Let's do the timewarp (again!)

Will they just stop with the fucking remakes, already?

Arghghghgh! I hate everybody involved with this. Another totally unnecessary remake.

Great....while I don't care for the movie, I respect and understand it's signifigance. It's a cult favorite, and brings great enthusiasm whenever it plays. Remaking this classic is totally pissing on movie fans everywhere.

Remaking it would be mean spirited and disrespectful IMO.

If this doesn't signify the movie industry as soul-less greedy talentless pricks I don't know what does.

I hope it's a bomb of Biblical proportions.

I hope it loses more money and tarnishes more careers than Ishtar, Howard The Duck, and Caddy Shack II put together.

BTW go and try remaking Eraser Head...I dare you!

RHPS was one of those rare moments that captured lightning in a bottle, and they won't be able to do it a second time.

This first one was magic.

With added material, I can see this turning into an embarrasment of "Grinch" proportions.

I wanna see oldfella in drag.

I wish I had a way to film my dreams then...
Last night one unusual part of a dream had me looking into a mirror...and I was much younger, and had a full head of Marylin Monroe looking blond hair.

Anyone involved in this movie is getting fish through the mail and a zombie in their toilet.

You're not alone.

It won't work. Period.

The first time I saw it we musta smoked an ounce of weed in the theater. That made the flick all the more enjoyable. And the rice...fughedaboudit!!

Nowadays, you can't smoke or drink in the theater. Throw rice, yell and scream at the screen. These are all staples of enjoying that movie.

Back when it came out, the only place you could see the flick was in a theater. When you went, the theater was always packed. Even if you didn't like the movie, you had fun.

One of my Air Force room-mates went when they showed it on post back in 1980 or so. Yeah, he was pumped up and had a ball, and brought all the rice and whatnot to throw.

At the time I had never heard of the movie.

Rocky Horror Picture Show is a once-in-a-lifetime cultural phenomenon. These kinds of cult classics can't, by definition, be manufactured. They have to develop organically, over time. That's what makes it a genuine experience. Anything else would be like going to the store and buying a pair of jeans with holes aleady ripped in the knees.

Not a fan myself but this is just stupid. They really do need to learn to leave well alone.

This is why writer/creators strive for that elusive thing known as "creative control."

So, in other words, this movie will become wildly popular and people will pay twice as much as usual for the privilege to see it?

To a degree. The first one started out as a bomb. Then they went to the midnight showings and it took off. Really, the Latenight Double Feature Picture Show was almost MST3K for the masses--before MST3K.

You're right. The first run of it was a decided bomb, but it wasn't because of the quality of the movie insomuch as it was due to Fox not knowing how to market the thing. Back then, the R rating was a stigma not a selling point, and the audiences which were most likely to embrace it weren't going to get to see it.

If RHPS were re-rated today, I doubt it'd get over a PG. There really isn't much in it that merits an "R". Hell, they only drop the F-Bomb one time.

But you're spot on: The midnight showings not only saved the picture, but made the Rocky Horror Picture Show something of a rite-of-passage during the 70's and 80's.

Without the enhancements of drugs or alcohol, RHPS is a giant piece of cinematic garbage.

But I agree, it shouldn't be remade.

They still run it all over the country at midnight movies, we went to one just the other night.
There was rice, papers, cards, toast, toilet paper, lighters and the usual groups who dress up for the parts and role play onstage at the front during the show. They make agreements with the management to use the space and are responsable for it's cleanup after the show. The motlyness of it all transends generations evidently usually by folks who do reinactments at the Renaissance festival, or at least the troup here are involved as such. The Drama Club in pervie and decident dress. They were also carding at the door.
I recall one guy getting tossed out years ago at one in Tulsa for bringing a freakin' blowtorch in for the lighter scene.
One guy was being touted as having been in the troup for twenty years.

It'll bomb I think. There's no one who can do Tim Curry justice anyway.

This would be far worse than trying to remake Heavy Metal IMHO, it can't be done.

The should remake "Manos: The Hands of Fate".

Most useless and unwanted remake eveh.

Only if they include the 15 minutes of stock driving footage.

Well, at least it wasn't replaced by Priscilla, Queen of the Desert...

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There's only one Dr. Frankenfurter, and that's Tim Curry. His gonzo performance was one in a million.

Now Heavy Metal.....that's something that certainly does have a cult following and appeal, but I could see a remake of that working.

Modern generations demand instant gratification. That's why everything is marketed as an "instant classic!" True classics stand the test of time, as each new generation discovers it. Things like The Wizard of Oz.

Modern culture operates in a constant state of sensory overload. If something doesn't achieve instant popularity and make it's money up front, then it will pushed to the background by the 100 other new things coming out that day competing for the same consumer dollar.

You can't make 'classics'. They become.

What's next? Gone With the Wind?

Fucking A!

What is it going to take for some original fucking movies? The only remakes I have been glad about in years is Batman and that is because Shumacher made a fresh start fucking necessary after his skull-fucking of the franchise.

Hmm. I say "fucking" too much when I am angry.

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn either way.

Shumacher? Shumacher? By god, I saw Batman '89 for free, and I still want my money back! It's still two hours of my life that I'll never get back, and unlike coma victims, I don't have the comparative luxury of not remembering it! Tim Burton screwed the pooch from the jump on Batman, Shumacher only went on to give it a reach around.

I agree, save for two things. One is that Shumacher's Batman was slightly less gay than Burton's (Come on, Batman standing on a rooftop and flapping his wings while making "ahh" noises? That's fuckin' gay.) and Shumacher at least had the style to use "bullet nose" Studebakers for police cars in his movies.

A remake of Rocky Horror is doomed to failure. Lt. Mewa is right - cult classics develop over time.

Oh, and Batman 1989 was halfway decent. Burton really jumped the shark with Batman Returns. By the end of that flick when he gave us penguins with rocket launchers strapped to them, it was officially hopeless.

"Okay, if I can't have fricking sharks with laser beams, the penguins will have to do!"