Rent” The Movie

[Webster J. Duck]

Never caught the play. Loved the movie. Particularly poignant for us as the AIDs epidemic blossomed while we were defining our professional careers. In the late 80’s I was in a very similar urban environment and most of my colleagues were deeply impacted by the pandemic. The play, at least as interpreted by the movie, captured some of the darkness, but also the intensity of the emotions of the time… and since. I’m sure transference by my wife and I amplified the films intensity, but it was a well spent two hours nonetheless.

Actually made us miss the brutal urban winters of our past. Time goes by too fast.

We’ve got Cinderella Man lined up for tomorrow.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Didn't like the movie very much, but it also made me nostalgic for NYC. The last time I was there, I stayed with a friend who lived about one block south of where the movie was set.

[wurm]

My daughter bought the dvd. I watched it and thought it was pretty good. But to be truthful, I wasn't familiar with the story or the characters and was paying too much attention to the singing and not the story . Then I started listening to the soundtrack and paying attention to the lyrics and the characters. I watched the movie a second time a couple of weeks later and thoroughly enjoyed it.

[ztirffritz]

The fact that they are still making musicals and they are profitable proves that I'm in the minority on this subject, but I depise musicals. My wife tried to force this one on me and I just couldn't take it. The idea of taking a bunch of people in bizarre situations and having them sing and dance about their problems is simply beyond me. I lump movie musicals in with marching bands. You combine to things that are horribly annoying separately and expect the combination of the two to some how magically improve both items. It almost never works. The only time that I've experienced this genre and not felt the urge to vomit was The Sound of Music. I can only guess that it was because the music stood by itself as a decent work and the plot of the story was about the household re-discovering music, so combining the two worked.

[Microman]

Saw this live in N.Y., when it first came out. Loved the loud guitar music, and singing. Now everyone in this family goes around singing it, word for word.

Too bad Jonathan Larson died before he saw the success, he would have had. Or did have.