CATS is closing!!

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.

I'm going to skip this and go see The Amazing Alexander. He was much better than CATS.

(Actually this thing is opening opposite Star Wars Episode IX, which either indicates a staggering amount of counterprogramming confidence, or "lol, let's make it up on ancillaries.")

These cat people totally could have fit into Star Wars. Like, a cat planet where the good guys are, like:

Guy one: "Is this ... snow?"
Guy two: (tastes surface covering) "No, man, it's ... cat litter!"

xp to Josh: There was a good youtube that addressed that question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZGcAmXWyM

With follow-up after input from the CGI community (which I haven't seen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM2s-McYNWM

There is a "canonical" feline species in Star Wars called (:sigh:) Cathars. They have been especially popular in video games.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy/the_old_republic_cathar_2-590x334.jpg

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???

xpost Great videos, thanks!

http://i.imgur.com/5435m4p.jpg

They should adapt this into a feature:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoUEQYjYgf4

why does James Corden's character look like The Penguin

I want to file that under "questions that answer themselves" but it doesn't quite work

the only good and correct take:

I broke down the Cats trailer shot-for-shot. Let's dive into the hot takes that matter: who does Tom Hooper ship, reckless speculation on why Victoria is now in every song, and Old Dencheronomy. CATS. This is it.https://t.co/9L87dAC776

— sarah james #1 cats fan account (@cryingbaseball) July 19, 2019

this movie is my Star War

Here's my Cats hot take: they should've done the people dressed as animals thing for the new Lion King and the hyper-realistic animation for the Cats musical

— Sarah (@sarah_jwh) July 19, 2019

Actually all of the bad meme films should just cross over, I joke one year before they announce they will do this

They tried that—it was called the DCEU

I was thinking marvel honestly

The fun thing about our cinematic is that yours was a layup setup with several punchlines

*our cinematic age

if the taylor swift musical cgi cat movie is somehow better reviewed than the beyonce musical cgi cat movie then this will truly be the 10th anniversary of the 2009 VMAs

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) July 19, 2019

I just don't understand why the cats are not furry? They look like lizards with cat ears and occasionally big sideburns.

Am I the only one when I see this thread title I pretty much always think of Stockard Channing in Six Degrees of Separation?