My biggest problem with Rent

For all its flaws (swiping dialogue from Car Wash, killing puppies, etc) Rent --the Broadway musical, not the version that Chris Columbus shat on and called a movie -- remains a show that can move me, and one I can watch repeatedly.

But one thing constantly bugs me:

"One Song Glory" is a great song, both on its own and in the context of the play. It's a beautiful piece about the need to write something beautiful and meaningful, and it's also a damned fine rock piece.

"Your Eyes," the "one great song" Roger finally writes for Mimi, is ass on burnt toast. It's the worst song in the musical and a completely unmemorable piece of pap. No way could it bring someone back from the dead, and no way does an angel send anyone back to earth to listen to it.

Fortunately, all indications are that Mimi loves Roger for who he is as a person, not as a songwriter, so that's probably okay.

Wow

So, not only is Michael Bay a racist hack, but he's also completely ignorant of the industry in which he works.

Yes, he really thinks he made Nick Cage and Ben Affleck stars. Or that Will Smith wouldn't be big if it weren't for him.

Weekend trailer

That would be for The Interceptor (aka Forbidden Reality, aka Smersh XXI), a Russian film that doesn't have a single subtitle yet, but which looks damned cool: