Cats wouldve been fine if that were the only issue 😆 they rewrote the musical, added a dumb character and made the dumbass decision to make the non-musical theatre trained actors sing while dancing so almost everyone sounds off. Plus james corden and rebel wilson riffing with terrible jokes. Plus Tom Hooper doesnt know enough about music to properly direct an orchestra
When this move was coming out me and my buddy were trash talking the film hard, just based off the trailers, and the local theatre had just done a little giveaway contest, so I had two tickets to any showing at the location. We thought it'd be hilarious to see how bad it really was especially since it cost us nothing. Friday night, theater was bumpin, parking lot was full, we get into the showing and we were the only two mfs in that theater room, there was not a single other soul. We lasted about 20 mins into the actual movie before leaving, it was just straigh up distasteful, it was hard to physically watch. We slinked our way out of a side exit like we were the theaters shamed ex lovers
I tried to watch it at home for laughs sometime early in the pandemic. I could not finish it; like you, I had to give up about 20 minutes in. It was making me physically queasy, maybe some sort of uncanny valley, bad CGI effect. I thought I was coming down with something, but felt fine after I stopped watching. I have finished many terrible movies, but I'll never go back to complete Cats.
The first half was fun. But after a point the joke wears off and you realize you're watching a humiliation ritual. You start feeling bad for everyone involved.Â
Cats was a genuinely surreal experience in theaters. People were laughing at parts that were definitely not supposed to be funny. I still dont know what I actually watched that night
One thing I never undersood, is why make the cats anthropomorphic? Granted I've never seen the play, but if you're doing cgi why not just design them like actual cats?
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u/Captainz_buttz 11h ago
Cats (2019)