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Post by steve10086 on Dec 23, 2019 16:35:14 GMT
Got nothing better to do? .....than come on a forum and post a comment? or go see Cats twice?! i think it’s obvious I don’t! ☹️ Seeing Cats twice is a perfectly good use of time... it was the whole refund thing I was referring to (a bit too harshly!) |
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Post by intoanewlife on Dec 23, 2019 16:40:23 GMT
The Cats situation is more akin to paying full price to see a show on stage and only finding out during the performance that you're watching a preview. Isn’t the version released to cinemas the same as seen by the critics? Therefore it isn’t the same situation as a preview. This is more like the tinkering that continues to happen after opening night. They aren't 'tinkering' anything, they are completing their original work. I imagine the FX company are extremely embarrassed this has happened to them as well and are doing everything they can to save their reputation. Considering most of the films criticism has been about the shoddy FX work when it isn't shoddy, it is just incomplete. After this and the the Bohemian Rhapsody fiasco, the FX industry in the UK is not having the best of times. |
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Post by mrmushnik on Dec 23, 2019 16:50:47 GMT
What a disaster. Can’t bear Wilson and Corden, just being Wilson and Corden. Cats is nothing without the brilliance of Dame Gillian Lynne and would never have been successful in the first had it not been for her groundbreaking choreography. Take that away and you’re left with.....very little
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 17:04:58 GMT
The Avatar characters were far weirder looking than this and people got used to those in 2 minutes. Of course that was a big dumb 'boy' movie though, so it didn't cop any backlash. If this was a film where the cats looked exactly the same but were all running around with machine guns shooting each other, their appearance would not be a problem I'm sure... Lol! Avatar is a ‘dumb boy’ movie!?!? Does that make Cats a ‘silly girl’ movie!?! |
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Post by dontdreamit on Dec 23, 2019 17:09:31 GMT
After this and the the Bohemian Rhapsody fiasco, the FX industry in the UK is not having the best of times. What happened with that film? |
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Post by intoanewlife on Dec 23, 2019 17:12:59 GMT
What happened with that film? Even though the film did well over a billion dollars in cinema and home video sales, the company that did all the FX work on the film went broke and none of the people who did the work on it ever got paid. |
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Post by intoanewlife on Dec 23, 2019 17:13:44 GMT
The Avatar characters were far weirder looking than this and people got used to those in 2 minutes. Of course that was a big dumb 'boy' movie though, so it didn't cop any backlash. If this was a film where the cats looked exactly the same but were all running around with machine guns shooting each other, their appearance would not be a problem I'm sure... Lol! Avatar is a ‘dumb boy’ movie!?!? Does that make Cats a ‘silly girl’ movie!?! 'Dumb boys' would think it is a 'silly girl' movie yes x |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 17:16:50 GMT
Lol! Avatar is a ‘dumb boy’ movie!?!? Does that make Cats a ‘silly girl’ movie!?! 'Dumb boys' would think it is a 'silly girl' movie yes x And by golly they would be right 🐕🐕🐕 |
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Post by intoanewlife on Dec 23, 2019 17:22:40 GMT
'Dumb boys' would think it is a 'silly girl' movie yes x And by golly they would be right 🐕🐕🐕 It is actually lucky it came out the same week as Star Wars and the 'feminist' remake of Back Christmas as the toxic masculinity brigade that is most movie forums have been so busy ripping those apart Cats has got off virtually Scottfree apart from snickers about it's box office results. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 17:25:44 GMT
And by golly they would be right 🐕🐕🐕 It is actually lucky it came out the same week as Star Wars and the 'feminist' remake of Back Christmas as the toxic masculinity brigade that is most movie forums have been so busy ripping those apart Cats has got off virtually Scottfree apart from snickers about it's box office results. Black Christmas was just plain bad movie, nowt to do with masculinity |
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Post by intoanewlife on Dec 23, 2019 17:27:15 GMT
It is actually lucky it came out the same week as Star Wars and the 'feminist' remake of Back Christmas as the toxic masculinity brigade that is most movie forums have been so busy ripping those apart Cats has got off virtually Scottfree apart from snickers about it's box office results. Black Christmas was just plain bad movie, nowt to do with masculinity They were all having a fit about it being 'man hating' on one of the movie forums I look at. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 17:31:13 GMT
Black Christmas was just plain bad movie, nowt to do with masculinity They were all having a fit about it being 'man hating' on one of the movie forums I look at. It was indeed and that was the only interesting thing about it!! |
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Post by anthem on Dec 23, 2019 19:07:18 GMT
Lol! Avatar is a ‘dumb boy’ movie!?!? Does that make Cats a ‘silly girl’ movie!?! 'Dumb boys' would think it is a 'silly girl' movie yes x The original post is a fair point to make. Certain types of movies are given a free pass by critics or at least not subject to the same level of visceral criticism; the reason Cats is being slated by some is because it’s a musical. The Fast and the Furious franchise is utter trash but critics don’t get glee out of slating it. Musicals have a much harder time being taken seriously and I’d hazard a guess that part of this is because they are perceived as being feminine and lightweight. Look at how critics treated the Ghostbusters reboot. The original poster didn’t use the office phrase ‘silly girl movie.’ |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 19:19:07 GMT
'Dumb boys' would think it is a 'silly girl' movie yes x The original post is a fair point to make. Certain types of movies are given a free pass by critics or at least not subject to the same level of visceral criticism; the reason Cats is being slated by some is because it’s a musical. The Fast and the Furious franchise is utter trash but critics don’t get glee out of slating it. Musicals have a much harder time being taken seriously and I’d hazard a guess that part of this is because they are perceived as being feminine and lightweight. Look at how critics treated the Ghostbusters reboot. The original poster didn’t use the office phrase ‘silly girl movie.’ No I use the phrase ‘silly girl movie’ and someone said Avatar was a ‘dumb boy movie’. In no way do I see Cats as that but was trying to make a small point. what the heck has a 9 movie franchise (some of them got just as bad reviews as Cats) about racing cars after to do with a musical about suicidal cats!? i think movie musicals are a hard affair to pull off. On stage audience and cast feed off each other’s energy, almost impossible to replicate on film. |
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Post by d'James on Dec 23, 2019 20:10:44 GMT
The Avatar characters were far weirder looking than this and people got used to those in 2 minutes. Of course that was a big dumb 'boy' movie though, so it didn't cop any backlash. If this was a film where the cats looked exactly the same but were all running around with machine guns shooting each other, their appearance would not be a problem I'm sure... I think this is absolute nonsense. (I wanted to use a stronger word.) Avatar was by no means a great movie but they were supposed to be aliens. These are supposed to be real animals that a lot of people see every day. Yes they’re singing and dancing cats and you have to suspend your disbelief but they clearly weren’t one hundred percent sure or ready with the concept for this. It works in the theatre but clearly this concept doesn’t. Maybe people weren’t ready for this, or it’s just bad but the gun argument is way too simplistic. |
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Post by digipal on Dec 23, 2019 20:20:16 GMT
I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt and go see it sometime this week
For what it's worth, here's my live action musical hit / miss list
Hit
- Evita
- Chicago
- Moulin Rouge
- Beauty and the Beast
- The Greatest Showman
- Mamma Mia
- La La Land
- Judy
- Sweeney Todd
- Dreamgirls
Miss [IMHO]
- Les Miserables
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Lion King 2019 [not sure it's live action]
Hope the recent bad press doesn't kill future development as I'd love to see Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon and Hamilton on the big screen one day
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 20:32:08 GMT
I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt and go see it sometime this week For what it's worth, here's my live action musical hit / miss list Hit - Evita - Chicago - Moulin Rouge - Beauty and the Beast - The Greatest Showman - Mamma Mia - La La Land - Judy - Sweeney Todd - Dreamgirls Miss [IMHO] - Les Miserables - The Phantom of the Opera - The Lion King 2019 [not sure it's live action] Hope the recent bad press doesn't kill future development as I'd love to see Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon and Hamilton on the big screen one day Yes Chicago was great, as was Moulin Rouge. And Mamma Mia did (very well) what it said on the tin. Comparing like for like though and considering only sung through musicals and the list of hits reduces dramatically. For me it's only Evita. Sung through vs traditional pose very different challenges. There are of course many old traditional musical films. But making movies of the sung through 70s/80s/90s/00s stuff seems very difficult! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 20:56:48 GMT
I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt and go see it sometime this week For what it's worth, here's my live action musical hit / miss list Hit - Evita - Chicago - Moulin Rouge - Beauty and the Beast - The Greatest Showman - Mamma Mia - La La Land - Judy - Sweeney Todd - Dreamgirls Miss [IMHO] - Les Miserables - The Phantom of the Opera - The Lion King 2019 [not sure it's live action] Hope the recent bad press doesn't kill future development as I'd love to see Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon and Hamilton on the big screen one day Judy isn’t a musical. A film with some songs |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 21:20:51 GMT
Sweeney Todd did well because 90% of the audience didnt know it was a musical going into it. Into The Woods - Big hit and a great adaptation. Not afraid of being a musical. Rent - Huge flop. There are ALOT of other musical film flops, but Cats has always been a much maligned show, and i feel people were going into it not liking it already. Theres really is no way to make a feature film of the stage show, keep it faithful to the original story and make it appeal to the masses.
Edited to add: Dreamgirls had an identity crisis.It started off by cutting all the recitative (sung dialogue) and kept it to songs sung in performance on stage and in recording studios, so when they suddenly started to sing to each other in Familly, its jarring.
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Post by intoanewlife on Dec 23, 2019 23:16:30 GMT
The Avatar characters were far weirder looking than this and people got used to those in 2 minutes. Of course that was a big dumb 'boy' movie though, so it didn't cop any backlash. If this was a film where the cats looked exactly the same but were all running around with machine guns shooting each other, their appearance would not be a problem I'm sure... I think this is absolute nonsense. (I wanted to use a stronger word.) Avatar was by no means a great movie but they were supposed to be aliens. These are supposed to be real animals that a lot of people see every day. Yes they’re singing and dancing cats and you have to suspend your disbelief but they clearly weren’t one hundred percent sure or ready with the concept for this. It works in the theatre but clearly this concept doesn’t. Maybe people weren’t ready for this, or it’s just bad but the gun argument is way too simplistic. Nothing wrong with Avatar, I like Avatar. It is a big dumb boy movie and my 50 year old ass feels like a big dumb boy every time I watch it. But those aliens still look as weird AF, no matter how many times I watch it. I also love Bridesmaids and Mean Girls (and I didn't even hate Ghostbusters, even though I hated Ghostbusters), so nothing wrong with a good silly girl movie over here either. However, not everyone feels the same way and they are loud and they have internet connections... These 'cats' look slightly (like VERY slightly) different to the way they have always looked since the musical debuted nearly 40 years ago. In fact from a distance they look EXACTLY the same. It has been filmed with them looking the same way a gazillion times on tv adverts, tv performances and even entire film versions of the stage play for 4 decades and yet everyone is acting like they have never seen anything like it before. It is completely baffling to me that their look is getting the reception it is and it has baffled me since the first trailer over reaction. If they didn't look the way they do ie a slightly updated version of the originals, there would've probably been an even bigger hissyfit. |
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Post by xanady on Dec 23, 2019 23:24:47 GMT
^Brilliantly detailed and reflective review by Dom above.Love to hear other members different viewpoints of shows/films etc in the threads on this site.
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Post by Jon on Dec 24, 2019 1:00:49 GMT
The movie musical will be fine, if In The Heights and West Side Story do well next year, Cats will be seen as a blip much like Nine and Rock of Ages.
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Post by talkingheads on Dec 24, 2019 1:28:01 GMT
I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt and go see it sometime this week For what it's worth, here's my live action musical hit / miss list Hit - Evita - Chicago - Moulin Rouge - Beauty and the Beast - The Greatest Showman - Mamma Mia - La La Land - Judy - Sweeney Todd - Dreamgirls Miss [IMHO] - Les Miserables - The Phantom of the Opera - The Lion King 2019 [not sure it's live action] Hope the recent bad press doesn't kill future development as I'd love to see Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon and Hamilton on the big screen one day I'm pretty sure Hamilton was filmed on Broadway with Lin Manuel but they're waiting until they've squeezed every last penny out of ticket sales before releasing it. www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/hamilton-movie-released-2020-lin-manuel-miranda |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2019 1:37:08 GMT
The movie musical will be fine, if In The Heights and West Side Story do well next year, Cats will be seen as a blip much like Nine and Rock of Ages. Nine is a great example of a flop musical film. Big names in Daniel Day Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Marion Collitard, and it bombed. They might be Oscar winners, but people still aren't willing to pay money to see people sing to each other. It's an odd choice to put on film, but i guess they thought the names would get people in. |
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Post by djp on Dec 24, 2019 3:58:50 GMT
I think this is absolute nonsense. (I wanted to use a stronger word.) Avatar was by no means a great movie but they were supposed to be aliens. These are supposed to be real animals that a lot of people see every day. Yes they’re singing and dancing cats and you have to suspend your disbelief but they clearly weren’t one hundred percent sure or ready with the concept for this. It works in the theatre but clearly this concept doesn’t. Maybe people weren’t ready for this, or it’s just bad but the gun argument is way too simplistic. Nothing wrong with Avatar, I like Avatar. It is a big dumb boy movie and my 50 year old ass feels like a big dumb boy every time I watch it. But those aliens still look as weird AF, no matter how many times I watch it. I also love Bridesmaids and Mean Girls (and I didn't even hate Ghostbusters, even though I hated Ghostbusters), so nothing wrong with a good silly girl movie over here either. However, not everyone feels the same way and they are loud and they have internet connections... These 'cats' look slightly (like VERY slightly) different to the way they have always looked since the musical debuted nearly 40 years ago. In fact from a distance they look EXACTLY the same. It has been filmed with them looking the same way a gazillion times on tv adverts, tv performances and even entire film versions of the stage play for 4 decades and yet everyone is acting like they have never seen anything like it before. It is completely baffling to me that their look is getting the reception it is and it has baffled me since the first trailer over reaction. If they didn't look the way they do ie a slightly updated version of the originals, there would've probably been an even bigger hissyfit. I don't get the allergy to odd looking people or cats either.
My point would be that they just fail to register as strongly as characters as they do in the stage show - what makes them different- the stronger make up , and the human character and physique behind it, is lost in the faux fur. They don't connect. Thats amplified by the poor film cutting chopping the dancing, so we get to see them show off their moves less , the curious cuts of some of their most iconic and individual dances, and the relative weakness of the cat's different attitudes to Grizabella . That looked like more political correctness- in case the weak minded audience collapsed at seeing her properly shunned by the tribe, The emotions just come over better in the musical - shunned and chased away - to love and acceptance - this was all a bit meh in a miaow way,
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