#101
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:18pm
I want to hear Snoop Dogg's version.
What can we attribute to the lack of success ? (RENT MOVIE RELATED) — Page 5
#102
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:20pm
katygrace, what do you mean? I love Wax Lion. I was warning him about the hostility Rent cast members have been facing recently, I don't want the same thing to happen.
*listens to Raúl singing "Not While I'm Around"*
*listens to Raúl singing "Not While I'm Around"*
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#103
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:20pm
As to the title of this thread, my reply is silly at heart. The reply my grandmother would give if we said we didn't like lima beans or Postum or anything else she happened to come up with: "You people just don't know what's good."
ETA to respond to orange. I caught those references, dearest. You're so sure our waxy comrade is a cast member, eh? It's intriguing, I'll admit. But the lion is just the lion. Albeit, a seemingly omniscient one.
ETA to respond to orange. I caught those references, dearest. You're so sure our waxy comrade is a cast member, eh? It's intriguing, I'll admit. But the lion is just the lion. Albeit, a seemingly omniscient one.
Updated On: 12/15/05 at 05:20 PM
#104
Posted: 12/15/05 at 9:48pm
Apparently it takes a thousand times repeating before it sinks into some people's heads (Marquise).
And I heart you too (Singingbackup).
And I heart you too (Singingbackup).
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
#105
Posted: 12/16/05 at 12:24am
Okay, I didn't sift through the 5 pages that come before this, but I don't think you can blame timing or the content for the failure of this movie. Look at Brokeback Mountain, a drama about gay cowboys? Yet, its getting all this critical acclaim and all these awards. I don't think "gay people" are such a taboo anymore. Also, the whole debate about how AIDs isn't relevent anymore, there are soooo many movies where the subject matter isn't necessarily relevent on the surface (WWII movies, or movies like MUNICH about stuff that happened awhile ago), the point of a good director is to make things like this relevent. Make it so peopl care about it. The movie got a lot of exposure on national televsion, I just don't think they put the movie out the right time of year. Its not really a "feel good holiday family movie" - it might have worked better in like Febuary or something.
#106
Posted: 12/16/05 at 12:29am
You think Brokeback Mountain isn't getting backlash? Maybe less backlash than acclaim, but there is no way that movie's going to be universally accepted.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#107
Posted: 12/16/05 at 1:13am
How would you measure acceptence? Through profit or through acclaim?
#108
Posted: 12/16/05 at 3:41am
mlsheehan has stated very clearly what I also alluded to in another thread. Perhaps no other release design would have worked better than the mass make-or-break opening-weekend-is-all strategy that the studio used. Still, this approach made little sense for a film without stars based on a hit musical that the majority of filmgoers have never seen nor perhaps even heard of. Had the film opened small, in major cities, then at least it wouldn't be disappearing so quickly. It would almost certainly have had high per screen averages in its first weeks, and perhaps that would have created more of a buzz, keeping it in theaters longer and making it less of an overnight flop.
I read the criticisms of the film and though I can see the points that many people raise, I allowed myself to go with the film, to be swept up in its story, and loved every minute of it. Was I being uncritical? Perhaps so. Or maybe I was just seeing the film the way that the director and stars envisioned when they made it.
I read the criticisms of the film and though I can see the points that many people raise, I allowed myself to go with the film, to be swept up in its story, and loved every minute of it. Was I being uncritical? Perhaps so. Or maybe I was just seeing the film the way that the director and stars envisioned when they made it.
#109
Posted: 12/16/05 at 9:08am
Rentboy, what I mean is that I figure "acclaim" to signify good reviews -- which it's getting because it's a great movie. But do we really think middle America is going to be much more okay with gay cowboys than they might have been with Rent? Certainly not. Great reviews don't mean that people aren't going to be offended and put off by the material, which is very unfortunate; the reviews aren't a universal viewpoint. I think I know what you were getting at with the statement about how the material is not such taboo anymore *because* it's getting all of the awards, etc, but I think that it's far-fetched to assume that that's how everbody feels as measured by the awards -- the that makes sense. I wish it did! Granted that the stellar reviews and all stem from the fact that it's apparently a very well-made movie, which many people don't feel Rent is.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
Updated On: 12/16/05 at 09:08 AM
#110
Posted: 12/16/05 at 10:48am
"I read the criticisms of the film and though I can see the points that many people raise, I allowed myself to go with the film, to be swept up in its story, and loved every minute of it. Was I being uncritical? Perhaps so. Or maybe I was just seeing the film the way that the director and stars envisioned when they made it."
eslgr8, I agree with that statement completely. That's exactly the way I viewed the movie, and why I loved it on such a purely emotional level.
eslgr8, I agree with that statement completely. That's exactly the way I viewed the movie, and why I loved it on such a purely emotional level.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson
#111
Posted: 12/16/05 at 2:50pm
Yes, I believe I also "saw the film the director envisioned when he made it." That was the problem.
It was not a bad movie. There were a thousand and one reasons it wasn't successful, most of which have been aired (the wrong director being paramount). But it didn't cost enough to be a massive flop either. The people who saw it and loved it will treasure it, and the rest of the world will ignore it or forget about it soon enough.
It was not a bad movie. There were a thousand and one reasons it wasn't successful, most of which have been aired (the wrong director being paramount). But it didn't cost enough to be a massive flop either. The people who saw it and loved it will treasure it, and the rest of the world will ignore it or forget about it soon enough.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
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