Comments on: RENT https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/04/15/rent/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Otter https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/04/15/rent/#comment-4767 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/04/15/rent/#comment-4767 Rent. It might have lacks the briliance of the stage production, but it is still an amazing movie. As a movie it will reach a far wider audiance, and will still get its message across. love and friendship conquers all.

]]> By: fanta_orange https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/04/15/rent/#comment-4770 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2006/04/15/rent/#comment-4770 someone needs there head checked. Well clearly mambaonline left it up to a depressed queen with an attitude problem to write a review on probably one of the most entertaining and moving film of the year! The critic, Luiz de Barros, clearly has some issues he needs to work through before he’s allowed to write another review…. I was introduced to rent by my friend years ago. he saw the play in london and he purchased the rent soundtrack which was a double cd. whenever i arrived at his house he would be playing the quirky songs, with their clever little lyrics that really brings any normal person who’s heard of the word “empathy” to tears! I subsequently learned all the words to all the songs and when we heard they were making a movie based on the play we were ecstatic and just couldn’t wait for the film to be realeased in South Africa. The day it was released we went and saw the movie and we were blown away, as were the rest of the people in the cinema! We sang, we cried, we laughed, we smiled. When we left the cinema everyone had tear stains on their faces and they were all rambling on about Rent. I noticed that the only two cast members you gave good comments about were the two new members of the cast, Roasario Dawson and Tracie Thoms. That wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that you didn’t get a chance to see the original play and you may be harboring a little gripe? A case of sour grapes maybe? whatever the case may be, yes they were great as were all the others, Roger, Mark, Angel, Collins, Benny and Maureen!

So maybe little Luiz de something or the other should have gathered a few opinions from others before he gave the film such a bad review when it certainly didn’t deserve one.

Viva la vie boheme!

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