Hmmm, the excuse that Mark and Roger can't sing at each other when all of their scenes have been spoken . . . ummm did they not sing at each other in Rent?
I also think that Goodbye Love absolutely should have stayed. And, quite frankly, I didn't like the way Benny paying for the funeral was filmed, but I think they should have found a way for that to be in there as well. Like others have said it just totally redeems him.
April dying . . . absolutely should have stayed. However, if it were me I never would have showed Roger with her when she found out she had AIDS. I would have showed her with the test results, then I would have zoomed in on the paper and had it splattered with blood and a razor blade fall on it. Have Roger find her and a note, "We have AIDS". Isn't that how the song goes? "His girlfriend April left a note saying we have AIDS before slitting her wrists in the bathroom." What I get from that is that Roger did not know that she (they) had AIDS and found out at the same time that he found his girlfriend dead.
I really did like the alternate ending . . . it got to me a lot more than the one that was left and I did like that it tied in the whole idea of them being on the stage. I think without going back to the stage in the end, them being on the stage in the beginning just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, no matter what reason Columbus gives. That said, I do see how it would confuse people and give them the wrong idea and I'm glad he went with the ending that he did.
Except for the BS excuses I did like the commentary. I cracked up when, during "Santa Fe" Anthony said, wait! See the blonde woman? I was waiting for him to point out more of the mistakes everyone was talking about but since Columbus didn't seem to take it well . . . lol
I loved the documentary and even after two hours I did wish that there was more but . . .
All in all I feel the same as I did after seeing it in theaters. It was good, but could have been better. I'm just glad that we got to see so many of the OBC members in the film. I can only be annoyed about so much of what Columbus did. If someone else had done it who knows who would have been in it!
"I wrote a book: "How to Be Popular". Now I've put together a top ten list of how to help you:
-Elphie, everyday... shower. I mean, who knows? Maybe some of that green is gonna come off!
-Deodorant Elphie. No body likes a stinky witch!
-I think we've covered the hair, we'll get to that.
-Clean underclothes. That's all I'm gonna say.
-Look at your posture. That's no way to be popular!
-Bed made, room straightened. We've done that.
-Colors blended. Oookay.
-But the most important thing to have, to make yourself popular, is to keep your beautiful smile."
~Kristin Chenoweth in her last performance of the song "Popular"
