The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part three- Page 299

[Allie]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 4:23pm

Oh, Emcee, that SUCKS. It's on the same PAGE as the sh!tty review? Yikes. I think the reviewer will look like an idiot, especially with all the incorrect facts.

Can you write a letter to the editor or something about the review? With correct information? Or have someone else do it, since your name already appears in conjunction with the film.

I'm glad your article is okay, though! I can't wait to read it!

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 4:26pm

Amen Em

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 4:27pm

Yeah. RAWR. It's wrong of me to think they should've explicitly been like "we need a positive review." And I don't think that at all. But I think that they could at LEAST have required that this chick be held responsible for putting correct information in her review. Five minutes on Google and she'd be informed. I guess I can write something for impending corrections, but I don't know if it matters that much, at this point. The movie's been out for over a week.

The article is intact save for some minor phrasing changes, which I dislike because it diminishes the voice of the writer, but so goes the heirarchy. The girl who edited it has a really annoying holier-than-thou attitude, and is the bossy type who changes things without regard for intention. But, they didn't shorten it. It has a few glaring typos, but whatever.

I'll send it to you guys soon.

Posted: 12/2/05 at 4:45pm

Just out of curiosity, what *were* some of the cuts made for (if not ratings)? I know why the cuts regarding the songs (e.g. Halloween & Goodbye Love) were made, but why were the more "edgy" things cut from the original script? For example, I believe the original script called for a scene of actual shooting up (i.e. we would see the needle go into an arm) and Roger/April to be seen having sex.

I completely believe you, but why else would this small cuts be made if not for ratings purposes?

I don't blame them for wanting a PG-13 rating if they truly did... don't get me wrong. And maybe you were just referencing the song cuts in the first place. :)

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 5:01pm

Icky, Em, that's not fun. But I'm sure what you wrote is still fantastic. No one's going to be reading that dumb review, anyway. :-P

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 5:03pm

Things like, say, Christmas Bells or Contact were too theatrical or "stagey." They probably would've looked odd on film, or have just not worked very well.

I liked a lot of those things about the original script, but that one was so different from the libretto. It sounds like what happened in the writing process, before they even thought about ratings, was that the script just morphed into being closer and closer to the libretto.

Images in the version of the movie that actually came into being that were cut because of the MPAA are like, a few frames of a needle actually going into an arm. The sex scenes and all never appeared in that shooting script.

They *expected* to have the movie be rated R.

[walkingthroughfire13]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 5:28pm

I don't like stupid people...poor Em. I hope everything works out. That sux so much, that reviewer should be fired. Stupid person...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 5:36pm

hah. Well, there's not that much I can do. I'm just angry.

c'est la vie, no?

In the grand scheme, it's not that big a deal. This is the school's paper, not the Times. Like, who's gonna read it?

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 5:49pm

*raises hand* I'll read it!
And my sister, and your roommate, and... *shuts up because she's not being helpful*



But seriously, you're a good writer, so people should be able to read what you wrote and believe it, rather than that other, crappily written thing. I would hope.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 5:50pm

*raises hand* I'll read it!
And my sister, and your roommate, and... *shuts up because she's not being helpful*



But seriously, you're a good writer, so people should be able to read what you wrote and believe it, rather than that other, crappily written thing. I would hope.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 5:52pm

Well, the review isn't poorly written. It's just misinformed, and the tone is really... well, smart-ass.

[walkingthroughfire13]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 5:59pm

How does one smart-ass a RENT review?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 6:01pm

What do you mean? She sounded like she was going for a nasty, biting sarcasm, and just came off sounding like... dumb. Like she was trying to bite the movie in the ass and run away, taunt it, almost, and just came off whiny.

[walkingthroughfire13]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 6:08pm

Oh, okay. I was getting smart-ass and sarcastic confused...hehe, better now! And...GRARRGH! Silly person (and by silly I mean a different word). Hahaha, the word I was going for works with your simile if this reviewer is a girl...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 6:11pm

Nah. Very.... like she was trying far too hard to force into your must-be-stupid head that the movie isn't even worth seeing at ALL. It had a very smart-ass air to it. Like she was trying to sound like someone who knew the show like the back of her hand, and had to make sure you knew that when you were reading her review; THAT was the most important thing.

And honestly, I'm not like, jealous or whatever that I wasn't asked to write the review. I wouldn't have wanted to.

[walkingthroughfire13]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 6:18pm

From everything you've written about this person, she sounds like someone who needs to have a little sit-down with a RENThead, if she thinks that she "knows the show like the back of her hand". *sigh* Oh well. Hopefully people at your school won't trust her critical prowess and go to see the movie anyway...

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 6:20pm

yes but all of the RENT fans who read the review (and I think there are quite a few of them around here) will know she's not informed and not a true fan. and then she will look silly and you will look awesome.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 6:24pm

She could very well *be* a Renthead who loathed the movie. There are plenty of them.

I honestly don't think people are going to get their movie advice and make their choices based on this review; it just irks me, more than anything, that it was too hard to find correct information. Like, you'd think the paper would be more professional at a school like this.

[walkingthroughfire13]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 6:24pm

Exactly! Fantab (I remembered!) said it best. Wow, I try so hard to explain myself and it just doesn't work...oh well. This is why I memorize scripts.

And Em, that makes sense. I know people who got into college and couldn't write a five paragraph essay...I learned that in seventh grade and I'm a friggin sophomore and I can whip out five-paragraph essays like it's nothing. Yeah, that makes total sense. Your opinion, not my earlier statement. That got interesting.

Updated On: 12/2/05 at 06:24 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 7:13pm

I Facebooked the reviewer. She's definitely a Renthead.

Like I said, she can write. I'm not disparaging that.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 7:21pm

uh yea...did you catch her screenname?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 7:24pm

Definitely an angry Renthead.

You did the same thing, didn't you?

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 7:27pm

well I checked it right after I read the review, but I went really fast and didn't catch the sn or the quote. So I just went back after what you wrote. aahhh...the power of facebook.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 7:29pm

*snicker*

Well, that mystery is solved.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/2/05 at 7:35pm

yup...we've got ourselves an angry renthead