CATS Film Adaptation Thread — Page 34

Well, if The Ice Storm is your favorite movie of all time - okay.

This happens with every bad movie that's a complete bomb - a small coterie see it, LOVE it because everyone else doesn't, dig in their heels about it (as someone here said), and then start with the sniffles and crying - no one is sniffling and crying, c'mon. People "hear" what they want to hear and that includes thinking that everyone in their audience is enjoying this thing. One person bragged that their theater was completely full - when queried about the SIZE of their theater - under fifty seats. Seriously. Theaters for this are basically empty. But there are people who LOVE Lost Horizon, the musical movie. They LOVE it and they will tell you their audiences LOVED it and there was sniffling and crying. In the end, this is a huge disaster or epic proportions, over a 100 million dollar loss, because the budget is MUCH bigger than is being reported.

OK--my turn. Saw Cats today, about 100 mixed age audience and I paid A$5.00 for senior.

We Australians are not as vocally demonstrative as Americans and there was NO derisive laughter, at all, and just gentle laughter at appropriate times.

My slight distractions were mainly with Judi Dench--the wedding ring, her teeth, strange legs and the single high kick. Ms Hudsons' dribbly nose and the ending with her drifting skyward, then an abrupt blackout, was curious.

I am sure when the blue ray edition is released it will have been re-edited.

At times I was extremely emotional as my Mother died at Christmas so probably not the best movie to go see, but mostly it was captivating and joyous and definitely want to revisit at a less emotional time.

Cats had been sent to the smallest cinema in the complex so had a reduced screen and sound not full blast[which I would have liked].

As proven here there have been so many differing opinions and I am sorry that I had read them as I was trying NOT to look for all the Spoiler Mistakes.

This interpretation belongs to Mr Hooper, like it or loath it and I am in the like it camp.

I now want to revisit a professional stage show as I do love the individual cat characters songs but more than that I want to thrill to the skill of the DANCERS which wasn't as obvious in the film as I had hoped.

PS--2 things. The white cat--was that Taylor Swift? I know nothing about her except I know she is a singer. She is breathtakingly beautiful and seems a classical dancer as well, AND Robbie Fairchild, I have heard him sing in his Broadway debut but his voice in this is quite exceptional with a very wide range.

dramamama611 said: "n2nbaby said: "Why are people arguing over the Cats movie of all things? C’mon y’all. "

Because that's what we do here at BWW.



I havent seen this, therefore have no personal opinion, but one of my closest theater pals, that likes nearly everything (loved the revival) hated this, too."

I never trust the opinion of someone who “likes nearly everything.”

joevitus said: "You already said your favorite movie is The Ice Storm. A little late to tell us whoseopinions you trust when you've shared that one."

And do tell us, wise OLD, OLD, OLD sage. What’s yours? And does it have a Criterion release?

Updated On: 1/3/20 at 05:10 AM

SweetLips22 said: "Thanks clever2--I didn't think her voice was all that wonderful and at times I thought she was Nicole Kidman"

I generally have no opinion of Taylor Swift as nothing she has done has ever caught my attention. I very much enjoyed her here though and that was a surprise. Her presence was powerful and quite sexy. She was a great match for the song, I think, especially since they went the celebrity route with so many of the characters.

Updated On: 1/3/20 at 09:24 AM

"
move on and stop trying to make people feel stupid or less than you because they didn’t enjoy this god awful movie."

Perhaps it's time for everybody to move on!! This thread has been more active than the box office for this film but it reached the point quite some time ago that nothing new or constructive was being added and it's sounding like a broken record.

Saw this in Reddit. Apparently there is a different cut of the movie that ALW said he would disavow if released and forced Universal to reshoot a large portion of the movie.


https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/ejlrvv/releasethehoopercut/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

The reddit story is more ridiculous then the actual story of Cats

And if I remember correctly, ALW had little to nothing to do with the filming of this. I thought that he liked Hooper because Hooper wanted to keep the film close to the stage show (obviously to a fault)

For those curious ones, here’s how Robbie Fairchild, Judi Dench and Ian McKellan looked like filming CATS.

Updated On: 1/6/20 at 07:51 AM

Robbie Fairchild is toreadorable in that photo. Thank you, BrodyFosse123.

Updated On: 1/6/20 at 09:13 AM