This week for my Cult TV and Film class, I was told to watch Rocky Horror.
I have never seen it all the way through, I vaguely recall watching it at a sleepover when I was younger, but I think we just talked and gossiped all the way through it!
So, lets talk about it! I have a seminar class tomorrow on it, so if I could discuss it with you awesome lot, I'd be better prepared I think!!
So, to discuss!
Do you like this movie?
What's your favourite part?
Favourite song?
Have you ever seen the live show?
Seriously though, this film is smurfing fantastic and proof Tim Curry is probably god.
01-24-2013, 08:44 PM
Night Fury
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Originally Posted by Laddy
Uh, watch it? Like, now.
Seriously though, this film is smurfing fantastic and proof Tim Curry is probably god.
I'm going too ^_^ It's on Netflix so I'm going to settle in bed and watch it now :D
01-24-2013, 08:50 PM
Psychotic
Don't dream it, be it.
01-24-2013, 09:10 PM
qwertysaur
Lets do the time warp again.
01-24-2013, 09:24 PM
Shorty
it's a science fictionnn OOH OOH OOH double feature
You have to watch it with other people and/or in a theater to get the full effect! This is something that cannot be passed up on!
I watched it with friends the first time and it was glorious. I plan to go see it live when I move later this year, although I am terrified of the possibility of being pulled onstage.
Time Warp was my favorite song for a long time, but it has since become a tie between Science Fiction Double Feature and Over at the Frankenstein Place.
Posted in the midst of Rob and I's Rocky Horror facebook serenade a little while ago, but still relevant:
God this movie is awesome on so many levels. I'll go with Science Fiction as a personal favorite song, followed by Hot Patootie. Meat Loaf is smurfing sweet.
01-24-2013, 09:33 PM
Faris
In just seven days, I can make you a man.
01-24-2013, 09:33 PM
Shorty
omg can we do an EoFF viewing this weekend
01-24-2013, 09:36 PM
Psychotic
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Originally Posted by Shorty
Time Warp was my favorite song for a long time, but it has since become a tie between Science Fiction Double Feature and Over at the Frankenstein Place.
You're alright Sarah. You're alright. :up:
01-24-2013, 09:58 PM
Pike
Time Warp always and forever
I don't care what anyone says
01-24-2013, 10:01 PM
Ouch!
Bitch!
Slut!
Where's your smurfing neck?
01-24-2013, 10:32 PM
Night Fury
*Just finished watching the movie*
O......kay
01-24-2013, 10:36 PM
Shauna
That doesn't sound positive.
01-24-2013, 10:41 PM
Psychotic
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Originally Posted by Lockharted
*Just finished watching the movie*
O......kay
Eyes on fiction
double feature
BoB has built and lost his creature
Darkness has conquered poor Lockharted
She was in the room when Shorty farted
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
At the Gen Chat double feature Eyes on show
Jowy and Cloooooooooo
To the Gen Chat double feature Eyes on show.
Man the reprise has always been so depressing.
01-24-2013, 10:43 PM
Night Fury
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Originally Posted by Shauna
That doesn't sound positive.
I'm just trying to take it all in, process it all.
It was jazzy though, very jazzy.
01-24-2013, 11:20 PM
Shorty
see androids fighting
AND smurfING
AND SUCKING
on Yar and Bunny
01-25-2013, 12:19 AM
Tigmafuzz
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Originally Posted by qwertysaur
Lets do the time warp again.
01-25-2013, 12:40 AM
Jowy
Fun fact: I used to live two blocks from the Oriental Theatre which played Rocky Horror once a week, every week. They are also hold the world record for continual showings of Rocky Horror! Great flick. Better with participation!
01-25-2013, 06:37 AM
NorthernChaosGod
Rocky Horror is awesome, but it's best when viewed with a live cast.
01-25-2013, 09:00 AM
Værn
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Originally Posted by Lockharted
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Originally Posted by Shauna
That doesn't sound positive.
I'm just trying to take it all in, process it all.
It was jazzy though, very jazzy.
It's a group thing. For best results, it should be watched with a large group, and with a bag of props to throw at the movie screen once the appropriate cues appear in the movie.
If you watched it alone and/or without the audience participation shenanigans, you did it wrong.
01-25-2013, 11:25 AM
Night Fury
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Originally Posted by Værn
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Originally Posted by Lockharted
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Originally Posted by Shauna
That doesn't sound positive.
I'm just trying to take it all in, process it all.
It was jazzy though, very jazzy.
It's a group thing. For best results, it should be watched with a large group, and with a bag of props to throw at the movie screen once the appropriate cues appear in the movie.
If you watched it alone and/or without the audience participation shenanigans, you did it wrong.
:( I just... I just have no friends :(
01-25-2013, 12:37 PM
Denmark
MY MY MY MY MY MY MY MY, MY MY MY MY, MY MY
then just enjoy it for the smurfing spectacle of magic it is
enjoy it purely from a musical sense. every song is smurfing brilliant. the context helps but there are some ridiculously clever lines in there.
also you're welcome (i'm aware it's not complete :( find me a complete one on youtube kthx)
it's 7:30 in the morning and for some ungodly reason i'm awake and now i have to listen to the soundtrack before i can sleep. Thanks, guys
01-25-2013, 12:41 PM
Værn
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Originally Posted by Lockharted
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Originally Posted by Værn
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Originally Posted by Lockharted
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Originally Posted by Shauna
That doesn't sound positive.
I'm just trying to take it all in, process it all.
It was jazzy though, very jazzy.
It's a group thing. For best results, it should be watched with a large group, and with a bag of props to throw at the movie screen once the appropriate cues appear in the movie.
If you watched it alone and/or without the audience participation shenanigans, you did it wrong.
:( I just... I just have no friends :(
I'm sorry to have made you realize that. I'll be your friend :D
That being said, Shorty's suggestion of an EoFF viewing is probably the closest you'll get to properly experiencing The Rocky Horror Picture Show, short of searching for a theater that screens it regularly or having a movie night of your own.
01-25-2013, 09:14 PM
Araciel
Dammit, Janet!
01-25-2013, 11:31 PM
Breine
I dig The Rocky Horror Picture Show on so many levels, and it is a great movie for many reasons. Tim Curry is definitely one of them. He's wonderful in it.
01-26-2013, 12:50 AM
Shlup
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is about freedom, and I find its message of letting go to be inspiring. I've loved it since I was a teenager, and, yes, I've been to a live show, which is an exciting experience.
01-26-2013, 02:47 PM
DK
Anything involving Richard O'Brien is pretty much god tier as far as i'm concerned. :heart:
01-26-2013, 06:53 PM
Night Fury
Not going to lie, I was slightly sexually attracted to Tim Curry in it. He rocked.
01-26-2013, 07:49 PM
Tigmafuzz
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Originally Posted by Lockharted
Not going to lie, I was slightly sexually attracted to Tim Curry in it. He rocked.
Slightly? WATCH IT AGAIN.
01-26-2013, 10:56 PM
Sephex
I have never seen the movie, but I have seen a play version of it. So when Rocky Horror fans learn this, they go, "You're still a virgin!" I then inform them that at the end one of the cast announced that seeing the play counted, and that people who haven't seen the movie is no longer a virgin. This usually frustrates bigger fans of the movie, I have learned.
01-27-2013, 03:29 PM
DMKA
I've heard the soundtrack countless times, but never actually saw the movie.
I want to do the Rocky Horror Picture Show Sing-A-Long at the Prince Charles Cinema Leicester Square one year but the tickets sell out so damn fast!
02-08-2013, 06:48 PM
Yeargdribble
If you haven't ever seen it live and get a chance to do so... DO IT!!
It's a totally different experience live with people shouting things at the stage.
For example, the narrator says something about "there were storm clouds" followed by "heavy, dark, pendulous." In a live show, before the second part someone in the audience might shout "Describe your balls!!" ...."Heavy, dark, pendulous."
If you've got a really talented cast, they can play with the audience a lot. The narrator specifically can break the fourth wall to make the show way more interesting.
The theatre company I play for does the show annually and has even thought about doing it more frequently. Sadly, there is no trumpet part, but there are extra keyboard parts. I might try to play keyboards for the show some year.
