Dont you hate... (RENT related)

To a degree, yeah..it's annoying, but if people are excited about this film, and if it resonates with people...then I say that's great. Perhaps they'll even look into discovering more theatre.

No, thats not bothersome in the slightest but I mean like really, really REALLY random people in my school have decided to act like they loved RENT from the beginning and I doubt theyve even listened to any songs from the soundtrack besides hearing snippets of Seasons of Love here and there or seeing the 45 second (or whatever) long trailers on TV twice and suddenly, theyre RENT fanatics.

Updated On: 11/15/05 at 07:27 PM

i have the same gripe. although i have yet to have the chance to go to New York to see it, i've been aware of the show since i saw it on the Rosie show. My sister (who is 6 years older than me) likes to pretend that she's all about theatre when she knows jack **** about anything when it comes to theatre. This is the same girl who thinks Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dream Coat (THE MOVIE!!) is the best musical ever. it makes me want to smack people!

Well, I love my OBC. ::cuddles:: I've never seen it though, but I have had the cast recording for a long time.

I was very happy that there is going to be (well, now is) a movie, because I never even *saw* anything. (I do have things made up in my mind to go along with the songs. It's not too hard to get the picture of the scene. I just look at the pictures. For example, when Anthony sings the line "to more than one dimmension", I always imagine him doing an "almost crossing knees" thing. Hehehe)

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yea i have to agree with you....some of my friends in school arn't even into musical theater and they are like "OMG RENT!"...uhhh yea i just wanna say "SHUT UP! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT'S ABOUT?!" yea i definitly agree with you...I've loved this show from the beginning too and i'm soo excited about the movie, and sometimes when i'm singing a song from RENT they try to chime in...haha...so funny they don't know the words at all...and yea it really annoys me!

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Hahaha xM3L24x!!!

Glad to hear Im not the only one...

And what irks me even more is that these people who have RENT quotes on their awaymessages go to a Lyrics website, click on RENT, find lyrics they like that will make them look cool and make it their away message. Theres no reason or context to why they chose the quotes. Its just to say "HEY MOTHERF*CKERS I CANT WAIT FOR THE RENT MOVIE" when they dont know anything about it. If you went up to every single one of these people and asked them who Jonathan Larson was, I could tell you right now, theyd have no idea. Odd for people who consider themselves such big RENT fans. Ask them what two cast members are new to the movie. Theyll have no freakin' clue. Ask them almost ANYTHING about Rent, and I can honestly tell you they won't know. Now, lets step out of the "box" of RENT and move into musical theater history. Ask them who Michael Bennett is. Or Bob Fosse. Or Stephen Sondheim. They will have no clue.

If theres one thing I hate, its posers. GAHHH!!

Updated On: 11/15/05 at 07:47 PM

i got a few of my friends into the show--the other day my friend jessica was telling me how chanukah was after christmas this year (shes jewish, i'm catholic) and how i should come over and light the candles with her--shes like "hey mel, just like the song! we can sing it, i know you'll want to" made me laugh.

No- the more people who are exposed to Rent and Broadway, the better. If this movie incites a curiosity about theater, I welcome any interest.

Most of the new fans were probably between the ages of 5-10 when Rent first came out, so being a fan since the beginning was probably not feasible given the show's material.

If theres one thing I hate, its posers.

and scene.

But its not going to ignite any interest in musical theater. Because these people dont give a flying f*** about musical theater and they never will. Theyre just acting like something theyre not for a reason unbeknownst to me. Theyre not curious about theater. Once the movie opens, it'll be like nothing ever happened and theyll forget that they pretended to like RENT.

This BS about these people "dying to see it" is not because theyre intrigued by Broadway or theater. I honestly dont know why but I can say for a fact, at least the people I know, aren't pretending to be RENTheads because of that.

*rolls eyes* You'd think people being excited about this movie would be a positive thing. What's wrong with seeing a trailer and being excited about a film? What...you never saw the trailer for something you knew next to nothing about and you were suddenly excited about it because it looked like something you'd love?

Updated On: 11/15/05 at 07:54 PM

i guess you really wont know until the movie comes out and people see it. I mean I know that with a lot of my friends they knew I loved it and wanted to see it on bway before the movie, so I took them. I'm sure there will be a bunch of people who will want to see the show, as well as a bunch of people who wont.