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Originally Posted by Boo Radley  Great Scott!... I just watched it and feel like my life has been sullied by this abomination. Makes Gus Van Sant' Psycho remake look like a masterpiece. Awful beyond my vocabulary. This isn't even a turd, this is a dribble of yellow infected mucus sliding out of the ass crack of that bloody terrible Laverne Cox.
All prints of this should be tracked down and put on top of bonfires. |
I'll have to wait until the DVD release before I get to see it
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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs They could do the same with the original as far as i'm concerned.  |
The original is not a good film by any stretch of the imagination. The acting is abysmal, the pacing is all over the place, the effects are awful, the plot is virtually non-existent and most of the jokes fall flat
BUT...
it captures a moment in time. The same criticisms could be made of any number of science fiction films from the 50's - the kind of films that Rocky pays homage to. It's a film geek film, made
by film geeks
for film geeks. The cinematic references appeal to those who get them, while others are scratching their heads.
'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' could only have been made in the 1970's, when glitz and glamour ruled the (music) world. Don't forget that homosexuality had been made legal (if you were over 21 and on the privacy of your own home) less than 10 years earlier in 1967, and the Stonewall riots were even more recent, in 1969. For a lot of young (and not so young) gay and transgender people, Rocky was the best (and only) was of expressing yourself
On celluloid, Rocky Horror is a mess, but on the live stage, it comes into it's own. That is the best place to experience it