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Oct 13, 2024 10:49 PM
MayMyEnemiesLiveLong
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TyrannusEquus
My first time viewing it was at a theater where we did the whole shouting and throwing things. I went full Franken Furter because the people I was with doubted that I would. The MC did not believe a first timer would go that far. It was a lot of fun, if you can do it live, do it live.
ICountFrom0
Given the situation:
Rose tint my world, keep me safe from my trouble and pain!
BadderBob
"Buy an umbrella you cheap bitch!"
KilroyLichking
lady's and gents meatloaf is back on the menu
atrielienz
My parents chose to expose me to A Clockwork Orange instead and so I had to see it on my own as an adult.
TfromNZ
Having seen this show several times this is Good to read
jshann
I got to play Dr Scott in a shadow cast one time. It was so much fun!
Kwyjor
The film is substantially improved by the presence of an enthusiastic audience.
KilroyLichking
TOAST
ssjalhazred
I wanna go, to the late night, double feature, picture show...
bikergeek6249
#1 Tim Curry as Frank was why I realized I was bisexual. I mean, I'd been attracted to David Bowie, but back in the day, everybody was gay for Bowie, so "still straight, bro". But then when I realized I found Tim Curry attractive, light dawned over Marblehead.
CakeShapedPie
I had similar feelings but it still took a couple decades for me to put the pieces together
cloverleafbane
cloverleafbane
Okebel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvHMBkYg1sw
Spidey209
Did they miss the bit where Meatloaf was murdered and made into Meatloaf? Kinda key to the whole thing.
nickelrocket
I never watched this movie WITHOUT yelling at the screen and throwing things in costume. That's. That's just how it's done. Otherwise you start to realize the film is... bad. And a little boring. I was 17 and drove my younger sister and her friends to the midnight show tons of times. Theater kid heaven.
jaggcomputing5
Have to confess I started to find it boring after the fiftieth time. Haven't watched it for about 35 yrs.
darkfirebrand
Honestly,
If you can - go see it live at like the west end. It was awesome, still cross dressing and yelling - only the crowd can throw the actors off their game.
Utterly brilliant
somnif
Now, for a wildly different, yet weirdly prescient experience, go watch its sorta-kinda-ish sequel, "Shock Treatment"
somnif
(The plot is basically "What if Reality TV happened".)
NarratorDurden
Best. Disney. Queen. EVER.
Spudd86
Disney? Did Disney buy the studio that made it?
Ekaris9
Yes. Dr. Frankenfurter is now technically a Disney princess.
NarratorDurden
hammster0
I somehow missed the cannibalism despite having seen RHPS multiple times. In my defense, I was distracted.
ahorseelbowdeepinme
*Sigh* After 2 glorious years in a row performing as Brad in The Rocky Horror Show my theater company decided to do a different Halloween show this year *double sigh*
ASquirrelNamedLloyd
Hahaha!
HillOfBeans
FermentTheRich3000
Sinners!
barbarian818
And don't forget the toast and squirt guns!
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
I saw it when I was 5 and it terrified me and I repressed it, then saw it again with friends in high school and was like oh shit this is amazing... oh shit, I've seen this before
Unclescam
Wait wait wait....the doctor is an alien? I thought just the other two were aliens and they were using him because he was smarter than they are.
CakeShapedPie
He was the commander. He thought he was returning home but Riff Raff explains his misunderstanding
doggetofftheqcekmty
I don't think I've ever gotten through the entirety of this movie. I may have to try again this year after that summary.
dingybasement350
I'd recommend watching it at home first.
doggetofftheqcekmty
Oh, no way in hell am I doing the interactive version.
Ferrous
It's much more enjoyable with all the nonsense around a live showing with cast. By itself it's eh.
dingybasement350
What's it like to be the mayor of Wrongtown?
Kwyjor
There seems to be a surprisingly broad consensus that the second half fares poorly in comparison to the first.
doggetofftheqcekmty
That would explain a lot.
rh82
Torn between wanting to let people enjoy things and wanting to vent my *extreme* dislike for Rocky Horror Picture Show. I'm glad people have fun with it, at any rate.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
You can go ahead if you want. I like it but I'm fine hearing/reading why you don't. I think Die Hard sucks, so I can relate to being blasphemous around here. :)
Neednoggle
Well I kinda wanna watch this movie now
CakeShapedPie
Tis the season, check if your local independent theatre has a showing with tickets still. Mine is doing 14 showings and only 4 still have any tickets
Bring a newspaper
GravyEducation
One of the gaps in my cinema knowledge unfortunately
hoofyrider
Same i tried watching it and just didn't get it. Gave up part way through. Finished it eventually a while later and still just felt eh to it.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Personal opinion of course: see it live with a group because doing so is an experience that's interesting to have once. But taken on its own merits, it's just a weird mediocre movie with some mildly catchy tunes.
TheLooja
Fix yourself
adrianontherocks
#1 how attractive are you supposed to find him? He’s Tim fucking Curry in his prime, the answer is ‘all the attractive’.
Nathanyel
urkie
In RHPS. Tim Curry is not heterosexual, nor is he homosexual. He's just sexual.
WibblyWobblyTimeyWimeyFox
He's a Sweet Transvestite, from transssssssssexual Transylvaniaaaaaaaaa~
TisCass
Watched Rocky Horror before puberty, he IS all the attractive and damn can he work it in heels! I can't walk in them as an adult woman lol
Sasurau
RealRaceRiotsAreAboutGettingBlueshelledInMarioKart
SAY IT! COME ON DAMNIT! SAY IT!
JCBalance
...................................................SPACE!
Quarantane
LoitninStroik
.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................pation.
chunguswangus
friendsofsandwiches
I watched that movie in film history class.
girlyBIRB
I watched that movie at a lock in at church.
friendsofsandwiches
at a lock in?
MissChickle
Where they lock you in a church overnight with other kids and you watch movies and play games and eat food and stuff.
sundaymondayhippyday
What an interesting concept I’ve never heard of a Lock In until now….
MissChickle
I've never participated (I was raised Christian but not very involved in the church, then became atheist), but I remember more religious classmates telling me about them. Seems like they had a lot of fun.
seekingdaedalus
it's basically just a "big sleepover", but at a community building instead of someone's basement
StandingAgain
I went to my first viewing as a 13 year old girl with a group of other hoodlums and a midnight viewing in Philly, PA, it was an amazing night of people yelling and throwing things at the screen!
bikergeek6249
TLA on South St.?
StandingAgain
No it was on Frankford ave in Northeast Philly.
bikergeek6249
Ah. Back in the '80s (and before) the TLA used to be the local "art house" and showed movies...and had RHPS on Saturday nights at midnight. They stopped showing movies around '88 or '89 and went to having live performances only. I remember seeing a bunch of flicks there back in the '80s, notably Diva and Koyaanisqatsi.
StandingAgain
Yeah no this was the Devon movie theater in the early 1990’s
PutThePRNDLinD
Isn't it child neglect not to make certain that your kids have watched Rocky Horror?
Spidey209
No. We were expected to discover it ourselves on the Late Night Movie Show on the telly like all the other perverts.
secretdpp
My parents conceived me during Touch Me and were both apparently high as fuck
DeguRatface
Me and my best friend watched it while the parents were out at a young-ass age. Loved it despite the sexual themes lmao.
WeAreOctopi
My little sister asked if the Dr. Was a vampire, she was like 10
Corrodias
That sounds... suspicious. I haven't seen it, but if this post is anything to go by, that is not a show for children.
alwaysacleric
It's absolutely fine. People these days are too fucking prudish
eeps
I watched it on TV with my mom when I was 12. She answered any questions I had about it. The part where they eat Eddie was, by far, the most disturbing part of the movie.
LeSethX
Considering the best way to view it is in a live theater with an audience, and the good theaters will ask if you are a virgin ("Have you seen the movie before in this setting?"), best not for kids.
If you are a virgin in this sense, you are required to perform slight hazing acts on stage before the show
MantisTobagganMD
Yea, I watched it for the first time with my parents when I was 14. Even then seemed a littled early. Very weird watching excperience.
jjp803127001
That was about the same age my folks rented it my brother and I over Thanksgiving weekend. Although we had been watching Vietnam War movies since we were 7ish so we were already off.
biogeofanatic2
I'm 36 and I still haven't seen it (cue internet rage)
MechKelly
Same.
CakeShapedPie
Tis the season, check if your local independent theatre has a showing with tickets still. Mine is doing 14 showings and only 4 still have any tickets
Bring a newspaper
SalmonTheWise
And wear a striped shirt.
LootenetDan
Maybe an unpopular opinion here, but I saw it as a fairly sheltered teen & had some trouble with it. There are two scenes that really struck me as nonconsensual encounters (even though Wikipedia credits them as seductions). I haven't seen it since, to my recollection, but it always bugged me how people responded to that
CrepuscularCryomancer
absolutely nonconsentual, yes there was seduction involved, but he did so while disguised as the victims' respective fiance both times, and both times they were upset when they found out it was him. and yet people just let it slide because... Tim Curry funny?
slayston
I watched it at 35 for the first time, it's definitely super rapey and I'm not sure why people like it so much. The songs weren't even that great. I really just don't get it, I don't hate people for liking it or anything I just don't understand why they do.
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
Same as The Big Lebowski. It's not particularly "great" rather, it has some very quotable one-liners and usually has an "in-group" of people that do so.