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Worst movie ever!. I can't believe I wasted any time watching this movie. I'm sure all the good reviews are from gays and lesbians, but not to say I am prejudice because I am a huge Rocky Horror Picture Show fan. I found it to be extremely lame and not very believable. Nothing that happened in this movie made any sense, and the songs in the movie were terrible because too often, they were very random. It was also too long and dragged on. Every minute I had to watch started to seem like a whole hour. Even my wife who is a huge fan of musicals in general found this film extremely distasteful and horrible. The fact that this movie is even selling outside of San Francisco is absolutely mind-boggling. Worst film ever made! This film was just plain terrible, horrible, etc. Don't waste your time with this movie!

Great music...but.... This movie has got some really really good music that I could listen to all night long...that is for sure, but here is my problem with this movie...at times it can seem a bit drawn out...and the biggest problem that I have is the rating (PG13). Again, as I have said before...what is with the ratings board on this one...this is not something that I would allow anyone under 16 to watch...profane, overly sexual...I am not homophobic in anyway, but I do not see the need to have homosexuality, transgendered people jammed down the throats of our young people...these kids have enough to worry about, let alone be overrun by such material. The acting was great, and again, great music, excellent storyline...but beware parents, this is not something that you may want your child to watch anytime soon. Kids are growing up WAY TO FAST...and we wonder where they get it from???!!!

"How we gonna pay-ay next year's rent?" GET A JOB!!!!!. I love how much everyone likes to glorify being a starving artist. RENT makes it out to be like it's the thing to do. They all whine and complain about being poor and starving, but do any of them ever get jobs? The ones who live there (Mark and Roger) just sit on there asses all day, expecting handouts. My mom was a "bohemian" musician who, instead of getting a real job to support herself and her music career, thought that it was more important to "express herself". If Mark wants to make a film and Roger wants to write a song, that's okay, but get jobs while you do it. When Mark is offered the job for a tabloid news show, he thinks he's "selling out". Okay, if you want to make films and music but don't want money for it and won't get a job, then stop complaining.

Also, the characters who are even half-way cool (Roger, Mimi, Collins, and Angel) all have AIDS. However, Maureen, the biggest slut on Broadway who will sleep with anything with a pulse (hell, maybe even one of those weird puppet things used in the Lion King) has no STDs whatsoever.

Whatever happened to the days of the regular vocal casting rules? Where tenors and sopranos played your young lovers, basses/baritones played your fathers and villians, and altos/mezzos played your whores and mothers. There wasn't a single bass or soprano in this movie. Broadway is slowly being taken over by pop singers who just whine at an alto level (both males and females). Have some damn vocal variety. They either sound like pop/hip-hop singers or emo kids (especailly Mark.

Even if I could give this zero stars, I still give it one because of Jesse L. Martin. That man has got the most vocal range I've ever seen. Othere than that, the movie was pretentious as hell. IF you think that being a "starving artist" is cool, ask some real starving artists what they think. They will all tell you to go to college, and if you want to be an artist then study your art there, that way you can make a living at it.

If you want to see a movie/musical, go see The Producers or get enough money to buy the rights to make Les Mis into a movie. I think this is showing how Broadway is slowly dying.

Worst film of all time. Sickening. Appallingly bad. Inept in every way. Horrible acting, singing, direction, photography, music. Stupid plot (a musical about AIDS!???).

The worst film of all time.

Why not a musical about starvation, or about torture, or about Anthrax?

This film and the stage musical are insults to the intelligence.

And those who marked this review as not helpful don't know what 'helpful' means.

UUHHHGGGG!!!!. This movie was nothing short of distastful and disgusting. There were children in the theatre for goodness sake! The amount of sexuality and drug use portrayed in this film should have warrented AT LEAST an "R" rating! If not "X".

We're talking EXPLICIT strip club scenes, syringes, transvestites, heavy GRAPHIC drug usage, sexual situations, death, and VERY foul language.

Adults can subject themselves at their own will, but children should NOT be allowed to see this in the theatres. I am sure many regretful parents have gotten out of their seats mid-film, to remove their now-scarred children from this hell-hole of a movie. They go in with the intention of educating their children both culturally and socially with a Broadway musical, and come away trying to explain how people can possibly justify such deranged behavior.

I understand the value it holds in terms of awareness for AIDS education. The manner in which the storyline was performed, however, was a bit much. People should be able to know what they are getting themselves into when they purchase a movie ticket. Several co-workers of mine feel the same way. They had no idea what they were going to see in this movie. The previews and trailers were VERY misleading!

This is Sodom and Gomorrah depicted on the big screen. Difficult topics are shoved in your face in a VERY disgusting manner.

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