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Get the folks who made the Les Miserables fighting game to develop it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ad6Os2Qhw4
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Cats has gone post modern in now there are theatre adaptations of the movie based on the play https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/dec/16/linus-karp-how-to-live-a-jellicle-life-movie-cats-film
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Maxwell Lord posted:The Rum Tum Tugger is theoretically top tier but he's very hard to pilot. Ridiculous cancel potential, obviously.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I want to fight as the hanging, disconnected yellow eyes That's the T. J. Ecklesburg eyes boss fight from the Great Gatsby NES game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woJqbb7UIiA&t=245s
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Fuschia tude posted:That's the T. J. Ecklesburg eyes boss fight from the Great Gatsby NES game I mean, the Great Gatsby is public domain now, so
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Fuschia tude posted:That's the T. J. Ecklesburg eyes boss fight from the Great Gatsby NES game This is my favorite thing I’ve ever seen
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then wait till you see CATS!
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Happy Thread posted:then wait till you see CATS! Lesser entertainment hits got NES/SNES games so why didn't cats get a side scrolling platformer where I can play as Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat?
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steinrokkan posted:Nice job trying to own the film of which you were by far the worst part, Corden Corden's character was the only part of my first CATS viewing where I was tempted to fast-forward, and boy is that saying a lot
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I’m paraphrasing because I can’t find the source but every time I think about James Corden I think about someone asking Hbomberguy about him for some reason, and they said he was basically chased out of the UK for being James Corden, and he looked in on him a few years later only to find he had become a minor celebrity in the US, which was “like finding a small society of cockroaches worshipping a pizza box you threw out in 2012”
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I remember going out for a piss during his number and I regret nothing about it.
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Cordon and Wilson making fun of the visual effects work in Cats while presenting the award for visual effects at the oscars really pissed me off. I think of it every time I see him.
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To be fair to both of them, it's likely that they were just as appalled by how it turned out as we were.
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The only difference between me, an unemployed schlub, and James Corden is that I don't have a folder full of blackmail material. Why else does he keep popping up in movies?
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Anne Whateley posted:Chicago is literally the longest-running American musical. At some point you have to accept that's just the culture But it's a revival. The original production flopped. It's more accurate to say the culture shifted enough where Chicago became a smash hit. Critics at the time theorized the OJ trial made the subject matter more viable.
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Prince Myshkin posted:But it's a revival. The original production flopped. It's more accurate to say the culture shifted enough where Chicago became a smash hit. Critics at the time theorized the OJ trial made the subject matter more viable. That's always an interesting phenomenon, I feel.
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The original wasn't at all a flop; it ran for two years. It was based on a successful play, and the whole thing was based on the actual culture of the '20s. (I don't mean the style, I mean the fascination with true-crime reporting, sob sisters, etc.)
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The original production was also much darker and more aggressive, using the Brechtian element to attack the audience's complicity, and the revival (and doubly so the movie) is essentially fluffy, slick entertainment in comparison. It also had the misfortune of opening the same year as A Chorus Line, which blitzed everything else on Broadway. The second half of the "Take Off With Us" scene in All That Jazz where it becomes overtly sexual is basically a parody of Fosse's perverting of the show from a friendly No, No, Nanette-style 20s throwback into a Brechtian nightmare, which everyone hated him for.
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So you're saying they gave us the ol' razzle dazzle?
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The flim-flam flummox, indeed.
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YggiDee posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aK-EK5V2k This is a pretty good video. Even knowing basically nothing about music composition "just have the actors try to sing and get the rest of the orchestra to follow along" sounds like a phenomenally bad idea.
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Neurolimal posted:This is a pretty good video. Even knowing basically nothing about music composition "just have the actors try to sing and get the rest of the orchestra to follow along" sounds like a phenomenally bad idea. They had to invent new technology to be able to do that on set AND have the orchestra work it out afterwards. It is an insane amount of technical effort to create a system that's strictly worse than just lip-synching to playback.
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Neurolimal posted:This is a pretty good video. Even knowing basically nothing about music composition "just have the actors try to sing and get the rest of the orchestra to follow along" sounds like a phenomenally bad idea. Wow, content strikes have already massacred that video, huh
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Fuschia tude posted:Wow, content strikes have already massacred that video, huh The weirdest ones are the second repeat of Wilson's slowdown (first one is intact), and Gus's soliloquy.
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theres a link in the bio to another version without the strikes which i dont know the logic of why its staying up.
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Neurolimal posted:This is a pretty good video. Even knowing basically nothing about music composition "just have the actors try to sing and get the rest of the orchestra to follow along" sounds like a phenomenally bad idea. That video made me actually kinda love the original musical. There's a lot of stuff in it that I never even thought about. Also, I always knew the lyric was "it's so easy to leave me" 
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Can you link the other one? I wasn't done watching and it was pretty good
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Happy Thread posted:Can you link the other one? I wasn't done watching and it was pretty good Here it is, from the description of the neutered video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL4n6GVxCM8
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Does Skimbleshanks lose his whiskers between the two shots at 1:00:31?
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Neurolimal posted:Does Skimbleshanks lose his whiskers between the two shots at 1:00:31? Looks like it. They're at least opaque in the first and very translucent in the second.
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So my friend and I watched Zardoz and it was so stunningly bad yet fascinating in its awfulness at the same time that I had this deep sense of familiarity. It was so clearly incompetently made, with each decision being so poor that it never got "so bad it's good" because we were incredibly bored the whole time despite its ambition. At the end, I kept trying to think of where I'd had this feeling of sheer awe at a movie's incompetence before and the answer was Cats. Now Cats may be on a different level simply because its budget and commercial crassness may make it less endearing, but I am so glad I got to experience the most conflicting, gut-punching confusion of my life again with a whole new non-Cats movie. The world is a magical place.
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The story behind Zardoz is that the director was making a live action adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, but his investors got cold feet and the project was canceled with a lot of the sets and costumes made. The script was also partally written while he was tripping on LSD. I suppose it fits with Cats because cats also feels like a bad acid trip after looking at too much furry porn. David D. Davidson fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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David D. Davidson posted:The story behind Zardoz is that the director was making a live action adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, but his investors got cold feet and the project was canceled with a lot of the sets and costumes made. The script was also partally written while he was tripping on LSD. We’re going to have to blame Zardoz on drugs, because it was made by John Boorman, who was legit a good director ... of other movies, such as Deliverance and Hope & Glory.
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And Zardoz, which rules.
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Now now, we can't blame Cats on LSD, it was almost certainly a cocaine production.
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josh04 posted:And Zardoz, which rules. Yeah. People who don’t like Zardoz just don’t ‘get it’
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josh04 posted:And Zardoz, which rules. Followed by the also amazing Excalibur. My brother watched that movie all the time because Helen Mirren shows her boobs.
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I mean, Zardoz has at least some novel costuming and we were fully invested in enjoying its outlandishness and horniness, but its misogyny, insane length, horrible editing and messiness made it a lot less enjoyable than we were hoping. If I want to see interesting insanity from that period, I'll watch Lisztomania. Sorry for the derail, but I just thought it was really interesting in seeing something that could have worked fail so spectacularly. Back to Cats, I do wonder if it will develop the cult following like Zardoz and get reappraised with people admiring the ambition. I doubt it since it's a soulless adaptation of an existing property rather than one man's insane overlong acid trip that feels so of its time.
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