CATS is closing!!

Why, if these are CG enhanced/augmented bodies, do the Corden and Rebel Wilson cats still have to be overweight?

I sent the trailer to my wife with the subject line "holy shit," but never heard back. So this morning I asked her, hey, did you get a chance to watch that? And she basically said, annoyed, "I get it, you don't like musicals, but some people do." And I was perplexed, because I was not expecting what amounted to a defense of this thing. Turns out she only saw the first 5 seconds alone and thought it was just an ad for the stage version (which, again, she is seeing tonight), and that I was teasing her for liking "Cats." I told her, first of all, people have been making fun of "Cats" for decades, but that is neither here nor there, because this is (no pun intended) a whole different animal. She sat down and watched the whole thing, and her jaw just dropped. "Wait, they're actually cat-sized? This is sooooooo weird."

......"have to be"?

Why wouldn't the Corden/Wilson cats be overweight?

itt: fatcatshaming

I'll tell you who's feeling vindicated right now, the graphic designers for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie

Seriously. But do these cats have human teeth?

It looks like they were fat in the o.g.

So was Rebel Wilson typecast again ... as an overweight CG cat-person?

are you suggesting they should have CGI'd her to be thinner or something?

Looking forward to this movie's wild success so we can at last see the obvious sequel we've been so long denied.

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/thumbs/9E9520B3421127523132962471936_2.5.1.5085470408581007388.mp4.jpg

xpost No, not at all. Just that Taylor Swift could have just as easily been cast as an overweight cat and Wilson as a skinny cat and it wouldn't have made a difference, because they are not real, anyway.

I just spent 7 minutes pulling up clips from older productions that show both of those characters portrayed as bigger cats before realizing what I was doing and questioning everything about my decision-making process

ha

Taylor Swift shouldn't have been cast as anything because, even though her face does kind of look like a cat's, she can't sing that well

My 15 pound cat Oscar thinks they're all too small.

damn, josh really out here claiming that taylor swift and rebel wilson are 'not real', smdh

the sequel i want to see:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/417775nLOEL._SX271_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Characterwise, there's a lot more typecasting tied to the type of character Wilson's cat is than just body type; it's basically a fussier version of her character in Pitch Perfect

It would not surprise me in the least to learn that Swift and Wilson are both living holograms or something.

They should have CG'd Tupac into this. Maybe they did!

btw who wants to invest in my new musical The Hollow Men

we can combine this with starlight express and thomas the tank engine using my diagram posted above

xpost Only if it's a musical adaptation of the Verhoeven movie, with long scenes of no one on stage. Or, like, a floating pipe.

Taylor Swift shouldn't have been cast as anything because, even though her face does kind of look like a cat's, she can't sing that well

I suspect she will be far from the worst vocal offender in this cast

I'll pay money to see this if when Taylor Swift starts singing it's just loud screeching squawks like my cat

xp: I've heard everybody else except Judi Dench and Idris Elba and... I have doubts (esp given that Dench apparently was in the original cast and had to drop out because of injury???)

Hairballs, iirc.

It will honestly be pretty amusing when someone inevitably overdubs the entire movie with the sound of cats meowing and hissing and growling and caterwauling.

Leaked screen test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCja1WGZx-E

Production images are leaking:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdG2Jk5XUAE6isw.jpg
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3937/15453734999_f039472218_c.jpg
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/077/564/d5b.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7HsAaYbQ7Pw/hqdefault.jpg

https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1200x680/public/2019/01/cat_people_1982.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CT6VpKMpg88/hqdefault.jpg

TS Eliot was just a guy like you or me when he wrote CATS at his local Starbucks. Now he is probably gonna have an Oscar and take a selfie w ELLEN. Never give up on your dreams :-)

— Tavi Gevinson (@tavitulle) July 19, 2019

ts eliot is kind of the only person who deserves this happening tbh

Total Shit Eliot, amirite

turns out the uncanny valley was in the waste land the whole time

OMG I am so gullible, I don't know how it took me so long to realize that this 'trailer' is just the product of someone taking the werecat face from Thriller and deepfaking it onto all the dancing zombies from Thriller. Good one, guys. Good one.

No wonder I was so spooked!

the one nice thing I will say is that visually this looks to be less aggressively horrible in terms of shooting style than Les Miserables was. maybe he should take another stab at that one, except with CGI catsuits

https://imgix.bustle.com/lovelace/uploads/1143/e0c1a760-c164-0133-821d-0ed2e059c4cf.gif?fm=mp4

turns out the uncanny valley was in the waste land the whole time

theory: sonic, lion king and now cats are a coordinated effort by the government to deprogram furries through sheer horror - live action arthur is next pic.twitter.com/7vmxcX4OoS

— Daniel Howell (@danielhowell) July 19, 2019

how is there still cgi this bad in 2019, how

Like think how much cell phones have evolved since they became a thing. Now consider the decades-long evolution of CGI. I think there must've been some inbreeding somewhere in its lineage.

Hey, maybe the FX aren't complete (says every defender of shoddy CG in trailers ever).

Think how good Starship Troopers looks, and that movie is 50 years old.

Saw CATS as a kid. My mother got my playbill autographed and introduced me to one of the main actors. He OD’d on coke a week later and I was like “what’s Coke” and my parents just changed the subject.

— Desus Nice (@desusnice) July 19, 2019

xpost Or think how much worse the Hobbit looks than Lord of the Rings.

there are specific production-related reasons nu-CGI generally looks like shit but I'm sure that's been discussed elsewhere

It's like that thing where the initial practitioners of a technology are highly-skilled technicians but then as the thing becomes more pedestrian you just have a rag-tag group of scruffy misfits piloting the Nostromo from planet to planet.

Maybe one of you can illuminate, but I started to notice a change (and this is not scientific) when CG went from CG objects in real environments to majority CG, characters and. environments both, even if those environments were designed to look real. So every last inch of the screen has been tweaked and art directed and lit and so on in a really deliberate, almost accidentally stylized postcard way, right down to "artificial" elements (like fake lens flare, say), which introduces a different kind of uncanny valley. Everything calls attention it itself, so matter how small or insignificant.