Tom Hooper to direct movie of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats'

[The Chris]

The cockroaches and what they do in that scene was just.......no. Oh god no.

 

[TheGuy]

I'm watching them now on Twitter. Sweet Jesus. The Academy should confiscate Hooper's trophies.

 

[jmc]

I just saw it too. I haven't laughed so hard all year. Literally in tears. Dear god, who thought this was a good idea? Somebody needed to be a friend to Hooper and say 'Mate, I love you, but....no'.

 

[dark_b]

this what happens when you give an oscar award to a bad director. how?

 

[Captain Tired]

For some reason that face that Hooper made towards Tarantino during that directors roundtable discussion a few years ago, now seems all the more hilarious to me.

 

[dark_b]

she has a fur suit over her fur body?

 

[terry78]

It's like David Lynch.

 

[cabel]

The mice and cockroach number is also the third or fourth sequence in the movie. You’ve barely had a chance to get accustomed to the cats before they throw that mountain of crazy at you.

 

[Lily Adler]

I absolutely refuse to believe the $100 million budget.

The mere fact that the CG wasn't mo-capped, but hand applied to the scenes alone should be proof of that. I feel for the poor animators who worked on this film.

Why did they not use mocap? That seems like a waste of money and time.

 

[Wheels]

So people hate Hooper now? I thought most considered King's Speach to be good at least.

 

[terry78]

It's one strike and you're out in this business.

 

[Lily Adler]

So people hate Hooper now? I thought most considered King's Speach to be good at least.

It's a testament on how truly bad this film is.

 

[Schlosser85]

So people hate Hooper now? I thought most considered King's Speach to be good at least.

There’s people who retcon Rian Johnson into a bad Director solely based on TLJ.

 

[flickchick85]

I never liked Hooper and thought his directing in The King’s Speech was undeserving of its acclaim. Every movie he’s made since has only further cemented that belief. A friend of a friend who worked in the sound department on John Adams HATED Hooper because he kept coming in and trying to tell them how to do their jobs when it was clear to everyone in the department that he didn’t know what the **** he was talking about, and they’d always have to fix whatever changes he’d made afterward. And everything I’ve seen from him has led me to believe anything good about his films was due to other people and nothing he did, because the actual clear directorial choices in his films are either distractingly bad or just plain bland/uninspired.

 

[Gold Samurai]

James Corden has joined the criticism of it, though he has admitted that he hasn't seen it yet.

Cats star James Corden SLAMS the movie adaptation (despite being IN it!) | Daily Mail Online

 

[DeadPresident]

This feels like a dead horse now honestly. It’s clear the project didn’t work out and various mistakes were made, not sure it’s necessary to beat and immolate the corpse.

 

[Lily Adler]

There’s people who retcon Rian Johnson into a bad Director solely based on TLJ.

Yes. I have problems with TLJ but I wouldn't label Johnson as a bad director.

 

[Schlosser85]

Yes. I have problems with TLJ but I wouldn't label Johnson as a bad director.

I love Looper and Knives Out.

 

[Guts]

For some reason that face that Hooper made towards Tarantino during that directors roundtable discussion a few years ago, now seems all the more hilarious to me.

This face.

 

[Guts]

Not a retcon as he was never a great director to begin with. Most of his reputation came from Looper which was one of the most unimaginative scifi movies I've ever seen. Time travel exists but its only use is to dispose of bodies. Telekinesis exists but its only use is party tricks.

For the telekinesis part, we do see that everyone with the ability is only powerful enough with it that they can only float small objects like coins. That's why that one kid was unique.

 

[Captain Tired]

This face.

Yup yup! That's the one.

 

[DeadPresident]

Its only been out for 5 days. Can't we have some fun? Bad movies are being discussed here for decades. What else are we here for?

I was referring more to the media and critic input (in response to Corden chiming in) - not so much this thread.

If this is as terrible as people claim I sincerely hope it won't be discussed for decades…it should just be allowed to disappear six feet under and be politely forgotten. Or mercilessly dissected ad nauseam…neither here nor there.

 

[CaptainWagner]

So people hate Hooper now? I thought most considered King's Speach to be good at least.

In my experience, most view King's Speech as a perfectly fine movie, but it has a reputation as one of the most overrated Oscar winners ever. Most I've talked to don't think it deserved to win its categories (This was the same year as The Social Network, remember) Hooper himself also has a pretty prevalent reputation as arrogant and pretentious. His movies since King's Speech have also been mostly received as middling-level Oscar-bait, yet the industry still carries him as an elite.

So the Hooper hate isn't anything new. Cats just gives us all a brilliantly absurd expression of it.

 

[cabel]

Kings Speech also beat 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, True Grit, The Fighter, The Kids are Alright, Winter’s Bone, and Toy Story 3 for best picture.

 

[The Chris]

Yeah I loved The King's Speech but even back then the idea that Tom Hopper directed that film better than David Fincher, Chris Nolan, Darren Aronofsky, Danny Boyle and The Coens directed their films was ridiculous.