I'm of mixed feeling regarding Rent. There are parts of the music I love. There are parts of the show I love. There are other parts that I really really don't like, and it totally depends on my mood any particular day whether the good outweighs the bad or not.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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Hil R. - Jun 04, 2005 7:44:17 am PDT #3727 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Jesse - Jun 04, 2005 7:59:32 am PDT #3728 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There are parts of the music I love. There are parts of the show I love. There are other parts that I really really don't like,
Yeah, I agree with you on this, and the combination of the actors being mostly 10 years too old and what I expect from Chris Columbus is what makes me reluctant to recommend the movie to someone who wasn't already conditioned to love it.
Glamcookie - Jun 04, 2005 8:06:18 am PDT #3729 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Loved Donnie Darko. Made no diff that I wasn't quite sure what I was watching initially. Still loved it.
Hil R. - Jun 04, 2005 8:09:21 am PDT #3730 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
and the combination of the actors being mostly 10 years too old and what I expect from Chris Columbus
Yeah, these were both worrying me. From the trailer, the actors don't look quite as old as I was expecting, and I'd say the lower end of the age range most of them look overlaps a bit with the upper end of the reasonable character ages, if just barely. A few interviews I've read with Columbus still have me a bit wary of the second point, though.
Gris - Jun 04, 2005 8:46:19 am PDT #3731 of 10002
Hey. New board.
I love Donnie Darko too. But it definitely makes no sense.
Anne W. - Jun 04, 2005 8:54:17 am PDT #3732 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
If I'm in a better mood tonight, I'll give it a shot.
ION, thanks to participating in a focus group, I just got three free months of Netflix. Whee!
Lyra Jane - Jun 04, 2005 9:12:45 am PDT #3733 of 10002
Up with the sun
Can I ask what's probably a stupid question?
Why do we hate Chris Columbus? Because when I saw his name, I had a vague sense of dread based on half-remembered comments I've heard about him, but then I looked at his iMDb listing and realized that, while he's never made a movie I loved to itty-bitty pieces, most of the films I've seen by him have been competent in a commercial family-oriented way. (I hate the Home Alone films, but I don't think they would have been any good under any director.) I'm not sure how that sensibility will work for Rent, but I don't know enough about directors to know for sure who would have been a better choice.
Apologies for the stoopid.
Hil R. - Jun 04, 2005 9:20:17 am PDT #3734 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
most of the films I've seen by him have been competent in a commercial family-oriented way.
That's pretty much why I didn't think he'd be a good director for Rent. His movies tend to be, IMO, way overly sentimental. The other recent movies where I remember "Why him?" comments were the first Harry Potter movies, and I think the fear there was that kids in his movies tend to be overly precious in a way that wouldn't really go with a kids book that had some darkness in it.
juliana - Jun 04, 2005 9:45:36 am PDT #3735 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Why do we hate Chris Columbus?
Pretty much what Hil said. He goes for the schlock, and hasn't shown much of a grasp of the darkness in some of the stories he's filmed.
Sean K - Jun 04, 2005 9:57:15 am PDT #3736 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
while he's never made a movie I loved to itty-bitty pieces, most of the films I've seen by him have been competent in a commercial family-oriented way.
I think what bothers me about Chris Columbus' movies is that they are presented as family oriented fare and they have all struck me as portraying some pretty messed family dynamics, as well as presenting really atrocious behavior as a successful problem-solving technique.
Most of his movies have left me feeling quite ill.