Cats (2019)

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Andrew Lloyd Webber: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Andrew Lloyd Webber ⇒ Cats (the host's read). Cats is Universal's adaptation of Webber's stage musical.
    “Universal's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:18:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Les Mis: 2 lines programming ×1 verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Les Mis → Cats. Amanda rates Les Mis a much better musical than Cats.
    “Les Mis is a much better musical than cats.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:20:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)

Andrew Lloyd Webber: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Cats → Andrew Lloyd Webber. Cats is Universal's adaptation of Webber's stage musical.
    “Universal's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:18:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Catwoman: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Catwoman → Cats. Catwoman and Cats are the 'authentically bad' kind of bad movie.
    “That movie's just bad.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:07:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

Ian McKellen: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Ian McKellen → Cats. McKellen putters in almost anything these days, including cats; he was original winner for Mr. Holmes.
    “I mean, McKellen in almost anything these days.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:20:01 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Judi Dench: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Judi Dench → Cats. Fifth supporting-actress nominee: Dench's pure presence and commitment to something ridiculous is the hardest, most impressive performance of the year.
    “that is the hardest and most impressive performance of the year.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:14:30 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Pain and Glory: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (anecdote): Pain and Glory → Cats. Griffin first saw the Cats trailer on his phone in the hallway outside the Pain and Glory screening, so the two are wrapped together in his head.
    “And so like that and pain and glory have been like wrapped up in my head.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:57:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Bride!: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): The Bride! → Cats. The Bride! now is a stinker, like Cats, though some people call it brave.
    “We kind of lost the art of making real stinkers”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Two Popes: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Two Popes → Cats. The film's cut Cat of the Railway Train material makes a parallel joke to Cats.
    “I mean, Anthony Hopkins is trying really hard in the 2 posts, but I heard they cut out all of his cat of the railway train material.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:20:26 · Joe Reid (0.35 sure it was them)

The Wife: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Cats → The Wife. Their producer says Cats will be the new The Wife: a long-running running bit on the Oscar show.
    “cats is the new, the wife, right?”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Catwoman → Cats. Catwoman and Cats are the 'authentically bad' kind of bad movie.
    “That movie's just bad.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:07:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): The Two Popes → Cats. The film's cut Cat of the Railway Train material makes a parallel joke to Cats.
    “I mean, Anthony Hopkins is trying really hard in the 2 posts, but I heard they cut out all of his cat of the railway train material.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:20:26 · Joe Reid (0.35 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): The Bride! → Cats. The Bride! now is a stinker, like Cats, though some people call it brave.
    “We kind of lost the art of making real stinkers”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Cats → Andrew Lloyd Webber. Cats is Universal's adaptation of Webber's stage musical.
    “Universal's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:18:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): Cats → Les Mis. Both are Tom Hooper musicals everyone pretends are in the Oscar conversation until release.
    “it was the same feeling that we had with Les Mis, the last big Tom Hooper musical.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:20:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Cats → The Wife. Their producer says Cats will be the new The Wife: a long-running running bit on the Oscar show.
    “cats is the new, the wife, right?”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (anecdote): Pain and Glory → Cats. Griffin first saw the Cats trailer on his phone in the hallway outside the Pain and Glory screening, so the two are wrapped together in his head.
    “And so like that and pain and glory have been like wrapped up in my head.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:57:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (4)

  1. verdict (verdict): Les Mis → Cats. Amanda rates Les Mis a much better musical than Cats.
    “Les Mis is a much better musical than cats.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:20:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Judi Dench → Cats. Fifth supporting-actress nominee: Dench's pure presence and commitment to something ridiculous is the hardest, most impressive performance of the year.
    “that is the hardest and most impressive performance of the year.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:14:30 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Ian McKellen → Cats. McKellen putters in almost anything these days, including cats; he was original winner for Mr. Holmes.
    “I mean, McKellen in almost anything these days.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:20:01 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. verdict (verdict): Cats → Cats. Ben cried at Memory; the table calls Cats 'simultaneously the best and worst film of the year', an A slash F.
    “And can we all acknowledge that cats is simultaneously the best and worst film of the year?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:31:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Cats: Hosts predict The Ringer will cover Cats aggressively; Taylor Swift in a unitard.
    “Taylor Swift in a Unitard, like with a weird name.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:20:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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