‘My eyes are burning’ – baffled cinema-goers react to the ‘horror’ that is the Cats movie  

If you haven’t heard the news about the new CGI adaptation of the musical Cats, you’ve clearly been hiding in a cupboard or in a box for the last several days. A bit like a cat, in fact.

But for those of you who have been in hiding, let us be the first to break it to you. The movie is – according to about 90% of cinema-goers – terrible. Not just terrible, terrifying , with the CGI cat/human hybrid characters freaking people out from Edinburgh to Ecuador.

In fact, ever since the trailer dropped in July, people have been losing their minds about the new Cats movie – and not in a good way.

“My eyes are burning. Oh God, my eyes.”

“Can you make a movie so bad that the Academy takes back your Best Director Oscar?”

“Cats is the worst thing to happen to cats since dogs.”

“I felt the light inside me slowly fading.”

Dame Judi Dench, Idris Elba, James Corden and Taylor Swift are just some of the famous names that have been turned into furry felines and the results, as some social media users previously pointed out, are pretty petrifying and amazing in equal measure.

Nothing about it seems to make any sense. From what we can make out, it’s about a tribe of Cats called the Jellicles, who spend a night making the life-changing “Jellicle choice” of deciding which cat will make its way to the Heaviside Layer – also known as Heaven.

The film uses the cast’s real, human faces; the rest is all CGI.

One person said: “I watched Cats in a sustained, two hour, full-body recoil. It is HIDEOUS. It is TERRIBLE. It is NIGHTMARE and CHAOS come to horrible life. THEY NEVER STOP SINGING #CatsMovie,” said one viewer.

Another added: #CatsMovie… the hairball of nightmare fibres, forever lodged in the throat of my mind.”

Others just couldn’t find the words to describe it. One said: “I’ve been trying to write a tweet for #CatsMovie for almost 20 minutes and I just can’t come up with anything. I’m truly speechless. I’m baffled by the fact that this movie exists. I don’t even know what an actual cat looks like anymore. It’s a truly horrifying experience. Yikes.”

Someone else just said: “Oh god, my eyes.”

Source: ‘My eyes are burning’ – baffled cinema-goers react to the ‘horror’ that is the Cats movie – Edinburgh Live