OT: "Cats"
 

Have been reading the reviews and they are savage. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave it 0/5. Others say it is less enjoyable than a root canal or painful rectal itch.

Having seen the musical four times (don't ask), I don't feel the need to see Tom Hooper's apparent abortion, particularly because he also ruined "Les Miserables" so totally.

Is anyone here going to put a paw in?

Pretty sure this was released just for the memes it will spin off

Even as a broadway musical it is extremely dated now.

Most trailers for even a bad movie manage to find 2 minutes of interesting footage to give the movie a chance opening weekend. I fail to see anything good in the Cats trailers. It's 2 minutes of my life I want back.

Chicago on broadway was much better than the movie. I cannot see how Hamilton could ever be turned into a movie either.

I saw the musical when it came to Penn State a few years back. Didn't really do that much for me. I might see the movie because I like bad movies. I predict it will become a classic. Not quite as big as sharknado though.

dont worry they are fixing it as we speak...

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/vfx-...rs-184122.html

Here's Bramhall's cartoon in today's New York Daily News.

Wow.

I grew up in a musical theater family. My mom & dad met performing musical theater in college circa 1956. (My dad's best advice to me ever, when I was 14 years old, which I remember verbatim, was "you should get involved in musical theater; it's a great way to meet chicks." He was right.) They still perform regularly in a song&dance troupe that they co-founded. In addition to all the music performing I've done more-or-less continuously since I was 8 years old (and 20+ years professionally) I've been involved in musical theater since 1975. My wife was a professional musical theater singer/dancer from age 5 through 35, with several national and international tours under her belt. (In fact, we met doing the European tour of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1988.)

So to say that musical theater is in my blood would be an understatement.

And yet...

I saw "Cats" on Broadway...once.
And that was once too many.


My hat's off to you sir.

Not even my kids, who want to see almost every family-friendly movie, want to see this.

Cost $100M, opening day was $2.6M.

Cats is the musical version of a BSO from Walmart.

Ha ha - I was listening to CBC (a Canadian) yesterday and they were interviewing a critic about it. She hadn’t seen it yet but was critiquing the critics, saying that there is a herd mentality of reviewing where one-up(wo)manship prevails so the true quality of a movie is often left improperly reviewed.

She also said that the herd mentality tend to be fairly accurate and the movie is an absolute abomination:)

If I had two hours to waste in my life I might watch it for a laugh, but lord knows, I cannot waste any of my time :) (** Paceline excepted!)

I liked Idris Elba as DCI John Luther in the Netflix series. I wish I had not seen the trailer. The image of him as a cat will ruin all of his future shows.

Talylor Swift is in there. My impression of her will remain the same. Can't give 2 sh§∞s. Or 1.

I've been reading the reviews from the major reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes...hilarious and brutal, absolutely brutal. Guess I'll go see Ford vs Ferrari.

This is REALLY cool. It's these "offbeat" threads that usually reveal the interesting details of member's lives. It's why I like the "GD" area. This is not the sort of biographical info that would be prompted by a "gravel tire" question, for example.

I knew was going to flop, wonder if worse than fantastic 4 (the last one).

Some singers and some english character actors really need to stay in their comfort zone and avoid stuff like that.

I think I'd rather go watch Ishtar again. ;)