CATS is closing!!

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

I will say that this looks more entertaining than The Lion King

You have no chance to survive make your time

^an oldie but goodie.

congrats ALW, first you did disco tetris and now this

^an oldie but goodie.

I don't know why but I was under the impression that this was going to be an animated thing, like with actual cartoon cats rather than hellbeast cat/human hybrids. I guess because...that makes more sense? And might've actually been semi-appealing? I...I don't know how you spend so much time and money making something like this without at some point conceding that you're doing something unholy and should stop.

The whole 'people in shabby cat costumes' thing...I mean, I always just assumed that was for the sake of practicality and expedience in the context of a stage production, not an intentional aesthetic choice that you throw hundreds of millions of dollars behind.

what the hecking shit is the source of that fake Watchmen panel that ppl keep memeing? I never have any idea what point they’re trying to make w/ it

so one of my key findings from having cats for a year plus now after a lifetime of not having cats is that cats have very prominent assholes that you see like, all the time because they walk around with their tails in an 'up' position, and honestly that's the main thing i thought of while i was watching this trailer.

it’s a real short hop from that post to erotic fan-art

itshappening.gif

it's the confidence of cat asshole display that I find the most troubling

I had completely forgotten if there had been a Cats movie, so life has worked out after all

The costume design actually looks pretty good (or at least not shabby) - I assume the cat costumes IE the fur is 100% CGI.

should've just used real cats tbh

I dunno, it sure looks to me like they're wearing real cats.

Also, while Satan is surely pleased with what they've created, you figure they almost certainly made a blood offering to the dark lord, as well, to ensure the success of this pantomime of the damned. The question, really, is just how many dozens (hundreds?) of felines lost their lives over the course of birthing this cinematic abomination.

Uncanny Valley: The Movie

the rogue font in this thread is worse than the trailer

the trailer so cursed it broke ilx

How do I shot rogue font?

Blursed af.

TS: Jack Reynor in a skinned bear vs Judi Dench in a skinned cat

https://imgur.com/FBPADCh.jpg

CATS, Christmas 2019 pic.twitter.com/jiypvYbZB8

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) July 18, 2019

This is the cinematic equivalent of holing up alone inside your home for a year and then walking out into the world without ever glancing into a mirror beforehand. The producers of the film are currently standing in the street with a slice of pizza stuck to their shirt and their dick hanging out and going 'What? What?!' at the bystanders currently gawking in understandable disgust.

Something that's been cracking me up are people who missed out on the original phenomenon looking at the trailing and going "but what is it ABOUT?" and I can't wait for them to find out it's basically a musical revue with a tenuous narrative throughline

That was one of the first things that occurred to me when I saw the trailer, that the 'oh, hey, it's Cats, the musical whose unique visual style is familiar to me because it was something of a cultural phenomenon within recent memory' window is kinda way way closed.

While we're at it, I'd argue that there's no time like 2019 for a reverent adaptation of Starlight Express.

Only if it's done like Thomas the Tank Engine

https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DD0woFSXoAAJqhS.jpg

daer god

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