We are in a Covid-19 dimension! You wonder why I said that? Cause in our old dimension it takes Mark 3 years to release a video.. that's how you can tell we are in another dimension..
It is amazing how much the average movie nerd can delude themselves with silly exaggerations. Of course this movie if far from a masterpiece, but it is also a matter of fact that it doesn't deserve this childish hate. Movie nerds never use their own brain, they always act collectively and try to impress each other with the same opinions -- but expressed LOUDER and MORE and MORE EXAGGERATED. Grow up, kids.
I really like his content and he seems to be a good guy. His stuff is a good escape from all the crazy stuff going on in 2020. I'm starting to feel like the only sensible person on the planet lol. I know I'm not but some crazy hyrocritical shit has been going on. This is the first time in my life I've ever felt like I needed an escape from the world. This movie is so outrageous that I can just laugh at it in an innocent and baffling way with the commentary.
I remember the commercials for cats too growing up, and I also thought they were scary, and that maybe I just didn't get it, because it was "art" and too complex for my child brain. Then as an adult, I looked up the synopsis for it online, and realized maybe most people don't get it either; and it's just plain weird!
@@AdamAus85 Admittedly, I've always wanted to see the live show once, if for any reason, because it looks like it would visually, be an interesting experience!
@@tastyloaf5487 It's for fun just like The Room screenings. People get drunk, watch the movie, get all rowdy and yell and scream throughout it haha. It's really entertaining when you're actually there. I obviously couldn't do it every month tho haha probably a once a year sort of thing just like what I do with The Room.
@@doubledoubleusmokymirror4d405 You'll go mad if you watch The Room by yourself lol. It's so fun when you watch it in a theater because everyone sh*ts on it and quotes all the lines haha
@@ARBLACKx That actually sounds awesome 😂 I agree, some super cringey movies are so much better in a group. Me and a friend were part of a movie club and they were showing a really boring drama love story nonsense that I didn't care for. My friend went and told me afterwards (as predicted) the movie was boring AF, but she enjoyed it so much because of one older lady's constant commenting on the main character's dress sense. Apparently she was wearing a doily 😂
I'm waiting for the Asylum version with Japanese schoolgirls wearing clip-on cat ears and skirts with sewn-on cat tails. That will be a guaranteed money maker.
You should be disgusted with yourself if the lock down was just an ordinary day to you. You'd be exactly the person to eat a bag of seasoned crickets and say something like "It'S AcTuAlLy NoT BaD! It KiNdA TaStEs A BiT LiKe ChIcKeN, AnD WiTh ThE SeAsOnInG, YoU ReAlLy DoN'T TaStE ThAt MuCh CrIcKeT!" This is coming from an introvert who's life(more daily routine) was barely effected in the lockdown.. Can't wait to see the same comment telling me "It'S NoT ThAt BaD" when we go through it AAAAALLLL over again in 2024.
@@pickeljarsforhillary102 Ikr? Netflix keeps trying to tell me there's been a problem with my payment but that problem is that RU-vid decided to double down on its ads so I went with premium instead.
Well, the musical WAS created in the 80s... And Andrew Lloyd Weber would go on to write Starlight Express, which was basically Cats, but instead of cats singing and dancing it's about trains singing and dancing
There was plans back in the days of doing a movie adaptation of Cats in animation, which is the only way I think this would have been sort of acceptable! Still would have been strange but it wouldn't have been this level of strange!
Maybe the corona virus is the curse he was talking about this movie bringing onto this world. Don't believe me here is some facts... Cats (2019) Cornovirus (2020) see the link? EDIT: I just hit play on the video and he mentioned that, nevermind. Sorry for repeating his joke, I didn't hear it yet.
I feel like the movie actually takes place in some kind of "cat purgatory," i.e. all of these cats are actually dead and are awaiting their turn to either be reincarnated or to ascend to the afterlife. If you look at old Tom and Jerry cartoons and they like, when a cat is thrown out inside of a bag, it's usually into a body of water or out the window of a moving car. It would also explain why the streets are so empty. This is a plain of existence that belongs to the cats.
One thing,that bugs me about the whole ''cats wearing fur coats''-thing: Are these fur coats made of their own fur and they shave it off and let it grow back or did they skin some other poor cat,to get the fur?
Mark: "There's a lot of big names in this movie, and there's a lot of talented people..." Me: "And there's also James Cordon!" And then I laughed, more than I've ever laughed at anything Pound Town Andy Richtor's ever done.
The minute I saw the trailer I automatically thought "Box Office Bomb". It probably should've just been an animated film. Good to see you again though Mark!
True. I actually watched the 2019 version first (rifftrax version). It inspired me to check out the 1998 version. Was still pretty confused, but the damn Mistoffolees song was stuck in my head, so I watched it again. 20+ viewings later, and I'm honestly grateful for the 2019 travesty. The 1998 version is fantastic.
I think the theory of this Hell spawn of a movie being the whole curse that started COVID-19 has some believability, Idris Elba was one of the first celebrities to test positive with it anyway
It was a big West End show for years. My guess is that they staged it there for years before exporting it elsewhere. I remember visiting London in the eighties and it was advertised everywhere. I never saw it, but I knew kids who had. The song "Memories" was also on heavy rotation on BBC Radio for a while.
There is only one way to adapt "Cats": Make it animated. Check out the concept art from the 90's when Steven Spielberg was planning to make it and prepare to be pissed that his version never got made.
I don't care about the Uncanny Valley effect, it's the CG itself: haven't you noticed that bits of them are just wobbling around randomly, misaligned and unfixed? How is no one mentioning this?? It looks like someone made a demo for a Voodoo 2 in 1998. It's hideous! Never mind the look of the face, make sure the model works properly!
Award fact Cats dominated that year’s Razzies with 6 “wins” out of 9 (was there any doubt?) It won Worst Picture, Director (Tom Hooper), Screenplay (Lee Hall & Tom Hooper), Supporting Actor (James Corden), Supporting Actress (Rebel Wilson) & Screen Combo (Any two half-feline/half-human hairballs) The Razzies it lost were: Worst Actress for Francesca Hayward Lost against Hilary Duff for The Haunting of Sharon Tate Worst Supporting Actress for Judi Dench Lost against her creepy co-star Rebel Wilson Worst Screen Combo for Jason Derulo and his CGI-neutered “bulge” Lost against the aforementioned nightmare creatures
Thank you for sparing us the sound track to this video. Musical singers are usually very well trained and capable singers, so being exposed to strictly laymen vocalists would be the horror.
Mark you have my admiration and sympathy. Talk about suffering for one's work. I could not sit through 15 seconds of Rebel Wilson's scratching scene, had to turn it off before I gagged(I survived entire minutes of a Breen movie once) . You are made of sterner stuff my Canadian friend.
Thank you for actually being fair to this. It seems like most people that have bad things to say about it just pile on the negativity and parrot the same shit everyone else says. I'm convinced that most people that "saw" it didn't actually see it. So this is great to see that, even though your thoughts were overall negative, you balanced them out with objective observations with some positivity. Especially your comments on it being an adaptation of something that was already strange and ridiculous to begin with. I just feel like this was a movie that was unfairly maligned by the masses based on those viral first impressions of the trailer, and at that point the movie was never going to win. But it was nice to hear, for once, a most balanced opinion of it on here. Even saying something about the set design and use of color is more positive than 100% of the other RU-vid videos on it!
As I cat lover I never understood Cats the musical’s popularity. It looked super creepy to me too when I was a kid. And the fact that they believed turning it into a movie was a great idea is incomprehensible. They should’ve had had a furry consultant. Just saying 🤨
Well maybe in these trying times we will get more Mark and that's a good thing. Laughter really is the best medicine. Thanks for the 7 years of making me laugh Mark. Stay safe everyone and God speed.
Mark - we discovered your channel in January when we were doing a building project in our backyard (wife and I) and you helped us get through so many hours of drywall, insulation, and nails. Thanks for your help in getting through that! We watched all of your vids! I'm glad we get another video to help us during this quarantine! ^_^
I absolutely adore the CATS musical. I have since I was young. I saw it on Broadway and danced a solo in my senior ballet recital to one of the songs. That being said- I would watch a Star Wars movie all day over this movie, after seeing the trailer, which was pure nightmare fuel. I still haven’t seen it- though it might be good in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way. I couldn’t watch it with any kind of seriousness though.
The funny thing about those old CATS ads that I forgot about were that the hairstyles, particularly the hair on their heads looked so much more eighties then now. Because real CATS hairstyles have changed over the years.
Jesus. This curse of Cats The Movie… it would explain so freaking much. Thank you, mark, for this enlightenment. You must know the enemy and their ways before you have any hope to destroy them.
I'm way more invested in the mice and cockroaches Rebel Wilson forces to dance for her while they live in constant fear she at any moment may eat them.
I love musicals; since I was a little kid. And I remember having my mom rent Cats a couple of times when I was 7. Watched a lot of other musicals at that time and can still recall the songs, but I only remember that one line in Memories like most people. That's it. Have absolutely no clue what the plot was after watching it as much as I did. Don't even think there was a plot.
Mark taking the time to deny his love for Cats when the sarcasm was surely understood by all is a tacit but clear admission of his secret yearning for Cats the movie. He's implicit in the apocalypse.
On December 21st 2019, a mere 2 days after its release, Universal Pictures announced they would be releasing a new version with updated CGI at an undisclosed time.
