “We were so rushed on the project that we’d have no time for anything. So when people say, ‘Oh, the effects were not good,’ or ‘The animation’s not good,’ or anything, that’s not our fault. We have no time. Six months to do a two-minute trailer and four months to do a film of an hour and a half. My math is pretty good... You could figure that doesn’t make any sense.”

 

[filmlover]

33 minutes ago, grim22 said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-edited-the-buttholes-out-of-cats-it-was-a-total-nightmare?ref=home

 

 

Some aspects of the production, the source alleges, became simply absurd—like when Hooper would demand to see videos of actual cats performing the same actions the cats would do in the film. “And as you know,” the source said, “cats don‘t dance.”

 

[Porthos]

Came for the jokes about buttholes, left infuriated at the treatment of the vfx workers.

 

Like, "dude should be in 'director jail' for a decade or longer" infuriated.

 

Seriously, that was one messed up article and I hope people read it.

[Eric Duncan]

 

[belblazer]

 

$113.2 million loss.

[Eric Duncan]

 

[SpiderByte]

In short:

 

[Eric Duncan]

https://deadline.com/2020/08/andrew-lloyd-webber-cats-movie-tom-hooper-1203001983/

 

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The movie version of Cats may have been released last year, but it is still very much present in our lives. In a recent interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of the original musical, he shared the same sentiment of critics when it came to the big-screen adaptation. In other words, he thought the movie had some problems — to say the least.

 

“The problem with the film was that Tom Hooper decided that he didn’t want anybody involved in it who was involved in the original show,” Webber told The Sunday Times in a recent interview. “The whole thing was ridiculous.”

 

[Eric Duncan]

 

[Eric Duncan]

 

 

[Krissykins]

1 hour ago, Free Eric said:

 

 

She’s not wrong. Those Alamo drafthouse screenings point towards this becoming a cult classic. 
 

To be fair to the cast, I don’t think they fully knew how it was going to look lol. I need a rewatch actually.  

[filmlover]

1 hour ago, Free Eric said:

 

 

To be fair, her cover of "Memory" is a pretty fantastic version of the song. Take away the hideous visuals and it would be near the top of the list.

[grim22]

 

[Krissykins]

6 hours ago, grim22 said:

 

This is amazing 😂