Wll RENT be huge or just a cult hit in theaters?

what do you think? at first i was thinking itll be huge. then i thought cult hit. but now i see how well it is advertising in magazines, trailers are already playing on the WB, people i know have seen the trailer in theaters and on TV and said that looks really good. i think if they keep advertising it might do pretty well (knock on wood.) any thoughts?

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Updated On: 10/21/05 at 09:36 PM

I honestly think its too early to tell, still. The way its being advertised is suggesting for it to become more of a blockbuster then a cult classic but again, I think its really hard to give a good educated assumption before it comes out. I mean no one can predict how the audience in general will react to it until it comes out in theatres. Anyways thats just my thoughts on it. I hope it does well of course, although I think it'd be interesting if it became a sort of cult hit.

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Mayhaps it will be a reg. hit and achieve cult status over time.

Ja

mmmm... I'll guess that it will do poorly, but it's just a guess. if it catches on that's great. but, I don't think it will be a hit with mainstream moviegoers.

The scene above alone will be worth the price of admission and have audiences running back for second, third, fourth and fifth helpings!

ugh, it's perfect!

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I hope it will be a hit. I've had a lot of theater and non-theatre people come up and try to inform me that the RENT movie is coming out.

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I love that pic too. I am obsessed with the... SIGHT of Rosario in this role. If only she could have more numbers that required her to be in that mood. (On DVD, this will probably be my "Both Reached for the Gun" - aka scene that I play so often that I wear out the DVD and have to buy a new one.)

It would really be nice if RENT were a hit.

...But only time will tell, really.

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Updated On: 10/21/05 at 10:12 PM

^^ BWW IGNORAMUS #2

well, Marquise, I don't respect anyone who disrespects others for such witless and deficient reasons. If you truly believed that the film was going to be some kind of box office smash I don't think you would have felt the need to criticize my opinion. I'm just sayin'.

The truth is that films that, besides dealing with some universal issues (that could certainly be its strongest part) also deal with such dated themes, characters and places, in my most humble opinion, should be made when the shows they are based on are at their peak, when everyone is still talking about them eveywhere and can enhance their impact on their audiences.
Generations certainly have changed since Rent was conceived, and this film feels to me more like a tribute to the success it was (and a last kick to exploting its financial possibilities), than the interesting and somehow relevant show it was almost a decade ago.

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Updated On: 10/21/05 at 10:40 PM

But CATS you've proven time and time again that witless and deficient are the hallmarks of your creed.

You can dish it out but ya can't take it, huh?

I'm just sayin'.