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I was worried about Columbus doing it...no offense to those people who idolize the first two harry potter movies, but I hated what he did with them. He's just not a creative/inventive director...*sigh*

I'm still going to see it tomorrow, of course, but my expectations are not phenominal.

Sigh. I was worried about this. I'm very attatched to Rent. I will probably cry out of sheer frustration with movies in general when I see it.

I keep holding out hope for Columbus and he keeps killing it. I keep saying if he could turn Home Alone into blockbuster, he can direct anything. Teehee, not quite. The first Harry Potter was wonderful. The second was great, but not amazing. Can't really sing great praises for any more of his movies.

I guess I'll just have to hold my breath and wait on Rent.

I just got back from seeing it and I have to say, I didn't think it was that bad. In fact, it was fairly good.

I mean there were parts that I thought could have been better (cutting Goodbye Love was a BAD choice!) but then there were also parts that I thought were done beautiful (La Vie Boheme was better then I ever could have imaging).

It doesn't come CLOSE to the show itself, but it's not a massive mess.

I may not be a Renthead, but I loved the movie. The music was very well done and the director made the film very Bohemian, which I think suits it just fine.

I don't really see why some people hated it. I was in the theater with a lot of Rentheads who sang and danced with the film and loved it as much as I did.

As to the comment made about the 2004's Phantom: It may not have been the best, but it could've been so much worse.

Or maybe I'm just going the be minority who loves this film version. *sigh*

It's probably one of those instances in which once you see the stage version, the movie has no chance. I despised the movie Phantom for many reasons (the main being Gerard Butler's ABSOLUTLELY HORRIBLE performance, yet I digress). I still plan to see the movie on Friday, yet since I have yet to see the stage version, it probably won't be as bad in my eyes. I still plan to see it on stage though.

The test audience must have been full of complete idiots who have no idea how powerful that song is. Probably moviegoers along the lines of Homer Simpson when he was in the test audience for Mel Gibson's Mr Smith Goes to Washington.

I am a complete and total RENThead. I saw it with about 20 other RENTheads. We all loved it. I don't know what you are talking about. It was different from the stage version and there was a little too much dialogue, but it was still amazing! I can't believe you guys didn't like it.

So you had no problem with the fact that the whole movie was basically only montages. The fact that what you own was like a music video separated from the entire movie and was a complete ripoff of the creed video "Arms Wide Open?" You had no problem that it was painful to listen to Menzel go horribly off key and notice that her voice has gotten a lot thinner these days, and she's way too old for the part now? You had no problem with the fact goodbye love was taken out of the film, and for people that have never heard rent or seen rent don't understand the reprise of I should tell you because goodbye love was cut out of the film. You had no problem not knowing that April killed herself? You had no problem that in the movie they were aloowed to hold the service of Angel in the church? There were many things wrong with this movie.