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I think my favorite review so far for "chuckles" has been the comingsoon one off RottenT.

He's like "I hate musicals. This is a terrible musical. They never should have made it into a movie. I hate when people sing and dance. Their lives are sad they shouldn't be singing and dancing... etc"

Very effective, I'm sure.

But yet he "teared up" during "Without You"

It is truly a fabulous read.

And I loved the movie.

I just wonder why they sent someone who HATES musicals to go review one... he acted like he wasn't expecting it!

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The Coming Soon review (that killed me, btw...I usually love that site) reminded me of a scene from the Harrison Ford remake of "Sabrina:"

In one scene, his secretary is warning him that the B'way show tickets he requested might be for a musical: "This means that the actors will occassionally dance about and burst into song."

It wasn't a very good movie, but that scene was hilarious.

I'm still waiting for the reviews from the Christian family sites. THOSE should be fun!

Um . . . I just read the review from comingsoon.net and right off the bat he says, "No, I have not seen RENT on stage." But, throught the review he keeps stating how things didn't work in the stage version and keeps making references to the broadway show. Now, how can someone really make references to something they have never seen (besides, art2 )

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Dear Art---

Please verify where in the stage version of Rent that Collins & Angel's relationship is done any differently than it is on film.

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Hey Art - here's a plan.

Don't see the damn movie if you think it's sanitized.

See? Simple.

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["yep, Rent's review for EW is higher than Harry Potter and Walk the Line, etc.

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No offense but I saw walk the line Sunday and the screening of rent yesterday..... there is no way it is higher then walk the line. AT ALL which makes me weary of EW now. Just does not compare.

OK I liked the movie....but it was ok it wasn't great. Some parts were very good some parts were not. They rush a lot of sequences and leave out pivotal stuff I think. They cut songs, they staged some of them in a weird way .I know someone mentioned the April thing it bothered me as well but other stuff bothered me more. I think Maureen, Joanne and Marks parts worked extremely well with the movie. Everything those 3 did I was glued to which is odd cause in the stage version the Joanne/Maureen thing was not something I even cared about actually. I thought Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel and Jesse L. Martin stood out in the movie. I think people will like them a lot. I do not want to go too much into details though for those who have not seen it…plus opinions are going to be different.

Is the EW review out?

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Oh, okay. Thanks!

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In _your_ opinion, karma.

Maybe....maybe again I am not slamming it and I love the show...but I will always try to be truthful about something and not biased, hence what I am doing. Once you see it then you can decide as well whether you can do that.

Are you ****ing kidding me!? EW doesn't give 'A's to hardly anything. I was praying for a B- from them, so that's a great sign (also because a lot of people look at their reviews and read EW).

I'm seeing it again tomorrow night, which was my plan all along. I wound up with a pass for a press screening last night. Now that I've seen the finished product and I now for certain all the changes that have been made, I'm going to try and watch it a little more objectively tomorrow. Honestly, though, it really just didn't do much for me.

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