Hype Kills

Jackie Mason | April 16, 2006
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Kris Weberg | April 18, 2006
Rent has simply not aged well, since the characters' efforts at hipness are generally way off the mark, and thelevel of activity possible for people on AZT portrayed therein is just hogwash. The whole "bohemians vs. cruel bourgeois society" plot really works much better in the original, Puccini's opera La Boheme, where the lethal disease is tuberculosis and the artist-as-outsider makes much more sense.

I haven't seen Brokeback yet, mainly because it sounds, well, like a tearjerker romance movie. Guys and guys, women and women, or men and women, I don't care much for "doomed romance" plotlines in films.

Jackie Mason | April 18, 2006
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Scott Horowitz | April 18, 2006
I liked the Rent movie, but I think the problem with it is in the directing. I'm a fan of Columbus' work, but I felt that he missed the energy needed to convey rent. I felt starting with Season's of Love slowed the tone of the show, when it is much more energetic than the movie made it.

Jackie Mason | April 18, 2006
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