Lol. Not my family. I think we occasionally made a phone call, but it was usually “let’s pop on over and see what’s playing.”
Edit: in 1999 I was sixteen, apparently.
Even still, I don’t understand the criticism of the movie. The people have a valid and vulgar culture because that’s what America has and that’s what it’s satirizing. It’s what we will become when all art and culture is sandblasted away by profit motive and the death drives of a dying empire.
I’ve been a Kubrick fan most of my life and watched Eyes Wide Shut when it came out. I didn’t like it. Then I saw it again maybe 2 years ago, and thought it was great. Tastes change.
But not when it comes to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I tried it twice, both times with friends who dressed up (I didn’t). It wasn’t funny, it wasn’t cute, it wasn’t clever, and it wasn’t fun. It was just mind-numbingly, revoltingly stupid. I hate the songs, I hate the audience participation, and I hate the whole fucking idiotic piece of shit.
What do you really think, though?
I think he liked it!
Oh god I would have died.
I’ve never seen it because I’m steadfastly opposed to Tom Cruise.
I hear you, but I’m not going to give that movie another chance. I loathed it. And I like movies about sex and stuff.
I didn’t want to yuck anyone else’s yum, but I can’t stand Kubrick, which is why I think I’m unlikely to give it a second go-round.
I never got the Rocky Horror enthusiasm either. But I had a lot of queer friends who loved it and I think it’s really for them and anyone else who felt they had to repress their sexuality or be judged for it. So I at least get the appeal.
I met my first serious girlfriend at RHPS. (She was a character; I was tearing tickets*.) I must have seen it 50 times because I worked there and somehow enjoyed it, but when I watched it again years later straight through I thought it was pretty lame.
(*For those here born after 1990 – movie tickets used to be printed on paper, and you had to give them to an employee who tore them when you went in so you couldn’t reuse them or give them to someone else. I know, right?)
Tell me I’m old without telling me I’m old. Damn, Akaj, that was brutal.
Did I mention tickets were $3.75, and a small popcorn $1.50?
I think the RHPS tickets are $10 now.
I’ll make a deal with you. You don’t make me watch RHPS and I won’t make you watch EWS. 
I’ll agree with that; in fact, it’s pretty obvious (and I’m all for it in the sense that people [i.e., the audience] have the right to be represented and a safe place to express themselves). Brad and Janet were certainly repressed…then they find a group that allows them the freedom to be who and whatever they are.
That has nothing to do with why I think the movie is pond scum, however.
The only time I saw Rocky Horror was when it first came out, before it was a cult film. It was fun, over the top camp, and had catchy music. That’s it.
Also that most viewers wanted to mate with Tim Curry.
Heck, when The Sting came out in 1973, the local theater took the opportunity to raise tickets to $2.50, from $2.00.
I couldn’t have said it better than this.
I also agree 100% with this.
The Honorary Consul, aka Beyond the Limit. A film so screwed-up, it couldn’t decide on a title.
Mostly, it consisted of talking between two characters, in dim lighting conditions. There was no action. There was no suspense. There was no … well, anything except talking about something that was not adequately explained. I didn’t walk out of the theatre, mainly because I had a nice nap during it.
Along the same lines, Havana (1990), with Robert Redford. So much possibility, with the film set in 1958, on the eve of the Cuban Revolution. But nope, lots of talk, very little action, boring casino scenes, and many scenes of Redford looking out the window of his Havana apartment’s kitchen.
As for Rocky Horror Picture Show, it’s one of my favourites. I’ve been to live screenings many times, I’ve been showered in confetti, squirted with squirt guns, held my lighter high, hollered “Slut!” and “Say it!” when appropriate, and danced the Time Warp in the aisles. But I also understand that it’s not for everyone. Art is subjective, and one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and all that. If you don’t like it, that’s fine. I guess I just had to add that I do love it.
Gosford Park is a zero star one for me. Nothing happened, then it seemed like something was going to happen, but then the movie was over before anything could happen. That is all I remember about it.
I do like Downton Abbey, though.
Me, too. The stage version had been playing in L.A., and I’d missed it, so I wanted to catch the movie. It was enjoyable. It also made me misjudge Tim Curry’s height for a long time!
Wow. This is one of my favorite movies. Every time I watch it I see more. It’s an extremely densely packed movie, but you have to pay attention. It defines the end of an era more than almost any other movie I’ve ever seen.