hey, at least because her only some people ACTUALLY watched the movie instead of leaving the theater in the middle of the movie and she barely had one scene.
And in "Look What You Made Me Do", she says "I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams" and then she was in this movie. Well she's an actress here giving us bad dreams because this movie was horribly looking 😂
This was originally supposed to be a theatre play, so I do see why they opted for a live action version that could remain true to the original. The animation wouldn't do the dancers justice. But CGI makes it worse at the same time. There's no winning on this one.
@@ahobbit1273 Except for Rebel Wilson and James Corden. They deserve that garbage on their resumes. Especially after that stupid Oscars schtick where they along with the studio and Tom Hooper threw the understaffed,underpaid, underfunded, overworked VFX department under the bus.
@@CorCor89 actually that makes sense. With standard English accents, they only add an extra r if the next word starts with a vowel. I pawked the cah. The car is right theh
Well Folklore and Evermore was cowritten and produced by Aaron Dessner from the National. Majority of the materials he has a play in which was why those albums have The National style of music. Plus some of the songs was also co-written by her ex-BF as well it's not all her own doing
This movie makes me so sad. I watched the Broadway play that visited in Dallas. The macavity scene was one of the most incredible, Macavity felt very sisnister and all of the cats on the stage were afraid of him, especially when he first came on. Him and The Rum Tum Tiger duet danced as if they were fighting but almost in a sultry way. And at the end Macavity took 2 giant plugs and a smashed them together and made the entire stage look like it was being electrocuted, and it went all the way up the ceiling of the Theater. It was breath taking and this movie couldn’t do it justice. They should’ve just made it an animation.
Cats was one of my first experiences in a theater. Loved it! Just finished watching a review of the music for this film. It clearly defined why I had such a negative reaction to the film besides the inclusion of Cordin and Wilson, just cringe. The continuous interruptions of songs that are more powerful with an even flow. Also, turns out the music was performed to the voices and not the other way around. This affected the beat of the soundtrack in a negative way.
"Macavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin..." I'm really questioning whether Tom Hooper just didn't read/listen to the songs or whether he is actually just illiterate.
I suspect there was little communication between the animation team, design team, and writers. The animation and design teams had to add this fur technology to all dancers in a very limited time and solve those issues.
I love Taylor with every fibre of my being but this was horrifying. the cgi, the jerky movement, everything was pure nightmare fuel. I think I'm gonna cry about this later.
I too was shocked how they got so much wrong. Macavity is a power song and she sings about him all breathy. I mean the singing wasnt filmed live. She's better than that surely!
I guess none of them watched the stage show for tips. Macavity the *fierce ginger cat* only appears at the beginning then disappears. That's what the song is about.
@@peacesea1768 Kindly take a look at the original Broadway musical’s costumes. In my opinion, they’re a bit more visually appealing... and further away from the uncanny valley!
This would've been fine in Taylor's normal accent tbh. I don't mind the more sultry, breath-y take on the song, particularly in the intro, but I find the forced accent hard to ignore.
I think she's sort of giving a nod to the o.g. badass stage version youll find on youtube of demeter And bombalurina singing this song, which was with an accent because it was a British cast. Thats what it seemed like to me
Remember when taylor said in one of her songs (i think you guys know what is) "i will be the actress staring in your bad dreams" well i think this is what she meant
i just read the summary of cats and apparently bombalurina hates macavity? from this song without context i assumed she was like one of his evil henchman
Movie: black cat macavity …. musical 1998: red fiery black striped cat?none are ginger and he looks very strange in both. CGI 2019 and a very scary costume in 1998
One of the reasons the play worked and the movie didn't: The Cats musical wasn't trying to make the characters look like cats. They wanted to give them cat-like features. The wigs/fur on the head, the makeup, the full body suits with occasional feathering to resemble fur, a string belt with a yarn tail, etc. The movie failed to this. They simply changed the color, added fur, ears, and a tail and changed absolutely nothing else. The musical knew it was pretty impossible to sing, dance, and act on a stage while looking exactly like cats, so they didn't. THATS why the musical worked in the first place. Obviously, having those costumes in a movie wouldn't work either though. So why this musical was made into a musical is beyond me
One reason the movie slips hard into uncanny valley is that they CGIed out their human ears but left their noses and eyes completely human. Their “cat” ears are also positioned incorrectly, if you look at a real cat’s ears they start halfway down its head. This makes their head look proportioned completely wrong, too tall and thin too to be natural. They also didn’t add enough fur to keep them from looking like naked humans. This is the worst on Rebel Wilson since she has her creepy skin suit, but pretty much every cat not “wearing clothes” looks naked. The worst is Macavity since they actually made him skin colored *and* he was clothed before.
100% This movie was made or conceived by a furry. Now I would never cast shade on anyone's kink but this was just a bit much for the masses. It would have done an order of magnitude better if they had just done what the play has done for years. This CGI just comes off as strange and a waste.
When you say Cats the broadway musical was made to look like the characters were playing cats. Are you referring to Brecht's technique in theatre? Because that I totally understand
I honestly think, when Idris Elba (who IS a good actor in most of his movies) was asked to play Macavity in this, he did his research and saw what Macavity looked like in the '98 version with the wild hair and scary face paint and crazy costume and he was like "HELL NO, I am not dressing up like THAT. Make my character the same color as my skin and give me green eyes and we'll call it a day". lol
they definitely needed at least a year more and maybe even more than that if the accusations that cgi animators were working until basically the day of the films release are true
This movie would have been better if T*m H**per was not allowed within 300ft of it, and the creative team encouraged input from people who actually understand musical theatre and Cats (the musical). And yeah, if you're going to use CGI this heavily make sure you have enough time and money to cover that, and give the animators everything they need to work with (like maybe some mocap data or visual references for lighting and movement???)
I think calling it range would imply it was done well. She's a great pop artist, and this being terrible isn't really all her fault, but yikes the accent, the vocals. There's no texture or character. If anything it just makes me appreciate the original more. So. no. While she's very talented, she doesn't have much range.
I really appreciate her throwing that ‘wide awake’ line the way she did, not so hot on how it begins but I think I just like the stage version more than Taylor’s.
this comment thread is embarrassing because a year ago I was like "oh I didn't like this because I'm not really a fan of hers" and now I am really a fan of hers
@@EmmaF Actually i would agree i think the other performance is way better. The song is faster and way note dynamic and also they portrey the characters completly diffrent this one Has more of a Harley Quinn Vibe while the other one is two thots talking about their lover.
Ikr. It should have been this amazing duet we had in the musical. You can see Demeter's struggle there and Bombalurina's still-going affection for Macavity. Also I hate how they drug everyone with catnip in this to make them dance along, while in the musical it was all the female kittens (or at least younger cats) who joined them in their dance because they were swayed by Macavity's reputation and the mystery around him. It was so much more intriguing and made Macavity a more interesting but also more dangerous character. You could sense the attraction to evil in there, even though I couldn't have explained it as a child I knew it was there. Everyone was just so much more refined in the musical, despite it being "just" a presentation of cats who want to go to the heavyside lair.
in the original he appears before the song and takes old deuteronomy, and this is demeter and bombalurina explaining him to the audience. dont think tom watched the original though!
As a theatre nerd who only read the play's Wikipedia page, i can honestly say that this play deserves the adaptation we got. It's a show where anthropomorphic cats join a contest in order to get permission to die. What else were we expecting?
@@ezelfrancisco1349 i know what you mean there is not much of a plot in this play, but you can't deny that the staged production of the musical is better than the film , i mean the dance sequences, the singing everything, but for many people the CGI destroyed the movie altogether. Also i wanna say that the large majority of the public wouldn't like the movie even without the CGI as you said there is not a lot happening in the play , and it left a lot of people confused , but us like theatre nerds appreciated even like that whereas people who didn't know about Cats prior to seeing the movie didn't have any appreciation for the musical itself, you know what i mean
I've listened to some Brits sing. Usually, though not always, they have no accent while signing. I was told some time back that vocalists are usually all taught to pronounce letters the same way, maybe that's why the accent sounds forced here?
@@phoenix.maximus the song was a half singing & half talking anyway. Whoever sing this makes them sound like that. And you forget that its a theatrical song and mostly theatrical songs are half talking & singing imao. You should learn. 😌
She wasn't wrong when she said she was the actress from your bad dreams edit: oh shi- edit again:I'm not thankin y'all i deserved it 😌💅 edit again: 13 replies on my most liked comment, born on 9th april(fearless t.s version release), born on 2008(original fearless release).. u guys can argue with the wall im the true swiftie 😈😎 edit again: DO NOT RUIN THE REPLIES
I feel like even the actors didn't know what they were getting themselves into. In the age of super realistic CGI, this movie was a fkn disaster. I genuinely feel so bad for Tay, she was so excited for the movie but this is pure ✨garbage✨
To be honest, I like Taylor’s voice fine, the set up of the cats being drugged/controlled is kinda creative, I like Idris joining the song, but the animation ruins a lot of the choreography
Everyone's talking about how they described Idris Elba as a tall, slim ginger, and I'm just wondering how no one noticed Tay Tay's attempt at a posh London accent.
I am actually OK with the Taylor singing the song. What drives me nuts is the scene where her claws come out and it makes that *shing* sound. Its like the effects guy dropped some of the frames where she says "like" trying to insert the claws special effect. Kinda crappy editing IMO.
@@No_bo_dy10You really think so? Everyone who watches the movie thinks that too. No one can deny that Taylor can sing, not a single person on this planet can deny that but the CGI absolutely ruins her look which makes her performance look so awful. Even as a fan of Taylor, you know she didn't do a great job in this movie eventhough it's not her fault that the CGI sucked
Tom Hooper is the real reason why a lot of this movie is bad. He didn't give them direction and instead had them sing the songs how they wanted. No one told her that she didn't need to do the voice cause hooper made the orchestra follow what the actors wanted!!! He is now one of my top hated directors cause of what he's done Cats.
Absolutely! Besides, Demeter is the cat who knows everything about everybody. She's the only one who recognises Grizabella. Telling everyone about legendary cats is HER thing.
Of course, the whole point of the song in the musical is that Bombalurina (Taylor Swift's character in the film) fears and hates Macavity even though she might still be attracted to him. It's never explicitly stated in words, but the way in which Bombalurina in the musical closely resembles another character named Demeter and seems quite protective of her strongly implies that the two are most likely siblings. Demeter is often nervous and she's terrified of Macavity -- she's the first to know when he's there and tends to attribute anything unexpected to him, implying that they were acquainted in the past.
I DO love how Mistoffelees, Munkustrap AND Cassandra all try to protect Victoria and get her away.....but NOBODY thinks to protect Lady Deuteronomy when Bombalurina is CLEARLY singing about Macavity. lol
@@laysmaxx5789 Because they are male cats and Victoria is beautiful and young and alone, so they are instantly attracted to her. That's why they made Victoria the main character in this version and not Grizabella, who is older and not so pretty and has a rough backstory. They didn't interpret the story's secret correctly at all and because they made it Victoria's story, it ruined Grizabella's journey.
@@CeltycSparrow In the stage play, whenever there's a threat the older cats always protected Deutronomy and the kittens. It showed how closely knit they are as a family. But in this movie, it seems like Victoria is the only one who matters. And not just Grizzabella, but they diminished the roles of some others like Jemima, Mistoffelees and Tugger.
Me knowing This song is supposed to be about Bombalurina and Demeter being genuinely afraid of Macavity because he keeps trying to ‘Date’ Demeter as well as many other reasons: *oh. I’m confused.*
@@spaorkles I actually love Taylor, she's one of the best performers and is carrying this whole scene, but that makes me more annoyed since the character she's playing should have a main singing part in 3 or 4 more songs and be in the movie throughout... but for some reason they decided she could only sing this one song and thats that
I love it actually! I think the production was overlooked. People get weirded out by the visual of the film. This scene was theatrical and entertaining actually. It's not all that horrible.
@@persephone8960 we have to agree to disagree on that one. It's a shame to have so many Good actors and then such a horrible script. I Guess you have to really really Love the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (I do not) and weird looking human Cats to appriciate it.
She's low in energy. It's fine at first but in the end (whene everyone starts singing) she's... Lost. I mean she's a good singer but this was a bit flat (probably not her fault, the production and directing of this movie was horrid)
All the other music and dancing in the movie too seemed a bit, like, sort of off-beat? As if the director told the actors to just do whatever with the songs, said screw the click track, and just told the orchestra to deal with it.
@@amyness3452 I saw a video by Sideways about it. I basically breaks down the music and he says just that. I suggest you to see it, it's pretty interesting!
When Jesus was crucified this movie was probably among the many great sins he had to bear in his own torn and afflicted body, it must have been unimaginable torture. And yet historians think zealot insurrectionists had it bad...
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Some context then. During the 1st century hundreds upon hundreds of Jews were crucified by Rome, most of them were zealots who tried to lead a rebellion against the occupation. This was considered a threat to the Pax Romana so they reacted with extreme brutality to even the slightest inkling of insurrection. In roughly 30 A.D. a Galilean preacher and miracle worker was crucified. This is the historical background of one of the start of one largest religions on the planet. Christian theology holds that when Yeshua (i.e. "Jesus") was executed he bore all sins past present and future. My joke is basically that this movie is so terrible and cringe it was probably one of the sins he bore and the most unbearable one at that.
So the musical was fine. But you didnt like it in a movie. Tells how boring and unimaginative some people are. But i did like this movie over Les Miserables movie, that was insanely boring. This had imagination and fun stuff to it. Cats movie was fun
@@crucify_then_learn3370 Yeah, but everyone looks uncanny. If it were a cartoon, then the cats could be more designed and expressive. I get it, and I sure Universal thought the same, it's a ballet, but it could change the awkwardness of the change between cats and humans, but I'm sure someone could make a good cgi cartoon cat.
@@kejiri3593 I didn't mind the movie either. I really don't understand all the hate, to be honest. Did I love it? No, but I watched it all the way through and enjoyed it overall, with some scenes I thought were quite well done.
"I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams"
-Taylor Swift
She was warning us all along......
😭🖐🏾
💀💀💀
hey, at least because her only some people ACTUALLY watched the movie instead of leaving the theater in the middle of the movie and she barely had one scene.
@@ikimcringey18 I turned the movie off like 6 minutes in
Seems like a decent person she's not in my nightmares.
"Macavitys a ginger cat, he's very tall and slim..."
Idris Elba cat, short, brown and built.
Well done guys
i mean at least idris is tall
I think macavaity WAS a ginger cat.
S-short?
What do you mean they hade one job?
Ops I meant had
In the song "Evermore" Taylor says "Motion Capture put me in a bad light." Every time hear her sing that, I think of this movie.
And in "Look What You Made Me Do", she says "I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams" and then she was in this movie. Well she's an actress here giving us bad dreams because this movie was horribly looking 😂
Even she knew this movie looked creepy. They probably didn’t show the final version to anyone that way no one could make a stink about it.
If you told me this was a horror movie, I wouldn’t even doubt you.
this comment made me choke
😂😂😂
And then they bang
"You could've called this movie a horror movie, and no one would've argued with you!"
me when the dentist pokes my tooth : MA CAVITY
lol
OMG hahahahaha I spit my water
Underrated
Hahahahahahahah I just- hahahahaha
this is sending me
If this was an animated movie instead of being a CGI nightmare it would be 1000x better
Emily Grace ikr they could have done the animation like chipmunks
Should have just been a 3D- animated cartoon. Would have drawn a lot more kids in too.
Emily Grace interestingly, it was supposed to be animated. After Tom Hooper got attached to direct, he decided to make it live action
This was originally supposed to be a theatre play, so I do see why they opted for a live action version that could remain true to the original. The animation wouldn't do the dancers justice. But CGI makes it worse at the same time. There's no winning on this one.
Emily Grace facts
didn’t think taylor was THIS obsessed with cats...
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA this deserves more likes. 😂😂😂
she has a cat or an image of a cat in EVEY MUSIC VIDEO lmao
Of course she is 😂
she's a cat lady and the reason she take this role lol
Um...this comment has 413 likes and 2 replies have 13 likes each.............
the best part about this movie was when taylor stopped promoting it as soon as the first trailer dropped
Honestly, I feel bad for the actors. They had no idea that the people making the movie were going to turn them into these CGI nightmare abominations.
@@ahobbit1273 Except for Rebel Wilson and James Corden. They deserve that garbage on their resumes. Especially after that stupid Oscars schtick where they along with the studio and Tom Hooper threw the understaffed,underpaid, underfunded, overworked VFX department under the bus.
I genuinely feel bad for her. Imagine being one of these cats and seeing this. It’s horrific - they should sue
@@AK-jt7kh I mean, didn't they have any idea how it would end up or what they were signing up for.
Yessss hahaha
i love how taylor is trying her best to do a neutral accent between brithis and american
I love being brithis.
He's broken every human LAW, he breaks the LORW of gravity 😂😂
How to do brithis accent, someone plz tell me. I’m 4
7j
@@CorCor89 actually that makes sense. With standard English accents, they only add an extra r if the next word starts with a vowel. I pawked the cah. The car is right theh
Never would I ever have thought a cat could walk in heels better than me
its a catwalk
Can you even call them cats? 😂
Nicca Esteban omg XDD
xD but cats do look weird in this movie with heels
@@nesinesss Its not literal cats. Its cat if they added fur on humans. I like this movie
Therapist:
So when did your fear of cats begin
Me watching this video: *One Eternity Later*
Hahahahahahahahaha
Well theres this movie-
im never ever afraid to try something new
i watch labyrinth and if your afraid of cat's you're afraid of labyrinth and im not afaid of either
It's crazy to think she went and wrote folklore like 4 months after this movie 😭
Haha she probably poured ALL the sadness, shame, frustration, and embarrassment from being in this movie into the song writing for folklore
Well Folklore and Evermore was cowritten and produced by Aaron Dessner from the National. Majority of the materials he has a play in which was why those albums have The National style of music. Plus some of the songs was also co-written by her ex-BF as well it's not all her own doing
agora vc foi luz divo
Love Taylor but this is…atrocious
@@derplockedin💀💀💀
This movie makes me so sad. I watched the Broadway play that visited in Dallas. The macavity scene was one of the most incredible, Macavity felt very sisnister and all of the cats on the stage were afraid of him, especially when he first came on. Him and The Rum Tum Tiger duet danced as if they were fighting but almost in a sultry way. And at the end Macavity took 2 giant plugs and a smashed them together and made the entire stage look like it was being electrocuted, and it went all the way up the ceiling of the Theater. It was breath taking and this movie couldn’t do it justice. They should’ve just made it an animation.
i went to the one in mcallen 😮
Cats was one of my first experiences in a theater. Loved it! Just finished watching a review of the music for this film. It clearly defined why I had such a negative reaction to the film besides the inclusion of Cordin and Wilson, just cringe. The continuous interruptions of songs that are more powerful with an even flow. Also, turns out the music was performed to the voices and not the other way around. This affected the beat of the soundtrack in a negative way.
"Macavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin..." I'm really questioning whether Tom Hooper just didn't read/listen to the songs or whether he is actually just illiterate.
Same
These are the same people who thought this was good enough to put into public
I suspect there was little communication between the animation team, design team, and writers. The animation and design teams had to add this fur technology to all dancers in a very limited time and solve those issues.
To be fair, cats are color blind. :)
I feel like you have either seen Sideways’s Cats analysis, or you would feel extremely vindicated if you were to see it
I love Taylor with every fibre of my being but this was horrifying. the cgi, the jerky movement, everything was pure nightmare fuel. I think I'm gonna cry about this later.
Whats wrong with the cgi
@@Ariismother it’s disturbing
@@Ariismother cgi is perfect when done well, but terrible when done wrong. They tried making a cat look like a person using triangles
I too was shocked how they got so much wrong. Macavity is a power song and she sings about him all breathy. I mean the singing wasnt filmed live. She's better than that surely!
@@smartstudyingdoggo9031 no, they tried making a human actress look like a cat.
You don't see cats, you see humans in cat costums.
this feels like a fever dream i-
It is ..
ikr- 😭
Lies again? Cats HeadBang USD SGD
lyrics: "macavity's not there"
macavity: *is literally there*
This is the funniest comment I’ve ever seen
I guess none of them watched the stage show for tips. Macavity the *fierce ginger cat* only appears at the beginning then disappears. That's what the song is about.
That's not Macavity 🤦🏻♀️
For a ginger cat macavity is pretty black.
Lyrics: “Macabity is a ginger cat”
Macavity in the movie: fucking all dark brown
What I don’t like about this design is how *smooth* everyone looks. Where’s the fluff? The whiskers? WHY DO THEY HAVE HUMAN FEET?
They have fur and whisker. why is everybody being evil and mean about it?
@@peacesea1768 Kindly take a look at the original Broadway musical’s costumes. In my opinion, they’re a bit more visually appealing... and further away from the uncanny valley!
You are being mean, because they have whiskers and they have human feet because people are in costumes... Stop dude...
@@sketching_sav but why does the old Cats looked better than Cats 2019 lmao.
he is not being mean
It doesn't IMAO -_-
Bruh, they really couldn't even adjust the lyrics so that they actually describe the way Idris Elba looks... He's literally not a ginger cat.
They couldn't have dressed Idris Elba like the existing song describes him?
He is skin colored and it bugs me
I know! like Taylor Swift is right there
"MaCavity's a chocolate cat..."
Simple as that.
You can't change cats the musical in terms of lyrics. What you can change is the stupid CGI
can't wait for this to be my surprise song once eras tour goes international
That would be something
🕯️🕯️🕯️🐈 manifesting macavity🐈🕯️🕯️🕯️
stoppppp
This song is not i the list of the Eras Tour, and she didn't wrote this song🥲
BEAUTIFUL GHOSTS
Legends say if you close your eyes and listen to her singing, you'll have a better experience
Hey, man. Fancy seeing you here.
"Legend"? It's a fact
Lol. I get it, because the CGI is super bad. 😂
I never saw the movie before so I'l try it out thanks bruv.
omg i see you everywhere
When Taylor Swift sleeps at night, this is what she dreams of 😂
Shut up 💀💀
@@jocasisaacmarihmorilla5772 but I think it's true😂💔
You mean have nightmares of?
Now we all dream it
“Karma is a cat” “midnights sleepless nights” yeah this is why karma came from
“Macavity’s a ginger cat”
*you had one fucking job*
This is a criminally underrated comment lol
Please explain it to me
@@devanshvajpeyee8440 he’s brown and she’s introducing him
@@adoreamor4325 ohhh now I get it....they got the whole description wrong.....
@@adoreamor4325 thanks buddy for explaining!! ^_^
This brings literal tears to my eyes, but I don't know what emotion.
Laughter and secondhand embarrassment 💀😭
Pain
Satan
cringe tears
horror
Taylor Swift for 10% of the song: “Oim Bri’ish!”
LOL!
I think it was supposed to be Australian 😭
@@lisashaw9737 Nope. Pretty sure that cats takes place in London, so it makes more sense that she has a ”british” accent lol
@@anastasias8194 Except it isn’t British at all. As somebody who is, I know that for a fact.
@@bearjunior I'm British too and it sounded Australian to me hahaa
"He's broken every human law"
Macavity caused WWII.
He's commit tax fraud
He did forced naughties and treason
He planned covid and crashed the world economy!
He went out in public naked
He committed genocide and petty theft
“a ginger cat” macavity: **is literally all brown and not ginger at all**
Idris huge pecs make me forget any issue bout him 💪💪💪💪😍😍😍😍
Cats is such a good musical and this movie had great potential. If only they had used the original costumes instead of CGI
😮
That version already exists and has been out on DVD since the 1990s.
@@OolTube02- But sometimes it’s nice to see a remake with a more contemporary cast.
This vid felt like an hour long. 😂
Too true
Fr tho
Literally
it wasnt just me
Thought the same thing lol
Vocally, this was fine. Visually, I'm wondering how many drugs were slipped into my dessert.
They really didn’t give Taylor much to work with when it comes to the choreography
The catnip
@@johnnyelettrico9087 And what's with the high- heel shoes??
The song sucks cat balls
@@thomaseverette1658 no, you do.
so no ones gonna talk about the fact she’s literally drugging them-
its true-
everyday when i watch it i recap it and around the middle my mind goes
"and then she decides to drug em with catnip"-"
Does anyone actually care about the story?
Or that they're all naked?
I was just about to say that 😂😂
She’s drugging then because she’s helping macavity in order to go to the heaviside layer.
Truth, I strongly feel like this should've been fully animated, no live action like this. The voices did a very fine job, but that's about it.
This was a play, not a movie, Einstein.
The tail is the most natural movement in this scene
“I have a question, number one, how dare you?”
Kelly Kapoor, The Office
Guacamole Goddess, 😂😂😂
"this movie is the worst thing to happen to cats since dogs"
This would've been fine in Taylor's normal accent tbh. I don't mind the more sultry, breath-y take on the song, particularly in the intro, but I find the forced accent hard to ignore.
Macavity's ~~~\~~K N O T~~/~~~ therrr
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who noticed this.
I agree. It's pretty horrible.
For the type of song, the breathy voice was needed. Also the accents were mostly fake and they needed them because they were in England .
I think she's sort of giving a nod to the o.g. badass stage version youll find on youtube of demeter And bombalurina singing this song, which was with an accent because it was a British cast.
Thats what it seemed like to me
My therapist: Crackhead Furry Taylor Swift isn’t real, she can’t hurt you.
Crackhead Furry Taylor Swift:
LMAOO
Remember when taylor said in one of her songs (i think you guys know what is) "i will be the actress staring in your bad dreams" well i think this is what she meant
No one can tell me that this isn't the weirdest movie ever
It’s certainly up there as the worst.
@@emmaclaunch8625 yes but that’s an actually good movie, unlike this one
Still purfur Logans Run 🤣
@@nyx476 true
The original musical is way better
Crazy how All Too Well 10 minutes feels like no time at all but this is the longest 5 minutes ever hfjfjf
Omg ikr
This worked as a theatre production in the 1980s. It doesn’t work in a film version no matter how hard they try.
i just read the summary of cats and apparently bombalurina hates macavity? from this song without context i assumed she was like one of his evil henchman
“MCavity’s a ginger cat” *MCavity is brown*
That is exactly what I've been thinking the entire song after I hered that
and they straight up said skimbleshanks was brown
who tf decided that orange was brown and brown was orange
@@jupiter6661
Clearly someone who probably needs to take a color blind test or at least read the script and lyrics of their musical movie.
To be fair, cats are color blind. :)
@@jupiter6661
Orange is the new brown
"Macavity is a ginger cat"
**Almost black cat appears**
Viewers: ?????
The original poem is "Macavity's a *mystery* cat", God knows why they changed it.
@@stephenmcewan2460 maybe because the actor is black and they didn't want to hear "the cat has not been unlocked yet" jokes
lmaooooo
Movie: black cat macavity …. musical 1998: red fiery black striped cat?none are ginger and he looks very strange in both. CGI 2019 and a very scary costume in 1998
@@yourstruly262 no I don’t think macavity ever appeared physically they only talked about him, that would probably be Bombalurina
One of the reasons the play worked and the movie didn't: The Cats musical wasn't trying to make the characters look like cats. They wanted to give them cat-like features. The wigs/fur on the head, the makeup, the full body suits with occasional feathering to resemble fur, a string belt with a yarn tail, etc. The movie failed to this. They simply changed the color, added fur, ears, and a tail and changed absolutely nothing else. The musical knew it was pretty impossible to sing, dance, and act on a stage while looking exactly like cats, so they didn't. THATS why the musical worked in the first place. Obviously, having those costumes in a movie wouldn't work either though. So why this musical was made into a musical is beyond me
One reason the movie slips hard into uncanny valley is that they CGIed out their human ears but left their noses and eyes completely human. Their “cat” ears are also positioned incorrectly, if you look at a real cat’s ears they start halfway down its head. This makes their head look proportioned completely wrong, too tall and thin too to be natural.
They also didn’t add enough fur to keep them from looking like naked humans. This is the worst on Rebel Wilson since she has her creepy skin suit, but pretty much every cat not “wearing clothes” looks naked. The worst is Macavity since they actually made him skin colored *and* he was clothed before.
Absolutely right
100% This movie was made or conceived by a furry. Now I would never cast shade on anyone's kink but this was just a bit much for the masses. It would have done an order of magnitude better if they had just done what the play has done for years. This CGI just comes off as strange and a waste.
@@jd52wtf It was done by someone worse than a furry. Tom Hooper.
When you say Cats the broadway musical was made to look like the characters were playing cats. Are you referring to Brecht's technique in theatre? Because that I totally understand
Taylor was smart, as soon as she understood she was caught up in a Dog of a film she stopped promoting Cats
1:29 "macavity's a ginger cat"
4:11 macavity's a brown cat
I honestly think, when Idris Elba (who IS a good actor in most of his movies) was asked to play Macavity in this, he did his research and saw what Macavity looked like in the '98 version with the wild hair and scary face paint and crazy costume and he was like "HELL NO, I am not dressing up like THAT. Make my character the same color as my skin and give me green eyes and we'll call it a day". lol
I feel like this movie could’ve been better if they just had it in production for a year longer to make sure everything is perfect and not terrifying
they definitely needed at least a year more and maybe even more than that if the accusations that cgi animators were working until basically the day of the films release are true
Yup, the movie seems like the rehearsal
This movie would have been better if T*m H**per was not allowed within 300ft of it, and the creative team encouraged input from people who actually understand musical theatre and Cats (the musical). And yeah, if you're going to use CGI this heavily make sure you have enough time and money to cover that, and give the animators everything they need to work with (like maybe some mocap data or visual references for lighting and movement???)
I wish they hired Adam Lambert for Rum Tum Tugger
this movie would have been better if it was never released
Cant believe this maam went from this and wrote folklore and evermore. Her range is unparalleled
I think calling it range would imply it was done well. She's a great pop artist, and this being terrible isn't really all her fault, but yikes the accent, the vocals. There's no texture or character. If anything it just makes me appreciate the original more. So. no. While she's very talented, she doesn't have much range.
@@vivianseemer5274 Eh, she has range within her musical styles though.
@@vivianseemer5274 so vocal critics is fooling us?? She has 3 octaves though .
@@nadnad4413 hitting high notes doesn't mean all when it comes to singability
@@diamn4 yeah but her comfort to low is down to B2 and then comfort to high is E5.
Taylor is living her dream of becoming a cat. Movie quality aside, I'm genuinely happy for her 😂
*sees Macavity for the first time*
"GOOD GRIEF, HE'S NAKED!"
Imagine walking into a building so see cats in high heels spreading catnip to everyone
I would probably leave Britain.
*"what kind of fucking drugs did i take sweet jesus"*
no more microwave taco's before bedtime
So catnip is like a drug for cats.
Actually yes.
My cat gets high Everytime she sniffs it.
It's funny to watch.
It's actually in the same family as marijuana.
@@darkmynx1 Wow
Did you not already know this?💀
That's always been a thing.
I really appreciate her throwing that ‘wide awake’ line the way she did, not so hot on how it begins but I think I just like the stage version more than Taylor’s.
Therapist: It's ok, cringy British Accent Cat-Taylor Swift isn't real, she can't hurt you.
Me: .... 🙀
Lol
The cat emoji XD
Genuinely can’t believe that was supposed to be British. Thought it was Australian - we don’t talk like that 🤣😭
Idk, it doesn't really sound that bad to me. Maybe a few parts she screwed up but it sounds ok to me.
Oh no! That emoji! It's contagious!
I think Taylor Swift did ok but i still prefer it as a duet sung by Bombalurina and demeter.
Amelie Carpenter She is my favourite person in the word! But I think it’s cuz she is an American using a British accent
It would've been great if they could've cast another popular singer as Demeter instead of making her a minor character.
this comment thread is embarrassing because a year ago I was like "oh I didn't like this because I'm not really a fan of hers" and now I am really a fan of hers
@@EmmaF nah u deaf
@@EmmaF Actually i would agree i think the other performance is way better. The song is faster and way note dynamic and also they portrey the characters completly diffrent this one Has more of a Harley Quinn Vibe while the other one is two thots talking about their lover.
Macavity actually appearing goes against the whole story, right? This whole song is about how he's this urban legend, a total mystery cat.
Actually he appears in the original too,
Ikr. It should have been this amazing duet we had in the musical. You can see Demeter's struggle there and Bombalurina's still-going affection for Macavity. Also I hate how they drug everyone with catnip in this to make them dance along, while in the musical it was all the female kittens (or at least younger cats) who joined them in their dance because they were swayed by Macavity's reputation and the mystery around him. It was so much more intriguing and made Macavity a more interesting but also more dangerous character. You could sense the attraction to evil in there, even though I couldn't have explained it as a child I knew it was there. Everyone was just so much more refined in the musical, despite it being "just" a presentation of cats who want to go to the heavyside lair.
in the original he appears before the song and takes old deuteronomy, and this is demeter and bombalurina explaining him to the audience. dont think tom watched the original though!
He appears in the stage show too, but not for long and he doesn't have his own lines or lyrics. He is still ambiguous in the show regardless.
is anyone gonna talk about how funny her screaming “WIDE AWAKE” is or do i have to do it
I love Taylor but the theater kid in me is disappointed by this whole scene and movie
As a theatre nerd who only read the play's Wikipedia page, i can honestly say that this play deserves the adaptation we got.
It's a show where anthropomorphic cats join a contest in order to get permission to die. What else were we expecting?
@@ezelfrancisco1349 i know what you mean there is not much of a plot in this play, but you can't deny that the staged production of the musical is better than the film , i mean the dance sequences, the singing everything, but for many people the CGI destroyed the movie altogether. Also i wanna say that the large majority of the public wouldn't like the movie even without the CGI as you said there is not a lot happening in the play , and it left a lot of people confused , but us like theatre nerds appreciated even like that whereas people who didn't know about Cats prior to seeing the movie didn't have any appreciation for the musical itself, you know what i mean
Kate Scott on the other hand, the memory scene probably did not
SCOUTART Oh yeah, Jennifer Hudson killed that song
Ezel Francisco positively commenting, right?
i simply adore taylor swift, but this accent...
I've listened to some Brits sing. Usually, though not always, they have no accent while signing. I was told some time back that vocalists are usually all taught to pronounce letters the same way, maybe that's why the accent sounds forced here?
Same here!
I think she did a good job with it though it obviously it doesnt fit her because she does sing with a very pronounced American accent
can't stand this half-singing, mostly talking style of "music" today. the theatrical production was way better.
@@phoenix.maximus the song was a half singing & half talking anyway. Whoever sing this makes them sound like that. And you forget that its a theatrical song and mostly theatrical songs are half talking & singing imao. You should learn. 😌
She wasn't wrong when she said she was the actress from your bad dreams
edit: oh shi-
edit again:I'm not thankin y'all i deserved it 😌💅
edit again: 13 replies on my most liked comment, born on 9th april(fearless t.s version release), born on 2008(original fearless release).. u guys can argue with the wall im the true swiftie 😈😎
edit again: DO NOT RUIN THE REPLIES
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@@peach9677 pedantic 💀
@@peach9677 pedantic 💀
Nobody:
Not a single cat:
Me at 2 am for no absolute reason: *MaCaViTy mAcAvItY*
Big _"That happened, and we all let it happen."_ energy with this one...
Have you seen this movie's version of gumbie cat?
They literally just made this song into a cat version of Joker/Harley Quinn.
But at least Joker and Harley actually had fun being villains. These two were just driven to insanity by their desire to be the Jellicle Choice
@@callanightshade8079 True that!! 😂
I feel like even the actors didn't know what they were getting themselves into. In the age of super realistic CGI, this movie was a fkn disaster. I genuinely feel so bad for Tay, she was so excited for the movie but this is pure ✨garbage✨
Well she got to live her cats dream during shooting, so it’s all cool for her. Just what got served to us was 💀
Forget the CGI, the whole concept of this thing is just perturbing, humans as cats, no thank you.
@@SnuffIt The OG stage musical looked great, but that was costumes and makeup, it just doesn’t translate very well into CGI
4:09 I came here from knuckles
me too
But you stayed for the cause??
Cays5
Cats
Knuckles is better
To be honest, I like Taylor’s voice fine, the set up of the cats being drugged/controlled is kinda creative, I like Idris joining the song, but the animation ruins a lot of the choreography
Drugged, nah
Actually the animation is fine too,the problem is the character designs.
yeah, the only thing i don't like about this is the terrifying cgi, this movie had a lot of potential but didn't live up to it ig
I legit can’t watch this movie because of the CGI. It’s so awkward on everyone.
Everyone's talking about how they described Idris Elba as a tall, slim ginger, and I'm just wondering how no one noticed Tay Tay's attempt at a posh London accent.
I am actually OK with the Taylor singing the song. What drives me nuts is the scene where her claws come out and it makes that *shing* sound. Its like the effects guy dropped some of the frames where she says "like" trying to insert the claws special effect.
Kinda crappy editing IMO.
Worst thing is, her hands aren't hairy. They've just left them human and it looks so bad
Time stamp?
@@ShahedVideo at 2:09
They didn't have enough time to edit so they rushed.
Oh my god, i never noticed it before
she has an AMAZING voice and gave an amazing performance but the cgi is honestly so disturbing 😭
I thought I’m the only one who thinks that😭
The fake accent is awful lmao
@@No_bo_dy10You really think so? Everyone who watches the movie thinks that too. No one can deny that Taylor can sing, not a single person on this planet can deny that but the CGI absolutely ruins her look which makes her performance look so awful. Even as a fan of Taylor, you know she didn't do a great job in this movie eventhough it's not her fault that the CGI sucked
Her voice of a 11 year old makes me cry too.
I love Taylor but when she read the script for this what was her thought process?
Taylor's thought process: omg there's cats sing me in
@@emmag3756 TRUE HAHA
Tom Hooper is the real reason why a lot of this movie is bad. He didn't give them direction and instead had them sing the songs how they wanted. No one told her that she didn't need to do the voice cause hooper made the orchestra follow what the actors wanted!!! He is now one of my top hated directors cause of what he's done Cats.
Taylor: "wait, are they serio- OH THERE'S CATS, I CAN GO WITH THIS!"
Taylor: Mmm a red pair of stilletos would be purrfect for my character...
Why on God's green Earth did they go with HUMAN FEET for the cats?!
That’s the worst part tbh
@@sobersplash6172 no, the worst parts are cat boobs, naked cats and making mistoffeles straight
@@b.d6642 and rum tum, they nerfed my beautiful flamboyant boy
@@b.d6642 no, the worst part is the human faces. Especially the nose
Its antro cat, not real cat. They have feet if they have fingers
Bombalurina: “Macavity’s not there” Macavity: *is there*
4:12 I love how he's wearing a hat that looks something Knuckles would wear.
The fact they erased Demeter from this scene is a crime. Macavity works so much better as a duet (and not in shitty CGI format)
Absolutely! Besides, Demeter is the cat who knows everything about everybody. She's the only one who recognises Grizabella. Telling everyone about legendary cats is HER thing.
Of course, the whole point of the song in the musical is that Bombalurina (Taylor Swift's character in the film) fears and hates Macavity even though she might still be attracted to him. It's never explicitly stated in words, but the way in which Bombalurina in the musical closely resembles another character named Demeter and seems quite protective of her strongly implies that the two are most likely siblings. Demeter is often nervous and she's terrified of Macavity -- she's the first to know when he's there and tends to attribute anything unexpected to him, implying that they were acquainted in the past.
I DO love how Mistoffelees, Munkustrap AND Cassandra all try to protect Victoria and get her away.....but NOBODY thinks to protect Lady Deuteronomy when Bombalurina is CLEARLY singing about Macavity. lol
Old Deuteronomy
@@Julia.Taunton-Clark99 Given the deep respect I have for Ken Page, I refuse to acknowledge her with that title. lol
I never understood why these cats are just going out of their way for a cat they met literally an hour ago
@@laysmaxx5789 Because they are male cats and Victoria is beautiful and young and alone, so they are instantly attracted to her. That's why they made Victoria the main character in this version and not Grizabella, who is older and not so pretty and has a rough backstory. They didn't interpret the story's secret correctly at all and because they made it Victoria's story, it ruined Grizabella's journey.
@@CeltycSparrow In the stage play, whenever there's a threat the older cats always protected Deutronomy and the kittens. It showed how closely knit they are as a family. But in this movie, it seems like Victoria is the only one who matters. And not just Grizzabella, but they diminished the roles of some others like Jemima, Mistoffelees and Tugger.
This is a very Taylor performance. The snake reference, her iconic mannerisms, obviously the cats
That fake English accent is straight out of a Harry Potter parody made by middle schoolers on home video.
Most underrated comment 😂😂
i still want to watch this movie high,
I think that is the only way u can watch it lmao
Without losing ur sanity
As a person who tried this yesterday night I assure you, it doesn't make it better
@@kyuubi202 i assume its like the combination of a roller coaster and an acid trip
@@scottygg8550 lol in the worst way possible
Me knowing This song is supposed to be about Bombalurina and Demeter being genuinely afraid of Macavity because he keeps trying to ‘Date’ Demeter as well as many other reasons: *oh. I’m confused.*
and to think that she came out with folklore with so many amazing songs after this-
the way they edited taylor's body movements are so weird??? im so sorry for Taylor they set u up this bad😭
The look too human, to walk naked, I can’t...
Dude its cgi so nothing's showing
why make 1 person sing a duet WHY
Because Taylor swift is badass?
Plus macavity does sing too near the end
Stfu stop complaining with recycled comments generated in December 2019.
@@spaorkles I actually love Taylor, she's one of the best performers and is carrying this whole scene, but that makes me more annoyed since the character she's playing should have a main singing part in 3 or 4 more songs and be in the movie throughout... but for some reason they decided she could only sing this one song and thats that
@@joejoe5673 ok Joe
Tbh she's the only one who approached her role with the level of camp and grandeur this musical needs
me when I lie
@@ravenswood118ok
Am I the only one who rlly rlly likes this scene 😭
I completely love that
Well I'm just watching the 5th time. It's completely passionate and addicting! It looks like I used catnip 😂😂😂😂🐱🐱🐱🐯🐯🐯
Yes. Threre really are no likeable scenes in this film. I thought it would be funny bad but it's just unbareable
I love it actually! I think the production was overlooked. People get weirded out by the visual of the film. This scene was theatrical and entertaining actually. It's not all that horrible.
@@persephone8960 we have to agree to disagree on that one. It's a shame to have so many Good actors and then such a horrible script. I Guess you have to really really Love the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (I do not) and weird looking human Cats to appriciate it.
She's low in energy. It's fine at first but in the end (whene everyone starts singing) she's... Lost. I mean she's a good singer but this was a bit flat (probably not her fault, the production and directing of this movie was horrid)
All the other music and dancing in the movie too seemed a bit, like, sort of off-beat? As if the director told the actors to just do whatever with the songs, said screw the click track, and just told the orchestra to deal with it.
@@amyness3452 I saw a video by Sideways about it. I basically breaks down the music and he says just that. I suggest you to see it, it's pretty interesting!
@@silviagangeri8797 Thatnks, I think I will!
She was being reserved and dominant not completely exposed and over the top
It's her fault. She sucks
When Jesus was crucified this movie was probably among the many great sins he had to bear in his own torn and afflicted body, it must have been unimaginable torture. And yet historians think zealot insurrectionists had it bad...
No idea what you're saying but I agree
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Some context then. During the 1st century hundreds upon hundreds of Jews were crucified by Rome, most of them were zealots who tried to lead a rebellion against the occupation. This was considered a threat to the Pax Romana so they reacted with extreme brutality to even the slightest inkling of insurrection. In roughly 30 A.D. a Galilean preacher and miracle worker was crucified. This is the historical background of one of the start of one largest religions on the planet. Christian theology holds that when Yeshua (i.e. "Jesus") was executed he bore all sins past present and future. My joke is basically that this movie is so terrible and cringe it was probably one of the sins he bore and the most unbearable one at that.
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 he’s basically saying that this movie is so bad, God counts it as a sin.
@@sandwichjones6995 Actually the joke was that it's so bad that it caused physical anguish worse than the crucifixion.
I hope she performs this at the Eras Tour.
Ive just lost my only remaining brain cell
So you are capable of liking the movie now?
Should've been a cartoon...
YESSSS
So the musical was fine. But you didnt like it in a movie. Tells how boring and unimaginative some people are. But i did like this movie over Les Miserables movie, that was insanely boring. This had imagination and fun stuff to it. Cats movie was fun
Nah. It’s a ballet. And there’s no real story, in the musical, at least. I would flip a table over if it was a cartoon...
@@crucify_then_learn3370 Yeah, but everyone looks uncanny. If it were a cartoon, then the cats could be more designed and expressive. I get it, and I sure Universal thought the same, it's a ballet, but it could change the awkwardness of the change between cats and humans, but I'm sure someone could make a good cgi cartoon cat.
@@kejiri3593 I didn't mind the movie either. I really don't understand all the hate, to be honest. Did I love it? No, but I watched it all the way through and enjoyed it overall, with some scenes I thought were quite well done.
“Macavity’s a ginger cat-“
Cat’s movie: Nah
Let’s admit it, most of the people who watched cats is there to hear Taylor swift.
wtf are you talking about
The CCs: "But when crimes discovered my cavities."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is the most graphic PG rating I’ve ever seen!!!
NC reference?
Yeah, I’m a shmuck that quotes people more talented than me. 🤣
I hope Olivia, Meradith and Benjiman Button are proud of there mommy she loves them so much lol
Taylor: McCavity’s a Ginger cat
4:14 : the movie says otherwise
Taylor honestly can do anything when it comes to cats 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"MaCaViTy'S a GiNgEr CaT"
couldn't even get that right Hooper?
ಠ_ಠ
Everyone talks about the visuals, but what bugs me is this whole song just builds hype for Macavity, and the character doesn't deliver on any of it.
Imagine you leaving to buy food and coming back to see your cats doing this