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TTBF posted:Whoops, imgur won't take the third. If we could isolate Skimbleshanks floating and twirling in that wide shot and then to his left have either Jellicle Cats or the suggested "SKIM-BLE-SHANKS-THE-RAILWAY-CAT" flash that would rule.
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Congratulations: You have now survived the full original theatrical run of Cats
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Feb 16, 2020 11:37
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Hah, I didn't know the VFX society put out a real pissy statement about Rebel Wilson and James Corden at the Oscars.
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josh04 posted:Hah, I didn't know the VFX society put out a real pissy statement about Rebel Wilson and James Corden at the Oscars. Maybe you should stay quiet about "the best visual effects in the world" if you have to release a patch for a movie already in theaters.
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josh04 posted:Hah, I didn't know the VFX society put out a real pissy statement about Rebel Wilson and James Corden at the Oscars. To be fair, they were getting poo poo on by the two worst things about the movie: Wilson and Corden.
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I mean, Rebel didn't even sound on key in her Gumbie Cat song. It's painful to listen to because it's obviously out of her range.
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Something that occurred to me - had Cats been released in the 1990s, then just like every other family movie at the time, they would have made a generic-rear end NES/SNES tie-in game where you collect CATS tokens for 1-Ups and jump on McCavity’s head 3 times in the final boss fight. Of course, the greater tragedy is that we didn’t get a generic 2019 tie-in game, which would be an open world game with Dark Souls mechanics. Sadly we will never know the joy of dodge-pirouetting at the last second to parry Growltiger’s slam attack, or spending Jellicle Souls to upgrade stats like “Felinity” or “Uncomfortable Sensuality.”
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Feb 17, 2020 02:23
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No, wait, open world survival/rhythm game. Stay alive on the mean streets of London and hone your dance skills.
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okay so to get the True Heaviside Ending, you basically have 4 major steps. These are missable people! You might want to back up your save on USB. First off, you need to backtrack to the Opening Number and inspect the discarded bag, which begins the time loop. Then you can fight Young Grizabella. Second, you must complete Old Deuteronomy's questline and get her ring. Some users have reported it phases in and out so be wary. Third, Victoria needs at least 27 points in Applied Etymology. You may need to grind in Bustopher's club. Fourth,
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HopperUK posted:I keep imagining just one of those where the words appear in sequence TrixRabbi posted:If we could isolate Skimbleshanks floating and twirling in that wide shot and then to his left have either Jellicle Cats or the suggested "SKIM-BLE-SHANKS-THE-RAILWAY-CAT" flash that would rule. 
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Feb 17, 2020 03:01
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If it was an 1980s LJN game, the Heaviside Layer would be the final stage. To get there, the cats would have through tunnels collecting weights. Somehow Macavity would be a good guy. It would also be a beat-em-up.
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Feb 17, 2020 03:29
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I’m now picturing it as a visual novel where you try to date one of the cats in the midst of competing in the Heaviside Layer Song Competition.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:If it was an 1980s LJN game, the Heaviside Layer would be the final stage. To get there, the cats would have through tunnels collecting weights. Somehow Macavity would be a good guy. I was gonna say, CATS as a sidescrolling beat-em-up where each player cat has a different dancefighting style and you have to rescue the Jellicle Cats from Macavity's Kitties of Krime would be poo poo, this probably wouldn't be difficult to do in FightCade
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Feb 17, 2020 03:38
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Retro is new again, make a lovingly rendered pixel art beat em up.
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Ccs posted:I’m now picturing it as a visual novel where you try to date one of the cats in the midst of competing in the Heaviside Layer Song Competition. Catoful Boyfriend
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Bogus Adventure posted:To be fair, they were getting poo poo on by the two worst things about the movie: Wilson and Corden. yes but then theres this paragraph This is not the first time the community has spoken out in defense of its own. A month ago, prominent VFX artists from films like the live-action “Lion King” and “The Jungle Book” defended the “Cats” team, saying their work was visionary — but filmmakers like director Tom Hooper are responsible for ensuring an audience buys the aesthetic world of a film. And, of course, the story. so nah
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When "the VFX industry" says something, it's really the bosses saying something. And of course they can't admit what the real problem is: the fact that the bosses had final say in what looks good, had set up a total lack of workplace democracy or oversight or quality controls that can overrule dumbass execs' opinions, the fact that their heads thus got so big that their tastes even overrule viewer surveys that plainly tell them their current designs look like utter poo poo. The fact that the bosses exploited the poo poo out of all the VFX workers kept in warehouses, rows of cubicles literally nicknamed "slave galleys", working unpaid overtime and slave wages, denied benefits and job security using the contractor loophole. Immediately laying them off while celebrating a finished project out of the other side of their mouths. I guarantee you no low level VFX worker had anything to do with the overall "style" decisions of CATS 2019, nor did they have anything to do with the released statement or the decision to release one at all.
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Yeah, it's a weird one because the VFX workers definitely don't deserve any blame and crunched like hell to get this out, at the same time the 'vision' was 'let's rotoscope faces onto tens of cg cats in every shot' and the VFX industry is at least complicit in saying "Yeah sure! We can definitely do that on time and without several of the companies involved collapsing."
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josh04 posted:Yeah, it's a weird one because the VFX workers definitely don't deserve any blame and crunched like hell to get this out, at the same time the 'vision' was 'let's rotoscope faces onto tens of cg cats in every shot' and the VFX industry is at least complicit in saying "Yeah sure! We can definitely do that on time and without several of the companies involved collapsing." At this point the industry would be most accurately understood as pharaohs building monuments of profit to themselves and sealing the foundations with the corpses of their workers' livelihoods.
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Feb 17, 2020 11:32
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Hell yeah, this is perfect.
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Feb 17, 2020 12:26
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A work of art. I want in on the gang
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Feb 17, 2020 16:10
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"rail" and "way" need to be separate words.
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Feb 17, 2020 17:42
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This is fine and all but I'm gonna need some clarification: ...he's the cat of the rail way train, right?
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caligulamprey posted:This is fine and all but I'm gonna need some clarification: there's a whisper down the line at eleven thirty-nine That is the catchiest song in the world, I swear.
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That gang tag is perfect. e: How do gang tags work nowadays? Is it still someone paying for it as their avatar and then everyone else putting BB code featuring the URL into their avatar text field? TTBF fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Dumb Lowtax posted:When "the VFX industry" says something, it's really the bosses saying something. And of course they can't admit what the real problem is: the fact that the bosses had final say in what looks good, had set up a total lack of workplace democracy or oversight or quality controls that can overrule dumbass execs' opinions, the fact that their heads thus got so big that their tastes even overrule viewer surveys that plainly tell them their current designs look like utter poo poo. The initial brief for the style of Cats is something that’s never been done before, and that decision comes from the director. Honestly with this scale of movie they try everything, go through thousands of character designs and reviews all trying to match a directors vision. Unfortunately if the director doesn’t really have one then it’s a matter of just running out of time that then forces decisions, plus the public reactions to trailers that inspire new rounds of designs and reviews. It’s difficult to negotiate with any director but nigh impossible to negotiate with an Oscar winner. They’ve reached the point where they can’t admit that they don’t have the vision so they’ll just throw a fit until time runs out. McSpanky posted:At this point the industry would be most accurately understood as pharaohs building monuments of profit to themselves and sealing the foundations with the corpses of their workers' livelihoods. There is no profit in vfx, the margins are pitiful. The clients who control the distribution get the profit, though in the case of Cats they also lost their shirt. Ccs fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Hooper and Universal didn’t lock the cut until hours before the debut. That’s not enough time to color grade, much less finish vfx. The vfx houses definitely finished a ton of shots that didn’t make the cut, while not having enough time to finish the ones that did.
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Smirking_Serpent posted:There's a really cool play about how (the retelling of) an episode of The Simpsons becomes a mythic text after the apocalypse. You should check out the 1977 movie of Logan's Run, where the last human with knowledge of 20th century culture is a loneliness-crazed Peter Ustinov, who wanders round the US Capitol reciting CATS lyrics.
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*Macavity voice* I love it
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In the alternate timeline, the video game version of Cats replaces Battletoads -- it's the same game, just with Cats. NES Cats is so beloved that the 2019 Cats movie is the highest grossing broadway-show-to-videogame-to-film adaptation in history.
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Feb 19, 2020 22:08
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could you hold on "railway" twice as long? since it's two beats. otherwise this is loving great and i need it
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Videogame adaptations aside, the total lack of any official merchandise for Cats 2019 is slightly baffling. Universal believed this was going to be their massive Holiday family hit... Surely there were already some promotional deals in place before the backlash kicked in. I don’t know if you guys remember the Animation dead zone thread, but Bee Movie and even Foodfight had a ton of licensed crap clogging up dollar store bins and arcade claw machines for years after release. Has anyone encountered any officially licensed Cats merch? Saddest Rhino, you will always be my Jellicle Choice.
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Feb 24, 2020 03:02
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Not official but I just found this very good sticker: Gonna buy the pin version.
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Indie Rocktopus posted:
This is as close I've come to finding anything official.
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caligulamprey posted:Not official but I just found this very good sticker: Wanna throw up a link to the store my jellicle friend?
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weekly font posted:Wanna throw up a link to the store my jellicle friend? The pin is a pre-order that can be found in the same shop.
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skimble shanks the railway cat
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