Worst Filmed Musical of 2005 (RENT 90210?)

Who cares how old they are/look!! GOSH! If these dumb critics would step back and look at the message of the film instead of focusing on minute, irrelevant details maybe they would learn a thing or two!

If you see the movie and have a good time, that's all that counts. No need to nit-pick.

I completely agree that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but how you form your opinion makes a difference. I mean, dislike it because you don't like the music, you don't like the story, you thought it was boring....whatever, but to write it off because the actors don't look young enough....that seems a little shallow to me. But, who am I? Ha.

Not everyone knows Rent inside/out, or humps their OBC of Rent daily. There is a difference between being informed and over informed. You can't fault someone for not devoting their entire existence to one overrated show.

You also can't fault someone for the aesthetic they use to analyze a film. I know lot's of people who thought the age of the actors got in the way of the telling of the film. It didn't bother me, but I can see how it could bother someone.

Point is, rentheads just can't take criticism. You'll find any excuse to tear apart someone's opinion on the show, to rip apart their credibility before trying to understand where their opinion is coming from. Your love of the show has clearly blinded you from finding much flaw in the film, the show, or the performances, and instead, you'd rather belittle a journalist than face up that their opinion might actually be grounded in reality.

Nobody criticized Rent when it came out, because that would have been insensitive, given the circumstances. But time has passed, and Rent is finally being exposed for its faults, which I personally think, are numerous.

Close enough. You all like the same 6 shows.

The direction of the stage Rent is even worse than the direction of the film. Truly awful.

"The direction of the stage Rent is even worse than the direction of the film. Truly awful."

No.

"Even those considered masterpieces have flaws here and there.
I actually think that acknowledging the show's weaknesses is very important."

Obviously if you look at Rent from a directorial/fundamental standpoint, it is among the worst films created, but I think Chris C. did a pretty good job considering what he had to work with. I mean, it wasn't written for the screen and doesn't translate very well. If I wasn't familiar with it, I would probably just laugh.

I just think sung-through musicals will never work on film. They end up being a long, long music video.

Film is much kinder to more traditional musicals.

"They end up being a long, long music video."

Yes. Exactly how my friend described it: "This is just one long a$$ music video."

As a lurker here what I've observed if that most fans of the show and/or the movie don't get really defensive unless people start threads or post things just for the sole purpose of pushing buttons. BwayStar maybe if you actually posted an argument instead of flamebait you would get a reasonable debate.

>>I just think sung-through musicals will never work on film. They end up being a long, long music video.


What's wrong with that? There are many ways it could have been approached, but Columbus has said in various forms that they want to appeal to (or 'not ignore' basically) the teens of today who would be seeing it. The older generations presumably have the show in their hearts at best, or merely in their consciousness at worst just from it being around for 10 years. The young kids of today had very little exposure to the show and story, or themes and subject matters, and by default their exposure to tv/film/video in general is very fast-paced, music-video style production. They're used to it and the rest of us who are older simply relate to it (or not) on perhaps a deeper level (or should I say less surfacial level) because of age or life experience. It seems a great effort was made to adapt to all the audiences who would have the potential to appreciate it in any way.

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