RENT

Well, I saw "Rent" and I enjoyed it very much. Despite the fact that my sister was singing in my ear the whole time. She did the same when we saw it on stage. I wasn't suprised.

The movie is of coursed based on the Broadway Musical of the same name. It follows several artistic characters living in New York dealing with love, poverty and yes, AIDS.

Rent was based on the Musical "LA BOHEME"

It was great to see most all of the origional broadway cast in the show on screen.

They made Rent into more of a musical than an opera. There were a lot more speaking lines than on stage. The speaking lines were right out of the songs, so they eliminated songs but the lyrics remained in the movie. This made no sense to me. If you are going to cut it, cut it.

Another problem I saw, a minor problem was that they changed the fact that it was one big night that changed all their lives. One incredible night. In the movie the night was actually several days.

Other than those things, the movie was great.