The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event Offical Thread — Page 15

I know I'm behind, but I just finally watched this tonight. It was fine. Not great.



I grew up not on the movie but on the original Roxy cast recording. The arrangements are completely different and adjustments were clearly made for the movie to acccount for Susan Sarandon's voice. I have always GREATLY preferred the rocky horror show arrangements over the rocky horror picture show arrangements. This actually was a little better than the movie version's recordings to me. But I still wish someone would recreate the rocky horror SHOW as opposed to the rocky horror PICTURE SHOW. The latter is a cultural phenomenon that is fun and quirky, but to me, the former (without all the theater spectacle) is still better in terms of musical theater.

Sabrelady, thanks so much for your comments. Nice to read first thing in the morning! I love sounding off on issues but I become sour on the site for reasons I won't even mention. We'll see.

Chi fan - I also loved the original UK soudtrack/score/album/OCR, (take your pick). At one point I had every incarnation of the music available. Never saw that stage version, but didn't enjoy the broadway production.

RHPS was so important in my life that I wouldn't waste a minute of my time comparing this remake. True fact - my life changed overnight after my first of hundreds of viewing it!

The Bucks County version is fantastic. I saw it a few years ago starring The Skivvies, and the conceit of the Narrator playing multiple roles (as in so many other shows), but being a little overwhelmed with the quick changes, made me laugh.

I won't even bother myself to watch it. The (almost) across-the-board pans from critics, fans and musical theater aficionados has soured me on even giving it a chance. It sounds terrible.

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Thank you Jordan.

Watch from Rose Tint to the end. Ryan is a completely different being and it made me wonder why he stuck with such poor acting choices up until then. Especially after "Heathers," which he was terrific in. Enjoy "Sunday" on Wednesday!! Hope you'll post your thoughts in the thread on it!

I'm just now getting around to this and it's pretty terrible. The Time Warp is the moment when you know their interpretation of the piece is so wrong that it can't be saved. Not only does it feel like a high school musical dance sequence, but why are all the guests these hot 20-somethings with ripped abs and bare midriffs? For me, a big part of Rocky Horror is that all the freaks and weirdos and nerds and outcasts who are too old or too fat or too gangly or too bizarre for society to handle have found a place to be loved and accepted. These actors were NONE of these things. The cast should have been all ages and body types and they should have been WEIRD. That's what Rocky Horror is celebrating- not cookie cutter "hot" people in hot topics outfits.

Part of the joy of Tim Curry's performance is that it set you on edge. It was unpredictable. If wanted to have sex with you, whether you be man, woman, gay, straight or anywhere in between, he would be able to have you and you'd be powerless to resist. There was ZERO of these in Cox' performance, nor in that of the staff or guests.

Extremely disappointing.

Hey Kad! I still have to watch WW from last night! Pretty great...(today is Raul's birthday!) Later dude!

So I've watched this 5 times lol i keep finding myself itching to watch it .... Safe to say I like it , the worst part about it to me was Janet . I particularly liked magenta and Columbia !

how did you suffer through it five times lol i could barely get through one

Wow, I think I need a shot of insulin, That was so sickening sweet. No edge.... HORRIBLE!!!

I didn't care for it. But it inspired me to check out the live cinemacast they did in the UK last year - it's called "The Rocky Horror Show Live" and it's the stage version filmed at a theatre. David Bedella is Frank and I liked him a lot - very in the Tim Curry mold but fully realized. They had alternating narrators including Stephen Fry and Richard O'Brien. It's the updated stage version that incorporates some of the movie changes (reversing "Sweet Transvestite" and "Time Warp", for instance) but much closer to the original. It wasn't up to the Broadway revival which I loved (with both Tom Hewitt and Terrence Mann) but I enjoyed it a lot more than what Fox did. It's on YouTube, I suggest checking it out if you're a fan and were disappointed with what we got on TV.