I HATE THE MOVIE VERSION OF MR MISTOFFILES SO MUCH. THEY RUINED HIS WHOLE CHARACTER. THEY MADE HIM STRAIGHT. THEY TOOK THE FUN OUT OF THE SONG. AWFUL UGH. HATE HATE HATE
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i love the movie version in a “this is so terrible it’s like a fever dream” way (i need to be very stoned to watch it) but THEY TOOK AWAY ALL THE WHIMSY. I LOVE CATS SO MUCH WHY DID THEY DO THAT TO HIM 😭😭😭 AND HE’S ONE OF THE BEST CHARACTERS
In a game of word finder in school I did this. My teacher told me I had spelt it wrong as it needed a pH! I brought the album in the next day. Yes, I was that sort of child 😆
My mom performed in the ensemble for one of the West End runs. The movie was so shit it made her cry with genuine sadness in the first ten minutes. BAD MOVIE
when?? I saw it in 1990 or so.
And I have not seen the movie and will not until someone makes my livingroom movable like the theatre. The abomination in the topic I will not even speak of!!
My grandparents taped it off PBS and I watched it religiously from ages 6~12. It's marked on my soul, right next to the subbed Sailor Moon CDs my uncle burned for me (´ ω `♡)
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I have always had a deep dislike for Cats because I just couldn’t get into in. It's just not my kind of vibes. But I also totally understood people who liked it. It was a matter of taste. Until the movie. The movie is an insult to the idea of art itself and a crime against everything that's good.
They just didnt get the character. Bustopher is a bit of a blowhard, sure, but the other cats have to respect him. He's dignified! He's aspirational. He's the best-fed alley cat in town!
the scene where disembodied hands pop up in front of him to do to close up magic except the version in theatres forgot to include the CG pass that painted his hands white so it looks like a 2010s schmoyoho video is the hardest I have ever laughed in a cinema though
I empathize! When I was 20 or so I finally saw Gone With The Wind, having read Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece multiple times. On the heels of that disappointment I vowed to never again see a movie made from a book I loved. Don't feel like I've missed anything.
it's one of the only songs that used an actual click/backing track during filming that the singers had to go along to, which is necessary due to it having a unique rhythm (plus IIRC McRae insisted).
turns out it helps for musicals to have music to work off of!
Yes! Exactly this!
And they did something similar throughout the movie.
In the version of the musical that I saw, they were all singing about their friends and in the movie they're all singing about themselves. It changes the whole mood, and I don't like it.
Only a few movies, series did a good job reflecting the true nature of story, characters , and plots. The last one I saw was One Hundred Years of Solitude on Netflix.
I'll admit I didn't see the original Mr Mistoffiles as gay (though it makes so much sense). But taking a cat who knew what he could do and was so fucking proud of himself and making him absolutely terrified of everything pissed me off.
The album for the movie is good. They made some interesting changes musically. But if I’m gonna watch it, I’m pulling up the 1998 version every single time
The only song I feel that the movie changed in a positive way is Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat. The addition of the tap shoes to mimic the train sounds is actually an inspired decision... the entire rest of that movie is FUCKING DOGSHIT
funny story, that song is the best bc the entire rest of the soundtrack is off beat.
during filming, they let the actors to do what the fuck ever-no metronome, just vibes-and made the orchestra match it in post. Railway song is on beat bc the actors physically couldnt mess it up while tapdancing
No you’re literally so right. I’m the kind of person that usually picks a favorite version of a musical and hates all other performances but movie skimbleshanks SLAPS. To be fair, it’s hard to mess up. It’s kind of an all around easy banger.
Ed Sheeran has more swag than that cat. Side note my friends used to have a cat called Ed Sheeran, his full name was “Ed Sheeran (the cat not the singer)”
It's very bizarre to me how they wanted to pick a cat to be their female protagonist's love interest and they chose...and I do not say this lightly...the gayest one.
Adding insult to injury was how the film's production changed hands several times over the course of decades. It was previously helmed by Steven Spielberg, and was going to be TRADITIONALLY ANIMATED. That couldn't work, but the mo-cap cat vomit did.
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i need to watch it again
And I have not seen the movie and will not until someone makes my livingroom movable like the theatre. The abomination in the topic I will not even speak of!!
“CATS IS A GOOD SHOW WE SWEAR” we scream. Into the void. A void birthed by Tom Hooper
I think other folks didn't like that one.
:-(
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turns out it helps for musicals to have music to work off of!
And they did something similar throughout the movie.
In the version of the musical that I saw, they were all singing about their friends and in the movie they're all singing about themselves. It changes the whole mood, and I don't like it.
that fucks EVERYTHING up
They did Mr Mistoffiles dirty in the movie.
during filming, they let the actors to do what the fuck ever-no metronome, just vibes-and made the orchestra match it in post. Railway song is on beat bc the actors physically couldnt mess it up while tapdancing
I'm stunned that they nailed it with Skimble's casting but fumbled so many other characters so hard
I watched it in theaters while tripping on 2 tabs of acid. 11/10 nightmare fantasmagoria
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I was hoping they were just going to film, with several camera angles, the stage performance.
It would've been a much better film if they had.
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