To be generous, they may not have realized what they'd look like after the CGI people got through with them. (Also - Idris Elba? he may have lost his sexiest man rating for this.)
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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Toddson - Jul 19, 2019 6:20:01 am PDT #2116 of 3463
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-t - Jul 19, 2019 6:26:39 am PDT #2117 of 3463
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think they knew exactly what they were getting into!
Oh, come on, Judi Dench said to herself "CGI cats maybe wearing clothes and a forced plot? Sign me up!"
Jessica - Jul 19, 2019 6:35:26 am PDT #2118 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The plot is the same as the musical from what I can tell, with slightly more exposition (if those lines weren't added just for the trailer).
-t - Jul 19, 2019 7:12:54 am PDT #2119 of 3463
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The production I saw had no plot whatsoever. That I noticed, anyway.
Jesse - Jul 19, 2019 7:27:27 am PDT #2120 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
She always sounds like that to me.
I think that's true, but I just re-read that long Guardian article about vocal technique, thanks to JZ posting it, so it's on my mind.
Jesse - Jul 19, 2019 7:39:52 am PDT #2121 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, I am now stuck with "Jellicle songs/for jellicle cats!" in my head. Just that part.
megan walker - Jul 19, 2019 8:34:44 am PDT #2122 of 3463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Jesus Fucking Christ, it's Belinda: The Musical. [link]
Honestly, that's not as bad as I feared. As someone who saw Cats on Broadway ages and ages ago and thought the people as cats looked fairly ridiculous, this is mostly* an improvement?
But I just suffered through the new Lion King so that might have something to do with it.
[*Judi Dench excepted]
msbelle - Jul 19, 2019 9:12:43 am PDT #2123 of 3463
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
My feeling is, everything doesn't need to be a movie, or redone.
Jessica - Jul 19, 2019 9:52:12 am PDT #2124 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The plot of Cats:
Once a year, all the Jellicle cats gather together to choose a cat who will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and be reborn. One by one, each cat makes his/her case (or has their case made for them by a narrator cat) until eventually [SPOILER CAT] is chosen, and ascends, and the cats all celebrate. Halfway through the proceedings, they get distracted and put on a play-within-a-play about dogs. (Which had better not involve more CGI. I want to see Taylor Swift as a cat wearing a fucking traffic cone on her head.)
megan walker - Jul 19, 2019 9:56:39 am PDT #2125 of 3463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Once a year, all the Jellicle cats gather together to choose a cat who will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and be reborn. One by one, each cat makes his/her case (or has their case made for them by a narrator cat) until eventually [SPOILER CAT] is chosen, and ascends, and the cats all celebrate.
This is pretty funny if you know that I watched Logan's Run last night for the first time.