# I watched the movie "Cats" so you don't have to **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 21, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-the-movie-cats-so-you-dont-have-to/966534 "2022-06-21T02:25:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-the-movie-cats-so-you-dont-have-to/966534/18 "2022-06-21T14:54:53Z")
I watched the Cats musical, which I actually had on DVD, a few years ago in anticipation of the fact they were making this movie. I thought it was terrible, strange, and I could not believe it was popular. > [@I'm watching Cats for the first time and....wow, this is strange.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-watching-cats-for-the-first-time-and-wow-this-is-strange/820726): > > No, I mean it is stranger than you expect if you haven’t seen it. I picked up the DVD of this show forever ago(like…15 years ago). I never put it in. However, I love the following musicals: Phantom of the Opera Les Miserables Greatest Showman a few others So…I heard that Cats is coming out as a feature film in 2019. I figured, I should check this thing out. I mean, I have a great full-cast Broadway DVD and it is time to check it out. I am 40 minutes in. My thoughts: What is this? Is ther… I knew the movie was doomed, but had no idea it would be as bad as it ended up being. I believe the movie Six Degrees of Separation has a joke in it about a movie producer trying to make Cats as a movie and how impossible it would be. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-the-movie-cats-so-you-dont-have-to/966534)._