Cats Movie Starring Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellan, Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, Taylor Swift

As per both ALW and Taylor, the song was written for Francesca Hayward to sing in the film, with Taylor doing the radio/pop version.

 

Yeah, that is definitely not a name I would associate with this kind of thing.
He's listed on Wikipedia too.
Les Twins are also in it as Plato and Socrates according to Wikipeida. I first saw them on World of Dance, and they are two of the best hip hop dancers I have ever seen. The way they move doesn't is just incredible.

 

My problem with the design isn't any kind of uncanny valley thing, it's that they feel weirdly like naked people, and not people in costume, but then they are all furry and anatomically incorrect, so it just feels completely wrong somehow.

 

The actors look like humanoid cats, which is exactly what they're supposed to look like (as opposed to humans wearing cat costumes, which could've looked cheesy in a filmic environment).

 

That doesn't make it any less creepy.

 

All you said is that they look as designed, and I pretty much said the design itself is a little creepy.

 

I disagree.

 

I think the Best Original Song category at the Oscars this year is going to be a competition between her and Idina Menzel. And while "Into the Unknown" is a good song, it's no "Let It Go", so I have a good feeling about Taylor's chances.

 

I guess they wanted to were trying to come up with something similar to the look from the stage show, but whether that worked or not is pretty clearly up for debate.
Personally, if it were me I would have gone with something more along the lines of Puss in Boots from the Shrek movies, but I'm not as bothered by the movie's designs as a lot of people seem to be.

 

I did say If I recall correctly. I obviously didn't.

Got his start as the hard-nosed Will Scarlet in Richard Carpenter's Robin of Sherwood. I guess he has a type.

 

Yeah, I don't get the whole 'they look creepy' thing. Now, from what I have seen, the original cat costumes from the stage production look pretty creepy. The movie cats, to me, look as natural as "humanoid cats" can look.

 

^ Having seen the stage costumes personally, I cannot understand the 'creepy' thing and think people made it up - and piled on - in regards to the film looks "just because".

 

I would normally agree with that, but not this time.

 

As I noted, I have personally seen the stage costumes in motion and in still photograph, and I can therefore state with full authoritative confidence that there is absolutely nothing 'creepy' about them.

 

Ok, thanks for absolutely telling me how to feel.

 

C-3PO: Oh, he excels at that, sir.

 

You can feel however you want; what you feel doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on the Cats stage costumes not actually being 'creepy'.

 

Are you joking?

I find them creepy. That makes them creepy to me. That's how that word works.

 

Creepy is kind of a subjective thing, so I don't really think you can state definitely if something is or is not creepy. Just because you don't find something creepy, doesn't mean other people won't.

 

The impression I'm getting is that, for a substantial number of people, crossing human with something other is an automatically troubling concept/visual, especially if that something is an animal - it falls under the broad, subjective umbrella of the 'uncanny valley'. The Cats movie seems to have hit that particular nerve particularly hard, and in our reactive, feedback-loop world of medias social and mass, those reactions are inevitably magnified.

That the stage costumes could generate a similar response in some is perfectly understandable.