Why Did RENT Flop?

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 7:41pm

By all means I am no RENT head, I'v only seen half of the movie, and never seen it on stage.

Anyways, I checked boxofficemojo.com and it said the production cost of RENT was 40 million and it made only 29 in the US.

Why do you think it wasn't so successful?

[Liverpool]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 7:41pm

it was a TERRIBLE movie.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 7:42pm

Because it was bloody AWFUL.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 7:44pm

Updated On: 5/3/09 at 07:44 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 7:46pm

Because of all the reasons already mentioned, plus the fact that every single musical number landed with a thud.

And because it's a terrible, awful, vile, scourge of a movie.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 7:46pm

Awful film, but I do enjoy a few of the performances; mainly Rosario Dawson's Mimi.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 8:06pm

I don't care that they totally fixed her voice in a studio. I care that it SOUNDS like they totally fixed her voice in a studio. Every time her pitch is corrected she sounds like a robot.

A robot Mimi would have totally made this movie better.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 8:18pm

Updated On: 5/3/09 at 08:18 PM

[James885]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 8:19pm

Chris Columbus - absolutely the wrong director for the film.

Stephen Chbosky - wrote a horrendous screenplay with terrible dialogue and underdeveloped characters and relationships. I'm an aspiring screenwriter myself and I'm fairly certain that if I were given the same amount of time, resources, etc, that Chbosky had, I could probably turn out much better screenplay that would do justice to the material.

The original Broadway cast - much as I love them, many of their performances simply didn't translate to film. Some came across as too old. I think they should have done the film with a cast of age appropriate fresh faced actorsa and actresses.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 8:27pm

Updated On: 5/3/09 at 08:27 PM

[James885]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 8:33pm

Point taken, LePetiteFromage! In the hands of a more compentent director and a better screenplay maybe they would have knocked it out of the park the way they did on stage.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 8:33pm

Where's WHITEBOYSPICE when we need him?

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 8:35pm

Updated On: 5/3/09 at 08:35 PM

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 8:53pm

He's reading this thread right now, I bet.

[jv92]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 9:57pm

CAUSE IT SUCKED!
Updated On: 7/3/08 at 09:57 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 10:21pm

The movie had its moments, but overall it was tacky. They may have had something if they'd stuck more closely to the Broadway script and eliminated any shots of characters singing on bikes, subways or mountaintops.
Updated On: 7/3/08 at 10:21 PM

[itCouldBeWorse]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 10:30pm

another rent thread, nice

This Thread Has Officially Been Menzeled







Updated On: 7/3/08 at 10:30 PM

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 10:34pm

Maybe it was ONLY mean't to be a play.

[heathurrr]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 10:42pm

itcouldbeworse, by the power vested in me by spellingbeefan4ever: I LuPwn you. My first one.

You are stupid and ripping us off.

Updated On: 7/3/08 at 10:42 PM

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 10:44pm

Great job on your lupwning debut. How'd it feel?

[itCouldBeWorse]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 10:45pm

Heaturr and SpellingBeeFan Have Just Been Menzeled

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:11pm

Updated On: 5/3/09 at 11:11 PM

[cfmiller]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:31pm

Chris Columbus wasn't sastified with taking all the fun out of the Harry Potter films, so he decided to drop a big turd on this movie as well.

Why do people still let him behind a camera.

Oh, what might have been.

[2gay2fUnctioN]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:32pm

Heaturr and SpellingBeeFan Have Just Been GROFFED!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 12:42am

"This lot is full of artists!"