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| Poster taken from the fabulous rockyhorror.com, which has tons of Rocky resources. |
This was kind of an accidental Bad Science Film Night, in that a couple of members of "the club"* watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show and felt it qualified as a bad science film, so it gets a write up (well over a month after we watched the movie). We are not exactly an organised association, although I am considering flexing my design muscles and making a logo. Unfortunately my design muscles are not especially Charles Atlas-esque, so you probably shouldn't start shivering with anticipation just yet....
I feel now is a good time to declare that I, Lizzie, have a number of fond Rocky Horror memories, so this is not exactly the usual snarky, anti bad science "review". I have danced the Time Warp in costume in front of my school (teachers and parents included), I have attended a sing-along Rocky Horror (and sang along in costume, obviously), a college film screening (in a different costume) and I also own 5 different Rocky Horror soundtrack related CDs (including the audience participation one). I am not unbiased, I like the Rocky Horror Picture Show quite a lot. Having said that, I hadn't seen it for about 5 years (gah!) and the main reason we decided to watch it was because of the Rocky Horror Glee episode that was on a while ago. I was kind of sad about the things that were censored in the Glee episode (Transsexual Transylvania -> Sensational Transylvania and many, many other changes that kind of diminish some of the point of Rocky Horror - here's an EW article about it).
Brad Majors and Janet Weiss are a young couple who have just got engaged (whilst singing Dammit, Janet) and are traveling on a dark and stormy night to tell their science teacher about the engagement. After encountering car trouble they stop at Frank N Furter's mansion. They arrive in the middle of a birthday party, for Rocky, Frank N Furter's man with blond hair and a tan, who is made from bits of Meat Loaf. Singing, dancing, explorations of sexuality and murder follow. The songs are super catchy.
In terms of bad science, we have the creation of Rocky ticking all the boxes, and also various freeze rays (good for another musical, here's the specific song!), UFOs and both intergalactic AND time travel. But as I said earlier, this isn't a snarky review. I love Rocky Horror but not for the science, I love it for the AWESOME CATCHY SINGING AND DANCING!
Bad Science Film Night 15.5 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Favourite Tagline: A Different Set Of Jaws (chosen for its bad science / disaster film pedigree)
- Second favourite tagline: Don't Dream it, Be It! (chosen for its upbeat message!)
- Premise: Mad scientist/transvestite from Transexual Transylvania makes a man with blond hair and a tan from bits of Meat Loaf. There is singing, dancing and fishnets.
- Best Song: I might like Hot Patootie best, but they're all good!
- Worst piece of science: The creation of Rocky - "Throw open the switches in the Sonic Oscillator and step up the Reactor Power Input...three..more..POINTS" *rainbow light change*
- Unresolved questions: Why do I not know anyone who has seen the sequel - Shock Treatment?
- Overall review: Let's do the Time Warp again!
- Total number of BSFNight-ites: 2, plenty of space! Also not an official bad science night as such, more a bottle of wine and musical DVD night.
* Is this a club? If there is a facebook group does that make it a club? Do we need stash?
