CATS is closing!!

Yeah, it was called SCAT heh.

However it did bring back the even earlier childhood trauma of my crazed cat-loving grandpa who would beckon me aside, recite long chunks of Bustopher Jones / Skimbleshanks / The Naming of Cats and then say 'go and tell Daddy that', at which point I would run off and interrupt my dad mid-shave in order to recite whatever I could remember at him. If only I had known the songs first this would have been much easier.

WHich reminds me of a Jaffa Cake Box question.

The bottles look fantastic as I like the idea of trying to drink directly from one. I'd say they're about 8 or 10 pints. The French have it right with those litre mini barrels of Kronenberg that you stick the spout on to drink. They cost 8 francs aswell in OLD money.

Fascinating history of beer cans, including 'party cans' at beercannews.com.

What happen?

So the cast for this year's movie version is its own parody:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5697572/fullcredits/

Love Swifty. Love cats. Hate Cats.

Well, here we go

One night. One chance. Watch the #CatsMovie trailer now. pic.twitter.com/7XwCx79xOh

— Universal PicturesUK (@universaluk) July 18, 2019

cursed

Twitter is in amazing meltdown mode right now.

pic.twitter.com/Puc7vxvDIH

— Sean O'Kane (@sokane1) July 18, 2019

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no noooooo

Lousy musical makes lousy movie. Starting the trailer with the only big song is a very bad sign.

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/catinthehat.jpg?quality=100&w=650

Boxcar

Holy shit, I made it 10 seconds through the trailer.

My family is seeing the musical tomorrow night.

Someone should replace all those cat people with Sonic the Hedgehog.

Not people who follow ALW though xps

The official trailer for the @catsmovie has been released. Coming to cinemas this December. #TeamALW #CatsMovie pic.twitter.com/bG6vxlX7U4

— Andrew Lloyd Webber (@OfficialALW) July 18, 2019

I love Phil Spector's well-trod zing: "“I respect Andrew Lloyd Webber’s work so much that someday I’d like to set it to music.”

oh god oh fuck there’s gonna be so much erotic fan-art made about this

Uh, that IS the erotic fan-art

what the fuck did i just watch

scientists have distilled physical pain into a single image, and it is this: pic.twitter.com/rKoEq1bnJM

— isekobra kai (@Sona_Sonara) July 18, 2019

lol

how does this keep happening

had korean subtitles idk

I honestly don't know who James Corden is, so I kept thinking people in chat were saying "James Gordon" like the cop in Gotham/Batman and I was very confused, because it was CATS! not BATS!

i got to the point where Jason Derulo showed up and my partner said NOPE and walked out so that's as far as we got
the jenny anydots sequence is one of the most batshit things i've ever seen on film, reminded me of Miike!

My wife started this last night and made it ... not far before turning it off and saying it was even worse than she expected. I asked her what she expected, and she said, I dunno, but I didn't expect it to be *that* bad. And I asked, what, the literally universal derision and it bombing hard with a vengeance wasn't hint enough?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-edited-the-buttholes-out-of-cats-it-was-a-total-nightmare

That article needs more buttholes.

tom hooper seems like a real butthole

yet unremoved 🧐

a half dozen of us "celebrated" the beginning of covid lockdown by watching this movie together the night before last in a video chatroom

― sarahell, Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:49 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I did this roughly at the same time but most of the people left way before the film finished.

just a ghastly looking thing. absolutely awful. I don't know the musical but the musical is definitely part of the problem here, there's not many tunes (I can really only remember the refrain from the magical mr mistoffelees song and the chorus of memory) and the story and book is just sort of bizarre. Jason de rulo is fine but the most of the cast is awful special mentions to rebel Wilson, James Corden, Idris, and Taylor Swift doing "sexy"

this film is both perfect for and self-evidently about ilx

― mark s, Sunday, 5 January 2020 18:14 (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

still true (the last movie i saw in a cinema before lockdown)

“I respect Andrew Lloyd Webber’s work so much,” he said, “that someday I’d like to set it to music.”

lol

(unfair tho, he has written a handful of good songs)

hopefully this will destroy tom hooper's career.

i don't know how a director can fuck up framing in multiple movies.

still true (the last movie i saw in a cinema before lockdown)

― mark s, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 4:36 PM (two hours ago)

haha me too

sometimes late at night i am haunted by the thought that this will end up being the last movie i ever see in a movie theater

we went out on a high is how i break it down to some extent

I went to an Alamo rowdy screening which was mostly a fun crowd with one or two people who thought they were Tom Servo. Movie is fully insane nonsense and still like 30 minutes too long.

I had little to no knowledge of the source material, but like 80% of the film is like "Let's introduce a cat so we have an excuse to sing a song about that particular cat.

That may be what the play is about too, I don't know for sure!

“We paused it,” the source said. “We went to call our supervisor, and we’re like, ‘There’s a fucking asshole in there! There’s buttholes!’

"Butthole emails ..."

it does feel like most of the movie is made up of songs that introduce a new cat.

this is also the stageplay

it's abt a sect (an extremely hrony) with an admin problem regarding its central ritual, they have to interview a consultant to solve the problem but it's ok bcz she does

the interview structure is arduous

an extremely hrony = an extremely horny sect, sorry i'm watching ponyo as i type

the lindsay ellis video on cats is worth watching

an extremely hrony = an extremely horny sect, sorry i'm watching ponyo as i type

watching hrony pr0nyo

:o

I also misread "porno" in that post

watching this was torture and I would like to do it again with a full house someday

how much hornier is starlight express than CATS (2019)? readers i revisited starlight express and the answer will distress you

plz tell me that is a bad joke about train horns and not about the sexual rambunctiousness of said trains.

only the finest peer-reviewed anthropology, i never joke

Surprised nobody posted this yet (amazing from Ellis as ever)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6iqAip-ZNo

Someone just above noted it. Honestly, I totally forgot she existed, so appreciated the reminder! But yeah, it's great.

I just watched the movie last night and my overall opinion is WAHT

Same reaction I just had reading that you watched the movie!

ChatGPT helpded me
"A longing rises, odd but true,
For realism in a feline view.
Anuses absent, a quirky debate,
In the Cats film, a peculiar fate."

My only contribution to any Cats discussion:

https://t.co/mnR69btjEJ pic.twitter.com/vtBlnSxCUH

— Adam Sass 🌹🍇 (@TheAdamSass) December 30, 2023