Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office — Page 4

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it is all about persepective. we live in a very critical world, and being actors, directors, writers, artists we are even more critical. (add gay to that equation and forget about it).

You can choose to constantly look at the flaws of things and never truly be happy, or just accept things. As Anthony said yes there are flaws, yes things could have been different. But RENT was made, it has most of the original leads, it has a lot of the music, I could not be happier. At the end during finale b, i thought of Jonathan and that these people who he helped choose for his work, were now honoring him in this film, and i teared up. Sometimes you jsut go to look at the bigger picture in everything. You can learn alot about people from these boards and to be honest there are some who I don't think I could ever be friends with in "Real" life beacuse they are constantly negative and criticising everything. Hey I got my mom and dad for that. :)

I just love that this cliff has now been officialized with capital letters.

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The Cliff and The Eyebrow

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I told my mom about the cliff before the movie and after we saw it I asked her what she thought about it. She had no idea what I was talking about - she said she was so absorbed in everything that was going on that she didn't even think twice about the cliff.

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I must admit, I only noticed it because of the spoof icons that have been popping up on lj.

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Yeah, there was a lot more random laughter in the all-fan midnight showing than there's been at either of the other two. I think it's just because they're almost like inside jokes to us that we notice them so much.

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>>>According to Variety, it came in at #4, playing at about 800 fewer theaters then the ones in front of it.

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (WB) 3,858 $81.4
2. Walk the Line (FOX) 3,138 $27.6
3. Yours, Mine and Ours (PAR) 3,206 $24.5
4. Rent (SONY) 2,433 $18.1
5. Chicken Little (BV) 3,475 $16.7<<<

Those are the 5-day weekend totals. The 3-day weekend totals show Chicken Little ahead of Rent, which indicates a precipitous business drop as the weekend progressed.

JRB

Not to be bitchy or difficult, but that is a HIGHLY selective critics roundup you've compiled there. Average grade a B? C'mon be fair......

Rottentomatoes rates it 51% Fresh (with 57 positive and 55 negative reviews). Among the top critics and major papers ("The Cream of the Crop") it's rated just 43% Fresh including all sorts of bad reviews you omit -- LA Times, Variety, The Village Voice, Washington Post, NY Daily News, Village Voice, Denver Post, Newsday, LA Daily News......

MetaCritic is about the same, rating the film a 54 (out of a 100) overall, based solely on 33 major publications.

Fan or not, you should try to be honest and accurate. I do review threads for all the Broadway openings and I characterize and excerpt each and every review as fairly as possible, regardless of whether I agree with them or not (and I often don't). I also don't omit the ones I disagree with.

You loved the movie. Most of the major critics didn't. So what? Does it mean they're right and you're wrong? No, of course not. So, be fair about it. For one thing, it helps explain the disappointing box office numbers. If the major critics all gave the film a B on average as you suggest, then it would be really puzzling why the film didn't attract more audiences. But looking at the actual numbers, the film did much better than your typical movie that scores a 54 with the major critics and shows the deep level of fan support the material has regardless of critical opinion.

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Fantastic post, Anthony.

I'll admit, I did giggle a little at Roger on The Cliff. I loved every other Santa Fe shot(even the driving and the hairblowing :)). The cliff I think only made me giggle because Roger was wearing a pretty white shirt, and in my mind I saw more of Roger standing on The Cliff in a ripped up black tshirt or something more Roger-esque. However, after the inital giggle, the shot was still beautiful. That cliff was amazing.

That being said- I've heard quite a few people nitpicking every little tiny thing in the movie, and its really annoying. Any little moments I did not like were heavily outbalanced by everything else which I loved and the raw emotion in the film.

Its not perfect. But neither is life. Therefore, its better for the film to not be perfect.

I don't know, I cracked up everytime a "Speeeeak" scene came up.

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wow im so behind on this thread, but:

that was so well put Anthony! when critics and people are totally cynical to the piece, it really bothers me. i hate when they say its "dated" because drug use and HIV/AIDS is just as big a problem today. its almost as if they insult jonathans work when they say that. sure the piece was written over 10 years ago, but its so universal that it should apply to any time period. sure its still not the 90s, but the message and effect it should have will last for years to come.

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THAT'S IT!??!?!?!?

Yours, Mine, and Ours did better???

This just goes to show you that people in the United States are stupid...

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