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member · Hermes

RENT Opens Today!!

kenzie · Chanel

I am! I am! *jumping up and down gleefully*

bumblebee · Coach

Did anyone go see it? Thoughts, opinions...?

I went yesterday and I was enjoying it, but I had to leave about 3/4 of the way through (right after the scene where they find Mimi) because I was afraid of missing my flight home! It's a lot longer than I thought it would be. So now I have to go see it again to catch the ending.

Maddie · Coach

Linsayism's review pretty much sums up my feelings...

525,600 Minutes in Hell

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Saturday afternoon, when my friend Eric suggested we get stoned and go see "Rent" I was all for it. I figured it would be unintentionally funny/campy etc. I was terribly misguided. Index:

Number of minutes that I had my hands over both my ears, total: Approx. 20
Number of times I whispered "get a fucking job!": 3
Number of times I said to Eric "this is not a movie, this is an ASSAULT": 2
Amount of money I offered Eric to walk out, 45 minute mark: $5
Amount I offered, 1 hour 45 minute mark: $10
Final offer, not accepted: $15
Number of minutes I spent applying lip gloss and messing with my hair in the bathroom during the movie in order to kill time: 3.5
Actors I needed to slap, in order of urgency: Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp, and whoever played Angel.
Number of times I said "I don't think of it as a moviegoing experience so much as it was a terrible event that happened in my life.": at least 10

But whatever, I got what I deserved. At least the message of the movie came through: I now live each day as if it were the last one before I have to see that movie again!

Andrea Julia · Coach

Maddie wrote:

Linsayism's review pretty much sums up my feelings... 525,600 Minutes in Hell It seemed like a good idea at the time. Saturday afternoon, when my friend Eric suggested we get stoned and go see "Rent" I was all for it. I figured it would be unintentionally funny/campy etc. I was terribly misguided. Index: Number of minutes that I had my hands over both my ears, total: Approx. 20 Number of times I whispered "get a fucking job!": 3 Number of times I said to Eric "this is not a movie, this is an ASSAULT": 2 Amount of money I offered Eric to walk out, 45 minute mark: $5 Amount I offered, 1 hour 45 minute mark: $10 Final offer, not accepted: $15 Number of minutes I spent applying lip gloss and messing with my hair in the bathroom during the movie in order to kill time: 3.5 Actors I needed to slap, in order of urgency: Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp, and whoever played Angel. Number of times I said "I don't think of it as a moviegoing experience so much as it was a terrible event that happened in my life.": at least 10 But whatever, I got what I deserved. At least the message of the movie came through: I now live each day as if it were the last one before I have to see that movie again!

I kind of feel bad for this reviewer's friend. I'm guessing that he liked it because he wouldn't take the reviewer's money to leave. I hate going to a movie when someone I am with isn't enjoying it and makes a point of telling me every few minutes.

Anyway, I saw the movie and thought it was pretty good. It didn't give the same emotions and feelings that I got when I saw the play, but all in all, it wasn't a bad movie version. I was entertained the whole time.

bumblebee · Coach

i've been seeing some of the negative reviews and i can't say that i blame the people writing them. i think that so much of the heart of the story was lost because it just can't possibly be the same on screen as on stage. i also think that the story is so closely tied to that particular moment in history in which it is said to have happened, that a lot of the context was lost and many things that they said and did seemed kind of outdated--like they were avant-garde and shocking at that time, but the world has moved on since then and it's no longer so risque'. AIDS was really scary and people were dying so quickly back then--even though I thought the scenes of Angel's death were still poignant, they didn't have the same punch as they once did.

i also thought a lot was lost in terms of connecting the characters to their community--which was a big undercurrent in the musical version imho--by cutting out all the peripheral homeless characters and their songs, cart pushing, etc. (except for the one woman who doesn't want to be videotaped). it seemed sort of weird that they would care enough to fight so hard for maureen's protest since they were kind of disconnected from the other people around them anyway (which they weren't in the stage version).