Sh*t Show Podcast: Cats (2019)

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Making humans look like cats is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Cats, from the visual effects studios not being given enough time to finish the film, to the way director Tom Hooper treated the artists involved.
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In the entertainment world, there are millions of dollars on the line and troubled productions are bound to happen. Whether it's big egos, bigger budgets, or just plain bad luck, we are going behind-the-scenes on these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. From the creators of WTF Happened To This Movie?, It Was A Sh*t Show is a video essay/documentary/podcast series looking at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.
Chapters:
00:00 - Teaser
00:50 - Intro
03:51 - Cats (2019)
01:05:20 - Shout Outs!
Sources:
AV Club: bit.ly/3KxJZyH
Cartoon Brew: bit.ly/3mmBv4v
Daily Beast: bit.ly/3zRbU6F
Daily Mail: bit.ly/40z0jF7
Daily Mail: bit.ly/3Ms2xlo
E! News: eonli.ne/413vXKW
Entertainment Weekly: bit.ly/3KmP7EM
Fast Company: bit.ly/3MqOQDq
Hollywood Reporter: bit.ly/3Mr9fs6
Hollywood Reporter: bit.ly/3ZXXYSQ
Ken Levine: bit.ly/3HLBoa7
Variety: bit.ly/3nN8S0x
Variety: bit.ly/3zG36R3
Variety: bit.ly/412KmqQ
Featured Footage:
Cats (2019)
Extras (2005-2007)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Music:
Ryan Hudson - Sh*t Show Theme
#itwasashtshow #cats #andrewlloydweber

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@srayj 9 ай бұрын

I absolutely love your podcast! You are hilarious and you have such good chemistry with each other. I also appreciate the fact that your purpose is never malicious. You always seem to wish the production had been successful, yet you’re able to point out the flaws in a funny way. I can tell that you all love films, which is why the critiques are also coming from a place of love. Lastly, I think Ian’s thorough research really adds legitimacy to your commentary on the full scope of the productions and shows that you aren’t critiquing other people’s work from a place of hate, but rather as a genuine examination of what can go wrong on a film and why. Great job and keep it up!

@ItWasAShtShow 9 ай бұрын

Thank you SO much! We often get requests to cover movies simply because they were bad movies. But I’m glad you and others like you know that it’s not about trashing films. It’s about understanding what happened.

@TheHunterBolton 10 ай бұрын

They edited out all the buttholes?! I’m calling shenanigans. James Corden is definitely in this movie

@samzilla567 10 ай бұрын

Friendly reminder that Tom Hooper had no idea what catnip was or what did to cats when Taylor Swift suggested using it for a bit in the film. Everyone on set just awkwardly laughed, thinking he was just joking around. He wasn't. The director of CATS, everyone.

@Overflight01 10 ай бұрын

Taylor Swift claims that scene where she drops catnip on the crowd and they all start going crazy was her dad's idea. Hooper apparently had no idea what catnip was and Swift's dad had to explain it to him. That and the rest of this movie IMHO is pretty compelling evidence that Tom Hooper doesn't know what cats *are*. As a musical, an animal or even a *concept*.

@justinstoll4955 10 ай бұрын

When you're 30 minutes into an episode, and then Ian says "this is where the shitshow begins" you know this is going to be good

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

That’s good. Because I get worried if that doesn’t happen soon enough. Like people start wondering why we’re even covering the movie.

@justinstoll4955 10 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShowBoy, that last 30 minutes was one of the biggest shit shows covered: buttholes, laid off people, a bomb, a crazy director, etc. It had it all.

@THEEJONESY 10 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShowdon't worry, the best shit comes from a big meal before hand

@michaelmellen7437 10 ай бұрын

Memory is the song that the character Summer (Miranda Cosgrove) sings briefly in School of Rock when the students are being assigned different roles in the class band

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

I only saw it twice but I don’t remember that.

@artofgnomes 8 ай бұрын

This is how I know of Memory as well. It was bizarre to listen to the real song much later on in life and understand just how badly Summer actually sang it (other than just being generically mediocre-sounding).

@lokidiscordia2548 8 ай бұрын

"Get me a cockroach dancing in a cancan line" "Like this?"- puts in copy of Joe's Apartment

@SmashPortal 10 ай бұрын

2AM is a great time of day to listen to a podcast.

@alexanderborschel2135 10 ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊😊

@mopar1969ful 10 ай бұрын

"Oh boy, 2am!"

@moosetasticbombastic1998 7 ай бұрын

It's literally 2:30am rn. Hell yeah!

@cthellis 10 ай бұрын

The Sideways “is Worse than you Thought” videos for Les Mis and Cats are must-listens. Reveals the utter insanity (and, frankly, abuse) of Tom Hooper in regards to all of this.

@marshalhammel5065 9 ай бұрын

He also gave a way better summary of the plot than that guy in the interview.

@DiscoTimelordASD 5 ай бұрын

I miss Sideways :(

@skenzyme81 10 ай бұрын

I refuse to believe the butthole cut does not exist. The visual effects directors' vision MUST have included them - only to be cut last minute by a sane producer. 🐈

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

We basically say that exactly in the episode.

@cthellis 10 ай бұрын

RELEASE THE BUTTHOLE CUT

@DityDan 9 ай бұрын

I worked at a movie theater when this released, can confirm absolutely NOBODY saw this compared to Star Wars. However, I did see ONE group in full cat costume, and I had to respect it

@brodycdxx2554 9 ай бұрын

This episode was the wrong episode to watch during work but the best episode to watch during work at the same time, love the pod, Clint should host an episode

@ItWasAShtShow 9 ай бұрын

I’ve tried…

@shenloken2 10 ай бұрын

The trailer told us this movie was going to be a disaster. But who’d have thought the movie itself told us 2020 was going to be a disaster?!

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

An ill omen indeed.

@canaisyoung3601 9 ай бұрын

That seems to me to be a coincidence. A disturbing one, but a coincidence nonetheless.

@tajklair 10 ай бұрын

I remember my English teacher said look how cringe the trailer is. It was so relatable.

@fafanir82 10 ай бұрын

Cats should have never been a movie.

@cthellis 10 ай бұрын

Missed opportunity to point out that the Meow Mix commercial was a better musical than this.

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Accurate. We’ll flog Clint for missing this egregious error.

@yohansong3207 10 ай бұрын

You guys have no idea how much I've been waiting for a new episode.

@theassortedhobbies Ай бұрын

Every time I think about Cats, whether it be the musical or this movie, my mind always goes to Hal Prince's reaction to the score for the first time: "I listened to it all and I said 'Andrew, is this something I don't get? Is this about Queen Victoria? She's the main cat and Disraeli and Gladstone are other cats? And then there are poor cats and...am I missing this?' And he took a terrible, painful long pause and said 'Hal, it's about cats.' And we never discussed it again."

@watumutiz 9 ай бұрын

Clint being so s@#£ faced by the time the Amblin logo comes on. What is that a bike????? 🥴🥴. I died!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Barnaclebeard 10 ай бұрын

I have a similar expression; perfect is the enemy of good, good is the enemy of done

@JamesWjRose 10 ай бұрын

I was at the Broadway Museum a couple of days ago and noticed that it was stated "actors do their own make-up, including Cats" - I've seen a number of shows, but never Cats. Still not seen the movie, though I will catch the RiffTrax version. Thanks again for your show.

@MusicDecomposer 10 ай бұрын

7:53 Yes, it _was_ referenced in something that a lot of kids watched. School of Rock, and also Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2.

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Maybe School of Rock. But I only saw that maybe twice.

@keithwoodcrest 10 ай бұрын

Just commented the same thing! I'd seen school of rock way back when it was in theaters and never again until recently. Never could pinpoint how I knew that song until my wife was watching school of rock and it all clicked

@ZidaneWarner 10 ай бұрын

Cats would’ve never worked as a film regardless if it was made by Tom Hooper or Steven Spielberg. There just isn’t enough of a plot to make it compelling in the film medium. That being said. The only thing this movie will ever do now is Hollywood never allowing Tom Hooper to make another musical ever again. He has no understanding how musicals work.

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

It could work by adapting it… with Muppets.

@chasehedges6775 10 ай бұрын

There just isn’t enough of a plot to make it compelling in the film medium Exactly

@michaellamb4001 10 ай бұрын

Given his track record, idea for a episode, it was a sh$t show: James corden

@alexgeurin6159 6 ай бұрын

We all know the song ‘Memory’ because in School of Rock, that was the song Miranda Cosgrove started terribly singing before Jack Black went “Stop. Stop.”

@50shadesofbeige88 10 ай бұрын

I wasn't sure if I'd like this one at the beginning, but it wss very entertaining. Well done!

@megshep 10 ай бұрын

Okay winter depression got the best of me so I fell off a bit, but I am back meow and purrrrrrfectly appreciating this episode. Klint with a K, I am going to have to request a themed catsuit for every episode now. So uh...you gonna do the timely thing and talk about Titanic now? 😅

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Was gonna do Titanic recently but decided to hold off until Avatar 3 comes out.

@megshep 10 ай бұрын

@ItWasAShtShow Apparently I'm waiting until December 2025 for that episode then. Clint, you'd better have the Heart of the Ocean in your closet!

@munohlow 10 ай бұрын

I think Andrew Lloyd Webber said he never wanted a cute animated adaptation, they aren’t supposed to be actual cats, they are always meant to look like half human freaks (I’m paraphrasing)

@kevincarter3753 27 күн бұрын

0:07 Clint never looks bad!

@aethersurfer6793 10 ай бұрын

I have to be honest, I don’t think I’ve managed to watch the whole thing. The cringe factor makes me stop the film from mutual embarrassment for all those involved.

@keithwoodcrest 10 ай бұрын

The "Memories" song is sung by Miranda Cosgrove in School of Rock! I also didn't know where I knew that song from and one day my wife was watching School of Rock and that scene came on and it all came together for me

@ChickenEatsBear 10 ай бұрын

The thumbnail genuinely made me feel uncomfortable 😂 this film was horrific

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Puurrrrr

@emb5048 9 ай бұрын

Do these ever have video to go along with them?

@jman1939 6 ай бұрын

Speaking of Musical disasters, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was a fascinating trainwreck of a show. Might make a good episode.

@ItWasAShtShow 6 ай бұрын

Very much on the list. But we’d have to find some bootlegged recording of it…

@jman1939 6 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow there may a few of those floating around on the interwebs. Lol

@joshbrown8756 10 ай бұрын

You probably learned of the song Memory from School fo Rock

@maxlights6021 10 ай бұрын

1:05:36 a different ken levine than the writer of bioshock, but if that movie/series ever comes out i’d love to hear abt what happened (and the BTS of the games could be its own episode as well)

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Definitely a movie banished into development hell.

@denim_ak 10 ай бұрын

Missed you guyssss

@222LoneWolf 10 ай бұрын

I might have missed it if it was mentioned in this episode, and I'm not sure if it's actually verifiable anywhere, but here's one of my absolute favorite anecdotes I've heard about this movie floating around the net: Tom Hooper apparently did not know what catnip was, and was only taught about it while they were in the middle of filming Taylor Swift's scene, which prominently involved her character drugging everyone with catnip, by Taylor Swift's own father, who had somehow gotten permission to visit the set that day to see how filming was going. I suppose Taylor Swift's dad never got the memo about Hooper not speaking to anyone who wasn't a supervisor. If anyone can verify this story, I think it really explains a lot about the finished film.

@EonStormcrow 10 ай бұрын

Cats was the 1st play I ever watched. It made me a theater kid. This film... I'm sorry you guys had to suffer through it. #ReleaseEmpiresOfTheDeep

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

All for you guys!

@EonStormcrow 10 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow and we love you for it.

@jl.7739 7 ай бұрын

47:27 min. That video exists. It’s called: Joes Apartment

@kevincarter3753 27 күн бұрын

16:48 CLINT

@dr8627 25 күн бұрын

you were thinking of miranda cosgrove singing memories in the movie school of rock

@TheloniusMUnk-DrUnkPhD- 10 ай бұрын

To address the “you’d have to be high to enjoy it” can confirm, took a couple hits of acid and thought it would be funny to watch it ironically… like, preposterous premise for a movie. Sure let’s give it a shot: Made it about 9 minutes, 15 absolute tops. And my god it was so awful; just the first few minutes that it was just unbearable to finish. Even on acid. Thank god it was during Covid and it was streaming… or we’d have either walked out of the movie… or suffered through it and felt awful for the rest of the trip. I cannot fathom seeing it sober. Or on drugs.

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Seems like it would be too terrifying.

@afowler13 10 ай бұрын

this is my favorite movie

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Ironically?

@afowler13 10 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow i don't use the irony shield these days. i was enthralled with it from the moment i saw it and i could talk about it for hours- which i plan to do in a video essay (or a regular essay) some time in the near future because my feelings/opinions are pretty complicated. i'm glad that it exists, for sure!

@nbctheoffice 10 ай бұрын

School of Rock featured Miranda Cosgrove’s character singing a section of the Memories song.

@moritzzz1 10 ай бұрын

I always thought that oscar roast was directed at Tom Hooper. The effects were solely his responsibility and after the financial disaster of Cats he lost all credibility in Holywood

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

If it was, they missed the target.

@shemjeffs2953 10 ай бұрын

Ive been wondering for the past few days when you guys were gonna release the next, thanks for getting me through the work day

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

@gob5974 9 ай бұрын

Wanted to let Clint know I love him

@ItWasAShtShow 9 ай бұрын

We’ll let him know during his exit interview.

@anna_in_aotearoa3166 10 ай бұрын

I really enjoy the pro recording of Cats stage show I have - seems to be from 1998? (I know there were other shows with much less good costume design!) Thought the dancers, singers & editors all did a great job of expressing feline nature in all its chaos, indolence, raunchiness & surprising moments of solemnity, which is what T.S. Eliot's poems also did. However, the new movie.... 👀 Isn't it interesting how stage costume interpretations of humans as felines can be fun & effective, and yet CGI theoretically doing the same thing can be pure nightmare fuel?! 😅

@kathykummer 10 ай бұрын

You mentioned that you didn't know why you knew of CATS and the song, "Memory." As a kid, I remember seeing the commercial play constantly on TV.

@kathykummer 10 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n89pdNma0da8qo0.html

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Someone pointed out that old VHS trailers advertised the recorded Broadway performance all the time. I think that might be it.

@docscott189 10 ай бұрын

@ItWasAShtShow Not to mess with the format, but have you ever considered dream recasting for these? Like how epic would it be if instead of Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee was cast instead.

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

I guess if the situation arises, we do say who would be better.

@NIGHTGUYRYAN 10 ай бұрын

OH MY GOD IM SO EXCITED!!!!!😂😂😂 love you guys - really needed to hear your lovely banter again!🎉🎉

@NIGHTGUYRYAN 10 ай бұрын

hahaha, making sure Melissa gives her theatre credentials at the BEGINNING of the episode- oh god you guys crack me up (referencing the food fight episode)

@russellgill5376 10 ай бұрын

We're gonna get to it 😂🎉

@faradise3819 10 ай бұрын

This production on a glance seems like a genuine effort in bringing the theatrical experience of Cats into the silver screen, so I didn't find it that surprising that so many big names signed on this project. Which is to say I have huge respect for Sir Ian and Madame Judi Dench, they're still legends. But damn what an awful movie (and musical).

@chasehedges6775 10 ай бұрын

💯💯💯💯

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

True. There is a reason people like Idris Elba and Taylor Swift signed on.

@faradise3819 10 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow After I watched the episode, I actually felt guilty calling the movie awful, not considering just how bad the condition for the artists and the crew. Regardless, you guys did a superb research on the topic!

@andreasauder2855 7 ай бұрын

Hearing about this movie made me watch the original musical, which actually worked. Also I think the fact that everyone was a star just made it worse, if no one had heard of any of the actors, it would have been more just silly and dumb.

@ItWasAShtShow 7 ай бұрын

True. Not being like “oh poor Judi, how did you get roped into this?” But also doesn’t help that it’s played so serious.

@finlaylavery8408 10 ай бұрын

"Hal... It's about cats..."

@andreameani156 9 ай бұрын

Please do an episode on ‘The Room’ (2003) 🏈 🥹

@nXca1ibur 10 ай бұрын

I will say that I genuinely love the Broadway musical, but the film is an abomination. I was entirely unsurprised when you said that he had no understanding of the visual effects process, as Les Mis proved he also has no understanding of the scoring process. I don't know how he is able to get anyone to work with him, interviews with the people who have been on his films make them seem like they just got back from a war. The only part of the film version of Cats I remember enjoying is the Skimbleshanks number, which is unsurprising as it was done by a professional dancer (not actor) and he declined to follow Hooper's insane process of basically just winging the songs.

@THEEJONESY 10 ай бұрын

Clint rules

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Who?

@JustinTrabue 8 ай бұрын

Clint!

@nealwhaley63 10 ай бұрын

This makes me want a new cat.

@geekehUK 10 ай бұрын

I want to see Trey Parker and Matt Stone, make the next version of this.

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

💯

@harryjackson7502 10 ай бұрын

You should do a podcast episode on the making of Jaws.

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

That one might be a video.

@harryjackson7502 10 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow Awesome,looking forward to seeing it.

@thattroy 10 ай бұрын

(Formerly Five Easy Pieces) I like to think that Clint was sitting their in the Sean Young catsuit, which still wouldn’t have looked better than this dumpster fire…

@christophernichols4224 10 ай бұрын

milo and otis is the dog and cat movie you were thinking of

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

That’s what I was thinking too but Homeward Bound fits too.

@christophernichols4224 9 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow I can imagine how much jenny would hate that movie. They did unspeakable things to those animals

@Raina92 10 ай бұрын

Great ep!! Please do The Fash next

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Eventually. Probably part of DCEU series of videos.

@plasticfantastic777 9 ай бұрын

My comment suggesting films to look at keeps getting deleted.

@tapio_m6861 10 ай бұрын

I am really tempted to watch this movie now. Like, not even ironically. It's just so... weird. It's the weirdest meant-to-be-serious movie of all time. The Room has nothing on this.

@chasehedges6775 10 ай бұрын

Both this and The Room are films that are soooo bad, they’re entertaining

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

I don’t know about THAT. Cats can be a real slog at times waiting for a bloody song to finish.

@tapio_m6861 10 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShowwell I do hate musicals…

@theburgerparty5663 10 ай бұрын

Memory was featured on the live version of “If I had a Million Dollars” by BNL. That’s how I know it

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

You’re blowing my mind right now. I LOVE BNL. But Memory isn’t in the song on Rock Spectacle. Is there another one I should look up?

@theburgerparty5663 10 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow it was a live performance in Portland Maine. They’d play it on my local radio. My favorite version kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLWFebNn1tuVqoU.html

@megshep 10 ай бұрын

It was also featured in School of Rock, which is where I remember it from. Memory is always in Miranda Cosgrove's voice in my mind.

@1BrknHrtdRomeo 9 ай бұрын

I...can't believe I'm finally going to watch this movie b/c of you guys haha

@ItWasAShtShow 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Well it seems like most VFX studios are battling these issues. Glad you’re enjoying our nonsense.

@JustinTaylormade 8 ай бұрын

Tom hanks big sings Memory to his mom on the phone

@ItWasAShtShow 7 ай бұрын

Different song though. You had me for a second!

@JustinTaylormade 7 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow didn't mean to troll, I actually thought it was that song till today!

@versebuchanan512 6 ай бұрын

Oh, was this movie not good? I hadn't heard.

@diddyknux 10 ай бұрын

Your timing is kind of creepy. I just watched two videos about Cats (one about the movie, one about the original musical) like a week ago...

@jeepspeedracer 10 ай бұрын

Now if only the decent sonic movie could inspire a finished sonic game for once.

@callmemich 10 ай бұрын

Lol

@charmedx3219 10 ай бұрын

I have watched the movie on Blu-ray three times with different friends and family and we all enjoyed it. I still love the stage show way better. But the movie is such fun

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

But like legitimately? Or ironically?

@hypercomms2001 10 ай бұрын

Sounds like music should been by 'The but hole Surfers"...

@DiscoTimelordASD 5 ай бұрын

I saw the musical and then saw the trailer for the movie. No. Just no.

@ohasia 10 ай бұрын

Ok I've watched every episode, some of them, twice. I still don't know if it's jenni-rae or January. *Andy Dwyer meme*

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

“November. Your bangs are cute.”

@godshand6822 10 ай бұрын

You know memories because its the song thats in the commercial for cats that played constantly just fyi

@moosetasticbombastic1998 7 ай бұрын

Clint

@ItWasAShtShow 7 ай бұрын

No idea who that is.

@GBart 7 күн бұрын

Clint's and my*

@TheAdamGiles 6 ай бұрын

Clint.

@bobobeckham777 10 ай бұрын

clint

@singingpepper 10 ай бұрын

A few cat puns for you: Taylor Swifts song for Cats 2: 2 buttholes 2 furriest would be, Look what you made me POO. Please join the patreon right MEOW. Those animators were not PUSSYfooting around. If you have longhaired cats you need a cLINT roller. Puns aside, it's so wonderful to have y'all back. I missed you three. Thanks for the laughs. 😻

@clamum9648 10 ай бұрын

A rather jellicle podcast show

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Is that a complement? Is that an insult?! What is a Jellicle?!!

@clamum9648 10 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow I don't even know myself homie

@chasehedges6775 10 ай бұрын

I’ll give the movie this: The younger actors/dancers did a good job and gave the best performances. The older actors SUCKED

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

Agreed. You can tell that some of them didn’t miss the assignment. It’s just the assignment was terrible.

@2bitnerd 10 ай бұрын

Again, SO disappointing that this is a podcast.

@ItWasAShtShow 10 ай бұрын

All our videos are about truly difficult productions. Stories crazy enough and strong enough to carry a whole narrative. They’re pseudo documentaries. With Cats, it basically boils down to Tom Hooper being a dick to VFX artists. That’s not enough to make a whole video about. And if I did, it wouldn’t be nearly as fun to make or for you to watch as I rarely editorialize in the videos. This movie deserves a good thrashing which I wouldn’t do in a video. Pick your poison. Sorry if that’s not your cup of tea, but that’s the channel.