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I really like the fanon that it's a prequel to Warhammer 40k before the Gellar Field was invented.

I think the thing with Cats is that it's totally OK if a broadway musical has no plot and doesn't make sense

As a lover of musicals, HELL no! Cats is probably the worst musical I've ever seen and that's INCLUDING every amateur production. Yes, school play originals too.

Apart from the not making sense, it has ONE great song (the others ranging from awful to meh), which it repeats so many times that you're on the verge of getting tired of it by the time the Elder Kitty reveals that cats aren't dogs.

-10/10, would force Trump, Musk, Putin, and Netanyahu to watch on repeat until they die as punishment for their crimes against humanity.

complaining about jellicle in Cats would be a lot like walking out of a Smurfs movie complaining about "Man, they sure do say 'Smurf' a lot."

Thing is, there's a lot about the source material that, if you're not there for it, then you shouldn't even be in the theatre. No plot, sexy cat monsters, absurd lyrics, that's all there from the beginning. No, the 2019 movie is fucked up in ways that have nothing to do with T. S. Eliot or Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Post-production

Scott's first cut of Legend ran 125 minutes long. He then believed there were minor plot points that could be trimmed and cut the film down to 113 minutes, so he tested this version for an audience in Orange County. However, it was decided that the audience had to work too much to be entertained, and another 20 minutes was cut. The 95-minute version was shown in Great Britain and then the film was cut down even further to 89 minutes for North America.

At the time, Scott said, "European audiences are more sophisticated. They accepted preambles and subtleties whereas the U.S. goes for a much broader stroke." He and Universal delayed the North American theatrical release until 1986 so that they could replace Jerry Goldsmith's score with music by Tangerine Dream, Yes lead singer Jon Anderson, and Bryan Ferry.

Scott allowed Goldsmith's score to remain on European prints and the composer said, "that this dreamy, bucolic setting is suddenly to be scored by a techno-pop group seems sort of strange to me". Normally, Goldsmith would spend 6–10 weeks on a film score, but for Legend, he spent six months writing songs and dance sequences ahead of time.

The Goldsmith score is... fine, I guess, but it doesn't convey the intense 80s-ness of the movie as well as Tangerine Dream. It's like Flash Gordon or Highlander without the Queen songs.