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Tell me, is watching classically trained British actor Tim Curry run around in women's lingerie and stiletto heels the funniest thing in the world?

Discuss

No.

Watching a so called "invincible" warrior try to fight without any arms though...

"IT!!"

EDIT: Jolt's being warpy again...

I have never really seen the move, just bits and pieces...so myrth

Rocky horror is the best!
(see my flag!)
I think Tim curry is awesome in drag, very funny and some of the faces he pulls in the film are classic!
"I see you shiver with antici....................................................pation"

Overrated movie, venerated and worshiped by a cadre of people looking to a minor cultural niche for support and acceptance.

A bit like Star Wars and Star Trek, but for a different kind of geek.

Rocky Horror is brilliant going to go and see it live next year hopefully, if I have the money, masterpiece, funny, amazing songs, right up there with Little Shop of Horrors and Hairspray.

weird as hell, but i like it


I proudly do the Timewarp

Overrated movie, venerated and worshiped by a cadre of people looking to a minor cultural niche for support and acceptance.

A bit like Star Wars and Star Trek, but for a different kind of geek.

QFT

Young Jedi the force is strong in you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i08tTWTsAd8

:)

to me it's not particularly funny nor is it particularly worth celebrating. it's a godawful movie/stage show with a cult following who don't seem to be able to explain why they like it beyond the crossdressing/exhibitionism thing. now that much is fine by me, but i feel the acclaim that it receives requires more than simple freak-show dynamics. most of my best friends from back home are entirely enamored by it, but to me it's just another fucking drag queend movie.

Overrated movie, venerated and worshiped by a cadre of people looking to a minor cultural niche for support and acceptance.

A bit like Star Wars and Star Trek, but for a different kind of geek.

If you have never been to a live show of RHPS then you can't comment on whether or not it is overrated.

"Great Scott"

*throws toilet paper*

No,it's just kind of gay.The end.I'm not being like homophobic it's just gay.

RHPS: Interesting cult movie, unique practices, yet overrated.

Snakes on a Plane: Likeable movie, better than RHPS, should be shown on airplane flights for comic effect/interesting entertainment.

Monty Python & tHG: Hilarious cult movie, fun to watch, yet line-for-line quoting geeks ruin experience, especially inaccurate ones.

'It's "We'll call it a draw," not "Let's call this a draw"! Get it Right!'
-Me, shouting at the nerd misquoting the movie at the early point of the Black Knight scene. Despicable.

EDIT: Jolt's being warpy again...

LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!!

I prefer Mrs. Doubtfire for drag, and RHPS for touchatouchatouch me.

Funny? Yes.

Funniest thing in the world? Meh.

Ah, Rocky Horror - an important part of my misspent youth! Went to live performances and cinema screenings dressed in drag. Knew the audience partici..........pation lines off by heart. Bought the soundtrack albums. Went to RH theme nights at night clubs.

Let's face it what other musical covers Aliens, gay sex, murder, incest, cannibalism, transvestitism etc. etc. etc. and at the same time has an important message burried in there - "Don't Dream It- Be It!"?

Am I the only one that thinks Tim Curry in drag is sorta....hot?

I'm a huge RHPS fan, I love seeing it live.

Knew the audience partici..........pation lines off by heart.
Which tells me that you had a rather unfortunate group - while certain callbacks are traditional, and the same everywhere, and things like throwing toast and rice and all the rest are likewise fairly universal, most of it should be improv.

For example, the last time I went was just after there was a coal mine collapse in West Virginia. The scene where Riff Raff opens the coffin and you see the skeleton, someone shouted out "Look - its a West Virginia coal miner!". Tasteless? Yes, and thats the point.

Every group has its own 'traditional' callbacks and at least half should be improv. People keep coming up with new things to say - which is why no two shows should ever be exactly the same.

If you have never been to a live show of RHPS then you can't comment on whether or not it is overrated.

"Great Scott"

*throws toilet paper*

Wow. Such arrogance -- and over something so incredibly inconsequential. RHPS? Sorry, but 'round my hometown, they just called it Rocky.

I expected better from someone so well regarded here. I have not and would not opine so strongly on something I'd never seen, and I'll thank you to remember that.

I have seen it "live" (though how acting it out while the movie is running right behind you qualifies as "live" I have no idea). I also have the virgin "toast scars" to prove it. I was around when it first opened in 1975 and got to hear all about it from my sister, who was apeshit for the film a few years later. I even remember that the underground/new-wave celebrity afforded Tim Curry by his role got him a minor hit on the radio with a song called "I Do the Rock" (from his 1979 Fearless LP), which charted on Billboard's Top 100, though I can't remember where. Those were the days.

Some fifteen years later, I saw some of my best friends do nothing for two years but live in a trailer, work at a local pizza joint, and go to Seattle's Neptune Theater every Friday and Saturday night at midnight to "perform" what is no better than over-amped karaoke. That two-year span introduced me to the fact that while weed may not be too chemically addictive, the lifestyles encouraged by the drug certainly are. These were not idiots. Thankfully, they've long since put away the drag and gotten on with life.

I apologize for the tone, Smunkee, but I get a bit testy when someone tries to tell me what I can or cannot comment on when I know damn well what I'm talking about.

It's astounding -- time is fleeting
[WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE GROUP?]
Madness --
[MADNESS SUCKS!]
-- takes it's toll
[SIXTY-NINE CENTS, PLEASE!]
But listen closely --
[HOW LONG?]
Not for very much longer
[WHADDYA GOTTA DO?]
I've got to --
[YEAAAH?]
-- keep control [SMOKE A BOWL!!!]

I remember --
-- doin' the Time Warp
[*KICK, KICK*]

There was one more I remember...

You're spaced out on sensation --
[WHAT'S IT LIKE TO FUCK MAGENTA?]
-- like you're under sedation...

Oh, and this one...

There's a liiiight --
-- over at the Frankenstein place
There's a fi-ai-ai-hi-yai-yire --
[WHERE D'YOU KEEP YOUR CHILDREN?]
-- burning in the fireplay-yace...

...and so forth.

If you have never been to a live show of RHPS then you can't comment on whether or not it is overrated.

"Great Scott"

*throws toilet paper*

I have been. It's overrated, to be honest. :p

That doesn't mean it's not a fun movie, but the second half in particular is just stupid.

(To be fair, the second live show I went to really ruined it for me, as the crowd was just...revolting. I don't know what else to call it when - to give just one example - they literally, physically shoved a young girl to the front of the room, screamed "SHOW YER TITS!" at her, and then, when she burst into tears, shrieked obscenities and insults until one of the performers finally talked to her, found out she was TWELVE and therefore told them to shut up. (Several of them still didn't, and one guy tried to grope the crying twelve-year-old as she walked back to her seat. I have never before or since been that close to murdering a complete stranger.) The only reason I didn't walk out of that theatre was because the actual movie hadn't even started yet, and my "friends" (and ride home) refused to leave, so I would have been stuck on a street corner for hours.)

I have been. It's overrated, to be honest. :p

That doesn't mean it's not a fun movie, but the second half in particular is just stupid.

(To be fair, the second live show I went to really ruined it for me, as the crowd was just...revolting. I don't know what else to call it when - to give just one example - they literally, physically shoved a young girl to the front of the room, screamed "SHOW YER TITS!" at her, and then, when she burst into tears, shrieked obscenities and insults until one of the performers finally talked to her, found out she was TWELVE and therefore told them to shut up. (Several of them still didn't, and one guy tried to grope the crying twelve-year-old as she walked back to her seat. I have never before or since been that close to murdering a complete stranger.) The only reason I didn't walk out of that theatre was because the actual movie hadn't even started yet, and my "friends" (and ride home) refused to leave, so I would have been stuck on a street corner for hours.)

Then there's that aspect, too. Ah, people.