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#150CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:20pm

It woud perhaps be too predictable for me to say that I thought it was PURRfect.  So I will use these words, instead:  Wonderful.  Beautiful.  Exciting.  Fun.  Emotional.  Uplifting.  Amazing.  

In other words, I LOVED it.
 
Updated On: 7/24/19 at 06:20 PM

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#151CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:23pm

I have been laughing so hard for the past hour to the point of uncontrollable tears.

Bravo, Hooper. Bravo.

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#152CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:29pm

The ears are too small, and the human faces on the cat bodies just looks bizarre. They don't look like cats.

How in the world did anybody think this design was a good idea? No kid is going to want to watch this. It's horrifying.

The actors in the 1998 filmed stage version looked more like cats.

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#153CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:31pm

What in Gay hell was this?

For real, it looks like absolute trash, but I’m going to see it just because I love a dumpster fire


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Impossible2
#154CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:36pm

Jacaranda2 said: "It would perhaps be too predictable for me to say that I thought it was PURRfect. So I will use thesewords, instead:Wonderful. Beautiful. Exciting. Fun. Emotional. Uplifting. Amazing.

In other words, I LOVED it.
"

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schubox
#155CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:38pm

This looks even worse than I could ever imagine and I expected it to be terrible

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#156CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:40pm

Uhhh...

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#157CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:42pm

It's as fabulously terrible as I expected it to be, but also shockingly freakier than I thought it would be.

 

And I'm so tired of Jennifer Hudson singing the sh*t out of everything in the place of actual emotion. There's nothing behind her singing besides power. Where's the character aside from looking shocked and confused?

And as one person tweeted:

"Pity the poor horror directors who have spent their whole careers trying to make scary movies, and then along comes the CATS trailer and it’s 100 times more terrifying without even trying."




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#158CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:43pm

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#159CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:47pm

I just threw up in my mouth a little....WTF?!?!??

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#160CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:48pm

I think I liked it - or at least was intrigued by it. The stylistic cats are just....different.  They are not the human cats on the stage - but they don't look like "real" cats in any way either.  This does look like it's going to be very stylistic (I'm getting a Streets of Fire vibe). And it looks like they tried to put in some kind of story with Victoria?  She's new and doesn't understand what's going on? So, the cats all sing to her to clue her in?  I don't know. This could be one big beautiful mess - but I'm going to be looking forward to what non-theatre people think.  

Impossible2
#161CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:53pm

ggersten said: "(I'm getting a Streets of Fire vibe)"

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#162CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:55pm

Am I in a fever dream right now? Is this a fever dream? Are you all in MY fever dream or am I in YOUR fever dream because that's what this is right? This is........ oh sweet baby Jesus am I dead? Are we ALL dead? IS THIS HELL!?

Gizmo6
#163CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 6:58pm

For everyone complaining about the scale remember what Bianca Del Rio said:

”Big cats are dangerous but a little **** never hurt anyone”. 

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#164CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:00pm

OMG THAT LOOKS LIKE THE FUNNIEST AND WORST FILM OF ALL TIME. I CANT F*CKING WAIT.

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#165CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:02pm

This what I expected when Im heard CGI would be used for the "cats".  Faces look too large for heads and the bodies are still obviously human.  It all looks incredible silly.  There was a grandeur and a dilapidated elegance to Betty Buckley's Grizabella in the Broadway production.  Here,Jennifer Hudson just looks strange.  Since Cats has no real story to tell, I can't imagine this movie will do all that well at the BO.

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#166CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:03pm

After watching it a couple more times - I'm just surprised they aren't a little more cat-like since they went to the trouble of using CGI. For example, I would have liked to see them with cat eyes and a cat nose.

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#167CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:04pm

This looks like the worst, most horrifying movie of all time.


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#168CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:09pm

I was a little encouraged after seeing the featurette but now having seen the trailer I have to wonder what was the point of building all of those sets and choreographing all those wonderful dancers if they were just going to paint over everything with CGI and make it look like a cartoon?

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#169CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:09pm

I’m so here for it. Even if people find it off now, in years it will be a for sure cult classic. Can’t wait.

Scott19
#170CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:09pm

Now THIS is a thread.

Yowza!!!

Impossible2
#171CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:16pm

Luminaire2 said: "I’m so here for it. Even if people find it off now, in years it will be a for sure cult classic. Can’t wait."

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#173CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:33pm

everythingtaboo said: "And I'm so tired of Jennifer Hudson singing the sh*t out of everything in the place of actual emotion. There's nothing behind her singing besides power. Where's the character aside from looking shocked and confused?""

 

Yes.  I'm glad someone said it.  Hudson has two volumes: Loud and very loud.  Her technique is sloppy.  Her phrasing shows how much she could use some additional coaching in the breath control department.  While on film, she can be edited to come across very well, her live performances can't hide her inherent problems.  Color Purple was well above what she looked comfortable doing.  Thankfully Heather Headley came along a little later to make sure we all understood how great a role Shug really is.

 I don't think she deserved this role.  People often confuse power-belting with emoting and connecting with a song.  Hudson has yet to show people that she can, in fact, act.

 

Updated On: 7/18/19 at 07:33 PM

kingfan011
#174CATS Film Adaptation Thread
Posted: 7/18/19 at 7:44pm

I'm going to laugh when this makes a ton of money.


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