Worst Films of 2019 and CATS Made Our Eyes Bleed - Movie Podcast
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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This week the gang FINALLY gets to review that goddamn CATS movie and it doesn't disappoint! Plus, everybody gives their picks for the worst movies of 2019, and James introduces his newest bit: Countdown To Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway!
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Cats raised Joel from the dead, praise be cats.
Except Joel went back to his grave after the podcast
Just like Halle Berry.
Finally the legendary build-up of the epic saga of James' inexplicable obsession with the movie CATS comes to an epic conclusion
I feel like the silent Cats trailer on loop is actually brainwashing me.
I love how perfectly Joel and James synced up the nuzzle, almost like they rehearsed it
34:28 for the people.
I love how Elyse didn't go with James to see it.
A Beer why would she? It was a husband-wife night out. James and Joel
dinosaur club I was confused but u made me understand how silly I Was
Elyse isn't someone who is even remotely interested in Cats. It probably wouldn't be fair to her to make her see this film with James tbh.
A review in itself
@@bountym11 Elyse is the little boy that follows James around
I'm so glad that Joel is here for this
He’s my favourite married white woman.
I love that Elyse did the thing where they repeat something Joel said way earlier as an original thought. I actually chuckled a bit. Bet it happens to Joel all the time
Really wish Elyse would go back in time and bust out a huge fart in the bathroom to convince Joel to stay
Do they all talk about how shit that new Star Wars film was?
Yeesh
Well James its now time for Countdown to Sonic
Seconds til Sonic
Gotta count fast
Close! its mount up 4 morbius!
Joel looks like the person who'd like Cats
He looks like the person who would be the lead for Cats.
I demand a Cats remake but with Joel as every character.
@@TheOdd We all know he'd do a better job than whatever the fuck this was.
James' analysis of CATS is so very, very close to the CATS storyline in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
I saw Star Wars the other day, and on my way out, there was this family sitting by the exit and talking, laughing, giggling about their CATS experience. I've never seen anything like it- they were so excited to speak about how ridiculous and insane it was. They sounded as if they had just took a spiritual journey- or some kind of drug trip.
The message? CATS brings families together.
Now I did not see the movie, but I could not miss this episode of Filmhaus.
Uther - I have never watched a filmhaus of a movie I’ve watched. Hopefully the episodes are about terrible movies I hate. Or trainwrecks.
I did, and let me tell you I’ve never felt so high in my life.
Whoever thought the limited appeal of Cats on stage would translate to film should be smacked on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. And then jumped in the parking lot.
0_0
Oddly specific, yet *doable*.
Heads up im just kidding.
i agree with the parking lot bit.
Well... in their defense Cats was not a limited appeal. It was on of the longest running Broadway shows of all time and was immensely successful.
Aleksandr Strizhevskiy I meant the appeal of Cats was limited to its choreography, which is no longer impressive when you can do as many takes as you need to get it right.
Not to expose myself as the Musical Theatre person BUT to try and answer the "Why Now?" question: I'm in the industry in the West End, and from what I know from gossip Andrew Lloyd Webber has been trying to revive all his big hits and revitalise them in some new way in the past few years; people reckon he wants to get a new version made of all of his hits before he dies. Morbid, but in recent years we've seen Phantom of the Opera be the first one in its 25th Anniversary, and since then there's been the Jesus Christ Superstar TV special/west end revival etc etc. I think the Cats film is just in a long line of projects for him. Honestly he might not even be concerned about success other than getting it made for himself. He IS kind of known for making really weird shit and having his own weird passion projects that other people don't Get. Also movie execs wouldn't need that much convincing; for all most people make fun of it, Cats is still hugely popular and it still sells well when it's put on at the theatre.
Also if you really want a mindfuck Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Cats is NOTHING compared to Starlight Express. Imagine Cats but instead it's talking trains.
James has talked briefly about Starlight Express in the CTC segments. Also when they were speaking about it being a *broadway* musical, and that it was the second longest running musical. ACKTULLY it’s been on the west end for much longer and it’s the longest running and most successful musical in the world
The universally awful reviews of Cats I've seen make me morbidly curious to see it.
Oisin McPhillips don’t... I thought it would be funny bad but it was just bad bad. When I close my eyes it’s all I see, I long for the days before I saw cats.
Morbid curiosity killed the cats.
Nah its just cats
Matt Louy i made plans with friends to go see it to laugh at it. I hope ur wrong so I don’t have it sit through that shit
Listened to this on Spotify while foddering cattle but seeing the actions everyone made while explaining things make it so much better
I don't know what that means but I'm inclined to report you to the authorities.
@@realsanjo Why would feeding cows be suspicious?
@@Nyandere_the_Bakeneko he might be one of them vegan people.
@@Dockhead I think he just didn't know what foddering meant. Hell, as a cattle farmer myself I have never actually heard that term. Fodder sure, never heard it used as a vowel. I always just say "feeding the cattle".
James did 9 month of studying just for a bit
One of the things me and my sister heavily agree on that Art, no matter what form it takes, is made to make you feel something whether it's positive, negative, or something along the side of mystique. When something makes you say "it's boring" makes the show worthless and the worst type of entertainment you can see so hearing something like Dark Phoenix or Star Wars being "boring" is depressing to me.
"Your brain is just an amazing organ. 'Cause you'll watch it and you'll forget. You'll forget that you're watching a nightmare."
"If your kid's a furry, your kid's a furry" James Willems 2019
Merry Christmas to us! we got Bruce, I mean Deren Berret from Reel Big Fish yesterday and Joel today!
Dante Fiore - You mean Darrel Ferret?
Darron who?
"How would you want a musical adapted for film then James?" Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd is the perfect example of how to adapt a musical into a great movie.
YAAAAAASSSSS. AGREED. I do think a large part of that though would be the difference between Andrew Lloyd Weber and Stephen Sondheim....
Little pet shop of horrors has a good eighty's adaptation
Little Shop of Horrors was done well.. different time I suppose? Idk. Can’t explain that one.
@@snazzyjazzyandstuff it's just that Sweeny Todd and little pet shop have a coherent story and the musical is built from that. Cats is just a bunch of poems translated to songs and put together with dancing and an excuse for plot to justify what we are seeing. As James said, it's just a show, not a movie
I actually love the original musical itself. But yeah the movie fell very short. Just didn’t translate well. They should’ve just done it like the 1998 version and left it at that. But oh well.
I can't believe Joel embarrassed himself so hard at 6:14 . Victoria the White Cat is absolutely in the musical, you charlatan. it's one of the most respected dance roles in all of musical theater!!!! I'm disgusted!!
I'm a year late and I don't know what i'm doing with my life but...
1 minute of reserch says otherwise. And I hated the musical.
Literally never heard of playmobile the movie till now.
Well, James I wasn't alive 40 years ago. So that argument doesn't fly for me.
James really knows how to breakdown a movie well, please keep doing these funhaus!
Watching James talk about Cats while Joel looks on is like watching an old master of a long lost martial art watch his apprentice practice it in the final round of a tournament.
James explaining the heavy side and how the oldest cat is the only
One preaching resurrection and claiming it worked for him, made me think about the Manson murders😳
Did James actually try to say you can’t criticize art if it’s old?...that boy has got some weird hit takes.
No, he was trying to say that when art has been successful and appealing on some level for decades it must be doing something right. Cats (the musical) has clearly resonated with audiences for long enough not to be dismissed off-hand. You can call it bad but that doesn't help explain what about it works for many people. And I say all this as someone with zero interest in it myself.
I laugh every time Joel stutters when answering because trying to explain this in a comprehensible way requires a mountain of effort. He gets asked 1 question and his mind goes through 10 different topics to come up with a single answer.
31:22 is my entire take on the movie.
It's... Cats.
The original isn't some shining star and the movie isn't a creepy train wreck. They're identical content-wise, and that content is furry musical. Do you enjoy/hate furry musicals? Congrats, that's Cats.
I wonder if Joel just shows up for shoots while saying "I'm a LEGACY"
James did such a good job explaining Cats. Joel - Victoria is absolutely in the musical
Can not wait to officially listen to what James has to say about Cats
Speaking to Adam's experience at Star Wars with the guy on his phone, here in Canada a guy told someone to stop using his phone in a Star Wars screening...then he punched the guy using the phone in the face and stood up and started giving a TEDTalk in the theater on how its disrespectful to use your phone in a theater.
James is the sole reason I went and saw Cats, and I honestly thank him for it. Not even Countdown to Cats could've prepared me for the beautiful train wreck that was Cats.
Edvard It’s like Alice and wonderland except it’s a nightmare.
We miss you Joel. With everyone leaving we need more of you.
Everything James said about the musical on Broadway is how I feel about Hamilton.
Is James deadass out here about to defend cats
This was my most anticipated podcast of 2019
40:39 to skip Cats and get to the Worst Films of 2019
Thank you for this xD
1:08 Why did he say 2019 like that? LMAO
"twentynieeenn" and James gives the "well that's staying in" look.
i thought i was the only one who caught this. Adam and Joel look at each other like wtf.
God, I love Joel. I am so happy every time we get to see him back.
James animosity towards movie facts seems to be never ending. Love it.
This is exactly what I needed to hear about this movie. I love musicals and movie musicals, but the heckling of this movie by all of the internet for so long eventually eroded my desire to see it. This has convinced me to give it a go anyway. So thanks! :)
0:54 CATS is a gateway to furry porn in the same way dying of an overdose is a gateway to drugs
17:13 I like how they threw out a name of a cat and Elyse was like "OMG..." lol
The anticipation towards James’ review of Cats was off the charts
It could just be the fever coursing through my body right now, but having that CATS trailer on repeat made me go insane.
"its been this way for 40 years".
yes and the film is many peoples first "cats" experience. It is not beyond critique because it has "been this way for 40 years". The current, see 2019 release, has zero narrative structure and fails as a film.
36:01 Elise casually sniffing her own hair while discussing cats.
Breathtaking
It’s cute that they had a couple on the podcast! And Elyse is there too which is even better!
During the ad read, the image of John and Alanah make me spit my beer.
Okay I usually ignore the ad breaks but the picture of a Sphinx cat With Jon's face was too funny @39:35
*_"HUMAN HANDS!"_* _James said, with much distress_
27:40 *Elyse sighs* exactly how I feel.
The twin brothers in CATS also play the bad guy aliens in MIB: International. I don’t want to say twins are evil, but twins are bad luck.
So nice of Elise to share James with Joel when he visits.
I saw cats after half a bag of edibles. I'm still not sure what was a THC induced fever dream and what was real.
retsz same hahaha
I'll be that guy... When you smoke weed (or eat edibles) you actually don't dream at all, it's when you stop smoking that you get wierd nightmares. Indigestion will give you nightmares though.
@@sssenseiii Yup smoking disables REM sleep which your body gets back by force once you stop smoking. The dreams you get are really fucking weird...
James Corden was not bad. His singing was ok and his performance as a fat cat was fine. I felt that rebel Wilson was by far the worst performance in the whole movie. It felt like a very long build up in quality from her to the end of the movie in terms of performance and singing. The cgi didn’t match the increase in quality of the rest of the movie but it felt like that was the goal. A very stead increase. The movie isn’t very hard to follow and it really is all down to listening to what is being sung. People hate listening and don’t want to. That’s why movies are focused on visuals, but Cats is a movie focused on music and words with the visuals being the least important. It really is a sweet story when you break down the main plot of Jennifer Hudson being a deserter that is allowed back so that she may try again for a better life. It’s kinda sweet but it’s literally the type of shit you think is touching and emotional when you are high on cocain witch in how I saw the movie and why I loved it. Having never seen the musical I liked the music in the movie and that is the only redeeming quality.
I can tell it's been a rough year for movies, I work at a theater and when Adam started reading off the list I legitimately forgot any of those movies had come out
39:36 Alanah as a cat is both blessed and cursed
Although I agree with the Rebel Wilson sentiment. She had one good role in Pitch Perfect, now they're just over-hyping her and putting her in everything
Dark Phoenix was borderline unwatchable. Every single performance other than Magneto was absolute trash. The story was utterly ridiculous. The effects were pretty bad. It really was an abomination.
Never have i seen a more chaotic filmhaus, this is cats manifest
My favorite game to play with Filmhaus is guessing when the intro song will start. This one was a roller coaster
God, I would have loved to get a group together and dressed up in cat body suits, strut our way into the theater, sensually walk up to the ticket booth and say "um, yeah, four tickets for rise of Skywalker, please."
Is cats the sequel to mothers be aware?
This is the fastest I've clicked on the movie podcast.
Explain to me what the hell is “catroomate”James
Joel came back for Cats, why wasn’t Bruce for Star Wars?!
I watched cats and it felt like one long drug addled dream
Skip to 59:59 to skip the CATS talk
Cats is Logan's Run from a feline perspective . . . "RENEW!"
I was sure coming into this James might make me want to watch Cats for the joke of it. Then 2 minutes into "Cats Talk", I couldnt give less of a shit about it. Loved the other stuff though
I definitely judge a movie against its budget. If you had $100mil, and still couldn't put together a cohesive or compelling story, then I'm absolutely going to drag you. That's why "Cats" and the Disney remakes are on the top-10 worst for me.
Joel is probably the ONLY person I want to hear when it comes to Cats. No point hearing other reviewers
34:30 this is what you're looking for
its a film birthed of "because its old" and because it was poorly received, it will send a message.. to a small audience trained to enjoy its every inch, its fantastic.. for a general audience?.. the reviews speak the masses minds
I took the bait, but then again James unironically loves Robbie Williams, I said myself "hah another quirk". But then again I didnt know anythinf about Cats aside from Broadway and before my time.
Is that famous Homewood celebrity Joel Rubbin, from online media conglomerate UA-cam? What an honour
This movie is probably a good/hurtful reminder why I will never see Beta Ray Bill in a movie.
Joel earned points for this. earnt? earned? whatever, Joel helped make sense of Cats.
I will tell you why we can say cats sucks now even through its been around for serval years using your own analogy James. Just like the kings invisible clothes took a child, the common man, to point out there where no clothes. It has taken a common man to point out how dumb cats is. A common man cat spend $500 on a ticket but they can buy a $9 ticket. If the king had stayed in the palace he wouldn't have ever been told he was nude. If cats had stayed on Broadway it wouldn't have ever been shown to be as bad as it is.
You won't catch me in the theater watching Cats fam' lmfao
And with this, another epic Funhaus Saga is complete.
Jellicle Ball sounds like slang for an angels testicles. No one ever seems to mention it in reference to cats and I feel like I'm going mad. We definitely all see it right? everyone else is just too professional to say it?
I'm glad I don't go into movies looking for stuff to be wrong with it. I watch a movie and whatever happens happens.
Worst movies of the year! Cats!! Joel!!! And a day after Band Manager 2, this is truly Funhaus xmas
Adam being a Godzilla fan, I wanted him to talk about Godzilla KOTM :(
the only reason i went to watch this is because james was so excited about it that it got me excited. im so sad to find out he wasnt actually excited lol
When I saw Jon come up as a hypoallergenic cat in the Manscaping sponsor bit at the end I lost my shit. I don't know why I found it so funny but I did! :D
Joel's enthusiasm for all theatre is great.
I knew about The Playmobil Movie from an interview on The Graham Borton Show, but forgot about it completely until now.
Furries: These designs are ugly
Funhaus: Yeah, furries are probably into this
Taylor Swift and Sexy in the same sentence? First time I've ever heard that
Joel come back to Funhaus PLEASE
The footage at the bottom was making me laugh too much. Can someone make a documentary about Idris Elba slowly destroying his career?
The title says worst films of 2019 but the thumbnail only shows dark phoenix. I still agree that movie takes the spot of 1-10 for worst films
Cats is not a car accident. It's an F5 tornado made of confetti. A spectacular disaster.
Adam:The face of confusion..like with most of us