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Dec. 24th, 2019 11:58 amAll right, so I have bad news and good news.
The bad news is that -- although![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
genarti very kindly acceded to my requests for her to a.) drive us an hour away from her family's home in Vermont to the nearest movie theater that was playing Cats in the hopes of seeing the film in all its originally-released glory and then b.) watch Cats with me -- we did not manage to catch the un-patched version before they "fixed" the "CGI errors". This was apparently not just a tragedy for me but also for everyone else in our theater: "Is this the old, disaster version?" the people ahead of us in line asked hopefully, and when they were told it was in fact the new version, everyone around us groaned in unison.
The good news is that the "patched" version decides to have done away with the apparently CGI-messy question of "hands or paws" by just giving up on the notion of cat-paws entirely. Instead, every single cat just has human hands all of the time. So, you know, if you were worried you've missed your chance to experience this uncanniest of valleys: rest assured! You have not!
Also, there remains no such thing as a 'consistent' sense of 'scale', half the cats wear shoes and half of them just have normal human feet, and Mister Mistoffelees' ears are constantly clipping through his sparkly hat.
So, Cats! Cats. The Cats experience. Where do I begin.
( Cats. )
The bad news is that -- although
genarti very kindly acceded to my requests for her to a.) drive us an hour away from her family's home in Vermont to the nearest movie theater that was playing Cats in the hopes of seeing the film in all its originally-released glory and then b.) watch Cats with me -- we did not manage to catch the un-patched version before they "fixed" the "CGI errors". This was apparently not just a tragedy for me but also for everyone else in our theater: "Is this the old, disaster version?" the people ahead of us in line asked hopefully, and when they were told it was in fact the new version, everyone around us groaned in unison. The good news is that the "patched" version decides to have done away with the apparently CGI-messy question of "hands or paws" by just giving up on the notion of cat-paws entirely. Instead, every single cat just has human hands all of the time. So, you know, if you were worried you've missed your chance to experience this uncanniest of valleys: rest assured! You have not!
Also, there remains no such thing as a 'consistent' sense of 'scale', half the cats wear shoes and half of them just have normal human feet, and Mister Mistoffelees' ears are constantly clipping through his sparkly hat.
So, Cats! Cats. The Cats experience. Where do I begin.
( Cats. )
