There’s simply no amount of CG fixes that can make this movie better. If anything the really poor CG made it at least somewhat entertaining. It’s just a bad movie, it happens.
It didn’t really strike me as looking that terrible. I certainly didn’t have the visceral reaction the article describes. I had to watch the trailers again to understand what they were talking about... it’s a film about human-cat hybrids that communicate through interpretive dance and overblown songs, what the fuck do people expect!?
Mind, I really enjoyed the Lion King remake. It didn’t tarnish my childhood memory of the original (which would be quite difficult, since my parents could only afford a poor quality pirate VHS copy, and not the cinema trip). Apparently people hated that too.
Cats looks surreal enough that it’d probably be a good date flick, nothing to actually take seriously. Definitely a memorable moment. Same as watching the Twilight films.
It didn’t really strike me as looking that terrible. I certainly didn’t have the visceral reaction the article describes. I had to watch the trailers again to understand what they were talking about... it’s a film about human-cat hybrids that communicate through interpretive dance and overblown songs, what the fuck do people expect!?
This was my reaction too. "Yep, looks exactly how a Cats screenplay would look."
I think these are all just people coming out of the woodwork who never liked Cats. Or people who haven't seen it on stage and didn't realize how silly and weird it already is.
I imagine a lot of people will enjoy it. I saw the original musical decades ago, and it was ok, but I prefer the CG cats. I'd watch it the same way I watch music videos.
I think the issue is that people are going expecting a movie version of a musical with an entertaining plot, and Cats in any form just isn't going to supply that. The casting is all over the place, and the way they animated the cats sealed the deal. I just don't think it should have been made into a movie, or if it did it shouldn't have been expected to do well in a mass market. Your watch case makes sense but seems like an outlier in the general population.
Yes. There was very obvious CG mistakes such as the lack of shadows, cats floating above the ground, collars clipping through their necks, name tags missing text from cut to cut, fur on the hands not being motion tracked correctly, etc.
But that was actually entertaining to laugh at them.
