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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1 Viewer)

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  • Yes - let's do the time warp again

    Votes: 54 59.3%

  • Not good, not bad - Little Nell on the offdee scale

    Votes: 10 11.0%

  • No - Woz, you're weirder than Dr. Frankenfurter

    Votes: 27 29.7%
  • Total voters
    91
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Showed this to the wozwife last night and we enjoyed it. So, apparently, while I generally hate musicals, people in costumes, meatloaf, and audience participation of any kind... for whatever reason I dig this movie.

What say you?

 
I was once in a band and I loved when we would cover science fiction double feature. We rocked that stuff.

 
I'd also put this up there with Full Metal Jacket and Wedding Crashers in that the first half of the movie was by far better than the second half. I kinda lose interest when Riff Raff goes all mutiny.

 
'Amused to Death said:
Nothing beats the theater experience. :thumbup:
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:goodposting: With a good crowd. I enjoy audience participation, I do not enjoy going and having a group actually perform the entire movie in front of the screen.
 
I generally hate musicals, too, but this movie, and most of the music in it, is awesome. It is corny as hell, and I love it.

 
I've never seen this. My brother and sisters are all much older than me. I remember them talking about how much fun it was to go to the theater to see this, and everyone in the place would recite every line out loud. Sounds annoying to me.

 
Used to go to midnight showings all the time when I was in my mid-teens.

Terrible to watch as just a movie. Audience participation, when done right, makes it.

 
Used to drive to Columbus when I was in HS and catch RH at good old Graceland Theater.

The theater environment and audience participation is what really made it fun; as a watch-at-home movie I'd recommend going in with low expectations.

What theatre has been showing RHPS for the longest time?

In the US...The Graceland Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, which had been showing RHPS regularly since 1976, has closed. The Austin Cast's run, with two weekly shows since May 12, 1976, was disrupted in 1997. The longest run left is probably the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, or the Clinton Street Theatre in Portland, OR, which have both been running since 1977, according to Fox. The theaters themselves claim their runs started in 1978 (January and April, respectively). The Naro Extended Cinema in Norfolk, VA has also been running the film since 1978 (September). It's gotten to the point of "how do you define a run?" (the Oriental now only shows the film once a month, for example, and the theater was closed for repairs briefly in 2014, causing the film to miss a month).
 
Das Boot said:
Used to drive to Columbus when I was in HS and catch RH at good old Graceland Theater.

The theater environment and audience participation is what really made it fun; as a watch-at-home movie I'd recommend going in with low expectations.

What theatre has been showing RHPS for the longest time?

In the US...The Graceland Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, which had been showing RHPS regularly since 1976, has closed. The Austin Cast's run, with two weekly shows since May 12, 1976, was disrupted in 1997. The longest run left is probably the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, or the Clinton Street Theatre in Portland, OR, which have both been running since 1977, according to Fox. The theaters themselves claim their runs started in 1978 (January and April, respectively). The Naro Extended Cinema in Norfolk, VA has also been running the film since 1978 (September). It's gotten to the point of "how do you define a run?" (the Oriental now only shows the film once a month, for example, and the theater was closed for repairs briefly in 2014, causing the film to miss a month).
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My crowd has dressed up for showings for years at our local showing. It's such a good time.

 
Raider Nation said:
I've never seen this. My brother and sisters are all much older than me. I remember them talking about how much fun it was to go to the theater to see this, and everyone in the place would recite every line out loud. Sounds annoying to me.
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It's fun. But you have to know the movie really well to really get the full effect, IMO.

 
1234 said:
TOAST!!!
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First saw this in about 1985. My best friend and I went to a midnight show...with his dad because we couldn't drive. He's actually the one who told us what to do. The only thing I came prepared for was a piece of toast tucked in my pocket... My toast throwing was impeccable and garnered raucous applause from the crowd (at least that's how I remember it).

 
I was invited to go in 1978 by a girl I had a thing for. I had no idea the premise of the movie when I was asked, I just knew I would say yes to most anything that girl proposed. She was, BTW, a dead ringer for Susan Sarandon, if a bit younger than Sarandon in the movie, and had a very sassy attitude. We met outside the theatre. She was dressed rather more conservatively than I had hoped yet she was getting raving comments from the Transsexual crowd outside in line who were all wearing nothing but lingerie. O.K., weird, but I could roll with it.

We get in and the movie starts. Ann puts on a hat she had in an oversized bag and I realize she is dressed exactly, and I mean exactly like Janet.

Well, by the end of the movie having tossed toast, sprayed water on folks, and having learned to time warp, I'm leaving the theatre with Ann now wearing Susan Sarandon's final number costume. She asked if I liked it and did I want to go back to her place.

That same girl introduced me to the Princess Bride. She came over when I was sick and read the book to me.

 
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Limp Ditka said:
Used to go to midnight showings all the time when I was in my mid-teens.

Terrible to watch as just a movie. Audience participation, when done right, makes it.
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I started going back in high school, around '80 and the crowd is a must.

Watching it on TV for a newcomer is a killer, this should never be done. I can watch it on TV and enjoy it because it brings back great memories. I even enjoy just listening to the songs from time to time.

 
I used to hate this movie, but my ex took me to a theater showing and all the audience participation got me hooked.

 
Raider Nation said:
I've never seen this. My brother and sisters are all much older than me. I remember them talking about how much fun it was to go to the theater to see this, and everyone in the place would recite every line out loud. Sounds annoying to me.
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You watch it the first time with no context, you're going to hate it.

 
Used to go in the mid-80s to the theater in Harvard Square in Cambridge. Great to go out 'late' like that all the way into the city (we were nerds/losers). We knew every line, every audience participation. The theater had performers who would be dressed up and would go through the movie before it started. They liked to call out 'virgins' on their first visit. On mine they said I looked like (with my bright blonde hair and glasses) Cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch. Good Times...

 
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