I, also, can't stop watching the trailer.

The odd thing about Rent, (for me, anyway) is that I never realized I knew the music until I started listening to the showtnes channel on launch. "Season's of Love" came on and I just knew it. Sang the whole damn thing at my desk and then looked to see which show it was from. I was totally surprised to see that it was Rent. And why would I know it? Never saw it, didn't own the music. Then it occured to me. When my best friend and I lived together, it was ALL. SHE. LISTENED. TO. For a year and a half. It's amazing what sinks in and stays.

Yet, the Pythagoren Theorem? I always have to seriously think about.

Last night I watched Far From Heaven. It was pretty, pretty, pretty, just as I expected, but I also liked it quite a bit, which I wasn't quite expecting.

From what I'd heard, I was expecting to find it gorgeous, but slightly boring.

I enjoyed Donnie Darko. It also rather made sense to me (I saw the director's cut, though, which may have influenced that).

Not particularly liking Rent, I have no thoughts on the film adaptation, apart from that overly sentimental seems like not the way to go with it, if you want to retain any of the "street cred" the show has.

I don't know; the show's kind of overly sentimental itself. It could work.

I did not explain sufficiently, I think. IMO, there is enough sentimentality inherent in the story, that adding it in with the direction takes the show from "touching, but relatable", to eye-rolly Hallmark.

Ah. Point taken and agreed with.

I just saw this on a friend's blog:

Orders 1 through 65 
1 - Tuna Salad sandwich. Lightly toasted.
2 - Shine boots.
3 - Brush your teeth and go to bed.
4 - Coffee. Sugar. No cream.
5 - Clean blaster.
6 - Move in an unnaturally fluid CGI manner.
7 - Stop removing your helmet.
8 - Consider, but do not perform, self castration.
9 - Do something to set yourself apart from the crowd.
10 - Get back with the crowd, mister.
11 through 56 - Create gigantic circular man-ass-daisy-chain sandwich. 
Remember - making love to your clone does not make you gay. Just vain. 

57 - Perform self castration.
58 - Stop and smell the flowers.
59 - Tell a stranger "hello" today.
60 - Coffee. Cream. No sugar.
61 - Around the survivors, a perimeter create.
62 - Coffee. Black.
63 - Coffee. Two sweet-n-lows. No cream.
64 - Coffee. One equal. Extra cream. The fatty stuff too, not that
coffee-mate shit.
65 - Pretend that everything is fine with the Jedi. We're all one big 
happy family. 

Is it just me or, movie being what it is aside, do the television commercials for RotS just suck? I mean, not a lot to work with, but they seem very very bad.

I agree, Aimee. They're very "here are four second shots of everyone you'd recognize from this movie, to remind you why you SIMPLY MUST see it." (Because of the pretty.)

I think it's because if they tried to cobble any amount of plot together into a 30-45 second spot, you'd just come away with a feeling of WTF?

I saw Mysterious Skin today. It was even more hard-hitting than I'd expected. Very well-done and totally gut-wrenching. While I thought it was a good movie, I don't know that I'll need to see it again. It was pretty tough.

I wonder about the parents of kid actors who put their young children in roles like the ones in Mysterious Skin. I'm not sure what I think, but it certainly feels wrong when you see it. See also Jena Malone in Bastard Out of Carolina .

It was weird seeing little Dawnie running around saying fuck and being involved with a young hustler.