That's also the last line of the Cats screenplay
― Simon H., Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
T.S. Eliot invented steampunk, whoa
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
what did you think the "s" stood for?
― Simon H., Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
yeah his full name was 'the steampunk eliot' iirc
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
THERE'S A CRANK TO SHUT THE WINDOW IF YOU SNEEZE
― mark s, Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
cranks are steampunk, case closed
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
Q: is Jason Derulo's digitally-erased crank steampunk
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 December 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
here's the cg workstation used for derulorasure, decide 4 yrself
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.U0sp7mh-iSG2PkUteGzHfwHaE8%26pid%3DApi&f=1
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
xp it'll be addressed in the sequel
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 19 December 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
cats ii: the dept of crank yankers
― Simon H., Thursday, 19 December 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
One critic described proceedings as permanently on the brink of a sex party. Other reviewers were struck by Cats’ visual and tonal similarity to The Human Centipede, a horror film in which kidnap victims are stitched together mouth to anus.
― omar little, Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
Cats always feels like it’s two seconds away from turning into a furry orgy in a dumpster.
brb pitching my contrarian revisionist rave to sight and sound
― mark s, Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
50/50 chance Armond White is months ahead of you
― omar little, Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
'Cats is a jubilant celebration of the unspoken yet universal human desire to fuck a cat.' - Rex Reed
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
I've found myself wondering more than a few times since the trailer dropped whether this thing is a stealth recruitment video largely funded by the shadowy furry lobby. Because if so, it's working.
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
Oh weird, I just reloaded this thread and got the font problem for the first time.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
I'm using safari and I see the different font, but it is not a problem, I kind of think this special thread deserves a special font.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
this special thread deserves the https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=60&threadid=2955 treatment
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
lmao at your post bumping that thread ulysses
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
holy shit, i just lost myself in that thread for ... what day is it?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
Great thred
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
my gf really hates the uppers music as it means she needs to find my phone
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
Here's the one-two: FT's Nigel Andrews gives a positive review!
https://www.ft.com/content/cd836eb2-2180-11ea-b8a1-584213ee7b2b
...and then IMMEDIATELY RETIRES.
https://www.ft.com/content/d70957b2-20e5-11ea-b8a1-584213ee7b2b
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 December 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
All the best zings:
https://digg.com/2019/bad-reviews-cats-movie
― DJI, Friday, 20 December 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
Just had a -great- time reading those zings aloud to my partner - this one made her double over: “an approximation of what would happen if your third eye actually opened and you could suddenly see into the astral plane.”
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Friday, 20 December 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
There is a thin line between idiocy and genius, and Cats pukes a hairball on it and rubs its ass all over it.
A+
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Friday, 20 December 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
Best thread ever
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 December 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
Sounds like Sonic is really gonna have to deliver to top this one (I maintain hope that the 45 seconds of fan-pleasing reworked animation we've seen is all that they'll have the time to handle properly and that the remainder of the overhaul will somehow look even worse than the first trailer).
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 December 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
please don't make me think about sonic topping cats
― i chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 December 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Too late (barfs, coughs up hairball).
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
Sonic the Edgehog: Runpleteazer
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 December 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
the animators who worked 70 hour weeks to re-do the entire movie are probably pissed that this thing came out like that, "see, it's fine!!"
― frogbs, Friday, 20 December 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
Just checked Box Office Mojo to see what kind of business this thing needs to do to break even ($95 million budget!) and only now learned that IMDB has recently destroyed Box Office Mojo. Capital work, fellows.
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 December 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
I'm actually amazed at all the reports of incomplete effects.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
it's one of the aspects I'm most looking forward to tbh
― Simon H., Friday, 20 December 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
2020 needed a showgirls
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 December 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
If I live long enough to see a megabudget Hollywood film released to theaters that features even like a few seconds of an actor jumping around in front of a green screen while wearing a ping pong ball-festooned jumpsuit before the finished effects shot jerkily resumes, I think I could die happily right then and there.
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 December 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
I'll be seeing Jumanji this weekend at my daughter's request. Daughter is into felines, but saw the Cats trailer and was appropriately put-off, thank god. She's still at an age where I want her to enjoy things because they are enjoyable, not because they are total travesties of cinema.
But my wife's mom occasionally recruits me to chaperone a learning-disabled relative to the cinema and that relative is a very big cat person. I'm going to casually introduce the topic while we're over there on Christmas Day and see where it leads. I'm intrigued enough to go see this in the theater if it's on someone else's dime.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 20 December 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
showcats otm!
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Friday, 20 December 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
Daughter is into felines, but saw the Cats trailer and was appropriately put-off, thank god.
Similarly, much as I love a good pear, I somehow refrained from eating the half-rotten bosc I once saw bobbing in a public toilet.
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 December 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
What if it was covered in vivid CGI fur?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
I'll be seeing Jumanji this weekend at my daughter's request.
as harmless childrens' action-comedies go this was p good btw
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 December 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
first (well, first recent one, i mean) was good
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Friday, 20 December 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
These are surprising takes. I had assumed they were the hottest of trash.
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 December 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
they are no CATS (2019)
― mark s, Friday, 20 December 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
i love this movie so much, one day i will actually see it i guess probably
don't get me wrong I would never have watched it if my kid didn't wanna go see it (I mean, it's not Fantastic Mr. Fox) but it's amiable/pleasant and all the body-switching/actors-imitating-other-actors' delivery schtick is relatively charming. It's silly and low-stakes but it's fun. I admit I have a soft spot for Danny DeVito.
xps
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 December 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Yeah, we saw the 2017 one recently and liked it pretty well as a movie to watch with the kid. And rated PG-13 for dick and boob jokes, which were cringey but also felt kinda refreshing, honestly. Not sure if those are super-common in PG-13s these days, but the last time I saw any were in Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 and they just felt forced and lame.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 20 December 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
Tracking services are suggesting $175 million to $200 million for Rise of Skywalker (Disney is being even more cautious in predicting $160 million-plus)....Reviews are all-out bleak for Cats, from Universal, Working Title and Amblin Entertainment. Its Rotten Tomatoes score was hovering around 17 percent on Thursday evening, a career-worst for Hooper, whose directing credits include the Oscar-winning The King's Speech and Les Miserables.In a bold move, Cats is the first event pic daring to open against a modern-day Star Wars title.Tracking figures show the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical debuting to a modest $14 million to $17 million.
In a bold move, Cats is the first event pic daring to open against a modern-day Star Wars title.
Tracking figures show the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical debuting to a modest $14 million to $17 million.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link