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I should mention that the teaser for Superman Returns was on the Potter film. It is hands down the single most beautiful movie trailer I’ve ever seen, and it ramped my excitement for the film by about 9000%. Thank you Bryan Singer! I hope the industry takes a note or two down and starts putting some actual craft into trailers sometime soon.
This past weekend we went to see Rent, which was about 525,600 minutes long. Actually I liked it a lot – I’ve never seen the stage production but have always wanted to. I really like the characters and the story, but there’s something about the music that bugs me.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I actually really like quite a bit of the music, particularly “Out Tonight”, “I’ll Cover You”, and “La Vie Boheme”. But there’s just something about musicals in general that bug me, and it’s the speech-song stuff that they always interweave. I think songs are good as songs, and dialogue is good as dialogue, and maybe one or two quick lines in the middle of a song are ok. But when they interrupt a song, or use an entire verse of a song, to have a literal conversation? I find that cheesy. Like, eye-rolling calibre cheesy. I guess I can’t really blame Rent itself for using that convention, but come on. I’d rather have a full song from start to finish, then go back to dialogue, rather than sticking something in the middle that goes:
GIRL: “Oh crap!”
BOY: “What is it?”
GIRL: “I forgot my keeeeeeeeys”
BOY: “You forgot your keys? Where did you leave them?”
GIRL: “Over on the table”
BOY: “On the table?”
GIRL: “On the table!”
BOY: “On the table!”
GIRL: “On the table!”
BOY: “On the table!”
BOTH: “On the taaaaaaaaaaaaable!”
Yeah. Not so much.
