The Reel Rejects - ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) MOVIE REVIEWN! First Time Watching

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Starting point is 00:02:26 All right. So we have a few questions here today for Rocky Horror Picture Show. Thank you for sending them in and let's get straight into it. Let's do it. I want to read them? Sure.

Starting point is 00:02:37 Cody Enos, if you had a flat and we're in this position, how far in the movie would you last? Uh, I think time warp, but I'm like, I'm good. Yeah. I don't figure it out.

Starting point is 00:02:49 I would have walked in and one, two, three, okay, I'm out. Yeah. You know. I wasn't going to sit through all that, especially with all the, all the, I don't know how many more times we're going to do the time warp. And I'm like, this is shit I don't know if I need to be a part of. And I would walk out and I would figure it out.

Starting point is 00:03:12 I'd call AAA. Yeah, you would. And also, didn't they undress them before that? Like, I'm like, they started to undress them. They addressed them after time warp and after. the transvestite from Transylvania song. Well, for sure, during the addressing time. Yeah, no. Bye!

Starting point is 00:03:31 They just let them do it, too. They just let them do it. Okay. Sandrack, the easy question, the easiest question, but maybe the most important favorite song, and why? Bam in a time of you. That was yours? She's stuck in my head. Mine was touch touch me.

Starting point is 00:03:49 Oh, you like it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one was good. Those are the two that I think I've heard. heard it karaoke. Yeah, that one was a lot of fun. I don't think there's another one that was like as prominent as those two. Because there's a third one that was pretty prominent.

Starting point is 00:04:03 I heard the one he's done at the end when they first like open it up and then they're all, he falls into the pool. I've heard that one before. Those are great lyrics too. Because those lyrics were basically about being trans where you feel like you're always on the outside and your life when you're here like on earth in the world is full of like, pain and fear and then he's like okay i'm i'm going home basically where it's like welcome yeah that's how i viewed it no yeah but maybe that's why people a lot of people were attracted

Starting point is 00:04:37 to it yeah i think this a movie that is definitely um representative of the LGBTQ experience and you know i understand why this has such a occult following and yeah there's a lot of love put in this It's a very unique film, say the least. And, yeah, I'm happy that this exists, and people kind of have found a sense of community and tradition based upon this movie. Yeah. It's continued on through the 70s, 50 years later, people still doing shows off of this movie. So, I think that's really dope. Wild.

Starting point is 00:05:13 Okay. Robbie Boparp Pirate. Hi, Taron. That's our name together. How's it going? an iconic musical for both drag performances and Tim Curry. So of other movies where actors and actresses

Starting point is 00:05:28 do drag, which one is your favorite and why? And which one is your favorite Tim Curry performance and why keep up the good work? I would say Birdcage, it is Robin Williams. Amazing. Love all those songs. Great cast if you haven't seen it. And I would say

Starting point is 00:05:46 the ending with Tim Curry. I think you're asking probably other performances. but I I am not very familiar with Tim Curry like I don't know where else he's in so a lot of stuff yeah I know he is let me look it up in my phone and I'll let him answer while I'm looking at up yeah I know he had a had a stroke so he's not acting as much these days

Starting point is 00:06:07 but God yeah there's so many Tim Curry performances and he's done a lot of voice work as well some very popular performances over the years so now I need to look myself but as far as favorite like musical with a drag performance does does Harrispray count with John Devota does that count as

Starting point is 00:06:28 yeah that would yeah I like hairspray a lot so Tim Cray was in Clue Muppet Treasure Island he also was in they done a couple like Rocky Horror Picture Show like looks like remakes and he's done a lot of animation

Starting point is 00:06:46 a lot of voiceover wow I had no I dare that's cool love that um yeah so i haven't i don't i mean clue i don't think i've seen the old clue that he's done um so i would still just say the end song year i thought it was great like emotional performance believable and um i like like what the song was trying to say right um all right last question Reject Nation at the start of this year I was sitting over 20% body fat 218 pounds I was end of January as of a couple weeks ago

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Starting point is 00:10:20 Frank Friner is pretty incredible, pretty dynamic from start to finish and just the way he was so mesmerizing, they were so mesmerizing. It was something to behold. They had aura, as the

Starting point is 00:10:36 kid to say. And yeah, I was thoroughly surprised and not disappointed by this iconic performance. I would you? Not at all. Oh, I'm like, I'm really thinking through all of the characters to try to not give you a boring answer. But I feel like if you ask anyone that, Jay, they would have to go with Frank.

Starting point is 00:10:57 I mean, the thing is, is that the chemistry and the story and the vibe all surrounded around him. And he's such a large picture in this whole story. You know, I love Susan Sarandon. I think she's great. This is obviously one of her very first roles. I wouldn't say, like, she was my favorite, though. but you also wouldn't say that about Rocky. You wouldn't be like, he's my favorite.

Starting point is 00:11:20 You're like, he barely spoke, right? And so did Susan barely spoke. Her husband, kind of not her husband, her then boyfriend, barely said two words. The other girls were more like in the background. They did harmony. It's, it's, I'm not saying like, oh, it's a hard question, but I'm saying I feel like anyone you would ask

Starting point is 00:11:40 unless they really liked anyone else's performance is probably going to go with Frank because of just how the way this movie is made i bet susan saran it was really good in the movie as well she was great i mean that's who i would choose but i'm just saying like as a favorite i'm like scott be frank yeah also tim curry did nigel thornberry and i'm like yes also he's i've never seen the 90s it miniseries but i know he did that oh it's only two episodes a two hour and a half movies yeah i would love to watch the 90s it uh let us know if you guys want watch that. I have not seen that, but I have seen 2017's it, but not the 90s one. Oh, snap. Okay, I just want to read a couple trivia off. Oh, yes, please. Okay, according to the interviews, Patricia Quinn only took a role in the play because she loved the opening song, Science Fiction, double feature. She was upset when she didn't get to sing the song in the movie, but agreed to lip sync the words as pair of the red lips in the beginning. So that was her lips.

Starting point is 00:12:44 So that's kind of cool. Oh, yeah. Okay. Now, let's see. When this movie first opened, it had a traditional release with afternoon, early evening screenings. It bombed.

Starting point is 00:12:55 That's what I was curious in. Meatloves said he attended an opening week performance with the writer and director Jim Sharman in the Midwest and the theater was empty except for them. Midnight screenings became popular

Starting point is 00:13:06 in the mid-1970s. And word of mouth began to spread that the midnight audience might enjoy this movie. It began showing at midnight in cities, became so popular. It's been shown continuously in movie theaters since 1975, making it the longest theatrical run

Starting point is 00:13:22 in history. Wow. That's cool. The museum cinema in Munich, Germany, is screened the movie every week since June 24th, 1977, offering special Rocky Horror kits to enable celebration during the show. The kids contain a biscuit, rice, a whistle, a candle, and a sheet of paper with instructions for Time Morp. Wow, that's cool. That's wild.

Starting point is 00:13:50 Tim Curry, he got to meet King Charles of 30 and Princess Diana because she loved Curry in this movie. Aw. Wild. There's some other stuff in here. Maybe I'll read one more. When Barry, oh, Tim Curry was very reluctant to talk about this movie for years due to some bad memories about Overzell's fans. He told VH1 that he grew up chubby and play. and tried to escape the role of Frank

Starting point is 00:14:16 these days he's more open to talk about this movie and even sees it as a rite of passage for teenagers interesting okay that's that's really good I'll read one more when Barry Botswick pounds his fist on the table

Starting point is 00:14:32 during the dinner scene he accidentally pounded on the hand of Susan Sarandon the reaction from Sarandon is very real she got her revenge by accidentally stepping on Bo Stwick's foot and with her spiked heel during the floor show scene,

Starting point is 00:14:51 his reaction is also real and visible. That's great. That's cool. That was fun. I love that. Also, I realized where I recognized our leading man from Brad, he was in a show in the 90s called Spin City. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:09 When I was like little, I think I watched some of that. Yeah, it was like Michael J. Foxx. a show yeah and then he because i watched the freaking um charlie sheen documentary charlie sheen took over for that show when he came out as having um parkinson's yes whoa he took like he took over the character took over the took over his place oh wow trip yes that's trip i know wild and then eventually they had to take the show of the air a couple years later or something three years later i don't remember uh i think it's something that had to do do with Charlie getting

Starting point is 00:15:45 Shwasty. Oof. Yeah, something like that. I can't remember. Okay. But that documentary is good. Nice. So yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:53 What's there on? You have any closing thoughts, feelings unexpressed about Rocky Horror Picture Show? You know, it's really like odd and out there and especially when you first start watching it. As we said, we're like, what in the actual

Starting point is 00:16:05 F is going on? But then when you really think about it, especially getting towards the end, you're like, oh, it has a message for people who are, like, struggling in the queer community, especially transvestites, where his song really hit me more towards the end, where he's like, oh, this is like a life of pain. And so he's like, okay, take me home kind of a thing. Like, he had to build a monster for him to, like, love, right?

Starting point is 00:16:32 And he did it with Freddie, I think Eddie was his name, too. But the practical effects were really, really great. Like, when he breaks through the wall, everybody's coming through walls in here. I don't, I don't know. It's very sexually charged, which I'm just saying, 975, okay. They took a lot of risk with the filmmaking. And I'm like, yeah, go for it.

Starting point is 00:16:56 Because they were not guaranteed to actually have an audience, and they realized that once they sat down and no one else was there. And until it built a cult following, which I'm like, that's awesome. Yeah. No, I thought it was a very unique experience, to say to the least, probably one of the strangest movies I've watched for the channel, but I do appreciate the love and boldness that it has for its audience, for queer people, and for, yeah, people who love musicals as well. I love that this movie has garnered such a fan base over the course of

Starting point is 00:17:33 the last 50 years and that it's still steadfast and still strong and prominent. I like the costume designs. I loved the singing performances in the movie. movie, and I really dug the unpredictability of it, and I had no idea where it was going ever. Ever. And, you know, you got to respect a movie for that. Yeah. And I think that, you know, it still holds up. It may even be something that's more relevant now, especially, you know, with things happening in our country.

Starting point is 00:18:08 And I'm happy that there are some, there is a movie. that is widely loved a cult classic that people have and can like celebrate and rejoice for. So yeah, I'm glad that I finally got to watch this and I'm happy you guys came to watch this movie with us. Let us know your favorite parts in the comments below, your favorite song or any interesting tidbits you have about the movie and we will catch you guys in the next one. Adios. Thank you.

The Reel Rejects - ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) MOVIE REVIEWN! First Time Watching

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