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From: lindley@ut-ngp.UUCP (John L. Templer)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Rocky (Horrible)
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 23:08:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  4 23:08:26 1985
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> >>> . Rocky Horror Picture Show - the Queen of bad SF
> >
> >Now wait just a minute here Mark.  Rocky is high camp - outrageous
> >on purpose.  Rocky shouldn't be on a list of bad SF movies for many
> >of the same reasons that Dark Star is exempt.  (I know, you just
> >included it on the list so that you could call it the "Queen of bad
> >SF", right?)
> 
> Now correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Rocky Horror open to terrible
> reviews and close after a few weeks in the theatres?  I seem to remember
> that the 'Rocky' craze was enabled after the movie 'Fame' brought it
> to our attention.  Rocky Horror was supposed to be a serious movie, and
> it failed in that way.  

Now wait just a minute here! Rocky Horror Picture Show was trashed by
the critics, if that is really of any signifigance.  But it was indeed
a cult classic long before "Fame" rode to fame on it's coat-tails! :-)

-- 

                                           John L. Templer
                                     University of Texas at Austin

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                 "and they called it, yuppy love."