Entertainment Weekly (the RENT movie)

Ok, I'm sorry but I have to do this. In the new EW they have a little thing on the RENT movie:

Is it just us or are the people behind the film version of RENT actually TRYING to screw it up? When it was announced Chris Columbus would direct the adaption of Jonathan Larson's Tony-winning 1996 musical, we held our tongues-even though HARRY POTTER and HOME ALONE are hardly suitable prep for a show about transvestites, drug users, and faux-hemians. But now that Revolution plans to use OBC members, we must ask: What? Wont casting stage performers a decade too old to play the shows freckless twentysomethings pose a credibillity problum? Next thing we know, they'll say NY will be played by Vancouver.

OK, That REALLY PISSES ME OFF! I hate EW anyways because they DONT know what theatre is. I think making this movie is a mistake, but if they have to do it, do it with the right people (OBC)! I'm sorry to make make another thread about the movie, but I just had to post it to show my fellings about it. DONT kill me for posting this!

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Paying attention to EW's theater opinions is a lot like reading People for the political perspective. Ignore them.

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Thank you for agreeing with me! It makes me feel better. I've had a HORRABLE day by seeing that, and then my friend calls and says that RENT is in Brmingham(sp?)(I live in GA so its pretty close) she says that shes going and wants to see if I want to go and of course I do but my stupied dad says no before I got 3words out! GOD I'M PISSED OFF!

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Oh, Fosse! I'm sorry! Georgia is my HELL!

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What surprises me is the fact that this seems like new news to you. It's been discussed to death on this board for weeks. Is that Georgia that you live in the one in USA or the one in the former USSR?

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I'm gonna refrain from posting my opinions on the Rent movie until it's acutally a done deal and out in theaters. But I wanted to respond to this:

And also the implication that stage performers are not good enough to do film. ::shakes head::

I believe the article quoted said "casting stage performers a decade too old", and didn't say that they weren't good enough to do film because they were stage actors. Just clarifying. In other words, they didn't imply it, you inferred it.

Updated On: 11/6/04 at 03:01 PM

EW doesn't know about theatre. If they did, they'd have theatre in their issue every week! Theatre is entertainment, so why isn't it in there? Becuase they don't know about it!

I never listen to what they say. When the movie comes out and it's amazing, I'll be laughing at them.

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The very fact that the words "stage performers" were in there suggests to me that the wonderful people of EW think there's something that dictates they have to be on stage, not on film. Yes, I could be wrong, but why couldn't they simply be called "actors"?

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They act like they no so much, but they don't! There was like, a page about the Tonys, yet there are pages and pages and pages on the Oscars and Grammys. Then they're like "Oh, this is who we're predicting for the Tonys", and it just pissed me off because they never gave a damn about theatre before! WTF??? Now that they can criticize something, they do it, when they don't know sh*t about it....

Ok, enough of me ranting about EW...

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I think it's ok to cast some of the OBC. For age specific roles, like Mimi and Roger, and I guess Angel (would an older Angel be as much fun to watch?)the OBC shouldn't be cast. They only cast one OBC member for those in that group.

As for the stage actors can't act thing, that's not true at all. Idina Menzel has been in a bunch of movies, and as I'm sure you guys know, she's in a new movie that's coming out soon. Daphne gave a great performance in Wild Things. Adam was good in School of Rock (the little bit of him we saw) and I heard his acting in Temptation was really good. Jesse L. Martin is great on Law and Order. I'm not sure what he's done on the silver screen, but I'm sure it was great. I havn't seen anything Anthony's been in when I knew it was him, so I won't speak about him. (Sorry) As for Taye Diggs, How Stella Got Her Groove Back was a great movie, and he was great in it.

I'm glad that the OBC is in it. I didn't know if it wouild be as good with people who are new to the role. (It would be great as opposed to wonderful.) That's just me though.

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And those are just the active ones from the past few weeks.

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I love the part about "stage performers" - as if what Broadway casts do is something less than acting. Considering the quality of "acting" I see in the movies and TV shows EW worships, that's a pretty damn funny implication.

There is also that little cult classic Dazed and Confused with Anthony.

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