No Day But Today

[dangermousie]

I saw Rent tonight.

Wow, wow, wow, wow. I laughed, I cried, I got choked up and sometimes, I forgot to breathe at how beautiful it was. It is definitely one of my Top 5 movies of the year.

It just really so full of emotion and energy and sheer joy of being alive and in love and feeling anything really. For a movie that has a large chunk of its

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[minerva_fan]

Thank you for sharing the sweet, sweet Rent-ish Lurve! Fey and I gathered our pennies and went see it yesterday--my sweetie hasn't stopped listening to the soundtrack since. (I've owned the original Bway cast album for a couple of years.) Having seen the play twice, I was prepared for anything. I must admit, the changes they made for the movie adaptation were a little jarring at first (much of the spoken dialogue in the film was sung in the play), but I quickly stopped playing the "oh, how they've changed my musical" game and just fell in love with this version. The actors were great, the music was great, the locations were great--just a wonderfully satisfying adaptation. I'm still weeping over what Hollywood did to Camelot and Man of La Mancha, so this means a lot to me.

[dangermousie]

I honestly had no idea what to expect, but I love musicals so was interested. And I was completely won over. The music is out of this world. Now I need the sountrack (and some Rent icons).

I love the soundtrack for Man of La Mancha (the show) but I heard horrible things about the movie...

[elvensapphire]

The soundtrack for Man of La Mancha is awesome - the movie, however, is not. I've never even been able to sit all the way through it. And Camelot got ruined. Hence why RENT is such an amazing rarity among stage shows-turned-films.

[dangermousie]

It's funny, because I like Camelot-the-musical-movie, because I saw ir before I knew it was based on a stage musical. So I had a really different approach to it. But when i did listen to the stage version, I was astounded how different in tone it was.

[elvensapphire]

Hearing the Julie Andrews soundtrack first ruins it a bit. I wish I'd seen the movie without knowing the background/music of the show. But I do love Richard Harris regardless. He was actually a very good Arthur (and a good Dumbledore, but that's another story!). :)

[dangermousie]

Yeah, I adore Richard Harris. He was the best of the Camelot cast.