All Rent Reviews (Place Here)- Page 4
All Rent Reviews (Place Here)
#76Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 4:09pmOMG!! on rotten tomatoes RENT is 100% fresh! YAY!
--Alex--
"They're singing, "Happy Birthday"
You just wanna lay down and cry
Not just another birthday, it's 30/90
Why can't you stay 29
Hell, you still feel like you're 22
Turn 30 in 1990
Bang! You're dead, what can you do?"
--TTB
#81Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 4:37pm
I think my obsessiveness has tainted my friends, and most of my family is too conservative for me to trust their opinions. My mother saw Rent with me once and turned to glare at me all through I'll Cover You. 
I give up.
But I haven't even read Emcee's review! *shock*
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Updated On: 11/20/05 at 04:37 PM
Wanting life but never knowing how
#83Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 4:45pm
Rob's blog is The Broadway Pulse on the top right corner here. He has some nice comments about BWW there, which people should check out as well.
Variety- scroll to bottom
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#85Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 5:01pm
Thanks for clarifying Anthony. I'm a little hesitant to believe rumors unless I hear them straight from the horses mouth.
The test for me is going to be what my straight guy friends who are unfamiliar with the show think.
I know I'll love it. The simple fact that this movie was made at all with the majority of the obc was a guarantee for me. Even if it was complete crap, I know I still would have sat there, mouth open and drooling. I am pretty easy to please.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#86Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 5:27pm
If nothing else, they'll love Rosario. One of my friends (a gay guy) said that Rent should use for its slogan "Rent: Turning gay men straight" simply because of Out Tonight. 
I feel so.... *deviant grin* powerful. 
But seriously, I'm glad I was able to help out a little.
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#87Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 5:33pmLOL! Em, the Out Tonight video was my pitch to get them to go with me. I emailed it to them...I figure that at least a few minutes of watching Rosario dance around half-naked would make the $8 movie ticket worth it.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
art2
Stand-by Joined: 8/10/05
#90Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 5:40pm
I totally used that with my friend! He's one of those completely sexist narrow-minded Republican straight guys (don't ask why we're friends, it's complicated) and I was like "But there are strippers! And hot lesbians!" Basically art's worst nightmare, but hey, whatever works!
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
MoonOnAstring
Stand-by Joined: 10/30/05
#91Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 5:40pm
Don't think this has been posted yet:
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20051120/113253641000.html
" Rent is one of the best film musicals in years -- exuberant, sexy and life affirming in equal measure."
I got blood on my cello! - Lauren Molina
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
greenegirl87
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/11/05
#93Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 5:43pm
haha here we can get in for 6.50 if we show student ids.its wonderful,but i seriously remember when i was little being able to get into this one theatre that ran movies later for a dollar if it was a matinee. it was like probably more than 10 years ago, but it was even really cheap for then.
these reviews are killing me! i feel like im being thrown around..i read a good one and get verry excited, but then i read a bad one and feel so sad and occasionally very angry! i think im going to have to take a page out of orangeskittles book until i can go see the movie!
"But now the air is filled with confusion. We replace care with illusion."
#96Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 7:15pm
This is the "review" from In Touch magazine. It's clearly not a review - but by their standards, it could certainly quality as one:
"IT'S TRULY A CELEBRATION OF LIFE
The long awaited movie version of the musical about a ragtag group of New York City bohemians struggling to survive during the '90's AIDS epidemic is both heartbreaking at life-affirming -- you'll be singing as long as you wipe away your tears. In one of the only two main roles not given to the original stage cast, Rosario Dawson is ravishing and raw as Mimi, an HIV-positive exotic dancer."
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#97Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 7:20pm
WOW. These reviews... from all the mixed responses fellow BWW members have been sharing (I loved the movie, personally), I'd been expecting something similar from the critics. So far, the reviews have been pretty damn positive.
That makes me extremely happy for everyone involved.
"Oh, good. After all, I can rub my stomach and pat my head at the same time, and I can do it with my eyes closed while whistling 'The Entertainer.' That's rhythm for you."
~ Snaps, proving that White Boys CAN have rhythm
art2
Stand-by Joined: 8/10/05
#98Thumbs
Posted: 11/20/05 at 7:22pm
Craig,
This isn't a game, it's a serious issue. If anyone thinks it's trivial, it's you. You made some atrocious analogies on the other thread, essentially comparing gay male love to things that are immaterial. If anyone's not taking it seriously, it's you.
I maintain my position which is also shared by members of the gay community. The gay male presentation is a sham that has been sterilized for mass homophobic public consumption. The gay female presentation has been sexed up for the straight porn crowd. It's a Bohemian travesty as Butler put it.
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