Rocky Horror

[Etoile]

I went to see Rocky Horror many times (too many!) when I was in college. I hadn't seen it in years when I went with Daddy a couple of weeks ago, and my girlfriend and I saw it just last night.

I wasn't into BDSM yet when I was in college, so I never noticed the whipping scene until now. Frank lashes Riff-Raff with a bullwhip several times, and Riff doesn't seem to like it...but I found myself enjoying Tim Curry's face during that scene!

I was disappointed by the cast member playing Columbia, though, because he was wearing a collar that was more suited to BDSM (three rings for attaching things to) than to the rhinestone-studded fashion accessory worn in the movie. There were also high school kids attending the movie in little collars, and I better understand ownedsubgal's perspective from the What do you believe a collar represents thread.

 

[FungiUg]

I've seen three iterations of the stage show here (they do it every three or four years.) Seen the movie, oh, way too many times. The audience participation is a lot of fun. One of my gay male friends at school introduced it to me (to this day I still can't decide if I am grateful).

I've always enjoyed the stage show much more than the movie. I think the movie loses a lot of the tongue-in-cheek humour and atmosphere. Plus you don't get to squirt the cast members with high-pressure water pistols!

The play is basically filled with all sorts of risque references from Richard O'Brien living in London at the time. Hence the straight/gay/trans-gender issues, BDSM is definately in there, as is the gothic horror and the B-grade sci-fi flick. I have to wonder what a wierd place the inside of Richard O'Brien's head is!

Richard O'Brien grew up in Auckland, by the way... same city I'm in.

Anyway, back to randomly stalking Etoile...

 

[Chicklet]

I *love* rocky. Of course, not as much as when I was in High School...When I was in High School I was absolutely mad for it.

I bought the special edition DVD recently and some of the commentaries are really funny. Live is best, of course, lots and lots of fun.

-Chicklet (just havin' her say)

 

[bunny bondage]

yeah, every friday night of my junior and senior years of high school were spent down at franklin cinema (an hour away from my house) with a group of friends, all gothed up, singin' along with Rocky. i've been a couple of times while in college, but they only show it once a month now, and i never can keep track of which friday it is.

 

[Etoile]

I have to admit I felt old when I went to see it the other night...I'm a professional who's been in the workforce for five years, whose education can only continue through night classes, and I was surrounded by students! How can I be old if I'm only 22?!

 

[zipman]

I have to admit I felt old when I went to see it the other night...I'm a professional who's been in the workforce for five years, whose education can only continue through night classes, and I was surrounded by students! How can I be old if I'm only 22?!

LOL! 22? Give me a call when you still feel like a teenager and are actually 38!

 

[lovetoread]

I love the movie. The one and only time I have a song with my name in it.

 

[D's mariposa]

The play is basically filled with all sorts of risque references from Richard O'Brien living in London at the time. Hence the straight/gay/trans-gender issues, BDSM is definately in there, as is the gothic horror and the B-grade sci-fi flick. I have to wonder what a wierd place the inside of Richard O'Brien's head is!

Richard O'Brien grew up in Auckland, by the way... same city I'm in.

Coincedence? I think not.

Anyway, back to randomly stalking Etoile...

pssst! Etoile!! I think maybe Fungi is randomly stalking you!

 

[Etoile]

LOL! 22? Give me a call when you still feel like a teenager and are actually 38!

My girlfriend is going to be 35 in September and Daddy will be 43 in December...I guess they're just rubbing off on me. (So to speak!)

 

[Etoile]

pssst! Etoile!! I think maybe Fungi is randomly stalking you!

We're stalking each other, actually!

 

[ammre]

I have some sort of weird loathing towards rockey.
I'm sorry to say it.
I found the movie boring. and i refuse to go se the showing. He goes to see it once and a while with his friends and i make it a point not to go. From the people he goeswith to the descriptions of the cround it seems like one of those bad trends that i don't feel like being part of. (the people i hear he goes with tend to have a lot of drama going on and are always talking about themselves and it's so frustrating. and yes, they wear the collars and the care bear teeshirts and have the cellphones and the pants with too many things hanging off of them with no purpose.)

er yeah sorry iw as rabling... in short the people who i know go to see it i do not like to associate with (headach city.) and if their going to be there i don't want to be there. (Performances of rockey are easy to find nearly any day fo the weekend arround here)

 

[FungiUg]

We're stalking each other, actually!

Randomly, though!

 

[jukia]

Etoile:
You feel old? I went to college with Susan Sarandon. Now I feel old!

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

Rocky Horror was a BFD when I was in high school in the 1980s. I saw it several times with various groups of people. Then in the early 1990's I saw TRHPS in an almost empty theater. I believe there was one other person in this huge cavernous pre-megaplex theatre. It was then that I discovered how much I hate the last hour of TRHPS.

It's great in a theater full of screaming girl throwing rice when one is 16. Without all of the audience participation, the part after Rocky dies until the end of the movie seems to drag on forever.

I love Tim Curry in the role of Dr. Frankenferter, but I'd like to do a Phatom Edit of the film and excise about an hour worth of plodding footage.