Just thought I would start a Rocky Horror Picutre Show appreciation thread..
How good is this film?
The first time I saw it was by mistake as I was only about 9 and watching late night TV with my Dad as I had and ear infection. I watched it and although I thought it was rude as hell, absolutly loved it. The lyrics and script are so tongue in cheek laugh out loud fantastic aren't they?

What's your fave moment/song/frank/Riff/look?

Let's show our love right here my unconventional conventionists
[This message was edited Wed Sep 3 4:53:16 PDT 2003 by ladymisskat]

never seen it...sorry

I used to know the whole movie by heart, but I haven't seen it for a long time now.

The best Frank moments for me are "Sweet Transvestite" and when he's doing the NBC Peacock doing the Jazz Singer bit at the end.

Oh, and the part where they're in bed in silhouette behind the white curtain, and Frankenfurter seduces them.

Janet!
Brad!
Janet!
Dr. Scott!
Rouckay!!!

minneapolisgenius said:

Janet: What have you done with Brad
Frank: Nouthang, why, do you think I should??

ladymisskat said:

Riff: You're Wet..
Janet: Yes...It's raining

I'm going home
...dealing...cards for sorrow, cards for pain

I have seen the stage play here in Denmark just earlier this year, but it didn't grab me like the movie which I have seen several times.

When first I saw it (in High School), I loved the part of DrFrankenfurter seducing both Janet and Brad, I suppose because I was an aspiring gay man.
Later, I loved the idea of him making his own perfect man, I suppose because I myself had trouble finding mine, so "if only I could make one myself"...
Now I look at Tim Curry's performance and is just amazed by how he manages to keep an air of danger about him - yes, he's a transvestite, but boy, is he also some kind of scary.

I used to like the "Time Warp" song the most, but now I'm really diggin' "Going Home". It's beautiful. That song even had a powerful performance at the Danish Stage Show this year - I got goosebumps and almost had tears in my eyes. It's a very strong track. The soundtrack definately withstands the test of time.

Is the soundtrack on CD? I haven't been able to find it in any of the wreckastews here in Copenhagen.
[This message was edited Wed Sep 3 6:35:18 PDT 2003 by scififilmnerd]

This is one of my fav movies of all time...and you really need to see it in the theater (with caberet) to really enjoy it...ahhh...those were the days...in high school...Friday night at midnight going to the theater just knowing that most of the sleeping suburban squares had no idea what was going on behind the curtain.

Ever been to see the movie and do the audience participation? fun fun fun!

Audience: What do say when Riff fucks you?
Janet: Thank you
Audience: What do you say when Frank fucks you?
Brad: Thank you very much

I can't watch Tijm Curry in anything else, my mind always wanders back to him in suspenders carving up Eddie for dinner

ladymisskat said:

Eddie's a rather tender subject... another slice anyone?

cborgman said:

I love that Rocky keeps eating after everyone is throwing up...

I saw the movie when i was 15 and had just come out a year before, and it really empowered me in a lot of ways. for a long time i used to watch it every night before i went to sleep.

then i did the play, and played Frank, and garnered some of the best reviews of my life. it was the only time adults have asked me for my autograph, and people would tell me "you were better than the movie" and now i can't watch the movie. the energy is so unbelievabley infectious in the stage play, and the songs that were deleted from the movie really make it more fun.

the movie still holds a special place in my heart, but i really can't watch it much any more. it's so wooden and stiff and forced compared to the stage play.

cborgman said:

Love, love, love RHPS. I'm going to see it on the stage in a couple of weeks, I'm so excited.

And it is SO COOL that you did Frank! If you have a video of said performance, please orgnote me, because I would die (DIE) to see that.

tackam said:

i don't have a vid of it sadly... there was one circulating that was really god awful one view handheld, but i never got a copy of it.

I love Rocky Horror

Don't dream it, be it!

wait, actually i may have a copy of that bad handeheld vid. i remember seeing some tape marked RHS a few weeks ago

the frank voice had it's revenge on me the other day. i was at rehaersal, and doing my truman capote thing, all southern and queeny, and someone in the cast told me i sounded like frankenfurter

cborgman said:

I would sell my soul to the devil, were such a being to exist, to see that tape, should it exist.

That's cool that you can do the voice! I think that Curry's voice is a big part of what makes him so great in that role. It's perfect.

tackam said:

the first time we did it i kinda copped his vocal stuff and just added t it. when they revived it almost a year later, i totally got rid of all the tim curry stuff and did more of a david bowie on acid thing.

i will look for the tape.

Riff: Master, Rocky has broken free from his chains and is loose in the castle grounds...
Frank: Coommmang!

How does that man have such amazing vowel action!?

cborgman said:

cborgman said:

half the fun of the live shows is the improvs you can get away with.

there were a few times i spanked audience members with the whip/cane thing, cuople of times i made out with audience members, and my all time favorite.

we bulit a catwalk that extended off the stage through the audience, and some frat boys and their girlfirends came one night and sat right in front of the end of the catwalk. obviously they had never seen the movie cause i whipped off the cape and their eyes about fell out of their head. i flirted with them the whole show, and they were SO red in the face. at the end during coming home i walked right off the catwalk and did a good portion of the song on the lap of one of them.

"say! do any of you guys know how to madison?"

cborgman said:

I would have loved to have seen that!

OMG I love the Rocky Horror Picture Show!!! I would love to see the stage play.There are sooo many hilarious moments and lines in that movie.Now I want to watch it again!

MUCHO MUCHO RESPECT DUE 2 TIM CURRY!!!








PS: I used 2 hang with my friend at his Uncles place babysitting his kids...
....his Uncle was none other than Richard o'Brien!!!

[This message was edited Wed Sep 3 13:15:13 PDT 2003 by bananacologne]