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Penny Arcade - Comic - Cataclysm
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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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If someone's pants parts get hard and/or moist at the thought of (type of character here) and you make (that type of character), and those aforementioned people go "ehhhhhh" when they see the faces of your characters, that's how you know you hit the uncanny valley RIGHT in the trough.
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They were always creepy. It was always weird. All the things people are complaining about (the weird tail, cats with breasts, etc?) were all part of the original. (Obviously except the cgi). This means the trailer's creepiness is a matter of accuracy.
Heck, if anything, the trailer made this movie look for more compelling than those commercials ever did.
Probably halfway through, at the latest.
I think if you told them it was a remake of The Truman Show no one would object until it was done.
But if you told me 'man, the cat-people from Cats look weird' I'd be like 'well yeah, it's Cats.'
But with the stage actors you can tell it's a person in makeup and a costume; very good makeup and costumes but still a person.
With that trailer, I can't tell what those things are. Just too freaky and naked.
Taking the stage looks and trying to make them look like realistic cat people just comes off as bizarre, and its not helped by their insistence that the cat people also have the exact same faces as the actor's portraying them. Because they paid good money to make Taylor Swift a curiously attractive cat woman, and dammit they're gonna use her.
I wonder if they should have done what was done in Avatar, where the CGI characters only vaguely resembled the actors playing them, and they looked like unique alien creatures, instead of these things with famous people's faces badly slapped on them.
Though even if the CGI was top notch, I still wouldn't watch this thing because of James Corden. He is not an actor, stop putting him in movies.
Like... this:
VS:
So weird. Having not seen the musical, it would be something that I may VOD out of curiousity. But they really need to do something about the lead's cat face. It seems so lazy compared to the other cats.
-Tycho Brahe
One thing to keep in mind: trailers are often cut before the CG is finished. It's possible this is simply from a different pass than the others.
That's it! That's what was freaky to me about stage Cats - all the wild, spiky, frizzy wigs.
The movie Cats don't really seem to have that. Nowhere near as much as the stage Cats do anyway. So I guess it balances out with the CG effects to be just sort've the same.
Yeah, hopefully that's the issue because her face just feels unnatural compared to the others... if that's even possible. Like Superman's upper lip in motion offish.
Like someone in Hollywood suggested using deepfakes to replace actors, someone else put together a proof of concept that wasn't quite there, but the tech was built now and by god they had to recoup some of the cost somehow.
I didn't hate it. I would say my reaction to it was a combination of fascination, captivation, confusion, and uncertainty.
And anyway, I'm looking forward to the new one. The music in the one I saw on TV was pretty good, and I think that I will enjoy this new version. The CGI cat people are not exactly off-putting to me since I've already seen the older movie version of it.