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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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 Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:55 pm Post subject: Rent (The Movie) |
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| Has anyone gone and see this? It was actually pretty good. |
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formerflautist
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| I saw it over a year ago when it came out. It was okay. I thought Rosario Dawson was awful. Her singing was painful. I hated the commitment ceremony. I thought it wasn't necessary. Some of the staging was just off. And they cut out one of the most important scenes by cutting out Goodbye Love. Anyone who knows the musical knows that it's a pivotal moment. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| Isn't this about a guy who lets his friends live rent free for several years in his New York apartment but eventually needs his property to develop it. So instead of the friends thanking him for his kindness and generosity all those years, they treat him like a villain? |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:52 am Post subject: |
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It just came out in Korea, so you must have been seen it outside of Korea then. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes months or years for movies to get here (if at all).
mindmetoo-That is part of the plot, but it is about people struggling with AIDS. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Isn't this about a guy who lets his friends live rent free for several years in his New York apartment but eventually needs his property to develop it. So instead of the friends thanking him for his kindness and generosity all those years, they treat him like a villain? |
Exactly and thank you!! *shakes fist in hearty agreement* That's the story in a nutshell (which is where all good stories come from), MM2, the story so damn many people refuse to see. Poor Benjamin Coffin III -- "Benny" to his selfish, sponging, ungrateful "friends" -- the landlord-entrepreneur, is the tragic hero of the piece for every right-thinking, freedom-loving theatre-goer. The moral of the whole story: No good deed goes unpunished.
Fact: The building is unsafe, the property a wasting asset. Yes, there's a housing problem. And you solve that problem by building safe, rentable, up-market homes, not by perpetuating a lawless, squatting, druggy, untidy, not-up-to-safety-code, cross-dressing counter-culture. That building is filthy, dangerous, weirdo-invested, vermin-infested, and the vermin aren't paying any rent.
Fact: Oh, he "promised" to let them all grow old and smelly in that building rent-free, did he? Got a notarised contract or any sort of written evidence substantiating this claim? .... yeah, didn't think so.
Fact: Benny's gotta eat.
The place has got to be renovated and they've got to scoot. Way it is. I was nearly the "Benny" of my own miniature-scale Rent situation a few years ago. He's my hero. |
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