CATS Film Adaptation Thread — Page 10

Well i DID see the original Broadway production in 1982 and i hated it....but this trailer looks fabulous as a movie and i will be first in line when it comes out later this year!...as much as Tom Hooper was vilified for LES MIZ, but won an Oscar for The Kings Speech, the man clearly has a vision when he makes a movie and i will wait until i see this upcoming event film to pass any judgement.

I think Disney's model of making uglier and worse versions of their beloved films is pretty terrible, too (Mulan looks like it could be the exception).

I don't think Tom Hooper is a particularly visionary director. When all is said and done, this film appears to be... a pretty direct adaptation of the stage production, right down to oversized sets and props. The key difference is that the unitards and makeup are digital. It remains to be seen if this will translate well to film despite having worked onstage. It won't matter how well everyone sings, dances, and acts if they're unsettling to look at for 2 hours.

And then you have Taylor Swift as a cat wearing heels and shaking a bejeweled cocktail shaker labeled "catnip." Why is the cocktail shaker cat-sized when everything else is human-sized? Did the cats make custom cocktail shakers? For that matter, do the cats have cat tailors that make their cat-sized clothing? We know normal sized clothing exists because we see the cats wearing it and playing with it- so who's coming up with the little top hats and coats and furs. And what kind of fur is on their fur coats? And why do cats need to wear furs?

Updated On: 7/19/19 at 10:10 AM

The CATS themselves all have the icky fake vibe -- there's something very off about it all. They look like the cute little creatures who've escaped from a government lab at the beginning of the horror movie, they've got this faintly sinister vibe and before you know it they've got an insatiable taste for human flesh and world domination. I'd gladly scoop them all into a sack and club them to death.

Instead of Cats Now and Forever they should consider Cats Direct to Redbox.

broadwaybabywannabe2 said: "why does almost everyone on here who posts hate so much?...IT'S ONLY A TRAILER!!...let's all wait for the final film to be shown and then we can hate or not...speaking of trailers...the trailer for the BENJAMIN BUTTON movie with Brad Pitt, a few years ago looked to me like the greatest movie ever made...then i saw the movie...HATED IT...a friend of mine called that movie BENJAMIN BUTTHOLE...my point being trailers are not the whole movie..."

It's the internet, everyone is free to post their opinions whether or not they align to yours. The trailer is not the whole film and the negative reactions of many on here and on the internet as a whole is over the CGI and production design. It's visually unappealing and I whole heartedly agree with most of the reactions shared. This is a huge, huge misstep that is clearly evidence in the trailer released. Cats with human noses?!?!? It's like some weird kind of human/cat hybrid gone horribly wrong in some mad scientist's laboratory. And don't EVEN get me started on the placement of this particular cat's tail:

Updated On: 7/19/19 at 04:37 PM

broadwaybabywannabe2 said: "why does almost everyone on here who posts hate so much?...IT'S ONLY A TRAILER!!...let's all wait for the final film to be shown and then we can hate or not...speaking of trailers...the trailer for the BENJAMIN BUTTON movie with Brad Pitt, a few years ago looked to me like the greatest movie ever made...then i saw the movie...HATED IT...a friend of mine called that movie BENJAMIN BUTTHOLE...my point being trailers are not the whole movie..."

Ultimately, frequently personal tastes play a large role in loving / hating something. I thought that Benjamin Button was an extraordinary movie and have seen it, 3 hours and all, at least 7 - 8 times since it ws released, because I always see something new. For me, any movie of CATS starts off with a bug negative, because I hated the show before it even started, when the 'cats' came into the front rows of the orchestra and writhed all over people, while making movements a cat might make. The commercial -- specifically the people dressed as cats (with the possible exception of Judy Dench) -- just made me want to squirm. I may be proven wrong, but I have lower expectations after the commercial, and my expectations were low to begin with.

First off RUG is fine... this is a Universal Pictures Production. RUG will have royalty checks coming one way or the other - the risk/profit factor is really for Universal.

And I think they're fine over there. Twitter/social media is a cesspool. No matter who or what ends up trending, the hate and negativity is always there. So all this has done is for a lot of people who aren't on a musical theater board - is made them aware that there's a Cats Movie coming this December with Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, that guy from the Late Late show... etc. By the time the film is released after all the post-production, editing, etc on a huge screen, it's going to look, feel and sound a lot different and I think will be well received/be successful. The musical played for decades. It's a known property that many people will want to check out."

I know Really Useful didn't make the movie, but ALW really really cares what critics/people think. It's a reoccurring insecurity of his by many, many accounts. I guarantee they're reacting to all the negativity online if purely reputation-based. There's zero chance he's not worried "the twitterz" and just about every pop culture outlet is laughing.

I don't think Universal is freaking out like the building's on fire or anything but I'm willing to bet they're going to make some adjustments based on the almost universally laughed out/wtf trailer reactions. Yes, it *was* a popular property that was a world-wide phenomenon and I think it'll be ok money-wise, but they want it to be a mega-hit Mamma Mia movie and not a "well, that did fine" Sweeney Todd.

Courtesy of Chris Mandle (@chris_mandle) on Twitter:

Kad said: "And what kind of fur is on their fur coats? And why do cats need to wear furs?"

Maybe those furs are the remains of other cats who won the chance at a so-called new life. Perhaps in this version, the White Cat is horrified when she figures it out and attempts to flee the cult. The trailer totally supports this interpretation. Eek.