I didn't understand the fuss over the Broadway Musical and I don't understand this film. Does anyone realize that the whole mess is lacking in credibility? Why should anyone let Bohemians live rent free in New York? Why should anyone live rent free? And who are these people? These characters aren't developed. They are simply the drag queen, the lawyer lesbian, the performance artist lesbian, the rock singer and why should we care about them? Simply because the majority is HIV positive?
I think it's great that there are inter-racial couples and lesbians with the same jealousy problems as heteros. I think it's great that there is an interacial gay couple. I think it's great that the well to do black family sponsored a commitment ceremony for their lesbian daughter. But these characters are not developed and I care not a wit for any of them.
The music is bland and uninspired. The choreography with one exception worse. The only number that worked was the dream sequence of the Maureen Tango. It went escapist like Chicago andthere was a moment I though it was going to take off. Then it crashed landed in vapid gritty reality called Rent.
As for honesty, the only honest moment in the film when after a fight between Maureen and Joanne, Maureen's Mom comments to her ex-boyfriend "Now you two can get back together?" It was also the only funny moment.
There is all that to do about Mimi breaking into the rock musicians window. She sluttily tries to seduce him and he puts her off and throws her out. Then he apologizes to everyone around him for being such an asshole last night. Well... some slutty woman breaks into your house and offers you sex and you say no and you have to apologize?? And not just to her, but to your roommate? Get real!
Then Mimi seems to die but comes back to life because she as she says, she saw the light and the drag queen Angel was there and he told her to go back to the boy who was singing. Hokey.
Then the drag queen dies and I feel nothing for him. I don't know him. He is a character (like all of them) that is undeveloped. Then I have to hear each person give a eulogy to this undeveloped character. Vapid and hokey.
And that is the problem. For all it's supposed gritty realism, it's not really. Your'e HIV positive and so am I; let's fall in love. Isn't that just vapid!
When i think of Rent, only one word comes to mind. Vapid. Oh and Hokey.
I think it's great that there are inter-racial couples and lesbians with the same jealousy problems as heteros. I think it's great that there is an interacial gay couple. I think it's great that the well to do black family sponsored a commitment ceremony for their lesbian daughter. But these characters are not developed and I care not a wit for any of them.
The music is bland and uninspired. The choreography with one exception worse. The only number that worked was the dream sequence of the Maureen Tango. It went escapist like Chicago andthere was a moment I though it was going to take off. Then it crashed landed in vapid gritty reality called Rent.
As for honesty, the only honest moment in the film when after a fight between Maureen and Joanne, Maureen's Mom comments to her ex-boyfriend "Now you two can get back together?" It was also the only funny moment.
There is all that to do about Mimi breaking into the rock musicians window. She sluttily tries to seduce him and he puts her off and throws her out. Then he apologizes to everyone around him for being such an asshole last night. Well... some slutty woman breaks into your house and offers you sex and you say no and you have to apologize?? And not just to her, but to your roommate? Get real!
Then Mimi seems to die but comes back to life because she as she says, she saw the light and the drag queen Angel was there and he told her to go back to the boy who was singing. Hokey.
Then the drag queen dies and I feel nothing for him. I don't know him. He is a character (like all of them) that is undeveloped. Then I have to hear each person give a eulogy to this undeveloped character. Vapid and hokey.
And that is the problem. For all it's supposed gritty realism, it's not really. Your'e HIV positive and so am I; let's fall in love. Isn't that just vapid!
When i think of Rent, only one word comes to mind. Vapid. Oh and Hokey.