Cats
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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When all else fails, throw the VFX team under the bus. An exploration of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s uphill ‘Cats’ battle from the get-go, the risks of setting deadlines based on the awards season calendar and why the once massively successful broadway production bombed at the box office.
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| 0:00.0 | I heard it a hundred times and nobody explained what it was. |
| 0:03.0 | Jellicles do. |
| 0:04.0 | Jellicul, I have no idea, but please cut all that out, Danish. Hello and welcome to what went wrong in some of your favorite and least favorite movies? |
| 0:25.0 | Yes, the goal of this podcast is not to pile on these movies. |
| 0:30.0 | It is simply to marvel at the fact that any of them made it to the screen at all because it is extremely difficult to get any movie made |
| 0:38.8 | And it's extremely difficult to get that movie that you made to be any good at all. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.0 | And we watched Cats. |
| 0:46.0 | The best musical you never saw. |
| 0:48.0 | It's amazing. |
| 0:50.0 | If I'm trying to break it down, if I had to sum sum up the plot I would say it's a series of cats |
| 0:54.8 | Introducing themselves and their ridiculous names in a sort of audition |
| 0:59.2 | Because they're all trying to be chosen by old Deuteronomy to be the next cat to |
| 1:03.7 | ascend to the heavy side layer for the chance at a new life, right? Sure. Okay. |
| 1:09.2 | I didn't understand anything that was happening this entire movie. |
| 1:12.8 | Well, that's my best attempt at summing up cats. |
| 1:16.1 | So we saw it last night for the first time and I know we're a little late to the party, |
| 1:20.3 | but I'm glad we waited because we actually saw it at a rowdy screening at Almo draft house where people are going to |
| 1:28.1 | Essentially heckle and enjoy the movie and we'll get to Cats Path in that direction a little later in the episode. |
| 1:36.5 | For those of you who may not know, Cats is one of the bigger box office bombs in recent history. |
| 1:43.0 | And of course, we all saw Rebel Wilson and James Corden |
| 1:45.4 | get up at the Oscars and basically make a joke |
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