<p>Sorry if there's been a thread about this movie before. I did a search but the other threads were like "OR" or in the Musical Major forum...</p>
<p>Anyway...I saw the movie for the first time Saturday night, at my school, for the sleepover for our school's musical play cast. (It's not this one.)</p>
<p>The choral director said The Rocky Horror Show was going to be next year's musical. And they showed us the movie (6th graders to 12th graders).</p>
<p>What is the point of this movie? Maybe it was because I saw it when I was sleepy with very bad glasses and constant background murmur in the music room, but...it was one of the most random movies I have EVER seen in my life. I thought Pulp Fiction or Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind was utterly random (until the last five minutes), but this one really takes the cake!</p>
<p>I don't get the plot whatsoever or who the people were.</p>
<p>For those who's seen this movie, what were your opinions? A lot of my friends (coincidentally, those who don't live here or have moved away) really love this movie. :S</p>
<p>The movie's been around for ages and is a cult classic. Theres a theater in manhattan that shows it once a week and a bunch of people get all decked out like the characters and go watch. But yeah, it's one of those things that either you get or don't. Very bizarre that your school is doing it as the next musical.</p>
<p>The charm of this movie is the cult following that has risen up around it. Yes, it's an embarrassingly bad movie. However, when you see it with an audience that dresses up, acts it out and has retorts and wise cracks for every line, it becomes an experience, rather than a movie. That's why folks have seen it hundreds of times.</p>
<p>I love RHPS. It's so bad that its great. I have the soundtrack on my iPod. There is no point. It came from a "real" science fiction idea and made into a joke. It's just supposed to be ridiculous. That's why its so funny.</p>
<p>you have to go at least once see it at a theater where they have a cast dressing up/acting along, throwing rice, etc. especially when they have the "virgins" go up before the movie and put condoms on bananas with their mouth. (at least that's what i had to do, which is like the most tame one. sometimes they make people strip down and lick whip ped cream off of each other.)</p>
<p>I'm unsure whether my teacher was joking or not. We're an international school and there's been some "crack down" on dress code so.. :o somewhat doubt they'd allow the RHPS as a musical even if they make it a high school and above cast/audience show.</p>
<p>Hmmm...it does sound that if I make it to the US for uni, I'll have to watch it at an actual theatre/cinema where audiences love it and dress up!</p>
<p>RHPS = best movie ever. hands down. way down.</p>
<p>Ha, I'm one of those fans that flips when they hear a mentioning of RHPS, or Eternal Sunshine, or Pulp Fiction.. funny how those happen to be my top three favorites.</p>
<p>Ah well, as for the message or moral, each of those films is a bit like a rubik's cube.. I can tell you now that E.S. and P.F. have definite method to their madness, however RHPS.. is a hard one to solve.</p>
<p>Hard to tell if your choral director's an absolute genius, or running out of show ideas?</p>
<p>That's awesome, rainbow.. I can't say I've experienced more than a late-night sleepover with friends watching an old RHPS video. Still, good times;)</p>