The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event Offical Thread- Page 7

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 7/22/16 at 12:28am

The official release date is October 20th! Fans at the panel got to see the first twenty five minutes, too.

Updated On: 7/22/16 at 12:28 AM

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 7/22/16 at 2:27am

CindersGolightly said: "Also, am I the only one who thinks that the audience isn't actually going to be in the film? I feel like it was just for the trailer. At least, I hope it is.

 

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"Unlike the original Rocky Horror, this TV edition on Fox has the fans as a part of the show, as was revealed in the preview."

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F*CK this, im out.

 

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 7/22/16 at 4:51am

YUP! LightOut90 beat me to it but YUP that's NOT just for the promo. A report from the Comic Con panel just went up on Zimbo.com and it is confirmed that the audience is NOT just for the promo. It is a part of the whole thing: http://www.zimbio.com/TV+News/articles/M-sapYNg6-F/Just+Saw+First+25+Minutes+Rocky+Horror+Self

"1. It's Very Self-Aware The new Rocky Horror pays tribute to the movie's rich history and enduring legacy by incorporating elements of midnight screenings into the movie. This means we occasionally cut to an actual audience watching the movie in an actual theater, and they're doing some of the callbacks and holding props. Also, some of the characters seem to be totally aware of the Rocky Horror history like they're just playing along. Except Brad and Janet. They're clueless. Whether you're able to get with this gimmick will probably determine whether you like the movie."

NOPE! I already had my doubts about this but that's kinda the nail in the coffin for me on it.

[Dave28282]

Posted: 7/22/16 at 5:38am

That girl is not a Janet at all. Totally miscast.

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 7/22/16 at 5:42am

Well...bright side: "occasionally"!

[Kad]

Posted: 7/22/16 at 9:54am

Nothing ruins camp like self-awareness.

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 8/8/16 at 8:10pm

This new trailer has completely renewed my hope for this production. It looks so good.

[¿Macavity?]

Posted: 8/8/16 at 9:34pm

Not bad indeed, I can't believe how close this is!

[¿Macavity?]

Posted: 8/8/16 at 9:38pm

 

(Sorry for the double-post)

However, I'm still not a fan of the whole show-within-a-show. Hmm, but I'll be happy if this can do it well.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/8/16 at 9:46pm

Literally everything about that (except for Tim Curry) looks TERRIBLE. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 8/8/16 at 11:10pm

with each new preview/trailer, it makes me want to see this less & less. It looks horrible.

[missthemountains]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 2:50am

im sorry but i have legit never been less excited/anti-excited for anything in my life. love laverne, love tim but replicating the original RHPS is unethical. an off broadway/broadway/touring production? sure! great! but nothing will ever, ever, ever touch the original and trying to do so is honestly idiotic.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 3:17am

I've always thought Rocky Horror was a "so bad it's good" sort of thing. That is how it is, right? it's not like a great piece of theater or film. right?

[¿Macavity?]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 4:18am

^It's a great peice of parody/tribute. The lovely music and bizarrely lovable story was a nice bonus.

Updated On: 8/9/16 at 04:18 AM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 6:18am

Here's the thing: A new version of RHPS was not required or needed. It isn't some long, lost classic. It's still around - - - the longest running theatrical release in movie history. It's been passed down from generation to generation. 

With this new version Fox is trying to make RHPS "a thing", trouble is that the original already is "a thing". 

Fox is trying to create and manufacture a cult film and the reality is that cult films are discovered and gain a following on their own. That is what is so magical about the original film, it was ahead of it's time - - - it was completely disregarded by the mainstream when originally released in 1975 and then snuck into midnight screenings where it was discovered and embraced by the underground and overtime it grew and became a phenomenon. 

Shock Treatment failed because it was too self aware and trying too hard to be a cult film, and although it has it's share of fans it's not special like RHPS in that it was created by the studio to be a cult film, The original RHPS was not. 

This new "take" on RHPS is pre-packaged, pre-fabricated hokum designed to force the "cult" factor down people's throats instead of allowing them to go to a midnight screening and discover it for themselves. The way it was meant to be.

This new trailer just confirms for me how bad this idea was to begin with and those new arrangements of the songs as heard in that trailer are really terrible - - - and don't get me started on Laverne Cox's vocals.

Color me unimpressed. 

This will air and then play itself out but it will never, ever replace the original 1975 classic.

 

 

Updated On: 8/9/16 at 06:18 AM

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 10:07am

It does not look to me as if Fox is trying to create a cult film, it looks to me as if Fox is attempting to pay tribute to a cult film already in existence. Whether this tribute will work or not, I am not yet sure.

As mentioned, the original film is still there, no one is taking it away from us. The reason I like remakes, even bad remakes, is that they often introduce people to the original film as well. Either people are curious and look it up, or people are told by friends that they really need to see the original before or after seeing the remake. Because of the previews for this, a very large group of people that I work with are heading to a midnight showing at the end of this month. That interest would not have been generated without this.

I know that Rocky Horror is very special to a lot of people for many different reasons, and this remake won't make any of those reasons go away. Sure it might not work, sure it might be a steaming pile of sh!t, but two nights later you can be sitting in a theatre and whipping toast at the original pretending the remake never happened.

[John Adams]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 11:19am

I saw RHPS for the first time in the Fall of 1976, as a college freshman. My small, midwestern Methodist university presented a midnight screening on campus that was free to all students. There were no squirt guns, or toast, or toilet paper, etc. That's how pre-cult-classic it was.

The most blatant difference between seeing it then, and what I will watch in October is how much more educated the general public is regarding "who's who" in the LGBT-yadda-yadda-yadda dictionary.

I think today's public is much more aware (regarding the character - not the actor) that:
    •    a man who prefers to dress as a woman can be accurately defined as “a sweet transvestite”
    •    a transvestite can be from place called, “Transsexual, Transylvania”, but not be transsexual
    •    a man can enjoy sexual encounters with both genders, but prefer to be married to a man

But... a woman (leaving out the 'transsexual' descriptor because in the 21st Century, we're able to recognize that she's a woman) who does not dress as a man, and in fact points up her glamorous femininity through clothes, hair and make-up, yet insists on calling herself a transvestite is at the very least "confused", and at worst - just a hot mess.

Updated On: 8/9/16 at 11:19 AM

[hork]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 12:00pm

jimmycurry01 said: "It does not look to me as if Fox is trying to create a cult film, it looks to me as if Fox is attempting to pay tribute to a cult film already in existence. Whether this tribute will work or not, I am not yet sure.

Agreed. This is a TV movie. TV movies don't become cult films. It's just a ratings grab, like every other TV movie, no different than the live musicals, except that it's not live.

[Theater_Nerd]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 12:18pm

Regardless of what it's trying to be or not to be it looks very uninspiring.

I will pass.

I agree this will fade and be forgotten and the original will remain.

Updated On: 8/9/16 at 12:18 PM

[RussT2]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 12:48pm

No one will know for sure if this new  FOX RHPS will be good or not, but from the choices they've made so far with casting and what they've shown in the trailers, it looks horrible. First of all, it looks too squeaky clean. Even worse, EVERBODY looks like a professional model. Also, Dr. Frankenfurter is a transvestite. Part of the greatness of Tim Curry in the role was that it was obvious he was a man dressed in women's clothing. That is completely lost with Laverne Cox in the role. I guess fans of GLEE will enjoy this because that show was perfect for taking great songs and watering them down till what made them great was wiped away by pablum sucking homogenized wanna be pop singers. Tim Curry had a stroke a few years ago and had to sell his home to pay the bills. That and the fact that this is probably the only work the guy can get is probably the reason he's doing this. I feel for him but he's being a team player. The rest of the cast is blameless because they need to earn a living and a job is a job is a job. However, this movie is going to be a well made and promoted big, stinking pile of feces. Kids and teens will love it because they just don't know any better.

I came back and edited this because I forgot something important that I wanted to add and I think it's the most glaring mistake the producers are making in this new production. Everyone is thin, young and good looking, not counting Ben Vereen. The very reason RHPS  movie became a cult film is because it drew a fan base of people that didn't fit in with the popular kids. Look at the Transylvanians in the original movie. You get fat people, skinny people, old people, short people. They purposely used all sizes and shapes. You see none of that in this new movie.

Updated On: 8/9/16 at 12:48 PM

[Theater_Nerd]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 1:10pm

This is definitely an RHPS for the pubescent set raised on "High School Musical" and "glee". 

I agree with RussT2 in that the concept of "transvestite" went out the window with the casting of Laverne Cox in the role of "Dr. Frank-N-Furter". A Transgender person and a transvestite are not the same thing.

I can't even bring myself to "hate watch" this.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 8/9/16 at 4:48pm

RussT2 said: "I came back and edited this because I forgot something important that I wanted to add and I think it's the most glaring mistake the producers are making in this new production. Everyone is thin, young and good looking, not counting Ben Vereen. The very reason RHPS  movie became a cult film is because it drew a fan base of people that didn't fit in with the popular kids. Look at the Transylvanians in the original movie. You get fat people, skinny people, old people, short people. They purposely used all sizes and shapes. You see none of that in this new movie.

 

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This is one of the best points i have read here, and it has not gone unnoticed. While I am not necessarily against this TV-movie yet, the casting choices do detract from the "Don't dream it, be it" theme.  That is a theme that works better when you have people from all walks of life playing the parts.

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 8/23/16 at 1:01am

Surprised nobody has posted a link to the newly released Time Warp yet. 

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 8/23/16 at 1:07am

It's in the soundtrack thread. 

[Theater_Nerd]

Posted: 8/23/16 at 9:31am

CindersGolightly said: "Surprised nobody has posted a link to the newly released Time Warp yet. 

 

That was awful. It lacked energy and is soulless.