I’m with Eric on Rocky Horror. It was two hours of my life I can never get back. Also might I add there is never a reason for Tim Curry to be wearing a g-string. NEVER.
V and Eric, there is only one way to see Rocky Horror: at a midnight showing with the fans. The audience has the power to single-handedly transform an awful movie into one of the most fun movie-going experiences of your life.
Sorry, JimmyC, that’s how I saw it, both times. Figured the first crowd was a less-than-inspired fluke, so gave it another shot. Nope, still hated it … and I was in my early 20s, too, aka, my libtard years.
I’m reasonably sure that there is no truth to the rumor that Mike Kriskey and Ann Coulter have eloped together after realizing that they are the only Republicans in Connecticut.
Yup. I hated it too, and I saw it back in the days when you got to hurl food at people. I don’t think they do that anymore, but if food-related violence can’t make me like a movie, I’m assuming nothing really can. (I clocked this one dude in the face with a 2-pound bag of rice. Had to be done. He called me a ‘virgin’.)
RHPS is fabulous and good fun, ONCE. At midnight, with hardcore fans, slightly buzzed. Good times.
Denton, Homes of Happiness, we used to have that sign on the city limits. Don’t think it’s still there. The church where they supposedly filmed the opening scenes is just up the road from my house.
BTW, I AM NOT joining you guys for Thanksgiving unless Kriskey shows up.
RHPS is overrated but a great many movies are over time. Sometimes a film can never live up to the hype. I saw RHPS in the prescribed manner (live with people in costume with props)and it was fun but never felt the need to do see it again.
A side note: rumor has it that Susan Sarandon is embarrassed by the movie and doesn’t like to speak of it. Back in the early ’90s she, Tim Robbins and kids were in a nearby town for a few months. This was during the shooting of “Shawshank Redemption” which was shot primarily in my county in Ohio. Sarandon, Robbins and others from the cast frequented the Blockbuster Video I worked at the time. We were told not to ask her about RHPS. I never saw her…oh, darn.
You keep working on it Lars. RHPS should be seen as a send up of bad sci-fi movies from the 50s & 60s and the rather repressed sexuality present in movies like Mars Needs Women and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
And let me add that I really like RPHS’s music. But then I love the Little Shop of Horrors musical, and am a sucker for catchy show tunes. So … there ya go.
P.S. I’m glad you liked by piece at Karnick’s The American Culture about Koontz’s Frankenstein books.
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JohnFN,
WHERE DID YOU GET THAT PICTURE?!
Kit… please tell me you’re not unfamiliar with Rocky Horror Picture Show? Man, the education system is in a shambles.
I have seen it. I have.
Oh, wait, it is Rocky Horror!
I thought it was a picture of something else that absolutely did not involve me.
Rocky Horror Picture Show…
Over-rated — clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!!!
F’in’ post-hippie Me Generation crap.
Rocky Horror, awesome!
So, did Mike ever turn up? We could put his picture on a milk carton?
I’m with Eric on Rocky Horror. It was two hours of my life I can never get back. Also might I add there is never a reason for Tim Curry to be wearing a g-string. NEVER.
V and Eric, there is only one way to see Rocky Horror: at a midnight showing with the fans. The audience has the power to single-handedly transform an awful movie into one of the most fun movie-going experiences of your life.
Sorry, JimmyC, that’s how I saw it, both times. Figured the first crowd was a less-than-inspired fluke, so gave it another shot. Nope, still hated it … and I was in my early 20s, too, aka, my libtard years.
I had an identical experience, along with the second attempt.
I’m reasonably sure that there is no truth to the rumor that Mike Kriskey and Ann Coulter have eloped together after realizing that they are the only Republicans in Connecticut.
Yup. I hated it too, and I saw it back in the days when you got to hurl food at people. I don’t think they do that anymore, but if food-related violence can’t make me like a movie, I’m assuming nothing really can. (I clocked this one dude in the face with a 2-pound bag of rice. Had to be done. He called me a ‘virgin’.)
RHPS is fabulous and good fun, ONCE. At midnight, with hardcore fans, slightly buzzed. Good times.
Denton, Homes of Happiness, we used to have that sign on the city limits. Don’t think it’s still there. The church where they supposedly filmed the opening scenes is just up the road from my house.
BTW, I AM NOT joining you guys for Thanksgiving unless Kriskey shows up.
As someone who’s planned a month’s programming for TCM … 30 days … 24/7 … I’m proud of myself for never seeing this movie.
I’m like that with Ghost, Matt. Never have seen it, and never will, Swayze or not.
Like you, I never saw that movie either and never will. I liked Swayze in Red Dawn, but my favorite Swayze was John Cameron Swayze.
I think Rocky Horror is a screech, and I do, indeed know the whereabouts of Mike Kriskey. Well. More or less.
Welcome to Threedonia, Sandyt2!
RHPS is overrated but a great many movies are over time. Sometimes a film can never live up to the hype. I saw RHPS in the prescribed manner (live with people in costume with props)and it was fun but never felt the need to do see it again.
A side note: rumor has it that Susan Sarandon is embarrassed by the movie and doesn’t like to speak of it. Back in the early ’90s she, Tim Robbins and kids were in a nearby town for a few months. This was during the shooting of “Shawshank Redemption” which was shot primarily in my county in Ohio. Sarandon, Robbins and others from the cast frequented the Blockbuster Video I worked at the time. We were told not to ask her about RHPS. I never saw her…oh, darn.
Ooooo if susie hates it, I’m in.
Finally, MIKE! begins to surface. Sandyt2, is he at least still on this planet?
I understand that there are people who consider it entertaining to watch men in women’s clothes. I do not understand this.
Except for Monty Python, of course. But that’s… I don’t know. A parody of female impersonation or something. I’ll work on a rationalization.
You keep working on it Lars. RHPS should be seen as a send up of bad sci-fi movies from the 50s & 60s and the rather repressed sexuality present in movies like Mars Needs Women and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
And let me add that I really like RPHS’s music. But then I love the Little Shop of Horrors musical, and am a sucker for catchy show tunes. So … there ya go.
P.S. I’m glad you liked by piece at Karnick’s The American Culture about Koontz’s Frankenstein books.
You talk about repressed sexuality as if it were a bad thing.
Never seen it, never wanted to. It looked stupid.