How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Pocket (?) » Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:48 pm

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:07 am

They should just release a new cut of the movie every year. One with the 1.0 version they had to patch in theaters, one for the Butthole Cut, one with none of the special effects for theater afficionados, one for Lego Cats, etc.

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Skipper (?) » Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:11 am

CGI buttholes
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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Adiwan (?) » Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:16 am

Eventually there will be a version in which they replace all human actors with real cats clumsily assembled from internet videos (to cut down in costs).
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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:19 pm

Somebody thought it was a good idea to add butthole in the first place.

I wonder what that conversation was like :-I

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Void Chicken (?) » Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:30 am

Nobody added the cat asshole, just the fur simulation there tended to add swirls (and, well, lines) and someone had to go edit them all out.

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Skipper (?) » Fri Mar 20, 2020 3:32 am

Aha, the good old "implied butthole"

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Mar 20, 2020 3:42 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:07 am
They should just release a new cut of the movie every year. One with the 1.0 version they had to patch in theaters, one for the Butthole Cut, one with none of the special effects for theater afficionados, one for Lego Cats, etc.
Cats done as a Lego movie would be an improvement over probably both the play and the movie, but also now I'm imagining Unikitty as a Jellicle Cat.
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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by The Doctor (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:43 pm

Some fun supplemental material...




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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:47 pm

if the cats movie tried to look like a stage play, with sets and costumes and having actors who weren't there for star power i honestly think the thing would've been fine

like, seeing well done choreography and hearing catchy songs is perfectly fine for a movie
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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by The Doctor (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:16 pm

DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:47 pm
if the cats movie tried to look like a stage play, with sets and costumes and having actors who weren't there for star power i honestly think the thing would've been fine

like, seeing well done choreography and hearing catchy songs is perfectly fine for a movie

I'm still baffled that they got rid of the stylish manes for the character's.

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Adiwan (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:33 pm

This is what you get when you want to make a movie based on the popularity of a bunch of actors. They want to show their faces and not them being covered up, which makes everything worse.

BTW: I heard that some "fans" edited the movie to create their own butthole cut.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:34 pm

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:57 pm

There was actually going to be an animated Cats movie in the late '90s, made by the studio behind Balto and spearheaded by no less than Steven Spielberg. (Although whether he would actually be directing or just slapping his name on as a producer credit because he owned the studio is unclear.) Here is some of the concept art.
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Post by Ragnar (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:17 pm

Perpetual Motion wrote:
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This is a list of the twitter accounts the official Cats Movie twitter is following.
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Post by diribigal (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:27 pm

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a reaction GIF from Cats for use in demanding scanlation updates in a Something Awful thread about a Japanese webcomic done in Paint in black and white.
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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Pocket (?) » Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:14 pm

Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:42 pm

Before visual effects artists fully render sequences for animated films, they normally show directors playblasts—preview renderings that feature characters without color or texture. That allows the director to evaluate the motion before hours of work are done to flesh out things like color, texture, and lighting. Hooper, however, did not seem to grasp that process. Any time the visual effects team wanted to show the director any animatics, the source said, they had to fully render it. Otherwise, he’d say things like, “What’s this garbage?” and “I don’t understand— where’s the fur?”
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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Apr 14, 2020 7:52 pm

Between this and Sonic the Hedgehog, VFX artists need to hurry up and unionize like basically everyone else in the film industry.
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Fizzbuzz wrote:
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Between this and Sonic the Hedgehog, VFX artists need to hurry up and unionize like basically everyone else in the film industry.
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More variants from SA:
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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:01 pm

You know, I remember enjoying The King's Speech. Was I wrong? Or perhaps was it the acting that made it great?

Les Miserables was trash, though. A baffling adaptation of a terrific stage musical.
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Post by Ragnar (?) » Sun May 03, 2020 6:20 pm

https://letterboxd.com/bransonreese/film/cats-2019/

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by The Doctor (?) » Mon May 11, 2020 10:31 pm

So, Andrew Lloyd Webber has been doing charity viewings of his musicals. Putting up ones that have had recorded performances, for free, on youtube for 48 hours starting Friday Afternoons. They've done Phantom, the Phantom sequel (which was even worse than it's reputation had prepared me for), Jesus Christ Superstar, and a few more (this past weekend was one called "By Jeeves", which I had never heard of.

This week it's....



https://broadwaydirect.com/cats-to-stre ... ust-go-on/

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Re: How the hell did we not have a thread for the movie event of the year?

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:56 pm

Happy Catsiversary!



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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:20 pm

I swear this feels like it came out a decade ago. :psygum:
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jellicle ... jellicle ... jellicle... :ponder:

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:30 pm

This was the last movie I saw in theaters. I regret my choices :-I

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