All Rent Reviews (Place Here)

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 10:26am

To save space, and make all user reviews easy to access, why don't we all post our Rent movie reviews in one thread, like, well, this one!

Edit: You can also post online and magazine/newspaper reviews here too.
Updated On: 11/18/05 at 10:26 AM

[La_Becca]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 11:34am

What about finding other RENT reviews?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176006,00.html (somewhat general, but very positive)

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 11:36am

Yes! YEs! Yes! I think all Rent reviews, should be here.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 11:45am

You should change the title to "All Rent Reviews."

There's like 4 threads right around this, maybe the mods could consolidate them before people start posting in them.

Here, I'll help:

http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=1231

Updated On: 11/18/05 at 11:45 AM

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 11:56am

I just love how that review talks about them being like 90210 (40 year olds playing 20 year olds). NO WHERE in Rent does it say that they are supposed to be 20 (only Mimi's age is ever spoken. Ah well.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 11:59am

I think as long as we keep this at the top of the page, most people can figure out (or maybe I'm expecting to much) to place them here.

[sports620]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 12:13pm

http://www.washblade.com/2005/11-18/arts/film/film-rent.cfm

edit: NEGATIVE Updated On: 11/18/05 at 12:13 PM

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 12:16pm

The Washington Blade is never very positive.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 12:16pm

Not too positive? How about SCATHING?

[DAME]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 12:20pm

Now lets not start making excuses for the bad reviews. Just accept them.

Updated On: 11/18/05 at 12:20 PM

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 12:21pm

Lol Dame. If they didn't like the film, they are entitled to their opinion people! Any movie musical is going to face resistance from some camps, whether its brilliant or not. I'm sure Rent will receive more than one pan. Might as well face that fact now.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 12:22pm

I'm not making excuses, I just meant that I'm not surprised.

[DAME]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 12:26pm

Good. Some of the gay rags in Los Angeles have not liked it either. And if you don't have the queens in the bag it might be a uphill battle.

Posted: 11/18/05 at 12:29pm

Hate to say it, but he's dead on.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 12:30pm

Keep checking back at rottentomatoes.com and metacritic.com. They will have most of the reviews linked, and do a fair and accurate job of "weighing" the average review on a score.

I think RENT will probably end up scoring something approximate to last years PHANTOM -- which was low -- but RENT is being infinitately better marketed then PHANTOM was, so that will make a difference at the box office.

[lukeboy25]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 1:16pm

Not really a full out review but positive none the less....
Click Here!

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 1:19pm

RENT should have no problem doing better than Phanrom, because RENT is actually a wonderful film....

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 1:45pm

Well PHANTOM was an easier sell then RENT though. It's still very up in the air how a musical about trannies, AIDS, and drug addicts will do in a lot of markets outside of major urban cities.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 1:57pm

Considering how many people I've seen asking about what theaters are showing Rent in the Podunk, Iowa-area, I'm sure it will do fine outside major cities.

Rent is also marketing to teenagers, which (whether people like it or not) is the ultimate demographic for box office numbers. Phantom pretty much ignored them and marketed towards the older crowds.

[cubbiegirl]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:26pm

I'm hoping it comes to my town. Of course, here half the lawns have big anti-gay signs posted next to the ten commandments so I'm not getting my hopes up.

I'll go to the bigger city to see it if I have to.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:27pm

They post anti-gay signs on their lawns? I would so go to each house and remove them personally.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:29pm

"Of course, here half the lawns have big anti-gay signs posted next to the ten commandments so I'm not getting my hopes up."

Are you serious or is this just a way of saying that your community is full of homophobic, Christian fundamentalists?

[cubbiegirl]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:30pm

Yup. No joke. And on their cars too. Mostly having to do with gay marriage. Not sure if that should be classified as anti-gay..

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:42pm

Well, if they're anti-gay marriage, then they are likely anti-gay.

[WickedRentLuv]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:47pm

"It’s a classic straight man’s rendition of queer sexuality: Sure, we’ll let the lesbians go at it, but if you’re gonna have two dudes smooch, one of them better be wearing a dress. "

Can I just say that that line from the Washington Blade review reminds me alot of our very own art2?