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[my2cents]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 12:48pm

Des Moines Register's review. . . "Get a job for God's sake, people, and bring back some better songs while you're out."

All I have to say to that is...

"There's nothing halfway about the Iowa way to treat ya...
There's an Iowa kind of special chip-on-the shoulder additude we've never been without."

[LeaGirl]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 1:01pm

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!

[OasisBroadway]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 1:24pm

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[JenD512]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 1:31pm

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!

[WesternSky2]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 1:41pm

Just wanted to jump on into this thread as I get more and more excited for the midnight screening tonight. I'm glad to see so many positive reviews from the critics. It's definitely going to be an experience.. I cannot wait.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:02pm

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 )

[Kringas]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:23pm

Broadway.com has a review up. I disagree that Menzel is the most stagey performer. I really think it's Rapp.


Edited: Sorry, Michael Bennett. I didn't see you'd already posted this review.
Broadway.Com Review

Updated On: 11/22/05 at 02:23 PM

[The8re phan]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:32pm

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.

[OasisBroadway]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:35pm

Oh The8re phan, that will do no good. Just ignore him.

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:36pm

Hey Art - here's a plan.

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

See? Simple.

[pab]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:41pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051122/ap_en_mo/film_review_rent

[Karma76]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:49pm

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

also, post your positive Rent Reviews here : http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?tab=reviews&mid=20496"


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.

[OasisBroadway]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:52pm

I don't understand why it would make you weary of EW now. These reviews are made by humans and are based on opinions, not all of which are going to exactly match yours.

[Kringas]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:54pm

Is the EW review out?

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 2:59pm

Just the grade, Kringas (A-). They usually post reviews on Wednesdays online.

[Kringas]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:08pm

Oh, okay. Thanks!

[Karma76]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:08pm

Cause the movie is in no way up to the par of an A-

I love rent but I will not lie and say the movie is better then it is...I wish it was but it is not an A-. An A- should be given to something really stellar it was good it was not bad (well one part was down right laughable but you will all understand it when you see it, it was the only true thing I despised about the film and I overheard others discussing it as I was leaving) but it was not at a level of that which I do not think is a bad thing to say. I am not slamming the Movie at all, but I will be honest to say it is no A-

[WickedRentLuv]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:18pm

In _your_ opinion, karma.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:19pm

When I looked at the wire yesterday, Ebert's review for RENT was 3 stars. Apparently, he bumped it down to 2/1/2 for the print edition-- which sadly makes more sense given his over all negative feelings about the movie.

[Karma76]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:20pm

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.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:21pm

"During New Year's revels late in the film, Joanne uncorks a bottle of champagne, looking braced for an eruption of bubbly, only to find it burble out in a feeble fizz. That sums up the movie version of "Rent": High hopes, flat results."

Oh, snap.

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:22pm

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).

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:23pm

RENT is certainly flawed, but god so is WALK THE LINE, the most over rated film of the year so far.

[Kringas]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:28pm

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.

[my2cents]

Posted: 11/22/05 at 3:37pm

although I have been following this thread, I might have missed it, but in any case the village voice review.

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0547,morales,70253,20.html

"Instead of bringing a universal love story to the living present, the film traps it in a frozen past like a prehistoric bug in amber, as removed from moviegoers' experience as a dusty diorama at the American Museum of Natural History. I was reminded of the unhip hippies in Milos Forman'sGotham Uncovered
Hair, released 12 long years after the Summer of Love, at the height of the disco era. Rent is about as timely now as Gigi."