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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: Fox's Rocky Horror Picture Show Gets a Pre-Halloween Premiere Date
« on: October 22, 2016, 10:00:47 PM »
I didn't honestly think it was a complete waste. I agree that Laverne Cox was uneven, and casting a transgender woman as Dr. Frank'N'Furter, while possibly a great idea in theory, caused much of the dialogue and situations to fall flat (some of the best lines and moments of the original were even completely glossed over! ) And while, no matter how many times I've seen it, I always feel bad for Frank near the end of the original when I'm Going Home is performed, I'm not quite sure why, but I really felt very little in this version. Plus, too much of the show tried too hard to be exactly like the original, which is something that's almost always doomed. But I actually liked Virginia Justice's take on Janice - and I especially liked Ryan McCartan’s Brad. And I thought reworking Wild And Untamed Thing as a Tina Turner takeoff was quite enjoyable and at least semi-inspired. And it didn't bother me all that much that the original R-rated shenanigans were PG-ized because it was a broadcast TV version and even when the original was shown on Fox some years back it was sanitized for broadcast TV. Broadcast TV and Rocky Horror aren't really a match. It would have been much better had a TV remake been done for cable. But alas...