So bad, so, so, so baaad. To be fair though it would be difficult for anyone to come anywhere near close to Tim's performance. It does seem an odd choice to have a woman (trans or otherwise) playing Frank. Not that it makes much difference, the whole thing was a pretty poor imitation on the whole.
I just watched the fox "reimagining" of the Rocky Horror Picture Show
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More to the point, and even more worrying, is that people are claiming to have never even heard of it, let alone watched it.
Me, I have horrible memories of trying to find size 10 stilettos and even worse memories of trying to walk in the damn things when we went to see the stage show.
Man of Honour
Wow, that is terrible
It would be hard to match the original but it surely isn't impossible to not hit so wide of the mark...
Just watched this clip and "Time Warp", there was no energy, pep or edge to it. Made it seem dull...how is that possible??
It comes across as completely sanitised - as inoffensive as possible.
Soldato
I saw this in Bristol with Jason Donovan many moons ago. I looked damn good in my stockings.
Soldato
The Hot Patootie bit has been butchered (pun intended) even worse .
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I needed to get some new heels in size 12. Thought it'd be hard. Remembered that i'm 30 minutes from London. Spent 10 minutes in Soho and had a pair of lovely stilettos and a couple of other things...
Man of Honour
I saw the JD version in Darlington. Was awesome. This, on the other hand is complete cack, by the looks and sound of it.
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I needed to get some new heels in size 12. Thought it'd be hard. Remembered that i'm 30 minutes from London. Spent 10 minutes in Soho and had a pair of lovely stilettos and a couple of other things...
Charity shop here. After many, many hours of traipsing around.
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I have disturbingly small feet for a man (or 18 year old as I was at the time). So it was worryingly easy to borrow a pair
Oh dear.... It's a bit of a mash between the stage and film versions... but significantly worse than both. It's been made for network tv in America and broadcast at 8pm, which perfectly explains some of the censorship in it "A mental mind game can be nice".
Some of the lines really needed to be changed for the cast they've chosen.
Laverne Cox - I'm not much of a man by the light of day.... errrr....
Doctor Von Scott... Ummm....
Some of the cast is frankly more cardboard than the original movie sets ever were, and many of them are basically doing bad impressions of the original movie cast and that doesn't help at all. If they did their own thing I think it may have come across better.
I don't think the people who approved and produced this understood what Rocky Horror was really about. The review on Vox.com covers it pretty much perfectly tbh.
Just watch the live show that's on Youtube. It's not only the proper stage show, but it's got Richard O'Brien taking part in it and possibly the best Frank since Tim Curry.