Tom Hooper is just a gimmick director trying to be revolutionary by reinventing the wheel, not realizing it's round for a reason

"The actors made choices about the tempo" is such a great backhanded way to say "none of them were on beat."

I know it's just because of copyright mutes, but "just listen to the clarinet trying to follow him" followed by dead silence was hilarious.

Another thing visual-wise: Their scale keeps changing. Sometimes they're as small as mice, other times they're scaled to more cat-like dimensions. Makes it feel even more like a nightmare.

The whole lyrics-don't-match-the-story part, like when Grizabella sings "touch me" and she was already touched, really gets me because they treat these songs like ambience music instead of actual plot devices that forward the story. Yeah, memory sounds nice, but the lyrics actually matter, you know

I like how he’s just slowly getting angrier and angrier and by the end he’s in the verge of aneurism.

An essay about the Cats movie from a guy who actually likes Cats. This is different.

It's so depressing to me that this thoughtful analysis is often interrupted by copyright claim muting throughout.

They really said, "We're going to copyright this guy for using our movie's music because if we didn't make any money off of it, he won't either."

It’s almost like the people who direct musicals should, like....understand music in some capacity.

47:07 this bit had me rolling on the floor-

"toUUCH MEE"

Cats (the animal) legit touch each other to mark other cats, people, and things, as "safe". That's why they rub the corner of their mouth against your hand; it's a way of saying "this is safe, and now it smells like me, so it's extra safe". Grizabella wanting to be touched literally was just her begging for a friend. And now I'm sad.

tom hooper just looked at a photo of the cast of cats and went "oh the one in white really stands out, shes the main cat right?" and noone corrected him

A YEAR since Cats?

are we not talking about how weirdly unproportionate the sizes of the cats are? they're too large inside the train but then have the size of hamsters while on the train tracks.

1. This guy sounded like he was on the verge of crying from pure rage at times.