Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!lindley From: lindley@ut-ngp.UUCP (John L. Templer) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Rocky (Horrible) Message-ID: <1278@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 23:08:26 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1278 Posted: Mon Feb 4 23:08:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 01:48:02 EST References: <497@topaz.ARPA> Organization: U.Texas Physics Department; Austin, Texas Lines: 26 > >>> . 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 {allegra,gatech,seismo!ut-sally,vortex}!ut-ngp!lindley "and they called it, yuppy love."