RENT MOVIE LOVE THREAD — Page 2

awww, did Wax Lion just ask me out on a date?

Now I'm picturing myself sharing a table at some place I don't know exists with a four-inch-tall Wax Lion. (Why does Caliente Cab sound so familiar?)

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I'm underage, silly. We can share a soda, though! You can even sit in my lap.

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I have a comfy lap!

This will be fun. It'll be so... romantic?

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*gasp!*

How scandalous.

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this is hilarious


yo lion dude ~ don't let em eat cheese! don't even let her get anywhere NEAR cheese! *stern look* but other than that, have a lovely time, dears!

I was hoping to get a date with wax lion also my friend Kyle did..why can't I...lol.. I still love you though wax... By the way to all...I don't know if Kyle has posted recently..but he is doing fine

Awww, I live right around the corner from that Caliente Cab. They have REALLY good stuff there. :o)

Although the score is still exciting and it was passionately performed, the movie did not work. It had a lot of energy and it was never dull or embarrassing, but it made no sense. It seemed like a disconnected and choppy musical revue with no point. Adam Pascal was a hole on the screen and didn't bring any conviction to his scenes with Rosario Dawson (a sweet and sexy Mimi), so that the central relationship between them never came across. (Example--you didn't want to leave the vulgar, lively "La Vie Boheme" to follow them out into the snow and listen to them whine.) Tracie Thoms has a beautiful, strong voice and a great camera face and she managed a wonderful slow burn in response to the overacted antics of her screen partner, Idina Menzel. (Idina's features are frightening in closeup and she projected WAY too much--I thought she was about to swallow the camera. And why did she perform her first number with her hands folded across her throat--to keep her vocal chords from spilling out?) The rest of the cast was incredible, but there's no escaping the fact that they all looked, not only too old, but too healthy, toned, and well-fed--it was hard to believe any of them were on the verge of death.

In the end, I think this movie will be remembered like the movie versions of "Hair" and "The Who's Tommy" were remembered. All were wildly popular, rule-breaking, trend-setting projects, and all were filmed too late by clumsy, no-longer-hip directors. And all of them retain traces of their original excitement, even though none of them actually works as a movie.

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I loved it.



I saw Wax Lion!

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I loved Adam on Tony today:)....sigh..

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Here's some more RENT! love.

I also noticed Wax Lion.

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Where should I look for wax lion specifically? I'm not terribly observant =)

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I loved it. The performers were all great. My only complaints are about the adaptaton: I missed the big "Christmas Bells" sequence, with everyone singing simultaeuosly leading up to Maureen's entrance, and I wish they had not cut the lines about Benny paying for Angel's funeral. It added some depth to Benny's character.