When the movie first came out I loved it. Now, two years and two visits to the Nederlander later, I can truly appreciate how bad this movie is.
Very little works on screen,
The book is just awful, all of the dialogue is actually bad enough to make me cringe.
Angel hears
coughing, of all things, in a dark alleyway and decides she neesd to investigate? Come on...
Roger and Mark are freezing in the loft so they burn their trash for the sole purpose of tossing it into the street.
April dies of AIDS, instead of suidice (which would have been a much better excuse for Roger to come across as such a whiny bitch IMO)
The mooing did
not work at all.
There's no need to go into What You Own.
But the worst mistake I think Columbus made was cutting the last 2/3 of Goodbye Love. They're all in the graveyard, and everyone's sad and boohoo, and then suddenly Roger's off driving in the desert? There was really no context as to why he left, and why he decided to go
there. Cutting that and Halloween also dramatically reduced Mark's character. Without those scenes, he is still just the narrator. He's completely one-dimensional.
Despite the overwhelming amount of flaws, I do enjoy watching the film. It's nice to see most of the original cast together, even if they're much too old for their roles. This film is what introduced me to the rest of musical theater, and it will always hold a special place in my heart (aww...)
Does the sun really rise in the east?
Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
What's real to me ain't real to everyone.
