Rent

[sweetnpetite]

Anyone seen it?

Anyone want to?/Planning too?

It doesn't seem like a traditional Christmas movie, but trust me, at heart it is. It is so beautiful and life affirming. I encourage anyone to go and see it as many times as they can.


Objectionable Content- See Rent!


WARNING! There are gays, lesbians and cross dressers galore! There are druggies and slackers and artists quite poor! There are people with AIDS, if you can handle that fact. And a bunch of folks completly unrepentant for the way that they act. It's funny, it's sad, all set to music, it's truly obscene. It's liberal, it's queer, it's Sodom and Gomorrah depicted on the big screen.1 It's about living each day, knowing it could be your last; and setting aside the future and the past; it's about no day but today, and love straight and gay, and friendships through hardship and holding your principals fast, about not selling out though your hungry and cold, and knowing that you won't live to get old. A lot of people this idealism will offend, to say otherwise, I won't even pretend. But if you are a sinner like me, this movie is truly one you must see.





1. From a review on Amazon

If you've seen the movie or the play, I'd love to hear your comments. Well, if they are negative comments, you have every right to make them (free speach and all) but I won't actually love to hear them

 

[Liar]

Saw it on stage a while ago. Pretty good stuff, and I really like the score, (except that the theatre that played it didn't have the acoustics for it). It didn't feel very controversial to me though. All the ohmigod-ness of the gay or the AIDS issue don't really pack a punch over here. So it was just a story of some human fates. But a well told one at that.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Saw it on stage a while ago. Pretty good stuff, and I really like the score, (except that the theatre that played it didn't have the acoustics for it). It didn't feel very controversial to me though.

Yeah, well that's just because we're so open minded.

Here's a great review for it-

Should be retitled TRASH, December 6, 2005
Reviewer: Find America "USAguy" (san diego, CA) - See all my reviews

It's about a group of ultra-libral, ultra-gay, ultra-poverty, useless, low-lifes who hate everything that doesn't originate from the gutter and believe if everyone just sat around singing Kum-bay-ya and stuck needles in their arms while they have public homosexual sex the world would be a better place........oh, and it's all set to music!

2 1/2 hours of depressing trash....by the end of the movie I was hoping they all would jump off the building that they lived in and never pay RENT !

and another:

UUHHHGGGG!!!!, December 11, 2005
Reviewer: Sarah (Washington State) - See all my reviews

This movie was nothing short of distastful and disgusting. There were children in the theatre for goodness sake! The amount of sexuality and drug use portrayed in this film should have warrented AT LEAST an "R" rating! If not "X".

We're talking EXPLICIT strip club scenes, syringes, transvestites, heavy GRAPHIC drug usage, sexual situations, death, and VERY foul language.

Adults can subject themselves at their own will, but children should NOT be allowed to see this in the theatres. I am sure many regretful parents have gotten out of their seats mid-film, to remove their now-scarred children from this hell-hole of a movie. They go in with the intention of educating their children both culturally and socially with a Broadway musical, and come away trying to explain how people can possibly justify such deranged and behavior.

I understand the value it holds in terms of awareness for both AIDS and homosexuality. Both topics are important for people to be educated about. The manner in which the storyline was performed, however, was a bit much. People should be able to know what they are getting themselves into when they purchase a movie ticket. Several co-workers of mine feel the same way. They had no idea what they were going to see in this movie. The previews and trailers were VERY misleading!

This is Sodom and Gomorrah depicted on the big screen. Difficult topics are shoved in your face in a VERY disgusting manner.

 

[sweetnpetite]

It didn't feel very controversial to me though.

Me either. I would love for my children to see this movie. The only part that maybe I would cringe at them seeing is Mimi's dance, but they's see just about the same thing if they watched the video for "Honky Tonk Bedonkadonk" (for a booty song, the video sure has enough crotch shots )

 

[Guest]

It's not a show for children. What moron would take young children to see a show or movie they themselves hadn't researched? The Broadway version has been around for awhile.

Here's a basic plot synopsis.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme (HIV is the affliction here instead of tuberculosis) RENT tells the story of one year in the life of friends living the Bohemian life in modern day East Village New York. Among the group are our narrator nerdy love struck filmmaker Mark; the object of his affection his former lover, Maureen; Maureen's Harvard educated public interest lawyer lesbian lover Joanne; Mark's roommate HIV+ former junkie, Roger; Roger's lover the HIV+ drug addicted S&M dancer, Mimi; their former roommate HIV+ computer genius Tom Collins; Collins' HIV+ drag queen street musician lover Angel; and Benjamin Coffin III a former member of the group who married money and has since become their landlord and the opposite of everything they stand for. RENT shows how much changes or doesn't change in the 525,600 minutes that make up a year.

Broadway Show - Rent
David Nederlander Theatre - Opening Night April 29, 1996
Tony Nominations 10 - Tony Awards 4
Author(s) Music & lyrics by Jonathan Larson; book by Jonathan Larson
Director Michael Greif
Leading Original Cast Members Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal


It is an excellent show and the music is truly incredible.

 

[sweetnpetite]

It's not a show for children. What moron would take young children to see a show or movie they themselves hadn't researched? The Broadway version has been around for awhile.

It is an excellent show and the music is truly incredible.

I think people forget that PG13 means *parental guidance* for those over 13- which means you have to use your discression. Everyone seems to think that PG13 means it's not objectionable. So many people were complaining that it should have been rated R. I guess everyone assumes that the rating system is just going to do the parenting for them They think that if it's not R rated then they can just go in and expect it to be as completely innocent and non-offensive as a G rated movie.

That being said, I would have no objection to my children seeing the movie. In fact, I would love for them to watch it, and the I would be available to answer any questions they had about it afterwards. I think they would really enjoy it. We watched Mean Girls before Christmas (home video) and it was far more objectionable and with less redeaming value. I'd rather my kids watch something objectionable with substance than innofensive empty junk.

Well, they do watch empty junk, but we have to ballance it out a bit