I saw Cats when I was 13 years old. Old Deuteronomy and I stared at each other while he sat there during intermission (I had just experienced my first breakup and was very sad), and it was a nice fourth wall breaking. I liked the costumes, the songs, the dancing. I could live with the lack of a plot, and have spent the last 13 years defending this musical. I've also stood up for Tom Hooper's Les Miserables, which I…

I might be a little too attached to the source material to have been fair to this movie, but this hurt me. Some of the changes completely eviscerated the core of multiple characters -- Nani, Jumba, Gantu not existing, Mr. Bubbles, even Lilo's character feels just off and flat (and not because of her acting, she did better than the actress for Nani honestly). The massive change to the ending itself makes me deeply uncomfortable, and arguably undercuts the entire…

The dissonance for me between the gushingly, overwhelmingly positive reviews and my own experience with this film (and the apparent experience of the MANY people I watched walk out, including and especially during the last scene) is genuinely baffling. I honestly hated this film. It is pretty, and I guess there is something here about how everyone deserves love, but some of the metaphors become truly regressive if you follow them through the film. The dialogue is beyond hokey, YA…