Anyone here seeing RENT in movie theatres? — Page 3

seeing it tonight, in syracuse... i'm excited. kind of nervous though, don't know why.

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I'm bringing my boyfriend to see it tonight. He's seen the movie, but never the show, so it should be interesting.

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I'm seeing it tonight in San Bruno with someone that has never seen the movie or the show before. We're both looking forward to it!

The friend I am going with saw the original cast and then saw it with me during the 1st national tour. He was impressed with the tour.

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sunday at 12! :)

Seeing it in 45 mins at the Astoria Kaufman theaters

im going there for my birthday party sunday =-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw it last not. In a nutshell, I was not as impressed as I had hoped to be. The film comes off like an MTV video. The cameras were all over the place. Very few times did the camera pull back to let you take in all that was going on in a scene. Instead you got a lot of close-ups of hand gestures, groin thrusts(!), head turns and facial reactions. In my opinion it sucked most of the relationships between characters right out of the show. As for the cast....the show was pretty well sung. A lot of notes that we are used to being held longer are cut short and the show has lost its rock edge. I don't know the names of every cast member but the guy who played Mark (Adam Kantor?) seemed to just walk through his part. Will Chase just had no personality in the part. Ms Goldsberry (Who I saw in Color Purple) while posessing a wonderful voice, was very miscast as Mimi. The two that came off best in the film, in my opinion, were Ms. Espinosa and Ms. Thoms. And I was waiting for mr. Mcelroy to nail I'll Cover You (reprise). He didn't. He has a great voice and I like what he did with a lot of his songs, but the reprise just lacked some passion and was mostly vocal "styling". I could go on, but I won't! If you have not seen it yet, judge for yourself. Also, they gave out survey shhets and one question was where you heard about the film. Other sites were listed but BWW was not. A few of us went to the kids that were handing them out and told them we were writing in this site and checking it off. And at the theater I went to in Denver, it was shown on a smaller screen so we lost about a foot of the film at the top and bottom of the screen. When the movie started, the projectionist did not open the curtains fully so for Act I, we also lost about a foot or two on either side. During intermission I went to a manager and he called the projection booth and we at least got the curtains open fully so we didn't lose that film on the sides. The disappointment of this film actually makes me want to see the upcoming tour even more. I know want to see it onstage so I can take everything in. And I hope they cast some fresh new talent outside of Pascal and Rapp to bring this show back alive. JMOs

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Overall, it was very nice to see and my friend who had never seen Rent, just loved it. Matt Caplan was a slightly better Mark than the last time I saw him, meaning he wasn't entirely offensive, but he's never made the character sympathetic for me. I didn't really care much about Mark the way I did when performed by Rapp or Butz. I do agree that there were simply too many close-ups and shaky-cam shots. It got to the point where it was nearly impossible to tell where people were on the stage and what was going on. It badly needs a re-edit.

At what point did Over the Moon become a hammy vaudeville act? In 1996 and 1997 it certainly wasn't. And I don't remember that in the first national tour. But somewhere along the line on Broadway, it stopped being about Maureen's performance art and morphed into the actress-playing-Maureen's SNL comedy sketch. It's a pity because it was one of my favorite scenes, but now, I can't wait for it to be over. It was better last night than when I saw the show in 2006, but it's still a ridiculous mess.

As far as the experience of seeing it in a movie theatre, it was fun. I wish the volume had been cranked up, however. Everything was basically at the same general conversational level and it lost some of the intensity. But the audience had a good time. They clapped for individual songs just as if they were at the live performance. They clapped along with Seasons of Love, etc. And everyone even sang along in the Seasons of Love reprise after the curtain call.

All in all, it wasn't the best cast I've seen, but far from the worst. It was a good time, but I think I'd rather see the tour, which I believe I will.

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Well, I saw it last night and have no complaints. I thought it was an incredible capture of the show. Even the quick camera shots seem to match the drive I feel when seeing the show live.

I especially loved Life Support/Will I?, Another Day, I'll Cover You and Your Eyes/Finale.

For some reason I thought there were going to be interviews at the end of the show. I thought I read that some where.

We're going tonight at the theater on 86th street. I'm glad to have read such positive reviews. I friend at work got the tickets and I'm so grateful to her since i've been way too busy to get them. In light of how good people are saying this is, I'd be really bummed if I didn't see it.

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