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Post by amp09 on Dec 18, 2019 20:26:59 GMT
The reviews aren’t great at all. The embargo is lifted at midnight tonight. Oh dear...
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Post by xanady on Dec 18, 2019 20:38:34 GMT
Going with some of my panto thespian chums to see this...hope it’s not going to feel like a busman’s holiday for us all lol
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Post by lonlad on Dec 19, 2019 0:50:32 GMT
Wow, the reviews are worse than anyone could have expected
NO stars from The Telegraph
ONE star from The Times and The Guardian
pans from the NYTimes, LA Times, Variety, and Hollywood Reporter
and ..... 4 stars from The Mail. Classic!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2019 1:07:20 GMT
I think this could have had the best reviews ever and it still wouldn't be a box office smash. It's not exactely got cross-over appeal to the masses.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Dec 19, 2019 1:16:32 GMT
The fact that the reviews are so terrible makes me more excited than I'd have ever been if they'd been just okay or even great. This sounds like an incredible disaster that I want to see.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2019 8:15:30 GMT
Twitter reviews from out of work actors don’t count 😘 I never said they were reviews, they’re first reactions and they look pretty healthy. People can take them or leave them as they wish, but for me, it’s an indication of how the reviews will go. Never trust out of work actors......!! |
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Post by ceebee on Dec 19, 2019 9:16:07 GMT
The reviews are so bad that this will make hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Post by d'James on Dec 19, 2019 9:17:32 GMT
I want to read the zero star review (you can’t even pull a Viva Forever with zero stars).
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Post by xanady on Dec 19, 2019 9:17:46 GMT
Pete Bradshaw’s rhyming review in The Guardian is very cleverly composed.
Seems to be a lot of stinging reviews out there in the media with the odd exception.Oh dear!
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Post by d'James on Dec 19, 2019 9:20:54 GMT
Pete Bradshaw’s rhyming review in The Guardian is very cleverly composed. Seems to be a lot of stinging reviews out there in the media with the odd exception.Oh dear! ‘Obviously, Ian McKellen is in it.’ |
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Post by crowblack on Dec 19, 2019 9:21:04 GMT
Yeah, but Springtime for Hitler - this might still land on its feet.
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Post by xanady on Dec 19, 2019 9:26:59 GMT
David Farrier on Twitter calls the movie,’the death of all things’ lol and one wag has demanded that Hooper give back his Oscar!
The Telegraph review is simply scathing.
Will reserve judgement until I’ve seen it,but our group are definitely having a stiff drink or two before we see it at the local flea pit.
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Post by crabtree on Dec 19, 2019 9:34:18 GMT
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Post by crabtree on Dec 19, 2019 9:37:19 GMT
I think this reviewer has got it right. They have made so much effort allowing us still to see the performer but then are making them do things that they are physically incapable of doing - bring on the CG.Unless you set it up, or are totally animated, it's never good to break the laws of physics, Dancing and singing impress us when they seemingly flirt with break these laws of physics but we still know they are human.
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Post by viserys on Dec 19, 2019 9:38:07 GMT
Pete Bradshaw’s rhyming review in The Guardian is very cleverly composed. Seems to be a lot of stinging reviews out there in the media with the odd exception.Oh dear! It's clever but it makes me think he wrote it way before he actually saw the movie. You don't dash something like that off within an hour late in the evening. |
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Post by Dave25 on Dec 19, 2019 9:43:14 GMT
I fear that Tom Hooper understands so little about this art form on screen, that he is single handedly destroying the genre and making people think they hate musicals.
Let's hope Steven Spielberg can reverse that somewhat. Spielberg does seem to understand what sincerity means in this art form a bit more.
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Post by BoOverall on Dec 19, 2019 9:56:48 GMT
“as nearly all the musical numbers, including “Memory,” have been twisted into campy, awards-grubbing cameos for big-name stars in bad-CG cat drag.”:
Well that’s me hooked and I’m even more “excited” to see it tomorrow.
I think.
Some amusing reviews! Just can’t bring myself to read The Daily Mail review purely because it’s The Daily Mail and my iPad might explode.
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Post by basdfg on Dec 19, 2019 10:07:15 GMT
“as nearly all the musical numbers, including “Memory,” have been twisted into campy, awards-grubbing cameos for big-name stars in bad-CG cat drag.”: Well that’s me hooked and I’m even more “excited” to see it tomorrow. I think. Some amusing reviews! Just can’t bring myself to read The Daily Mail review purely because it’s The Daily Mail and my iPad might explode. The daily mail seems to have given it four stars. |
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Post by anita on Dec 19, 2019 10:18:15 GMT
I'm really not sure if I will bother to see this. May just wait for DVD.
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Post by ceebee on Dec 19, 2019 11:04:53 GMT
The Independent embarrassment scale is a fun read...
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Post by ceebee on Dec 19, 2019 11:16:16 GMT
I can see this becoming the feline equivalent of Mamma Mia... Meow Meowmia. A cult following.
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Post by distantcousin on Dec 19, 2019 11:24:00 GMT
The Daily Mail review is certainly the most nuanced and considered.
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Post by tom on Dec 19, 2019 12:41:17 GMT
I still think (hope) I’ll enjoy it. Cats is a very weird musical and it divides people who love musicals so for people who aren’t necessarily into musicals anyway, it’s a tough sell. My concern isn’t with the look of the effects or the lack of real story as I know about that already. I am concerned that the best part of the show is the dancing and if it is not real humans in a theatre but computer enhanced cat-people “dancing” on a screen then it loses the spectacle of the dancing. What is left? I like the music so like I said, I’m sure I’ll still enjoy it.
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Post by duncan on Dec 19, 2019 14:11:41 GMT
Pete Bradshaw’s rhyming review in The Guardian is very cleverly composed. Seems to be a lot of stinging reviews out there in the media with the odd exception.Oh dear! It's clever but it makes me think he wrote it way before he actually saw the movie. You don't dash something like that off within an hour late in the evening. Its almost as if he saw the film before last night! |
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Post by d'James on Dec 19, 2019 14:11:50 GMT
Maybe they should’ve gone the other way and not really made them look like cats at all and just have stylised outfits to show the type of character they are.
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