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Merrick here...
Because the original film's influence on pop culture wasn't significant enough...MTV is prepping a remake of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.
Two-hour remake will use the original screenplay by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien but may also include music not featured in the original.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
If I'm correctly interpreting the somewhat imprecise wording of the Variety piece, this will be broadcast on TV here in The States & distributed theatrically overseas (I think).
I just slid off of some awesome post root canal pain killers...this news compells me to hop back on.
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That is all.
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This was discussed freakin last decade and nothing became of it. I am just curious how you substain that level of CAMP in the world today? It would seem hard to do without going a bit overboard on the sex.
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Fuck 'The Rocky Horror Show'.
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Enough with the remakes. Lightning will not strike twice for RHPS. The original is magic that cannot be duplicated. Although it may be a good excuse for Tom Cruise to come out of the closet to play Frank!
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Really, just no.Walk away. Leave it alone.
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Endless sequel posts such as
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RH was one of those "of the moment" bits of nonsense that worked way back then, but trying to redo it?? Who's the audience? The diehard fans will hate it and the new viewers won't get it.
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I hate the time warp!
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...nobody.
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And then a step to the riii-iiii-iii-ii-ii-ight!
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Please kill yourselves.
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Would be Tim Burton, and at this point I think even he'd fuck it up.
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Doens't she refuse to even talk about that movie?
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Jul 24, 2008 1:28:43 AM CDT
No one could be a worse choice than the anti music MTV
by industrykiller!
There is no excuse to watch that fucking abhorable channel, even if you're a teenager. it destroys every sector of pop culture it decides to lay it's icy fingers on and when it does get around to playing music its just the most godawful crap any imbecile would ever choose to expose their ears to. no doubt they'll decide to fill the cast with up and coming talentless hacks and vapid pop stars who can't write music or dress themselves without a stylist. This is a fucking crime.
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The old crossover.
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how very sad.
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...as Frank-N-Pussy and Dammit Janet.
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Come on, by now people should have figured out that anything that comes from VIACOM has a 95% chance of being soulless shit.
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Because naive '50s sensibilities colliding with the kinky, sexual exploration of the '70s is something the kids really relate to now.
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can't imagine them giving two shits about this, not when they could be watching some show about some asshat parents shelling out 50 grand for their little precious' sweet sixteen. douchebags.
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There aren't any new and orginal scripts floating around Hollyweird? So you have to remake everything that has come out already. AssholesMTV, really MTV? I thought they got out of the music business in the 90's.
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thats what you do to girls you pick up at RHPS. I go regularly. You'd be surprised what kind of tail knowing all the call backs can get you.
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But then again I'm probably not going to see it so no harm no foul.
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pseudo goth chicks sporting the horn rims. very nice.
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Jul 24, 2008 1:47:09 AM CDT
AAAAAND another FUCKING REMAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by alucardvsdracula
BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN. IN HELL.
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Only Joss Whedon can do horror comedy camp musical with the gay and the straight. Yeah!
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Years ago.
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Jul 24, 2008 2:10:12 AM CDT
Wait, this isn't the version from, like, five years ago...
by justinsane
...that was supposed to star Marilyn Manson, is it?
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that is all.
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Where the hint of a boob sends the entire country into paroxyms of self-loathing and disgust?
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only performed as a gangsta rap version. yeah, i see potential in this. NOT! (That'll never get old)
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...y'know what, I'm just too fucking tired.
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Why remake this? Especially MTV, come on now. What is the point?
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My user ID says it all!
As Quint put it recently, Rocky was lightning in a bottle! You can't pull it twice! Besides, with MTV behind it, I can already seeing it beeing all nu rock or R'nB. AAAAaaaw, please, don't! -
Can you picture this abortion?
Chocked full of Hip-Hop "artists" and Americans Next Top Super Model runners up. A Humorless, Star of the Moment, Ghettoized, Camp-less bowl of stinking, steam, fly buzzing horse shit...thats what this will be. -
...all these REMAKES and REDOES and whatnot really piss me off! C'mon, Hollywood! We're out there! We got ideas! Seriously! Ah, well. Back to my cigarettes, homemade wine and Scott Walker albums. That's what us REAL writers do!
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Who are they gonna get to play Dr. Frank-N-Furter?
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Please for the love of super sexy Jebus. Abandon this future abortion now before it develops a face.. You will not capture lightning in a bottle twice with the same material. You wanna do a special edition of the original and double dip that way...fine.. Maybe bring in Bay to do some wicked cool explosion shit when the castle lifts off... I can get behind that but please don't rape my sexlife... see I'd say Childhood here but the original Rocky Horror is responsible for every bit of kinky crazy sex that I've ever had. and it's been a great ride. Ya'll can stay in your own side of the sandbox but stay the fuck out of mine....
Cheers
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the fuck??? noooooooooooooooo
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There's no difference to MTV doing this than to the myriad stage revivals that have toured for the past 30 years. If they go for a filmed version of the stage musical, I can't see a problem, that is. If they go for a shot-for-shot remake of the somewhat wobbly movie, then that would be stupid. Oh, and Guy Pearce for Frank N Furter...
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..."American Mall". I saw the trailer for that one and wanted to punch someone.
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And you know there'll be all sorts of various musical influences including rap & hip-hop to appeal to the largest possible market.
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is perhaps the most soul-less, creatively fucked up, alien idea I've EVER heard.
I'm no Rocky hardcore fan either so I don't know why this news has hit me so hard. Over the last few years we've seen everything looted. Jesus we're on course for 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' shortly and I never thought THAT day would come.
But no. RHPS being remade tops them all. For all it's sexual decadence, murder, incest and transgenderism it has a '70's innocence that - in its resurrection - is being raped harder than that scene in Irreversible. -
look, i know that hollywood has gone bone dry...but this is just silly...
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with new music styles and the corporate takeover of the music industry, this movie is ripe for a remake
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Idiots.
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That's not too abysmal...we can put an old Duran Duran video.
Maybe this time there'll a happy ending. Eddie isn't eaten, Frank
runs off with Rocky, darkness doesn't conquer Brad and Janet, Columbia hooks up with Professor Scott, and Magenta and RiffRaff get the medusa treatment for their treachery! -
Jul 24, 2008 6:29:05 AM CDT
I'm not even going to list the reasons why this is a stupid idea
by gabba-uk
We need to arrange some sort of a cull for the suits in Hollywood. The ones we have are not fit for purpose. Unless their purpose is to fuck everyone off in which case their doing a great job of that!!!
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Prepare for a prime obliterating bitch-slap.
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What are the odds that Janet is played by Rihanna and Brad is some Maroon 5-ish douche bag? MTV ruins everything they touchMarilyn Manson must be Frankenfurter - it would be brilliantly genius. On a side note, I would willing play the man with no fucking neck.
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Neil Patrick Harris as Brad, Felicia Day as Janet, Nathan Fillion as Eddie. Reunite the Dr. Horrible cast on this.
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Years ago, I heard the soundtrack long before I actually saw the movie. I thought some of the songs worked in a campy sort of way and in fact, a couple of them (Sci-Fi Double Feature, Sweet Transvestite) were pretty strong stand alone tunes. Then I saw the film, thought that Curry was good but the movie was basically awful. But I can't imagine anyone but Curry putting those lyrics across. Marilyn Manson? Gimme a break. He was, is and ever shall be nothing more than an Alice Cooper poser to me. I'd actually rather see Alice take a crack at it than Manson if anyone has to. As for the rest of the cast, who cares? I'm too old for stoned midnight movies and that was the only way that RHPS should be viewed to begin with. Is there no one left in Hollywood who can come up with an original thought?
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...so they could have had Jessica Simpson and Nick Lahey play the leads.
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And this is coming from someone who thinks the original film is one of the worst things ever made, but even I realize there tons of people out there that hold it sacred.
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Make it into a good station that doesn't play reality shows geared towards brainwashing 13 year olds into being mindless zombies.
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog FTW.
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It's coming. 2010 it seems.
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The original sucked, the movie has survived because it is a joke.
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Give this to Quentin Tarantino, probably the one who would best understand why the original works so well... Javier Bardem for Frank N Furter, Brandon Routh for Brad, Lindsay Lohan for Janet and we are in the right direction...
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Just sayin...
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This will not work. It will be completely awful. Zac Efron will probably be in it. This is 100 times worse than any other remake I have read on this site. Movies like this work because of when they were released, the cast, and nostalgia. This will be a fuck-up of monumental proportions.
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Not because I am a rabid fan of the original, but because this is possibly the least essential remake of all time. Even people who hate the original would probably agree that you cannot duplicate the circumstances that led people to embrace it. This remake will fail and be forgotten within months.
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Since NPH has played the emcee in Cabaret, he could definitely pull off Frank, so cast him there instead of Brad. How about Peter from Heroes as Brad?
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...of all the 'cult' movies of that era, Rocky Horror has proved to be the limpest, most easily adapted to happy clappy singalong musical theatre...compare it to Pink Flamingos and Divine eating dogshit looks like sheer genius
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http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=674158803270
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Today's 20 year olds can easily grab the original DVD right off the blockbuster shelf if they want it. Why does Hollywood think they need to throw a "new and improved" stamp on everything to sell it to a new generation? Eyeroll, Sigh...
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Deeds not words! There has never been a superhero like ACE HUNTER!!
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Glorious cheese.
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they'll just go away. I mean this remake is of a movie that is still making money. Ridiculous.
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...That was sound of thousands of goth kids slitting their wrists because somebody is remaking a movie they thought only they knew about...
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The bannister is lucky... Ok, had my momentary reversion to having seen Rocky Horror way too many times in my youth. Excitement has past, please let it die now.
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You can't do Remo Williams in 2008, the Korean stuff is really kind of racist. I don't think a studio would have the balls to do that in a film these days.
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The only remake they could do that would interest me is to recast with all the gender roles reversed and make Rocky a sexy butch bisexual and Brad the one that gets the sexual awakening. Otherwise... what's the point MTV? I mean, it's not like you aren't the biggest whore on through the cable wires already, but you have to do something like THIS to get attention now? You'll get higher ratings if you let Liam Lynch make another show for you and rebroadcast all of Sifl & Olly before it.
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Something makes me think Neil Patrick Harris will somehow be involved...
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yeah. re-makes. fuck 'em.
however, does anyone know anything concerning the status -- more likely, lack thereof -- of the proposed _diamond dead_ collaboration between with (the original) _rocky horror_ author and a ceratin mr. romero, who has some experience framing shots with lurching corpses? it's probably deader than the concept of smart zombies, but this project actually sounded like fun. asia argento was attached to it, which is, you may sure, far more than i can say about myself... -
...Carson Daly as Brad, Miley Cyrus as Janet, Lindsey Lohan as Magenta, Flo Rida as Eddie, Rihanna as Columbia, That guy from Disturbed as Riff Raff, The Jonas Brothers as assorted Transylvanians, Chris Brown as Rocky... and of course Gerald Way from My Chemical Romance as Dr. Frank N. Furter... all cleaned up for a PG-13 rating... UGH! I'm outraged already. The youth of today are a buncha gaywads!
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The original was already boring and overrated, so there's nothing to fuck up. Everybody relax and move on.
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oh, ok, I can't even type that with straight face..
this worst idea since the last really really crappy idea out of hollywood.. which was likely a millisecond before this.
Of course, I DO want to see "BRIDE OF DR. HORRIBLE *" on the big screen.
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have an IS.. place it anywhere you like to make my last post make sense...
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I believe this is a catastrophically stupid idea. There are far to many nuances within the film that there is no way they would even remotely be able to compare to the original.
But what difference does that make? They aren't making this for the weekly Rocky fan, oh no. MTV will be attempting to appeal to the lowest common denominator, i.e those Juno-loving, Katy Perry and Dashboard Confessional lovehards who haven't even seen the original and/or wouldn't dare be caught watching something so "old". (See also: the gothic pricks who ruin a good Rocky viewing by refusing to take part in the callbacks and underwear run. They don't last very long though, haha.)
Despite the fact that the movie contains cannibalistic time traveling aliens who promote "cheap gay sex" and rape its always been able to maintain a strange sense of innocence and charm. That will not be present in this wallet-centered rehash.
I attend Rocky on a weekly basis for the company, the laughs and the schoolgirls. ;) No matter what showing you attend, anywhere in the world, Rocky audiences have never ceased to amaze me with their lack of insecurity and their willingness to teach a "virgin" the tricks of the show; and it is a family that I am proud to be a part of. A tradition that I will continue to pass on to anyone who cares to join me and this will become a stain on that tradition.
Just as Indiana Jones still and always will be a trilogy...there will never be a proper RHPS remake; only attempts at ruining a classic.
Leave this one alone MTV.
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You fucking know that they will cast the lead singer of My Chemical Romance as Frank N Furter, and have Panic at the Disco play at least one of the songs. Then they'll throw in some hip hop douche bag, whoever the hell is popular now in that long ago-sold-down-the-river and completely soulless genre, and a female R & B star, and they'll inevitably tone down the homo-eroticism drastically to try and appeal to as many morons as possible. My God I hate MTV. Remember that animated hip hop Kung Fu high school show they did? Yeah, that went over really well. They literally haven't done anything useful in over a solid decade.
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It's MTV what do you expect.
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Don't dare touch it!
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...have a fucking giant squid in it or the TB will explode.
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This movie is perfect as it is and cannot be improved upon in any way, shape or form. Completely unnecessary. And, yes, the movie is absolutely for homos and their fat 'can't get a man' fag hags, and we love it just the way it is.
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Let's not do the time warp again and say we did.
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Saw it on TV, didn't get it. My friends all said, "Oh, you HAVE TO see it in a theatre to get the full effect."Went and saw it in a theatre, got creeped out by everyone...still didn't get it.BUT, I do respect that I'm in the 4% minority that don't think it's a classic and the rest of you all do, so I would vote against any sort of remake.You're welcome.
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I've been waiting for over a decade for them to release 'The State' on DVD. If it isn't a reality show, MTV aint gonna release it. There's simply way more money to be made by re-releasing crap in different packages with little to no effort to justify actually securing licenses and remastering transfers.
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Who are these people? Where do they come from? What purpose do they serve other than to waste millions of dollars creating endless reels of film not even worth whiping one's ass with. A Rocky Horror remake? *sigh* There are no words. Fuck if you're gonna squander so much money on garbage ideas, send a couple dollars to starving kids in Africa you bored rich assholes........
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Seriously. No.
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...my thoughts EXACTLY, if you scroll up, I said basically the same thing, but named names! I here Emo kids are targets for beating in Mexico... maybe the same tradition should be started here!
Ataxian: Indiana Jones a trilogy> Naw, man... there was just ONE Indy movie... Raiders... and no others...IMHO, anyway! -
or possibly Riff Raff. Is that chick fucking DISGUSTING or what? She doesn't look fully human to me. She looks like an alien race created her from their memories of what they thought a human looked like (a la "The Cage"). I wouldn't fuck her with a stolen dick. I wouldn't fuck her with one of YOUR dicks.
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Dammit. I usually pride myself on reading the whole talkback before I post. Serves me right for not doing it this time. Pretty telling we both had the same idea, though. MTV is just way too predictable.
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Maybe 20 or so years ago
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By the year 2012, all production of original content will cease and only sequels to derivative re-treads of re-booted re-makes will be allowed.
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I hate the idea of remaking RHPS, but it lends itself to some really funny updates to casting. Justin Timberlake as Brad...getting cornholed by Frank N' Furter with Brad singing "Tell me you love me."
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I couldn't agree with you more, man. That movie is imminently likeable and incredibly charming. The tone, the dialog, Fred Ward's delivery, all very precise and note-perfect.
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and seat wetting
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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I thought he was remaking this.
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in all her scaffolded glory. except maybe, just maybe, Rip Torn delivering the best shotgun - in - the - face in the movies in EXTREME PREJUDICE.
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It really IS just a jump to the left, a jump to the right, and a pelvic thrust.
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If by great you mean terrible.
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And I pray they're not, but if they are, all I can say is Ana Matronic from Scissor Sisters as Magenta. She would fucking run that shit.
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Remake Shock Treatment, you'd have to try REALLY HARD to make that movie worse.
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DIRECTOR: Baz Luhrman, Jay Roach, Tim Burton, John Waters, Rob Zombie (Yeah, I know...), Wachowskis (natch).
Dr. Frank-N-Furter: Johnny Depp, Mike Meyers, Alan Cumming, M. Manson (I know), Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Cruise (in a career-defining moment), John Travolta (not).
Janet Weiss: Amy Adams, Evan Rachel Wood, Renée Zellweger, Amy Poehler, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Selma Blair
Brad Majors: Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Luke Wilson, Brad Renfro, Ed Norton, Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Ewan McGregor
Riff Raff: Alan Rickman, Crispin Glover, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman, David Bradley, John Lovitz, Will Arnett, Richard O'Brien
Rocky Horror: Owen Wilson, The Rock, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Brendan Fraser
Eddie: Micky Rourke, Jack Black, Kurt Russel, Nick Stahl, Benicio del Toro, Meatloaf
Magenta: Samaire Armstrong, Gwen Stefani, Christina Applegate, Rose McGowan, Anna Faris
The Criminologist: Christopher Walkin, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Judy Dench, Alec Baldwin, The Late Sir Charles Gray, The Shat -
MTV is obsessed with glamorizing homosexuality and marketing it to high school students, so this fits in perfectly with that agenda.
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didnt think was possible, but they scraped right threw the bottom
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POTP is being remade. I hope he intentionally looks like an anime character this time around...because I don't think that anyone dressed like a member of "Battle of the Planets" would be unnoticed today. I still say, put Noel Fielding (Who is for the moment known as that guy who hangs around Russell Brand at times) as the shy guy turned hot deformed visual kei lead with his comedy partner Julian Barratt as a Simon Cowell-inspired Swann, Kristen Bell as the innocent Gothic/Sweet Lolita Phoenix, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Eagle (The Raoul character the story needs), and supreme divo Robbie Williams as Derrick Mont Blanc (A more modern version of Beef, only it'd pretty much be Robbie playing himself. :) ) And have Edgar Wright direct that bitch!!!!
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Bravo, maybe, although they're just working to bring homosexuals into the mainstream. MTV tends to stick to the old standbys of sensationalizing underage drinking and premarital sex. Bottom line: you might be retarded.
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Possibly my favorite film of all time, fuck MTV.
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Well, I've got MY hand on MY hip, in concern. This cant help ANYONE.
^deep sigh^ Hopefully the bleeding from my ears from the "MamaMia" commercial Abba music will have healed by then. Because the whole PRECIOUSLY CAMPY thing has just about run its course and my hand's starting to tighten involuntarily into a fist everytime another one of these retro fuckahs rolls out.
For the record, this is one woman who IS NOT in touch with her inner gay man - except the liking men thing. And my inner fabulousity doesnt resemble any of the spidermonkeyish Sex in the WhattheHellKindaBizarroNewYorkCityAreTHESE4BiddiesGettingSexIn? Luuuuuuuuv men. Hmmm. But I digress.
Make it stop. Please.
There's GOTTA be other stories out there to make.
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Yep.
I thought about it, and...
I'm throwing the bullshit flag on the play.
Yeah.
I call bullshit. On the studios.
I call bullshit.
I just read that John Waters' is gonna do a SEQUEL to that HAIRSHIT
crap.
The end of world comes on Dec 24th 2012, and you studios fucks waste time greenlighting camp twatslime like this?
I drink your milkshake and bulimia right back up.
Maybe they need to scoop up some holy water in water tanker plane and ever so lightly - mist Hollywood. Fucking ghouls with Dr Frankenstein issues - resurrecting old cut dead shit. Come to think of it, all of Hollywood is here in my burg San Diego - fly it on down, we could use the water. -
That's actually Dec. 21, 2012. Plan accordingly.
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