1/ Out of morbid curiosity and the fact that I have one of those unlimited movie cards I decided to watch Cats. I'm the only person in the theater and TBH after the first five minutes alone I have a feeling this is more than I bargained for

2/ This is next level bizarre. Reading all the reviews cannot prepare you. They literally said 'jellicle' 500,000 times in the first ten minutes. Maybe more. It makes you feel like your brain is malfunctioning

3/ The effects are good enough to look semi-real, but bad enough that they constantly give this almost psychedelic feeling that everything is off via subtle distortions. It's basically gaslighting your sanity. But the sound design and lyrics also compound the WTFery

4/ I wouldn't recommend this movie to most people but if you read the previous tweet and were intrigued by the concept of getting high on something and coming to see it, I think it would be just as strange as you hope it would be if not much moreso

5/ The whole half cat/half human thing in the way the cats look and move is really eerie. I've been to a lot of places that should be haunted and aren't, but I truly believe this move is. In the sheer madness it represents it's scarier than most horror movies.

6/ The fact that the cats are naked but look like humans makes it seem like an orgy is about to take place any second. This is definitely going to awaken at least one person's sexuality in a way they find really confusing and scary at first

7/ I have no idea why anything is happening - it's like the elusive logic of events and places in dreams, always slipping away just before you can grasp it. I'm worried I'm going to be cursed with randomly inserting the word 'jellicle' in sentences from here on out too.

8/ Some cats wear shoes or clothes. Others don't. Rebel Wilson literally unzipped her fur skin to reveal she was wearing a dress with another fur suit underneath. Quite a few cats wear fur coats over their fur. Plus you can see Judy Dench's real hands in the version I'm watching.

9/ You can see McKellen's hands too. Why does this cat Skimbleshanks have pants on when the others don't? I don't know. He did do a neat transition from inside to a cool exterior railway set, that was a plus

10/ It's also all over the place tonally. Everything was relatively lighthearted until Grizabella comes in wailing Memories like everyone she knows just died and bums out all the other cats, so they send her off to her doom in a hot air balloon. GTFO, Depressed Cat

11/ Exiting the movie, it seems like the world should recognize that a traumatic thing has just happened to me, but nobody does. I need to decompress. Final verdict is it's a really weird movie that is existentially terrifying in such a profound way it demands a bit of respect

12/ It's easy to bash things that misfire. I came here not to hate Cats but because all the reviews said it was too bizarre to comprehend, and they are right. I got what I came for. I don't know exactly why I wanted that, but I did, and the movie delivered.

13/ It would not surprise me at all if it develops a small but dedicated cult following who cosplay with names that wish they were as ridiculous as Rum Tum Tugger or Jennyanydots. It is proudly unlike anything else and for that I give it credit. I have no idea how it got greenlit

14/ I think Dr. Ian Malcolm's review of CATS said it best:

15/ I can't promise to stop tweeting about Cats because I still can't wrap my head around it but I feel like this video is a great note to end this thread on. Whoever this person is, she's the best and they should hire her to do this at every showing https://twitter.com/albertxii/status/1208973409704525829?s=19