― Acid! Polizei! (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago) link
(I'm going to NedHell arent I?)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:24 (twenty years ago) link
Duddest fucking thing in history.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
One of the most classic things ever.
― everything, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
otm. xpost
― ☪, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
CLASSIC BEST MUSICAL EVER
-- CRW (CRW), Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:01 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 September 2007 08:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I could not believe I saw a rack for this on DVD in the checkout line of the local Safeway today. It was the weirdest thing. It was right underneath a Simpsons DVD and next to the tabloids. I mean, when the hell did this film get to be a part of mainstream culture?
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 September 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, I appreciate the film for its weirdness, but always find myself nearly falling asleep during the last half of the film.
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 September 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw it a number of times when I was a teenager, and I'm still not entirely certain what it's about.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 23 September 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Bimble OTM really - once Eddie gets killed, the thing just starts to drag.
― robertwolf8080, Sunday, 23 September 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
It's fun!! It's silly! It's TIM CURRY IN SUSPENDERS! I love it.
SIGHUNCE FICSHUN DOUBLE FEEEETCHURRRRR DOCTOR EXXXXXXXXXXXXX WILL BUILD A CREACHURRRRRR
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 23 September 2007 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
this movie was never that far away from mainstream America, was it? Wasn't it #1 at the box office when it came out? (Not to mention the huge anniversary show that was on prime time tv featuring eric mckormick at the height of his will and grace fame...)
― HI DERE, Sunday, 23 September 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Such a typical ploy on your part, Dan, an obvious attempt to discredit the poster by pretending to know things you have no clue about. Well, Wiki says it didn't do so well on its first run. I seriously doubt it was #1 at the box office when it came out, that's way too far a stretch. I believe it's one of those things that has gained more fame over time, and I suspected a somewhat recent TV promotion of the kind you mention (I'm proud to say I haven't watched much TV at home since the early 90's), otherwise the sale of this DVD in the checkout line at Safeway still makes no sense to me.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 05:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never beem to a public viewing of the film, and I tend to view the cultists with same suspicion as the other sceptics on this thread. I don't think the film is necessarily mainstream, but since every sci-fi/horror nerd seems to know it and love it, it's hardly that alternative either.
If you take the cult away, the actual film is quite good, I especially like all the gender bending and sexual politics. But it's definitely not the best musical ever, not even in the top 20.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The ONLY thing I thought was good in this movie was Rocky himself, and only because he reminded me of the k-classic PYGAR in Barbarella:
http://postmodernbarney.com/images06/barbarella/barb4.jpg
An angel doesn't make love...an angel IS love.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I kind of appreciate that Tim Curry played Sneery McHater anti-sex/masturbating/black people guy in Kinsey. "Haha but what about your yout as a transvestite from Transylvania?"
― Abbott, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989391.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Good. I hope they solely cast High School Musical actors and 50 Cent just to piss of the dramafag RH fanboys.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh God. That is such a bad idea.
On RHPS in general I'm with both Teeny and Bimble upthread - it was a huge part of my adolescence so it will forever be C but I've always found that the 2nd half drags (har har) a bit too much. I've probably seen it more than any other movie but have only actually seen it in the theatre once and that was ages ago. I need to get my hands on a new copy of the sndtrk. I lost mine years ago.
― ENBB, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I went to my first shadwowcast a couple of nights ago (was on the stage & had to deliver a monkey orgasm)...
Best thing Susan Sarandon ever did.
― psychedelic arguments w/ myself (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 1 November 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish they did a shadow play in front of other musicals. Like Jesus Christ Superstar, and they INRI a guy at the end.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Monday, 1 November 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Co-incidentally I watched the DVD of RHPS this morning.
I've always found that the 2nd half drags (har har) a bit too much.
I think that the main problem is that 'Timewarp'/'Sweet Transvestite' is such a killer combo that the movie never really recovers from it, even when Meatloaf turns up.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Monday, 1 November 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
^I wd agree with the whole '2nd half drags' thing but that leaves out my favorite part: S. Sarandon singing "I wanna be dirty!!!" to Rocky.
― only! assholes! write on doors! (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 1 November 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
totally classic. last 3rd drags a bit. audience members can be fucking annoying (last night one woman just kept shouting out SLUT! and ASSHOLE! every 5 mins, whcih was funny once, not 20 times). but then without the annoying audience contributions, the film towards the end gets a bit boring.
still classic though. some of my favourite best set design in a film. should have been more shocking/confrontational though. they could have made it a bit sexier, and made franknfurter a bit more risque.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
This is very . . . odd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI6zIqVxmmk
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Friday, 4 November 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 4 November 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
i think the floor show is the best part besides meatloaf.― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:24 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark
Floor show is great. I'd probably still get a kick out of the 1st half but the 2nd half really does totally suck. I honestly don't think I could sit through the whole thing anymore. Turns out I still know all the words to the soundtrack as I've just found out looking the songs up on yt.
BTW Neil Gaiman is playing piano (sorta) in that clip I posted earlier.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Friday, 4 November 2011 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
Awww, I really love Meatloaf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-bkTz31bw0&feature=related
And now my throat hurts from singing for the last 1/2 hour.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Friday, 4 November 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
pretty much amazing til about half way in, although I'm Going Home is killer.
― piscesx, Friday, 4 November 2011 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
I was thinking about this quite a lot. The difference is that the stage show references sci-fi/horror B movies, while the movie has to portray those same tropes a lot straighter, because we're expecting a movie to be more 'realistic'. The stage show can be more meta, it can go 'lol monster movie', break the 4th wall, involve the audience, etc., without those things seeming like a jarring break from the story. Consequently the cast are given the leeway necessary to keep a sort of manic atmosphere going throughout the show, which compensates for it's otherwise slower second half.So the movie drags in comparison, but when you watch it with an audience, it's as though they feel obliged to keep the show 'up' in lieu of a live cast. And that doesn't really work out because...
audience members can be fucking annoying
The slow second half is not really a problem with Rocky particularly, as just a general problem with movies that are based on live shows. Although there are exceptions, 'Chicago' for example, avoids this problem because it's effectively a series of song and dance set pieces. And it's not a problem with musicals that were written from the start as movies, like 'Phantom of The Paradise'.
Oh bugger, I've written an essay...
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Friday, 4 November 2011 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
what do KIDS TODAY think of rocky horror? my generation was really into it, but i can see millennials finding it pretty lame.
― With extreme tenderness - flexible - always guided by the words (get bent), Saturday, 27 October 2012 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
Gale
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Saturday, 27 October 2012 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
i think kids today with their glee and their emo would love it
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Saturday, 27 October 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
im 28. i loved the parts with meat loaf, loved its conception of sexuality, which even now would be radical, but overall it was way way too long and didn't have enough good songs or narrative propulsion. but damn, man...find me a movie now that would allow for the idea that sexuality is a fluid continuum and that a generally st8 person could catch a dick now and then...movies are almost never genuinely transgressive nowadays, challops or w/e i know
― slam dunk, Saturday, 27 October 2012 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
didn't have enough good songs
ban
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 27 October 2012 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
{ "What's your favorite rock group?" } Madness { "they suck!" } takes it's toll.
― how's life, Thursday, 10 October 2013 11:05 (ten years ago) link
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, October 27, 2012 2:29 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol, right? Every fucking song on that soundtrack is p much amazing - there are literally only 2 that I don't absolutely love. In fact, I'm gonna listen to it this afternoon. Last year a friend and I got stoned and sang pretty much the entire thing from memory at the top of our lungs it was kind of the best night ever.
Also, the phrasing of this "and that a generally st8 person could catch a dick now and then" is killing me.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 10 October 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
It always pissed me off that "The Sword of Damocles" and "Planet, Schmanet, Janet" weren't on the soundtrack because they're both really great.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 10 October 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
Yes.
― how's life, Thursday, 10 October 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
They're on the version released in 2000
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Thursday, 10 October 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Oh! I probably bought my CD way way before that. Good to know. :)
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 10 October 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
creature of the night
― how's life, Friday, 11 October 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
This is how to play the long game. (Note all dates of posts.)
https://twitter.com/DrFNFurter
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
I remember being very excited to get the 25th anniversary CD. It was gold!
MAC released a collection this month in honor of the 40th anniversary. THIS IS RELEVANT TO MANY OF MY INTERESTS.
And . . . it's pretty awesome.
http://scontent-a.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/10610996_385085264973200_1077230809_a.jpg
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 4 October 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
ok well I haven't bought makeup in a long time, BUT
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Saturday, 4 October 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/18487-rocky-horror-picture-show-anniversary-review
this is great
― piscesx, Sunday, 9 August 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
creature...of the night?
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 11 July 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
Never noticed the OP until just now.
DORKS WHO SIGN THEIR POSTS LIKE IT'S A FREAKIN EMAIL
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 09:02 (one year ago) link
Sea androids fightingBrad and Janet
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 May 2023 00:46 (one year ago) link
That’s how I wish it was spelled