Special Event: The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

October 20, 2016 4:01 PM

Laverne Cox stars in Rocky Horror Picture Show: LDTWA, a new tv movie version of the low-budget '70s cult movie musical. Folks are welcome to get their audience partici...pation on in here.
posted by LobsterMitten (22 comments total)

(For background -- here's the Fanfare Talk post where oh yeah suggested an audience-participation thread. If anyone wants to talk about the meta- stuff about doing this kind of thread, let's do it over there.)
posted by LobsterMitten at 4:05 PM on October 20, 2016

Previously on the blue

AV Club review - Fox’s Rocky Horror remake isn’t a time warp worth doing

Vulture - Fox’s Rocky Horror Was Never Going to Be Live, Even Though We All Kinda Hoped It Would Be

Vulture review - Review: Not Much Light in Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show

Guess I should have checked the reviews first, sounds like this may be floptacular, but, I'm still hopeful it will be entertaining anyway.
posted by oh yeah! at 4:52 PM on October 20, 2016

Um. So far, Columbia's pretty great. I'm at my house, but feel like I should put on my Frank N Furter (with the Horrible Wig) costume and run around outside at some point.
posted by sara is disenchanted at 5:27 PM on October 20, 2016

Also, definitely not enough fishnets for my taste yet sooooo hopefully that will change.
posted by sara is disenchanted at 5:29 PM on October 20, 2016

Some of the lip-synching is less than stellar, but, so far it doesn't seem as bad as the reviews. Nice to see Penny Dreadful's Dorian Gray again. And I'm liking Laverne Cox's Frank N Furter.
posted by oh yeah! at 5:36 PM on October 20, 2016

Well, I think she's great, but it seems like Cox's Frank is too "pretty," or maybe too "put-together;" Curry's Frank seemed like the person you feel like it's probably dangerous to get close to because the character is giving off some weird vibes but their charisma and your curious nature allow you to get too close and then you wake up in the morning and you're like "god that was a terrible decision. Where am I"
posted by sara is disenchanted at 5:45 PM on October 20, 2016 [8 favorites]

But if they're not going to eat Eddie...what are they going to serve for dinner when it's PRE-PARED?!
posted by sara is disenchanted at 5:50 PM on October 20, 2016

Rocky is doing some adorable face-work.
posted by oh yeah! at 5:52 PM on October 20, 2016

I wouldn't be offended if the shorts were a little smaller, but we are on network...
posted by sara is disenchanted at 5:54 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

You got your wish, booty-shorts for Rocky for the floor show.
posted by oh yeah! at 6:33 PM on October 20, 2016

It's like the kids from Disney Channel decided to put on a version of Rocky Horror.


Also, Tim Curry is making me sad. I know he's getting better, but it's still hard to see him like this.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:35 PM on October 20, 2016 [3 favorites]

OK, Lavern Cox's Esther Williams look is the best one she's had in this whole thing.


And God bless Lili St. Cyr.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:39 PM on October 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

Hey I'll take what I can get. Also Brad in the fishnets FTW, but I'm sorry, Barry Bostwick had some GREAT legs.
posted by sara is disenchanted at 6:39 PM on October 20, 2016

I'm glad Tim was well enough to sign on. My mom was his age and had her stroke about the same time he had his; she never really got better and passed away last year, and here he is, performing and making people smile.
posted by sara is disenchanted at 6:42 PM on October 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

WHAT THE HELL IS A RADIO PICTURE?
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:54 PM on October 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

Hmmm do you think they will do Superheroes?
posted by sara is disenchanted at 6:55 PM on October 20, 2016

A plethora of fishnets.
posted by sara is disenchanted at 6:57 PM on October 20, 2016

Curry's Frank seemed like the person you feel like it's probably dangerous to get close to because the character is giving off some weird vibes but their charisma and your curious nature allow you to get too close and then you wake up in the morning and you're like "god that was a terrible decision. Where am I"

Exactly. I was in my college show for four years and watched it innumerable times, and sometime in the second half, despite the complete magnetism of Frank at the outset, I always got the strong impression that he had terrible breath.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:02 PM on October 20, 2016 [5 favorites]

Do aliens even have the same dental needs as humans? I just don't know.
posted by sara is disenchanted at 7:08 PM on October 20, 2016

As someone who used to dress up and go see the original semi-weekly, I found this entertaining and inoffensive. The way they made Laverne Cox up to look a bit like Tim Curry was interesting. I think that Annaleigh Ashford as Columbia was the standout; she really believably inhabited the character while still doing something original with the performance. Adam Lambert will never be Meat Loaf but at least he didn't totally ruin the song. However, if Ben Vereen has any ability as a singer, I saw no evidence of it tonight. His rendition of Eddie's Teddy was one of the worst things I've ever heard and he ran his line in Rose Tint My World straight into a wall, too.

I could see watching this again at some point but it will in no way replace the original for me. It was nice to be pandered to as a member of this particular fandom for a change, though. Best moment of the night: "I hope it's not Meat Loaf again."
posted by jordemort at 7:17 PM on October 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

I'll give them this, their Rocky had a much better grasp of physical comedy.

(This Brad and Rocky had so much chemistry they looked like they were about to rip off each other's singlets. )
posted by The Whelk at 7:58 AM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Looks like Fox has it on here:

http://www.fox.com/watch/787153987875/7815088128

Watching most of it now
posted by I-baLL at 3:08 AM on October 25, 2016