"Cats" movie gets a thumbs down from "The View"

[David10086]

This morning on The View, they brought up the upcoming movie of "CATS" and showed a segment from the coming trailer in Hot Topics. Joy Behar (moderating for Whoopi this week) asked the panel what they thought - and if anyone had interest in seeing the movie when it's released?

Of the panel (with Ronan Farrow sitting in as guest host) only Sunny Hostin said she was looking forward to it, as she loved the stage musical.She thought the trailer was interesting, and intrigued her to see it.

Joy Behar said the trailer looked more like an advertisement for a horror movie than a musical, and said she wasn't going to pay $18 for a movie ticket just to watch 'Dame Judi Dench lick her cgi fur'. 

Meghan McCain has no interest in seeing it - and asked why some of the 'cats' had boobs.

Abby Huntsman wasn't too enthused with the trailer, and seemed undecided on whether she'd go to see it, though she said she does love movie musicals.

Ronan Farrow said he's not interested (asked Sunny what was appealing about the musical) and challenged anyone to explain the 'plot' to him. He also asked the audience if they had any interest in seeing the movie, and the response was definitely 'less than enthusiastic' (audible groans and moans)  which he noticed and commented on. 

Hope Tom Hooper wasn't watching. 

 

[FANtomFollies]

This is why I hate talk shows. They love to hate on things, but then the next time Taylor Swift or Jennifer Hudson come on they'll pretend (or admit) that they love it. I would have to imagine at least one of the actors will make an appearance on The View in the coming weeks to promote this. 

[VernonGersch]

They knew that they wouldn't be getting ANY of the Cats cast because its ABC affiliated and decided to crap all over it/

Never saw the show - and don't think it would be for me - I'm allergic to Cats.  

 

 

[haterobics]

Wouldn't it be stranger if they CGI'd all the boobs off of the cats?

[David10086]

FANtomFollies said: "This is why I hate talk shows. They love to hate on things, but then the next time Taylor Swift or Jennifer Hudson come on they'll pretend (or admit) that they love it. I would have to imagine at least one of the actors will make an appearance on The View in the coming weeks to promote this."

Not entirely true. What they probably will do is talk about their experience in the movie, and ask questions about working on the movie, but they would stay clear away from discussing the movie as a whole itself. I've seen them do this before with movies, plays, and television shows.They know how to tap-dance around different things, without offending the guests. 

[David10086]

VernonGersch said: "They knew that they wouldn't be getting ANY of the Cats cast because its ABC affiliated and decided to crap all over it/

Never saw the show - and don't think it would be for me - I'm allergic to Cats.
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Bouncing off of what you mention - I wonder if they were so disparaging of the movie (so early) because it is not a Disney movie, and it's actually competition for Disney this Christmas season (with their release of 'Frozen 2' ?   If 'Cats' was a Disney property, I don't think they would be so critical of it. 

Of course, 'The View' is owned by Disney / ABC and plug every new Disney product every chance they get. 

[jo]

The musical is much more sophisticated than some people realize. When I first saw it on Broadway, I thought I liked it least of all the Lloyd-Webber musicals I had seen ( almost all of his work)...until I began reading the original material which inspired the work, the poems of TS Eliot  (". Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology" ). The work is really a character study - substituting dancing cats for real-life characters represented in the poems. Dress them up in real people looks and with the same poems ( but rephrased a little to represent real people) - it does become an interesting light-hearted story of humankind in many of  its variety.

[Fosse76]

jo said: "The musical is much more sophisticated than some people realize."

No, its really not.

[uncageg]

And all this based on the trailer. It is not my favorite show and I don't plan to a theater to see the movie but this was ridiculous. They tore it down just to tear it down.Wondering if Farrow saw the show to have made the comment he did or did he just comment on the trailer. Glad Sunny stood up to the rest of them.

[tombomb31]

Fosse76 said: "jo said: "The musical is much more sophisticated than some people realize."

No, its really not."

Yes, it really is. 

[David10086]

uncageg said: "And all this based on the trailer. It is not my favorite show and I don't plan to a theater to see the movie but this was ridiculous. They tore it down just to tear it down.Wondering if Farrow saw the show to have made the comment he did or did he just comment on the trailer. Glad Sunny stood up to the rest of them."

 

None of them saw the movie, just based their opinions on the trailer. Ronan sounded like he had seen the stage musical and didn’t like it at all.

 

[hayleyann]

Your headline is false.  The Cats movie didn't get a thumbs down. The Cats trailer got a thumbs down.  They have not seen the movie. 

[yankeefan7]

Just curious why anybody would care what the ladies of "The View" think about any movie.

[David10086]

hayleyann said: "Your headline is false. The Cats movie didn't get a thumbs down. The Cats trailer got a thumbs down. They have not seen the movie."

They all said - except for one - they won’t be seeing the movie based on the trailer. Not exactly a thumbs up for the movie. 

[David10086]

yankeefan7 said: "Just curious why anybody would care what the ladies of "The View" think about any movie."

That could be said about anyone reviewing a movie, play, tv show, book, etc. 

 

[denali.fire]

I saw the musical when it first came out.
I hated it . A year or two later I thought I might have been having a bad day. So I went back to give it a second chance.
I hated it even more and myself for going back
.

I doubt I'll see the movie. I shall never understand why this show lasted so long.

So many loved it.

[Fosse76]

David10086 said: "yankeefan7 said: "Just curious why anybody would care what the ladies of "The View" think about any movie."

That could be said about anyone reviewing a movie, play, tv show, book, etc.

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Or comments on a message board, for that matter.

[Highland Guy]

This is why I'm happy never to have watched "The View".   

 

 

[David10086]

And it looks like the panel of 'THE VIEW' nailed it !  The movie bombed opening weekend.