I tried to watch "Rent" last night

[MonkeyFunk]

and just couldn't.

So many people love the play and I've heard lots of people rave about the movie. But I bought the broadway soundtrack when the play first opened and just didn't like the music. It just sounded like an amateurish attempt to sound like broadway music.

Anyway, a good friend was telling me how much she loved the movie and she's watched it about 10 times. So I tivo'ed it and tried to watch. I just couldn't stand it. Made it almost to the halfway mark before giving up.

Isn't it weird when your reaction to a movie is so different from everybody else's?

[Chan790]

1. I have that happen with books often.

Everybody loves Harry Potter but me. It's not the content or the story, I like the movies just fine; J.K. Rowling writes like an excited over-caffeinated 2nd grader rants about show-and-tell after getting a new puppy and their weight in chocolate...and I think I'm the only one who noticed. Admittedly after picking up the first two books in Borders and reading the first couple pages (deciding if they were worth owning or just a library rental) I gave up. She might have become a better writer by now.

[skygazer]

12. You're not the only one

And I read more than a couple of pages - I read the first book in its entirety and half the second. I really WANTED to like the books because I love good children's literature and thought the premise was fun and imaginative.

But poor writing ruins a book for me and I agree she really isn't much of a writer.

[NashVegas]

13. I Think They Got Better As They Got More Detailed

The first book is entirely a children's novel, IMO. I checked it when they were first out and wasn't impressed. The last few, I think, were much better. No, she's not F. Scott, she's not even Margaret Mitchell, but she has built a mythology for young people and gotten them reading.

[Doityourself]

2. yep. though I love the opening song from Rent..but I find I'm generally opposite of everyone else..

everybody raved about "Dream Girls" and how I had to see it, and I thought it sucked!

[bigwillq]

4. Agree.

Dreamgirls, the movie, sucked, imo.

[bigwillq]

3. I didn't see the movie

But I saw the show on Broadway a few years back and I loved it.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. loved the play. didnt really want to see the movie.

[MorningGlow]

6. Same here

And I have an extensive theater background (minored in theater in college, blah blah blah), plus I'm a musical theater junkie extraordinaire.

Yet I tried watching Rent and never made it past about 20 minutes. I just couldn't get into it, and I found the music irritating.

I think I'll try again when it shows up on Starz--maybe I was distracted the first time or something.

[BuddhaGirl]

7. I saw the musical becasuse of lots of recs from friends

I didn't care for it at all.

Years ago, same thing with "Cats." I thought "Cats" was HORRIBLE! LOL

[MonkeyFunk]

11. ugh, yes

I hated "Cats". And "Phantom of the Opera". Just awful shows - I don't know why they were so popular. Well, "Cats" I can see - it had a couple of good numbers, and the costumes and sets were great, the premise was fun. But generally crappy music.

[Taverner]

8. I Hate musicals

But that's just me

[Sheets of Easter]

9. Yes.

I had the same reaction to the Lord of the Rings films- they bored me silly. Everyone thinks I'm crazy for thinking that.

The phenomenon kind of reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine sees the English Patient after everyone raves about it, and hates it.

[NashVegas]

10. "Seasons of Love" Makes Me Cry

But I've never seen the movie. I've never even seen the play. I must be a sod, is all. I'm going misty just thinking about it.

525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear.
525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life?
How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love.
Seasons of love.


525,600 minutes! 525,000 journeys to plan.
525,600 minutes - how can you measure the life of a woman or man?


In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned, or the way that she died.


It's time now to sing out,
tho the story never ends let's celebrate remember a year in the life of friends.
Remember the love!
Remember the love! Remember the love!
Measure in love.
Seasons of love! Seasons of love.

[Doityourself]

14. That's the only part about the whole movie I liked..lol

[Rhythm]

15. I loved "Rent"... hated "Moulin Rouge"

Couldn't watch it without getting a monumental headache.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. I saw Juno last week and was sort of disappointed.

I mean the story was decent and sweet, but the title character was rather annoying. They made her too.... quirky. My wife had been wanting to see it for months and she was disappointed by it as well.