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Posted By: TheOutcast05 at 11:41pm, March 21, 2009
After years of people telling me to see it, I saw it.. Entertaining, good songs (and I don;t care for musicals) and good lines.. Nothing amazing, but better then alot of other flicks I've caught... Worth a watch, though I can;t understand how people can find it odd or disturbing, I found it pretty tame..A good bad movie.
As of 2009, it’s official that there have been more classic horror rehashes/remakes/homage films than actual classic horror films. It’s almost humorous when a movie like Hatchet or Wrong Turn will come around and proclaim to the masses that it’s here to bring back oldschool horror . . . for literally the 500th time. Obviously, there is something about nostalgia of overtly bad movies that captivates directors and audiences alike. In modern cinema, nostalgia has become such a driving force that things like originality, intelligence, and quality have been discarded. So, looking back on The Rocky Horror Picture Show from a modern viewpoint, I can’t help but find it refreshing to say the least. Instead of just wholesale copy/pasting past films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show relives nostalgia through semi-original ideas. If more modern homage films must be made—and I really wish they weren’t, but it’s inevitable—and if they have to copy/paste anything, then they should copy/paste The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s formula.
It’s always hard to review a film that everyone loves but you’ve just seen for the first time. Very few movies mean the same to the modern viewer what they are to those who saw it at midnight on the day it was released. I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time last night, and it simply failed to awe me. Do not misunderstand me: I’m not saying it’s a bad movie by any stretch of my words, but it was just a little dull. I can’t put my finger on why, exactly—it just was. I guess it could have been due to the overhype it receives. I was expecting some god-awesome transvestite musical with a plot like none other and characters that I’d never forget. In reality, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was just average, even for its time. It’s creative, but it’s not original. The characters are memorable, but they’re not wholesale unforgettable. The jokes are funny, but they’re a lot more typical than I thought they’d be. The entire movie is intentionally pumped with clichés, but that dulls it all rather than creates obvious homage. Maybe I’m being overly critical, but I’d go as far as to say I was very disappointed.
What I’m trying to say is this: The Rocky Horror Picture show isn’t as amazing to the first-time viewer as it’s hyped to be.
All the actors play their roles perfectly. Tim Curry certainly does not disappoint. But a lot of the supporting characters are all just clichés-with-legs, and that really dulls the movie further. It’s as if they were rejected by The Munsters and The Adam’s Family and decided to get together and make a movie with the exact same exact character profiles. It’s sad to see such a lack of imagination on less important details.
The story itself primarily unfolds in a single room, and that gets boring quickly. Though there is a lot of homage to sci-fi/horror films, there isn’t enough of it. The writers incorporate a few over-the-top 40s moments, but they’re few and far between. The story itself is mostly a long, linier cliché, and I do not think that was intentional. Even if it was, it’s boring. It’s predictable. It doesn’t hold your attention. Once your mind can get past the awesome-creepy Tim Curry character, everything just falls into predictability.
So, as you can hopefully tell, my review contradicts itself more than once. One paragraph I call The Rocky Horror Picture Show a great movie, then the next I call it pathetic. But those contradictory statements represent how I feel about the overall movie. It’s both semi-original and painfully predictable. It’s certainly not everything that the hype says it is, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve that hype. AHH! Okay, before I contradict myself again . . .
Overall: The Rocky Horror Picture show is an essential piece of cinema. It demands at least one viewing. However, it isn’t as imaginative as it appears to be.
i guess this movie is a case of severe love or hate , you either hate it or love it , no in-betweens !
i happen to be on the side of L-O-V-FUCKING-E this movie !
its been a favorite of mine since i was 11 , when i first got my hands on the VHS of this baby .
for the fans who are into it , knowing the lyrics , music , dances or dialogue , ide DEFINETLY say its much better to see it live , or at a midnight viewing !
but if you have never seen this film before , i suggest you sit down and watch it at home , and pay attention or you will most likely get lost .
all in all , i love this movie , especially because it would be impossible to imitate or throw a sequel to it , it is both untouchable and irreplaceable !
