Rec | CATS (2019)

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Rec'd on 😃 WORST ACTUALLY BAD MOVIE YOU’VE EVER SEEN??

CATS (2019)

i also have seen plenty of bad christmas rom-coms and b-horror films but at least i can enjoy them for how cheesy they are! Cats (2019) was horrifying. it wasn’t so bad it‘s good to me, it was just so bad. i also, accidentally, got extremely high before watching it and my friend and i watched it in complete darkness in his dorm (this was around when it came out) and it almost kind of scared me even though we both kept laughing because it was so bad and so absurd. also it was bootlegged so every 15 minutes a neon cartoon piñata advertising online gambling popped onto the screen for maybe thirty seconds. that aside, i literally didn’t understand nor was i able to follow the storyline at all. the musical numbers didn’t help. the cgi was freaky and they should’ve done costumes instead. why was jason derulo cat’s number like that. what was up with the hot air balloons at the end?! it was a terrible experience. i am queer and love camp and can appreciate a (GOOD) musical and i’ve no idea what the stage version of cats is like but this was just awful. i gave it a half star on letterboxd but would’ve given it zero if i could

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@eatgraeps

Im still too scared to watch it but the positive of Cats in my eyes is it somewhat contributed to the character assassination of James Corden

2d ago

@marxinista

@EATGRAEPS silver lining 😊😊😊

1d ago

@_kzr_

my personal cosmological theory is that covid was punishment for Cats(2019)

2d ago

@cilantro

ok my hot take about Cats (2019) is that it would have been really good if they hadn’t added dialogue and if they had cut the B plot. I am fully on board with the CGI because that is the correct spirit for Cats. The stage production of Cats is like a 2.5 hours Cat Ballet and it’s really good

2d ago

@marxinista

@CILANTRO piping hot take… though i do see how it might be good on stage

1d ago

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I just watched this in the cinema last night and was completely bowled over by the plethora of opportunities they had to make it a good movie, and every single time they just did the exact opposite. It's STAGGERINGLY boring. Don't get me started on the fuckass wig they put my girl Tilda Swinton in. Also it's a musical. And I love musicals. And I did not love this one. Also honourable mention to Emilia Pérez which I think is the worst movie ever made maybe. But I think you can watch EP high with your friends and laugh.

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i’d say…

good bad: repo the genetic opera. the actual movie is amazing and funny with a great soundtrack, but it is pretty strange and relatively low budget bad good: the neon demon (this is a hot take). it tries too hard to be ‘art house’ horror and falls flat for me. just really boring

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