adstogs Reviews

Hamilton (2020)

Wonderful

[8 July 2020]

Very intense! I knew the cast album, but it still was amazing. The performances were better than the album, more emotional. Eliza's sceenes were believable, King George was funny. Jefferson and Hamilton go against each other, and the audience loved it. Even though I knew it was coming, Hamilton's final scene was horrible. The audio describer was good, sometimes describing the action during the applause, before the singers started singing, or describing during a song. For example, before the Skuylar Sisters song starts he says, "Burr." Then, he said "The Skuylar sisters hold up their silk gowns, dancing in the center of the rotating stage." After that song, he describes the next one before they start singing. Thank you, Disney Plus for funding the audio description.

Cats (2019)

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[6 February 2020]

I love the play Cats, so I was curious to see the movie. I went with family and we loved it! Not much of a plot, but very entertaining! I was curious about the visuals, I'd read how bad they were. I'm blind, so I had a listening device with audio description, just a pair of headphones. I'd read reviews that said the visuals were so horrible, it was like watching a horror movie. I was worried there wouldn't be description if the visuals were so bad, I was wrong. Anyway, the describer mentioned the humanoid cats once, saying they have human faces and hands. During the movie she'd say hands instead of paws then she described the action for the rest of the movie. Since the movie is sung through, she sometimes had to talk over the singing. Some of the cats had collars, Macavity had white fur. Victoria got tangled up in jewelry. Mongojerrie and Rumpelteazer leave her, until she is rescued. During the Jellicle ball, she described the cats dancing, She used ballet terms to describe Victoria's. Some of the others do a hip hop dance. during Beautiful Ghosts,Deuteronomy looks moved when she sees Victoria and Grizabella together. That song fit the story well,Victoria understood her pain, she was abandoned. Gus the theater cat and Deuteronomy kept looking at each other, like they were once a couple I thought. When he sang about the kittens not being well-trained, some of the cats looked ashamed. The actors playing Gus and Deuteronomy were good. In the 1980s Judi Dench was cast as Grizabella in the play, she was injured, I was glad she was cast in the movie. Macavity kept kidnapping the others, hoping he'd be the Jellicle choice, it didn't happen. Bustopher Jones disappears in to a garbage can. All the kidnapped cats end up on Growltiger's barge. Taylor Swift's cat was wearing heels during her number, she surprised me. I'm not a fan, but she sang okay. Skimbleshanks's song was a fun tap number. I liked the use of the railway tie Grizzabella was played well by Jennifer Hudson. Every time she'd approach, the other cats would mock or swipe at her. The describer called her the outcast cat. Memory was sung with strong emotion! Victoria wore a hopeful expression before Grizabella was chosen. At the end of the movie, the describer said Universal funded the description. Thank you Universal. it was well done.