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Post by jamesxxx on Nov 19, 2019 19:59:09 GMT
Just seen the new trailer.
Having first thought it all looked dreadful.
I think it might be good. Thrilling even.
Forget everything we.ve seen and know from before.
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Post by longinthetooth on Nov 19, 2019 21:35:51 GMT
I think I'm one of the few people who genuinely loves the musical Cats, but this trailer leaves me stone cold!
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 19, 2019 21:48:32 GMT
Yep, still not going to see it. I wish they'd stuck to people in make-up & furry leg-warmers. The CGI freaks me out. I'll stick to seeing Francesca Hayward on the ROH stage & hope she doesn't get seduced away from ballet to films.
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Post by musicalmarge on Nov 19, 2019 22:08:31 GMT
DREADFUL
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Post by ncbears on Nov 19, 2019 22:37:38 GMT
You just need to go to the cinema - wait for the film to start - and then stand up and shout "THIS IS A MUSICAL???" and walk out. This semi-actually happened to me at the film version of Sweeney Todd. My daughter and I were in the cinema - and I joked with her about doing it since the ad campaign basically downplayed it was a musical - and the film started, and the singing started and then these six university students started muttering and verbally questioning each other and then they took out their phones and looked at their phones and then they left!
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Post by intoanewlife on Nov 19, 2019 23:41:38 GMT
The CGI faces look a LOT better in this one, however it still looks every bit as terrible as the stage show was x
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Post by crabtree on Nov 20, 2019 9:25:08 GMT
To judge from this trailer you would be hard pushed to know if T S Eliot had any involvement. Not a word or phrase to be heard.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 9:47:28 GMT
Gosh - how does it come to pass that a sung through MUSICAL based on T S Eliot's poems has a trailer with no singing and none of TSE's words.
Disappointed but not surprised. It's almost never a good outcome for modern musicals when they go to Hollywood - they just seem to think they have to apologise for being musicals and end up in this weird middle ground.
We didn't know it at the time, but Evita with Madonna and Banderas stands up (I think) as the best film of a modern musical. Sung through, big, epic, not apologising.
The musical arrangements in this also seem to be changed for the worse.
Ahhh well. Still look fwd to seeing it and finding out how it comes across as a whole.
But after Phantom, Les Mis and now this trailer, I am not holding my breath.....
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Post by johartuk on Nov 20, 2019 11:49:17 GMT
Weird that the new trailer seems to give the impression that Cats is a non-musical film and...a comedy? "Many Will Compete...Only One Can Win" Sounds like Hunger Games meets one of those Lloyd Webber casting shows ( Any Cat Will Do?)! Presumably the bottom two (as voted for by the feline population of the UK) have to literally fight to stay in the competition!  |
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Post by chernjam on Nov 24, 2019 4:14:34 GMT
I came on here after some of the US boards seemed to have more Cats on the forum then we will ever see on screen... but I guess it's a global phenomenon to just rag on something from a few trailers. As an ALW-fan who's never been a fan of the original production of Cats on Broadway, I've been impressed and actually looking forward to it. Thought "Beautiful Ghosts" sounded like a great addition to the score. As for the CGI - how is this any worse than the original costumes seen in productions that played around the world for decades? I mean they were actors fully decked out as Cats. The CGI looks just like an advanced, modern adaptation of that for film. I just don't get the vitriol.
Will make the prediction that I believe this will be a box office hit, despite naysayers on both sides of the Atlantic
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Nov 24, 2019 8:53:43 GMT
I came on here after some of the US boards seemed to have more Cats on the forum then we will ever see on screen... but I guess it's a global phenomenon to just rag on something from a few trailers. As an ALW-fan who's never been a fan of the original production of Cats on Broadway, I've been impressed and actually looking forward to it. Thought "Beautiful Ghosts" sounded like a great addition to the score. As for the CGI - how is this any worse than the original costumes seen in productions that played around the world for decades? I mean they were actors fully decked out as Cats. The CGI looks just like an advanced, modern adaptation of that for film. I just don't get the vitriol. Will make the prediction that I believe this will be a box office hit, despite naysayers on both sides of the Atlantic People are complaining about the CGI because it's in the uncanny valley territory. It's completely human faces on bodies that are just slightly off so often it looks like the faces don't belong and are floating in front of the body (something that wouldn't have happened with make-up or a totally CGI face) which is jarring and off-putting. Obviously it won't be as noticeable to everyone but to those it is obvious to I think it's a legitimate complaint that shouldn't be ignored. So far that's my only issue with the film (along with a lot of the casting) as otherwise I think the production design is really interesting but it's such a major issue that I can't look past it because it's always distracting whenever I see clips. Maybe watching the film you would get used to it and start to not notice it but I don't think so because it seems to be worse in some scenes than others. |
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Post by tommy on Nov 24, 2019 10:17:52 GMT
It's only a trailer, one of the hardest things to make I think. I often saw trailers that didn't impress me but the movie or show itself did completely blow me away and the other way round.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2019 10:36:37 GMT
It's only a trailer, one of the hardest things to make I think. I often saw trailers that didn't impress me but the movie or show itself did completely blow me away and the other way round. Two trailers now! Both sh*te |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 24, 2019 10:44:48 GMT
I came on here after some of the US boards seemed to have more Cats on the forum then we will ever see on screen... but I guess it's a global phenomenon to just rag on something from a few trailers. As an ALW-fan who's never been a fan of the original production of Cats on Broadway, I've been impressed and actually looking forward to it. But these trailers are what’s been given to us to entice us to see it. People are only responding to what’s been put out by the films marketing team. Some are reacting positively, others negatively. I don’t think it’s a case of “ragging” on it, but if something is getting an overwhelmingly negative reaction there’s a reasonable chance that there’s either something wrong with the film, or the marketing is badly wrong. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 24, 2019 10:56:24 GMT
Not that it takes much, but the new trailer looks way better than the first one.
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Post by crowblack on Nov 24, 2019 13:26:53 GMT
Here goes... I'm not really a fan of musical theatre, and as an outsider I don't really see what the problem is. Cats, the musical, is a peculiar, kitsch, 'Furry' sort of thing, and so is this. What exactly were people expecting?
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Post by intoanewlife on Nov 24, 2019 13:53:32 GMT
Here goes... I'm not really a fan of musical theatre, and as an outsider I don't really see what the problem is. Cats, the musical, is a peculiar, kitsch, 'Furry' sort of thing, and so is this. What exactly were people expecting? It looks like an expensive version of the musical, I agree I can't see what everyone is going on about. They have always looked utterly ridiculous. |
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Post by musicallady on Nov 24, 2019 23:14:02 GMT
Just no.
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Post by crabtree on Nov 24, 2019 23:18:18 GMT
surely someone must have seen a screener of this by now? Or are they just speechless?
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Post by musicalmarge on Nov 25, 2019 0:07:25 GMT
Look.
The main issue with having CATS as a film is that in theatre you can suspend disbelief. You can accept dancing actors as cats or a puppeteer holding the horse in Warhorse etc
On FILM you can’t! On the silver screen everything becomes more real and that’s why everyone is freaked out about the number of nipples, noses, fur coats on fur, ratio and so on.
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Post by ceebee on Nov 25, 2019 0:21:05 GMT
Cats has always been a bit weird... (If my memory serves me right.)
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Post by ali973 on Nov 27, 2019 10:20:49 GMT
Does anyone know when the full soundtrack comes out?
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Post by anita on Nov 27, 2019 10:22:22 GMT
Does anyone know when the full soundtrack comes out? I thought it would have been available to preorder by now. |
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Post by ali973 on Nov 27, 2019 10:23:52 GMT
It doesn't look like it.
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Post by amp09 on Nov 27, 2019 18:48:58 GMT
surely someone must have seen a screener of this by now? Or are they just speechless? They’re still editing it! |
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