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Summary: don't dream it.... be it !!!!!!!
Review: how many campy cult classics do you know of which reigned supreme at the midnite cinema for nearly a decade or longer? here is a perfect example of a musical which has never left our heads and seems to do well with each new generation. probability suggests that rocky horror picture show will never go out of style and purchasing this dvd is the next best thing to seeing in in your local theatre on halloween night. HAVING BOUGHT SEVERAL ROCKY HORROR VIDEO TAPES THROUGH THE YEARS, none of the vhs tapes look nearly as good as this what with all the extras you are getting here and few had the deleted scenes many of us have been after for ages. if you are going to purchase rocky horror, this is the collector's dream come true. for those of us who haven't had the experience, you obviously don't know what you've been missing through the years. tim curry gave the performance of his career as the mad dr.frank-n-furter from the planet transylvania who has discovered the spark of life. in the early portion of the film, we find a young couple out for a bit of evening fun who end up stranded in the middle of nowhere with a flat tire. with nowhere to go and desperately trying to get out of the rain, they find themselves in a nearby castle surrounded by transylvanians weirdos. i won't bother telling you the rest because you really do need to see it for yourself to believe it but i say you are in for a real treat. rocky horror is without doubt the greatest sci-fi horror spoof ever masquerading as a musical and certainly the most beloved film of it's kind. don't dream it.... be it !!!!
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Summary: Good Only in the Right Context
Review: Many people who see "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" do so in a large-group, interactive setting (e.g., theaters at midnight, filled with hundreds of devotees, re-enacting or mimicking, karaoke-style, what's up on the screen). I've never done that, and it's just not something I'd be interested in doing. Whenever I've seen this film, it's been at home, either on network television or videotape, and not during a "Rocky Horror" party. In that setting, this movie is silly, bizarre, and moderately amusing, like a lesser Monty Python film. However, if you are thinking of buying a movie like this, to watch at him and not in a party setting, I'd recommend "Young Frankenstein" or "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", both of which are funnier and more memorable.
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Summary: This Movie Rocks
Review: Well im sure only Rocky fans probably buy this movie and of coarce it's wounderful. If you are not a fan and have never seen the movie it is about a couple who have to stay at a castle full of transilvainian weirdos due to car trouble. It comes with a special code to get discounts on rocky horror picture show action figues from vitaltoys.com too!
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Summary: The greatest feel-good movie of all time!
Review: To all you people out there who are proper, organized, and think the subject matter of ROCKY HORROR is sick and disgusting, I say-- don't take it seriously, it's only a musical-comedy for crying out loud! While it may not be my favorite movie, ROCKY HORROR is definately in my top ten. It is just a fun movie-- that's all there is to it! You will simply NOT be able to get the songs out of your head, and you will want to get up and dance during the musical numbers! This is one wild and crazy movie, and is DEFINATELY NOT FOR EVERYONE! It's about a couple, Brad and Janet (Barry Bostwick, "Spin City"; Susan Sarandon, THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK), who get a flat tire and go to Dr. Frank-N-Furter's (Tim Curry, in an absolutely hilarious role as a transexual from Transylvania) castle, searching for a phone to call for help. I cannot tell you what happens next-- it is an absolute roller-coster ride of fun! It may seem sick and perverted, but don't take it seriously-- it's all in good fun! The DVD of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is excellent-- packed with extras that fans must have! Get this now, as there will probably never be another DVD of ROCKY HORROR like this again! And for how much you get in the package, it is DEFINATELY worth the money!
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Summary: SUSPENDER SNAPPING SUSPENSE........
Review: or a Nighties tale! Where HAVE you been if you haven't seen this fabled work? Panned and dished by critics initially [although the stage play drew 'em in night after night, but that's a hearse of another flavor]- this "ultra-shriek" excursion into the forbidden world of a cross-dressing, aliens [local and imported], virgins, yeah somewhat, of various 'persuasions', musclemen, bikers, and just plain old Home-grown freaks! Well worth seeing ! With a cast headed by TIM CURRY, SUSAN SARANDON, BARRY BOSTWICK - how can you go wrong? Nice counterpart? "Phantom of the Paradise"! AND - there is even a sequel! "Shock Treatment". Both by the Great Richard O'Brien.
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Summary: So quake with fear you tiny fools!!!!
Review: I honestly enjoyed this picture. It ain't great cinema, but it's worth the viewing. Since they don't make musical movies, anymore, "Rocky Horror" should be treasured as one the few existing "rock musical" films and if the music in the film weren't so catchy, I'd probably dislike this film altogether. Yet it's funny, spoofing science fiction B-movies and becoming one itself. Tim Curry IS Dr. Frank N Furter, and I'd have a hard time imagining that role to someone else. This film is so weird, it's bad and so bad it's good. Transylvania awaits you.....
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Summary: I owned this film for three hours.
Review: I owned this film for three hours. yes it was that bad. Whnat is this about? And the word's don't rhyme weith the song. iguess if you are a college nerd, you would want thisproduct, but why would you? stick with ghosty busters, a better fil. bill murray.
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Summary: YOU WILL RESPEST THE LIPS!!!!
Review: First of all, TRHPS is not your every-day musicial like annie or the king and I, it is a musical for more adult audiences. The first time i saw it i was shocked at what i saw, transvestites, gays, and domestics. Over time i became hooked. all i've got to say is the DVD is a must own for any rocky fan. the sound is remastered, for the maximum rocky experience, and it is loaded with extras, like commentary by Richard O'brian and Pat quinn, interviews with cast members, outtakes, deleated scenes productions photos and oh so much more. In short if you're not a rocky fan this DVD will convert you.... AT THE LATE DOUBLE FEATURE PICTURE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: More like "not-so special" features
Review: I have been a long time fan of Rocky. So when I finally got a DVD player, this is one of the first movies I was eager to check out. Especially when I noted the special features it included: out-takes, cut scenes, and "theatrical experience" stuff. The movie looked great. I have no complaints there. Frank looked extra glamorous with the enhanced picture. And widescreen is always good! My complaint is with these so-called special features. When I see the word "out-takes" I'm thinking some funny scenes where Tim Curry trips on his high heels or something like that. But really, the outtakes are little more than film from unused camera angles. The stuff from VH-1 Behind the Music was interesting enough, but it was nothing new. VH-1 runs Rocky Horror almost monthly, along with the Behind the Music stuff. And the theatrical experience, I think, should remain IN THE THEATER. That's the whole point of audience participation. It's not enjoying it in your living room, it's enjoying it with a whole room FULL of whackos. The cut-scenes were interesting. But that was the only special feature that I really found to be "special." So, all in all, the movie is an excellent addition to your library. Just don't get your heart set on the extras.
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Summary: The Party's Over
Review: More turns out to be less in the case of this double DVD edition of 1975's "Rocky Horror Picture Show," a charming if innocuous and uneven spoof of horror and sci-fi B movies with a rock n' roll, gender-bender twist. The whole point of the Rocky Horror phenomenon was the participatory role of the audience, not the movie, which is as much of a period piece as the movies it attempts to send up. The extra disc in this set includes a lengthy, turgid, humorless documentary about the making of the play and the movie, with interviews of the director, writer, producer, and various actors--practically everyone associated with the show except the most important contributors--the audiences whose "appearances" in the production easily exceeded those of the actual performers. We are unlikely to witness anything like the Rocky Horror cult phenomenon again. In Western theater as well as mainstream movies the role of the audience is generally passive, isolated, private and voyeuristic. Only in the Dionysian theater of ancient Greece or the cult rituals described by Antonin Artaud in "Theater and Its Double" do we learn about a kind of theater that amounted to a communal celebration of the daemonic, a liturgical worship with the audience as active celebrants. But "Rocky Horror" rewrote the rules or, perhaps more accurately, the audiences themselves invented a new form of movie, in effect "producing" the 20-year-run of a happening known, for lack of a better title, as the "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Throw away the documentary disc and set the movie's alternate sound track to "audience," easily the feature that makes the DVD the one to own rather than the VHS version. Now what you have is at best a reminder of a singular party that ended the instant it became a mass-produced commodity.
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