RENT: Live from Broadway (Film) - Thoughts — Page 4

Man oh man... just got back from seeing it. I'll say this much... life would surely have been different had the 2005 version been scrapped and this brought to film. WONDERFUL film, I have to say. Absolutely WONDERFUL. This is how RENT should have been brought to the screen (and I'm very much so a fan of the 2005 film).

Quick note: "In The Streets" was absolutely fabulous, and was the stand out for me (along with "Will I?" and "Contact.") The ensemble numbers were so beautifully edited and crafted that it completely made me forget that I was watching a stage show.

I wonder if this might be considered for an Academy Award nomination for editing. What's it's eligibility?

yes they did fix the audio and change some notes...

this is Tracie's blog...

Thursday, September 25, 2008

After seeing the Cinecast again last night...

It's so damned GREAT!!! The changes they made are still in there, though. It's more common in the second half than the first. But, seeing it again and knowing that there were changes, I was able to hear what actually WAS there instead of cringing because things were different. Does that make sense? Most of the changes aren't even noticeable. I don't want to taint your experience or stop people from LOVING it, because it is exhilarating to see! You'd only know they were changed if you REALLY know the music.

What they did in TMOLM (so you know), is change my "You're one lucky..." to some strange lower note, and then it pops up suddenly to the note I actually do sing on "...baby!" It sounds like a glitch in the movie...it just sounds strange for a second, then it goes back to normal until another odd note comes out on "Can't live..." (before "with them or without them") They just changed the harmony and made my note, again, lower than the note I actually sing. Again, over in a second. The rest of it is pretty much right.

So, the moments of wrongness are VERY brief, and are even more brief in the other instances of alteration. They straightened out some really great riffs and variations that people did that sadly no one will be able to hear unless they came to the show or if they change it back for the DVD. And some of the "flat" notes that people have reported hearing have actually been altered TO those "flat" notes. Weird. And the sync is off from time to time...Just little things here and there that seemed HUGE to me the first time I saw it.

Having said that, it is really A-F*CKING-MAZING!!!!! The movie was so much more enjoyable to me the second time knowing what to expect. And I thought it was pretty damned great the first time, I was just shocked by the changes and then angry. But even then I could recognize it was great. But after last night, I think it's ****ing brilliant. My cast mates are so damned talented it's embarrassing. So, no fear! It's WONDERFUL!!!!! ENJOY!!!!

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I found Will's eyeliner and nailpolish a bit distracting (I've never seen the man before - Utah gal here)

Have you seen ANY Roger before? From the beginning, Roger's costume has always included eyeliner and black nail polish- movie included.

Remember all the hemming and hawing while they were filming the movie, how they had to edit the lyrics because if you say f*ck more than 3 times, it's automatically rated R. And yet here it is, libretto in-tact with even more ad-libbed swears and still rated PG-13. F*CK you, Columbus.

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It was fantastic! I hated Rent for a long time because I was sick of people thinking it was the second coming of Christ, but this restored by liking. It is a great performance.

Remember all the hemming and hawing while they were filming the movie, how they had to edit the lyrics because if you say f*ck more than 3 times, it's automatically rated R. And yet here it is, libretto in-tact with even more ad-libbed swears and still rated PG-13. F*CK you, Columbus.

My ticket says it's unrated.

I thought they did a great job with it. In my opinion it was perfect. The only thing I did not like was the audience clapping.

I saw it today and thought it was so much better than I expected! I have only seen the movie and have been wanting to see it live for so long. This is the closest I may get to ever seeing live and it was a million times better than the movie! I feel like they left out so much in the movie... I loved the high-def presentation too. Definitely will be buying the DVD when it comes out.

The way I justified the 20 dollars ticket was to pretend I was at the Arclight in Los Angeles where most tickets are 14.

I also snuck into 4 more movies after the showing, so it was like I was paying just 4 bucks a movie.

What does that even mean???

Wonderful. Mine looks exactly the same except it says NR. And of course the theatre name is different at the top. It's got to just be a default rating given by the theatre. Events of this type are hardly ever rated and given the fact that it actually costs the studio additional money to get an official MPAA rating I highly doubt they would have spent the additional cash on four viewings of a Broadway musical. Although, it's great news for future projects to assume the theatres will just give movies an unofficial rating. It's kind of illegal. You'll also notice on a quick search of the MPAA website that they've only rated the Rent film.

Not sure why AMC listed a rating, but it was NOT rated. Perhaps their system was reusing the original RENT film information. A quick look at filmratings.com (the official ratings board website) only turns up ratings for the 2005 film.

If they had submitted it to the Ratings Board that big naked ass of Eden Esperanto would have gotten it an NC-17.

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