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[changeyourstars8]

So I hear a vehicle pull up in the driveway, and go to the door to see dad standing there. I open the door-- and he hands me a DVD of RENT. 2-Disc Widescreen Special Edition.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I'm still going to be typing for a few hours yet, so I'll just put on the sountrack for now, and then maybe I'll watch the movie later tonight. Getting up early for work? Who cares? There is theatre-geeking to be done! :-)

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[rosevaughn.livejournal.com]

Sleep is your friend...

[jadelynx.livejournal.com]

Theatre-geeking trumps being coherent at work any day. The beauty of your job is that people tend to expect coffee house/donut shop workers to be brainless drop outs with nothing better to do than to sit around offering bad service, so if you act that way tomorrow, at least no one will be surprised. :D

I was very disappointed with Rent, myself. The music is phenomenal and the sheer talent of the cast was amazing. But I walked out of the theatre feeling more depressed than when I went in. If I'm gonna be gloomy when I leave the theatre, I want it to be because a movie provoked me to think about how I can change a wrong, or keep it from happening again. If Rent was meant to do that, then it didn't translate well in movie form, at least not for me. I didn't find a message in it, other than "this is our screwed up lives, let us live them".

Oh and while we're on the subject of movies... :D Have you seen Brokeback Mountain?

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I didn't walk out of the theatre depressed, but I did think there were a few problems with the movie version:

1) the cast was getting a bit too old for the parts. Not that the actors are ancient or anything, and it was neat to see most of the original cast up there, but there's definitely a difference between twentysomethings acting that way and thirtysomethings doing so. lol

2) Some of the explanations were cut out, so the behavior seemed different in the movie than it did in the Broadway show. For instance, Alexi Darling, who hires Mark-- in the movie, she doesn't come off as tabloid-sleazy as she does in the show. So when Mark leaves to finish his own project, in the movie it looks more like a thirtysomething who won't grow up and take an actual job than a twentysomething who does *not* want to go into that line with his work and is willing to sacrifice some money to follow his principles on the matter.

3) It was cleaned up. I'm not sure whether this counts as a 'problem' or not, actually, but it's definitely a huge difference. A lot of the swearing is gone, the most sexually suggestive song (Contact) was cut out . . . it wasn't necessarily bad, just weird. lol

And no, I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain yet, darnit. The chances of it coming here are between 'slim' and 'none'. (though, if it does win a Best Picture Oscar, the theatre manager might try to get it in. That's how we got Monster's Ball for five days. lol And granted, I was a teenager at the time and it was a late showing, but boy, talk about movies you do not want to watch while sitting next to your father.)

Anyway, if it doesn't come here, then I'll just have to lie in wait outside the rental store. :-)

[rosevaughn.livejournal.com]

We should have gone to it when you were in Wichita. It was here for weeks.