Comments on: Rabid Fans Upset over ‘Rocky Horror’ Remake

By: Neville R

Neville R — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:32:00 +0000

A remake would be cool and amazing just like all of the stage productions that have been staged-Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi on Star Trek: TNG) has been Magenta in a production in England when she was younger. Why can’t somebody else play Magenta in a movie like its done on stage?

The fans are bitching because they all perceive Rocky Horror to be theirs, but I’ve got a big surprise for these guys and gals-it’s not theirs! It belongs to EVERYBODY, and should be for EVERYBODY, not just a bunch of fans who throw rice and shoot water at the screen, or who talk back to the screen every time somebody on screen talks. It has to be a viable property beyond just these fans, or it will become forgotten eventually (yes, it can happen even to Rocky Horror!) So, I welcome MTV Films and Paramount making another movie version of this play.

By: MyNameisAlly

MyNameisAlly — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:56:40 +0000

Well,I HATED the idea of a remake, especially by MTV, but hip hip hooray, the remake has been cancelled
(or at least post-poned) Which gives us more time to convince them that it is a terrible idea.
Nopeople i am not a freak/retard/ridiculous-wayyyy-over-the-top-fanatic-who-would-seriously-consider-murdering-someone-if-it-did-come-out-kind-of-person. However i do love the rocky horror picture show just dislike mtv
Thanks peeps

By: Praxidikae

Praxidikae — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:42:03 +0000

I've heard the scary rumors that Marilyn Manson is doing Frank… I don't know whether to have nightmares or cry… People started coming dressed up as their fave characters, throwing things, adding call backs, and NONE of it was planned. New, younger, viewers at my theater add new call-backs every show depending on current events. How can you remake something like RHPS when the reasons we love it are random and coincidental? Things like the original lab set not having a door so they had to "make" one, the mistakes in editing like Frank lifting one knee to capture Dr. Scott, and then the next scene the other leg is lifted, the pauses the characters put into their lines, even the background characters like the Trannies! You can't make something a cult classic on purpose (Well, unless you are Bruce Campbell…). It just comes out cheap and tacky that way. But knowing MTV, and the caliber of their reality shows and everything else, I guess thats what they are looking for. If the inevitable happens, and the remake is finished and released, I'll have to accept it like everyone else, but it won't make me any less sad.

By: Praxidikae

Praxidikae — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:42:00 +0000

By: Zero

Zero — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:24:05 +0000

Repo The Genetic Opera was way better than Rocky anyways. A remake might make that POS into a least a B grade film instead of the F that it is now

By: Zero

Zero — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:24:00 +0000

Repo The Genetic Opera was way better than Rocky anyways. A remake might make that POS into a least a B grade film instead of the F that it is now

By: Darren Mitton

Darren Mitton — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:30:01 +0000

FUCK MTV! They are messing with a classic! WE DON'T WANT NO STINKING REMAKE!

By: Darren Mitton

Darren Mitton — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:30:00 +0000

FUCK MTV! They are messing with a classic! WE DON'T WANT NO STINKING REMAKE!

By: Delilah

Delilah — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:24:50 +0000

MTV? The same network that brings us such mindless entertainment lacking all thought and originality as "A Shot at Love"?
That's the one factor that really irks me.

By: Delilah

Delilah — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:24:00 +0000

MTV? The same network that brings us such mindless entertainment lacking all thought and originality as "A Shot at Love"?
That's the one factor that really irks me.

By: Kristi

Kristi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:27:22 +0000

I am still trying to figure out why everything has to have a remake or a sequel. If you want to expose the “younger generation” to great movies show the original. Teach them that the computer was not always around to make pretty lights and sounds, people once actually had to have a hands on part and not sit at a desk. Our media history is being lost; black and white is unheard of and anything other than hi-def is frowned upon. Let us not be swept up in the tidal wave of new technology and forget the people who made all this possible. The only “remake” that ever need be made is a camcorder recording of a live stage performance to be put on youtube or some other internet media to show the greatness that can NEVER be duplicated.

By: Kristi

Kristi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:27:00 +0000

By: silverwintersea

silverwintersea — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:25:38 +0000

OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: silverwintersea

silverwintersea — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:25:00 +0000

OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Crystal

Crystal — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:53:12 +0000

A remake would just be a mistake. That’s all I really have to say. I mean, even if Tim Curry or Freddie Mercury did play Frank N Furter, what about Riff Raff, Magenta & Columbia? Those characters are so unique & so original, you can’t just redo them with the same standards.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:53:00 +0000

By: Kari

Kari — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:39:36 +0000

Well, I suppose if they got Yvan Pedneault for Brad and Kerry Ellis for Janet…maybe Jack Black for Eddie. If they cast musical actors for it, it could be good.
And Shayla? There is only one person that could do a better job than Tim Curry. That’s Freddie Mercury. He was asked to do the part before Tim Curry. I agree the Tim Curry was the best Frank N Furter ever, tho!

By: Kari

Kari — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:39:00 +0000

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:48:10 +0000

I just don’t see how this would work. The original… fits, if that makes sense. We know exactly what is going to happen, exactly when to insert each come-back line. It’s a familiar friend. Even if they do it scene-for-scene, the timing is going to be different and some of the best loved lines are going to fall flat. It’s not the movie: it’s the experience. It’s going out to a showing and hanging out with other fans, dancing the Time Warp, and giving Frank helpful suggestions on what to do to Brad and Janet.

Besides, it’s been sort-of tried. Anyone else seen “Shock Treatment”, the supposed sequel? It’s absolutely horrid.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:48:00 +0000

Besides, it’s been sort-of tried. Anyone else seen “Shock Treatment”, the supposed sequel? It’s absolutely horrid.