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🕑 Added 2024-12-11 05:00:07 +0000 UTCšŗšøš¹š»š¼š½ššæMemory, all alone in the moonlight!!! But we are not alone! We are joined by Grizabella, Mr. Mistoffelees, Bombalurina, Rumpleteazer, Jellylorum, Demeter, Mungojerrie and the rest of the Jellicle Cats as we wrap up our ALW commentary series and discuss Tom Hooperās 2019 adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webberās adaptation of the Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.šŗšøš¹š»š¼š½ššæI
Topics include: Hangin with Mr. Hooper, Regalās Extended First Look, Lots of Jellicle ball conversation, getting high off DFT, a surprise guest WITH gifts! A lot of paywall convos, live eBay bidding and more.
Movie starts at 1:38
Comments
Seth Gilbert
Did anyone ever suggest the renfield/dracula/harker completion could be the TriState Area?
films
Sup?
Holly Catlin-Meyer
Just now listening to this and itās so fun! Not the most-fun reminder from a swamped front-line healthcare worker: get your vaccinations please, and donāt sub. sanitizer for appropriate hand-washing! š
Jestin
Ephrata PA mentioned. Probably Complete in Box. ARP with the deep PA pulls
Danh Nguyen
Agreed, not going to take advice about dorkiness for cosplay or going to cons from people thirsting over an actor in a movie theater. Going to cons in cosplay rules
Matt L.
Shoutout to producer ben for always splitting the audio out into stereo when crosstalk gets too complicated, it always surprises me but is greatly appreciated
John Boy
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
The Duke of Nebraska
Shitting on someone for a hobby they clearly love is pretty fucking weird. And getting loudly horny in a public setting is too, maybe that's why people look over their shoulders at you.
The Duke of Nebraska
No one gives a shit about the Jellicle Ball
Dale Jason Armstrong
Something that should be acknowledged, āBeautiful Ghostsā is also WRITTEN BY Taylor Swift and ALW, and it comedically is listed two separate times in the credits at the end.
FiddlersGreenDay
I watched Cats along with it but...I'm also scrollin'.
Matthew Stanasolovich
This is an eating ass kinda podcast
Bryan Akerley
How we desperately needed ARP for the rest of this miniseries. Man gets it
PictureBoxPuppy
I would be willing to pay 10x as much for this Patreon if they covered better movies. I donāt even need the movies ācoveredā the way they do on main feed but honestly weāre all just paying for the convo anyway right? Why do they insist on movies like Cats to be the backdrop? Iām ok with the waste of money but itās honestly starting to feel like torture. I really think they underestimate how much it sucks when they commit to these picks.
Annie
Yes! The original Broadway production ran from 1982-2000. The revival ran from July 2016-Dec. 2017
Clayton Spinney
4K or not, the Blu ray of Cats is completely worth it for the Tom Hooper commentary, where he has a very high-minded and philosophical discussion of his decisions in making the movie.
Jose S. De Leon
A reminder that the effects for this movie were so rushed because Universal moved the release date of this movie by a year to delay Wicked. It's a release date swap that ended up working out for everyone involved!
Jose S. De Leon
I saw this as part of a Thursday night opening double feature between this and Rise of Skywalker. Saw Rise first and hated it so much that I chugged wine at the theater bar before my Cats showing and had a blast
Davis Telleen
As somebody who lived in Lancaster and knows Ephrata, I feel like Alex failed at pronouncing both.
Rad Rodge
It reminds me of āmedium talentā in that it seems more artfully cutting than to just flatly call it āundignifiedā or something
Jonathan Skufca
Satoshi Kon doesnāt have any video game adaptions BUT the first two (maybe?) Paranoia Agent episodes DID got released (I think just in Japan) on the UMD-video format used by the PSP. Just so ya know.
John
āBeautiful Ghostsā not only makes me cry almost every time I hear it but it made me respect Taylor Swift. Iām aware thatās insane not a joke. I just get sad thinking of lonely kitties haha
MoCoSwede
After 3 rather low-energy ALW episodes, this one fulfills my ābad movie makes for a good episodeā hopes!
Marshy XIV
Sideways on YouTube has a very good analysis of the Cats movie worth checking out.
Harrison Stanley
Truly just waiting now for the bonus game show episode where Griffin and David guess whether or not Alex likes or dislikes a thing. Maybe even get a couple other blankies guest all timers for a panel? I'd listen to the hell out of that.
Steven Ray Morris
The grading of Wicked is bad, but the actual huge sets and practical work is really cool (the CGI is whatever and not that much an issue while watching it).
Steven Ray Morris
A podcast intro after my own heart.
PictureBoxPuppy
I also think Wicked looks like dog shit. And I feel like Iām being too nice by saying āthinkā. It does look like dog shit. And that has nothing to do with me being a man. Thatās nonsense. Marie and other Wicked fans are just flat out lying if they say otherwise. You canāt dunk on Marvel movies and their white skies and stale color palettes and then say Wicked looks fine. $150 million dollar budget and the lighting and colors are aggressively bad. I donāt care if you were a 14 year old girl when you first experienced some iteration of the thing. THIS one looks bad. You can be honest about that and still speak to the fact that you like the music,performances or people involved etc so much that youāre choosing to overlook its glaringly obvious visual flaws . Some constructive criticism from a real Wicked fan encourages the next person to remake it to get it right. But shrugging it off and just claiming to love the thing or whatever just feels like the opposite will happen and theyāll care even less about the visuals next time. And Iām aware that this may be a side effect of the stars involved. Griffin even spoke to the fact that for Oceans 8 it was a struggle to light 8 different star actresses because they have their own particular demands to get their best lighting so these movies opt for a neutral bland middle ground. Wicked especially is lighting a black woman and these film cameras are often designed to only flatter white people. And to make the task even more difficult the womanās entire body is GREEN. Add that to Ariana Grande who Iām sure has always had say in her lighting demands while also for some reason this last year or so sheās been paler than usual and her eyebrows are dyed blonde which ever since Thor 1 Iāve believed is a grave mistake.
Begemott
"This movie is low on dignity" is one of the best David burns of all time
Michael
Totally agree with Griffin, Cats is awesome, no exaggeration maybe the best time Iāve ever had in a movie theater and one of the most unusual movies ever made. I saw it high as fuck in the front row of a packed theater, with Cats musical die-hards next to us and rowdy, irreverent teens behind us. Having the movie playing along with the fraught battle between the teens and die-hard fans unfold around us was the truest 4DX experience of all time.
Tom Lowery
āCats, now and forever.ā āAlex Ross Perry, TIFF 2018
David Schmitt
Cracking open the dossier should have a sound effect
Michael Barrett
What a catastrophe of a film, I am glad that I am not the only one who elevates Cats (2019) as the sole cause of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic
Rad Rodge
One of Benās greatest recent moments on the show, it destroyed me too
fartinscorcese
I stand by the fact that Cats (per my Letterboxd review) is an avant-Garde piece of dance theatre, a warning against the dangers of factionalism
Daniel Citron
Dying
Daniel Citron
MANHATTAN IS AN ISLAND
Rad Rodge
The heaviside layer is a place where nothingā¦nothing ever happens
David Ranallo
Practical cats, dramatical cats Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats Oratorical cats, Delphicoracle cats Skeptical cats, Dispeptical cats Romantical cats, Pedantical cats Critical cats, parasitical cats Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats Statistical cats and mystical cats Political cats, hypocritical cats Clerical cats, hysterical cats Cynical cats, rabbinical cats
Rad Rodge
Shoutout, well done
Rad Rodge
DFT #dft
Bass Ventura Wet Detective
Railway Cat song really was the surprise MVP
Lobo
@David ? I donāt know if Boss Baby is too old for it now or not but as a fellow train fan I was wondering if you know about the double punch crush kids show Choo Choo Soul? https://youtu.be/AzjL6Z9Lztc?feature=shared
Lobo
My vote for best Corden is Small Foot. But thats maybe from the eyes of a parent whose kid loves yetis
Stephanie Radcliffe
Tried showing this to my musical-intolerant husband once and delighted when the horror washed over him about 10 minutes in when he asked "Wait, is this just about a bunch of cats naming themselves?"
Lucas Roetter
I can't believe y'all got me to watch this finally.
Mike Brogan
Same!
Paul Scanniello
Itās showing up in Overcast now.
James Scott
Because Ben made an off-hand reference to RuPaulās drag race, I just wanted to mention that even though they share DNA, ballroom is not the same as drag. Excited to hear that Griffin and Marie enjoyed the Jellicle Ball tho!
Spencer Alger
Would be awesome if someone could re-publish this episode or something. Something went wrong and tons of people still donāt have access to the episode 16 hours after initial release
Spencer
Andrew Lolo Baloney.
Jon-Erik Means
James Corden is so good in Mike Leighās All or Nothing that I thought maybe I got it all wrong with him. Doesnāt sound like I did. In All or Nothing though: great.
H Alex Younger
Did this not download on apple for anyone else?
The Mad Jay Woman
#JusticeForMrMistoffelees They did that character so dirty, yes I will stay bitter, that was like *the* part for little powerful dancing men much to my 14 yr old delight and I will use any space available to complain about it
Brie Miracle
Hadnāt heard of Cats: The Jellicle Ball until now and after watching a few clips online and am obsessed. Feels like this was made specifically for me.
Barrett Lilly
Canāt wait to listen, unfortunately this isnāt showing up on the Overcast app :(
Isabelle Iverson
Havenāt listened yet but if the crew doesnāt appreciate my boy Skimble appropriately Iāll riot. Best part of the movie hands down
Javier AlcƔcer
Seems like it's not showing anywhere else but Patreon.
Joseph DiGiovanni
Not on apple podcasts either
Sean Flannelly
I canāt seem to listen on patreon even
Richelle Olsen
not on spotify either š¤·š¼āāļø
Paul Brown
Anyone know why this isnāt showing up on Overcast?
Hunter Plummer
The way my brain was screaming when nobody realized Alex saw the CATS revival, not the original, and every time Griffin said "Memories" instead of "Memory."
ian
Not in podcast addict either. :(
Chas
And now itās canon forever, yay!!
Francisco Hernandez
My father is a huge fan pf ALW (heās seen Phantom almost 20 times on various stages) and Cats was the first musical my family ever took me to see. Itās a terrifying fever dream and I love it.
Tomas Marinara
Something to do with the RSS feed settings. Not sure specifically. Sorry!
Blank Check with Griffin & David
What are you hearing we need to do?
The Kacer
Yup, thought it wasn't posted until I saw someone in Discord talking about it
Amy Patrick
I have two cats and love the music of the show Cats. The Jellicle Ball was a revelation and made the naming aspect of the show and the performative nature of the show make sense and illuminate it in an exciting way. I will talk about that production with anyone.
Spencer Alger
It's not just you, I've reached out to Patreon support but it looks like several other people are having the same issue. From what I can tell it's a Patreon issue not pocket casts or an issue with any specific podcast player.
Tomas Marinara
Anyone else having the issue where this isn't showing up in PocketCasts? Heard it may be a sync issue thanks to a recent Patreon update that might need to fixed on BC's end
Melissa Kelly
Jennifer Hudsonās talk show is still on the air
Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat
At laaaaaaaaaaaaast
Ben Fairbank
A semi-feral cat with a missing tail lives on my porch. We named it Skimbleshanks McNubbin.
Michael Cuculich
This seems to be a patreon issue. I feel now that all my patreon rss feeds aren't updating
Ryan Mullarkey
Griffins sincere enjoyment of this movie resonates with me a lot.
Carolyn
Meow
Conor Dabler
Not just me then, thank you
Lyle Sweppenheiser
The end of the world was Rey and Kylo kissing
Xorp
Just a heads up that the Patreon RSS feed seems to not be updating
Gemini smile
Jennifer Hudson in the illuminati. She got the same contract MGK, John Legend, Pete Davison and Dr Phil got. A lot of weird Hollywood shit with her.
Jules
ARP's Lee Daniels story was a little embarrassing (mostly for Lee Daniels š¬), but Griffin and Marie's story about those Jellicle Ball performers has shaken me š
Big Charelton
The image in my head of David and Star Wars and Knives Out director Ryan Johnson hunching over a phone to watch thr Cats trailer is hilarious to me.
Flippy
Savid Dims! Niffin Grewman! Hen Bosley! Sarie Bardi-Malinas!
Jordan B. Anderson
11 minutes in and griffin is already screaming
Zach
āSo Manhattan is an islandā¦ā
Darryl Bowen
Meeeeooooow
Ray
I'm not even going to watch it again I just want to listen to your reaction
ian
Jellicles know that Cats(2019) rules
Zach
On my porch with my laptop and I Got my catnip all ready
Russ W
I paid $5 to listen to the twin peaks season 2 episode and that kind of pissed me the fuck off so I consider a Cats episode retribution.
Liz aka Cosbrarian
The reason we started this whole thing
gw
my final two pre-covid movie theater experiences because, yes, i saw it twice in one weekend
Jordan B. Anderson
i'm gonna get jellicle all over the place
William
Oh babyā¦itās time.
