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hallebarrysoetoro posted:star wars could have been saved by people listening to the argument that star trek tng was better than star wars Have you uh, watched the final season? Its good again.
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CATS sucks. Maybe it's because I spend so much time of my life looking at weird stuff on the internet I didn't experience the kind of uncanny terror I was hoping for, so I just had to take in how bad it is. Trying to fully realize CATS with CGI was such an awful idea. Having characters in skin tight leotards with hair either sewed in or digitally inserted onto them just buries them all in a half inch layer of unreal fur - and that covers up all of their musculature while giving the dance an unreal sensation because it can become impossible to tell what's CG and what's real. That pic of the guy who plays Skimbleshanks (The Railway Cat) that you're supposed to get horny for? All of that cut lean musculature - the perfect dancer's physique, it's buried under CGI fur and red suspenders. It's a thoroughly asexualized experience in spite of everyone lithely moving their supple bodies with feline precision. Everyone who interpreted this as horny is probably a dog person. You can't even really enjoy the dancing on its own merits because there's too much going on at once to really focus in on a particular performance. Everyone is doing their own thing - like a cat - and the lack of coordination saps all the sense of pageantry. It's just pure chaos, but not in a good kind of fun way. So the skin-tight CGI cat people have practically zero aesthetic appeal, and it does away with half of what makes a stage musical impressive - which is the makeup and costuming. The closest thing to a costume are the massively oversized fur coats and prop jewelry. The staging also sucks because CGI fills in all the background, and the image itself is hazy so that you can't tell what's a real prop and what's CGI so it ends up taking on the appearance of mid-stage uncanny valley CGI like The Polar Express, which is especially glaring because Skimbleshanks's (The Railway Cat) number takes you inside a rail car. And this is all held back even more by CATS not being a good musical to begin with. 80% of the songs are just each Jellical candidate cat saying their name, what they do, and why they want to be the Jellical choice. The story isn't told through the music, the music just ends up describing characters who ultimately only play bit parts. Just total vestigial arms of a production that's already only 90 minutes long. I did end up laughing a lot, not at anything the movie wants you to laugh at which is all lame theater kid humor filtered through Marvel-like irony, but at all of the bad decisions that got poured into this film, and how often the musical numbers over-repeat a single line or beat just once too long to overstay its welcome. The only bit I sincerely liked was when Idris Elba was on the screen, because he's the only actor that brings a kind of menacing charisma. Almost everyone else has zero charisma, either because their characters are written that way or because the performers themselves are terminally lame. So should you go see CATS? Like I said, everyone in Northwest Arkansas was going to see a movie - but the only people watching CATS was me and a couple other pairs of people who looked like 20 something theater kids. So you will not have to deal with overcrowding. I would recommend going to see it because it's a pure spectacle of bad decision making and artistic choices. It's like watching a 90 minute extended scene of the Joker burning that big pile of money. It's 100 million dollars flaming on the screen, and it's horribly glorious.
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# ? Dec 26, 2019 23:23 |
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All the cats names sound like Harry Potter characters and it makes me angry
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# ? Dec 26, 2019 23:59 |
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I'm Twinklebottom the judgical cat I stare at people on the street and Judge them for being fat
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 00:05 |
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and thanks Peter K for that review! It confirms everything I'm hoping for from this trainwreck. I haven't been this excited to watch something in a theater since... poo poo I dunno. lord of the rings
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 00:19 |
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The weirdest thing about it that almost nobody has pointed out is, there's plenty of times where the performers are wearing shoes. So sometimes you'll have these nude furry dancers but they're wearing full on kicks, pumps, spats, or tap dancing shoes while other performers are barefooted. It just sucks you right out of any sense of immersion because it's like watching a streaker pop locking on a football field. I also wouldn't recommend taking kids to see it, not because they could get sexually confused by genital-less cat people (which is a possibility), but because the mice are all played by children. So the mice are tiny in stature, have big round bodies, and have childrens' faces sticking out seamlessly from their heads. They're all also tiny compared to the cats, and they're in existential fear of being eaten alive at any moment. When they get on the ground and run around the speed of motion is also out of synch with how fast they're running so it looks like they're gliding across the ground in a PS1 cutscene.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 00:32 |
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I'm watching JoJo Rabbit and this movie fuckin rips
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 01:23 |
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Yeah jojo owns
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 02:49 |
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so i finally got around to the mandalorian and my big pedantic nerd nitpick is that baby yoda loving ain't baby yoda! It's just a baby of the yoda species this is all just because lucas intentionally wouldn't reveal the name of yoda's species, so they have no other word to call him. If it was a baby wookie, no one would be calling it baby chewie
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 02:51 |
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i would call him baby chewie, and he would be my precious space dog.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:02 |
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https://twitter.com/ConceptHuman/status/1210326840323256320
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:05 |
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Baby yoda has very mysterious origins it could be a clone of regular yoda which is why hes so force sensitive
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:11 |
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Tiberius Christ posted:Baby yoda has very mysterious origins it could be a clone of regular yoda which is why hes so force sensitive yooda
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:15 |
the yoda species has never been identified. George Lucas was very serious about keeping it that way. wookieepedia has the scoop.quote:For reasons unknown, George Lucas maintained a strict policy of keeping the history, name, origin, and whereabouts of this species unknown. When asked what species Yoda is, Lucas has only joked, "He's a frog." In the documentary "From Puppets to Pixels," he joked that Yoda is "the illegitimate child of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy."
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:16 |
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what are they hiding
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:25 |
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people love the yoda baby more than they love their own baby! STAR WARS FANS NEED JESUS
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:31 |
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i do view Disney in the same way reformation era protestants viewed the Papacy It's literally the anti-Christ and must be destroyed for good to succeed
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:54 |
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Spuckuk posted:Have you uh, watched the final season? i did and i was rewatching it, first season was subcomandante marcos but final season is pretty tame let's reform capitalism away from the oligarchs
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:59 |
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The one thing I kept thinking about over and over again was like drat, I really wish they'd do cinematic adaptations of opera instead of trying to reheat stale Broadway productions. Just do it in Italian or German and give us subtitles.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 04:30 |
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well you see americans loving hate reading so thats never happening
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 04:31 |
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Americans are watching anime in record numbers. Subbed and not dubbed. I believe the time is now.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 04:47 |
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huge crossover potential for giant anime titty waifus and the operatic presentation of napoleon invading the italy tbf
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 05:05 |
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a lot of opera viewing was just an excuse to peep through the binoculars at some bodiced up cleavage so the tradition is there
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 05:08 |
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let he who hasn't spanked it in an opera house throw the first stone.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 05:24 |
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this is theft of cined posting valor
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 05:42 |
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JJ if you are reading this thread please reboot Harry Potter next so it can finally dieZoran posted:this is theft of cined posting valor oops sorry
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 05:51 |
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Boba Pearl posted:let he who hasn't spanked it in an opera house throw the first stone. I have a reason to go to Sydney
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 08:44 |
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Uncle Wemus posted:JJ if you are reading this thread please reboot Harry Potter next so it can finally die it’s called Fantastic Animals and it does the job pretty well edit: the job of killing the franchise i mean Flowers For Algeria has issued a correction as of 11:50 on Dec 27, 2019 |
# ? Dec 27, 2019 08:58 |
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I watched midsommar yesterday, very pretty film
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 13:43 |
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mandatory lesbian posted:I watched midsommar yesterday, very pretty film I like the anxious do-nothing fail-boyfriend, as well as the hilariously ghoulish intro sequence
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 15:25 |
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sebmojo posted:Yeah jojo owns finished it yesterday, incredibly well done. easily one of my top 5 films of the year
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 15:36 |
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:I like the anxious do-nothing fail-boyfriend, as well as the hilariously ghoulish intro sequence That guy sucked lol, was very glad she broke-up with him in the end
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 16:06 |
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https://twitter.com/mmegannnolan/status/1210574092975427586?s=20
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 18:21 |
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https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/1210305825085870080?s=20
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 18:32 |
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Boba Pearl posted:let he who hasn't spanked it in an opera house throw the first stone. the phantom was a sex pest
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 19:02 |
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Reverend Dr posted:the phantom was a sex pest This came up in a game of Quiplash last night and our group all agreed that the Phantom of the Opera was a 19th-century French incel
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 19:16 |
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mandalorian finale was alright. between it and the wticher its nice watching something thats just really straightforward genre poo poo instead of fully post-postmodern
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 19:23 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The one thing I kept thinking about over and over again was like drat, I really wish they'd do cinematic adaptations of opera instead of trying to reheat stale Broadway productions. Just do it in Italian or German and give us subtitles. I watched a production of The Flying Dutchman a few years ago and it was great and, yeah, give me that opera. My lib friends didn't like it, though. Wait, does liking something Wagner did make me a Nazi?
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 01:13 |
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foobardog posted:Wait, does liking something Wagner did make me a Nazi? just say you like the Looney Tunes adaptation and you'll be fine
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Reverend Dr posted:the phantom was a sex pest
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