Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Phil Bagnall, Jenn Gannon and Luke Dunne, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Tom Hooper’s Cats.
Abandoned by her owner in a surreal wasteland of early twentieth century London, the young cat Victoria finds herself drawn towards the neighbourhood’s feline inhabitants on the night of a most special and peculiar celebration.
At time of recording, it was ranked 34th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 4th January 2020.
- Cats at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared close to time of recording.
- Jia Tolentino at The New Yorker on the history and development of Cats, December 2019.
- Michael Riedel at Vulture looks at the impact and legacy of Cats, December 2019.
- Gordon Cox at Variety on how Cats changed Broadway, August 2016.
- Madison Malone Kircher at Vulture interviews former Broadway performers about working on Cats, December 2019.
- Molly Langmuir at Vulture offers an oral history of Cats on Broadway, December 2019.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on how Cats appeared a surefire hit, December 2019.
- Jackson McHenry at Vulture on the Cats joke in Angels in America, December 2019.
- Dan Reilly at Vulture offers an oral history of Saturday Night Live‘s famous Cats sketch, December 2019.
- James Vanderbeek hosts Saturday Night Live, January 1999.
- Gordon Cox at Variety on the Cats joke in Six Degrees of Separation, April 2017.
- Tom Hooper talks to Vulture about his life-long obsession with Cats, December 2019.
- Tom Hooper talks frankly to The Atlantic about Cats, December 2019.
- Guy Lodge discusses the infamous production crunch around Cats at The Guardian, December 2019.
- Tom Hooper confesses to Variety that he only finished Cats eight hours before the premiere, December 2019.
- Pamela McClintock at The Hollywood Reporter on how families are largely staying away from Cats, December 2019.
- Amanda Arnold at The Cut on the unbearable horniness of Cats, December 2019.
- Robert Viagas at Playbill reports on Evelyn Amato’s lawsuit against the Broadway production of Cats, February 1997.
- Evelyn Amato’s letter to Newsday complaining about her treatment at Cats, published at Letters of Note, March 1996.
- Garrett Schlichte at Jezebel argues that Cats is not as horny as it should be, December 2019.
- Jason Derulo tells The New York Post that his “anaconda” was edited out of Cats, December 2019.
- Debanjali Bose at Buzzfeed News reports that all members of the male cast had their “bulges” smoothed, December 2019.
- Stephen LaConte at BuzzFeed reports on Jason Derulo’s battle against Instragram‘s censorship, December 2019.
- Brian Welk at The Wrap reports on Judi Dench’s claim that her Old Deuteronomy is transgender, December 2019.
- Josie Rhodes Cook offers a brief introduction to Taylor Swift’s cats at Life & Style Magazine, July 2019.
- Carolyn Giardina at The Hollywood Reporter discusses the visual effects problems encountered during the production of Cats, January 2020.
- Nina Starner at Looper reports on the Reddit leaks around the VFX issues with Cats, January 2020.
- Pamela McClintock at The Hollywood Reporter discusses the “patched” re-release of Cats, December 2019.
- The Associated Press reports on the deletion of scenes from the theatrical release of Show Dogs based on their similarity to sexual abuse, May 2018.
- Steve Pond at The Wrap on the Oscars eligibility of the recut version of Cats, December 2019.
- Marc Malkin at Variety reports on the suspension of Cats‘ “for your consideration” awards campaign, December 2019.
- Jackson McHenry reports at Vulture on the screening of a rough cut of Cats for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, November 2019.
- Stephanie Merry at The Washington Post on the unlikely success of All the Money in the World at the Golden Globes, December 2017.
- Martha Soren at Bustle on the legacy of Kanye’s “I’mma Let You Finish…” moment, September 2014.
- Allison Stubblebine at Billboard reports on the long-standing feud between Taylor Swift and Tina Fey, October 2017.
- James Corden discusses his process on The Treatment, August 2019.
- Raisa Bruner at Time reports on James Corden’s response to Bill Maher’s fat-shaming, September 2019.
- Lexy Perez at The Hollywood Reporter on James Corden’s “cat school” sketch, December 2019.
- Brenna Ehrlich at Rolling Stone discusses the cast of Cats time at “cat school”, December 2019.
- Sarah Dowling talks to Slate about the movements of Cats, December 2019.
- Deven Coggan discusses Cats with her father, a veterinarian, at Entertainment Weekly, December 2019.
- Rebecca Rubin at Variety reports on Cats as a box office bomb due to lose $100m, December 2019.
- Jeremy Layton at ScreenRant on the sheer negativity of the reviews of Cats, December 2019.
- Richard Lawson at Vanity Fair reviews Cats, December 2019.
- Arifa Akbar and Lyndsey Winship at The Guardian offer a defense of Cats, January 2020.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on the legginess of The Greatest Showman, July 2018.
- Edward Helmore at The Guardian discusses the sexlessness of modern Hollywood blockbusters, June 2019.
- Jessica Ritchey at RogerEbert.com blames the PG-13 rating for sapping sex from modern blockbusters, February 2016.
- Pedro Almodóvar talks to IndieWire about the weird sexlessness of modern superhero blockbusters, April 2019.
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Filed under: The Bottom 100, This Just In | Tagged: andrew lloyd webber, bottom 100, box office, Broadway, cats, censorship, cgi, furries, horniness, ian mckellen, jason derulo, jenn gannon, luke dunne, musical, phil bagnall, ray winstone, sexiness, t.s. elliot, taylor swift, Tom Hooper, uncanny valley, universal |
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