The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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How the hell have we got this far without having a proper thread about this?

I've popped the soundtrack on for some bizarre reason this afternoon and am thoroughly enjoying a mime-along. Definitely one of the most important films of my childhood, I still love it now, can pretty much quote along verbatim and think the songs really do stand up today.

But DON'T GET STRUNG OUT by the way I feel. What do YOU think?
 
SONG RANK:

1. Touch A Touch A Touch Touch A Touch Me
2. Sweet Transvestite
3. Dammit Janet
4. Planet Schmanet Janet (Wise Up Janet Weiss)
5. The Time Warp
6. I Can Make You A Man
7. Science Fiction/ Double Feature
8. Rose Tint My World
9. Hot Patootie- Bless My Soul
10.Over At The Frankenstein Place
 
It's one of the best examples I can think of, of a film where absolutely everybody involved knows EXACTLY what they're in. :disco:

Even MEATLOAF.
 
Ellie said:
I have strangely never seen it at the cinema though. Seen it twice on stage which was wonderful.
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I see it every time it comes round on stage- and that must be over 10 times now.

The film I've seen a few times in the cinema. They're showing it locally tonight, which I obviously can't go to, which has annoyed me as they're encouraging dress up and have an after party so I imagine it's going to be full on water pistols/ newspapers etc.
 
Beyond amazing and there's really nothing else quite like it. I've never seen the stage show but it's doing the rounds again next March so will definitely catch it.

I keep meaning to carve out the time to do a (Science Fiction) Double Feature of this and Shock Treatment too.
 
Duncan James was a very good Frank N Furter which I want to add here for no apparent reason
 
Shock Treatment is really SHIT to be honest

NOT EVEN SINITTA CAN SAVE IT
 
I first watched the film in the early eighties and loved it and managed to get the soundtrack LP from the second-hand record stall. First saw it on stage in Manchester in '87 and that was a total eye-opener, not so much the play itself but the journey and sights walking through town afterwards, it was amazing! Nearly forty years later and I still love it as much as the first time. I can narrate the whole film, do all the lines and know all of the songs. I introduced spawn to it in her teens and took her to the theatre to see it, the audience interaction is like nothing else I've ever seen.

Everybody in my family knows when I've had enough to drink because I'll suddenly say "I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey" then before long I start singing Late Night Double Feature and soon after I have to put the DVD on and just sing and dance my way through it. It's the weirdest bittersweet thing but I really miss Ridley when I listen to the songs now, he used to "dance" with me when shuffle put them on in the kitchen at night, he loved the film too.

I also quote from it. A lot. Most of the time people don't get the reference but Mr F always does and that's all that matters :D
 
Sheena said:
Abso…

SAY IT! SAY IT!

…lutely!
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Favourite one?

Mine is probably during ‘Over at the Frankenstein place’

Janet: In the velvet darkness, Of the blackest night, Burning bright, (What's up your ass?) there's a guiding star. (That must hurt!)

Schoolboy humour, but gets me every time.
 
I love it, and I love the experience, and the audience participation and all that, but if I'm being objective, the wheels do fall off in the second half and I usually find that bit of the film a drag.
 
What a film.

It doesn’t entirely fall off a cliff, but most of the really iconic songs, and audience participation lines, are in the first half. Plus they didn’t seem quite to know how to end it.
 
IMPROMPTU SONG RANK

1. Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul
2. The Time Warp
3. Sweet Transvestite
4. Dammit Janet
5. Eddie
6. I Can Make You A Man
7. Rose Tint My World
8. Science Fiction Double Feature
9. Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me
10. The Sword Of Damocles
 
Marilyn said:
10 Shock Treatment soundtrack
06 Shock Treatment film
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Quite! I actually slightly prefer the ST soundtrack to the RHPS one.

ST the film is better than upon recent rewatches than I thought it was too. It feels like a prototypical episode of Black Mirror in a way.
 
I’ve said this before, but of all the BFI talks and Q&As with filmmakers I’ve been to, Susan Sarandon was the most disappointing. She was incredibly rude.
 
she has bigger fish to fry, like operating a franchise of table tennis bars! she doesn't have time for THESPY SHIT on the SOUTH BANK!!!

stunning picture. :disco:
 
Maybe you should have asked a question about table tennis, Ellie
 
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