@RUTGERS.ARPA:Mary_Couse.osbunorth@Xerox.ARPA (01/31/85)
From: Couse.osbunorth@XEROX.ARPA
>> . 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?)
To really be considered one of the "worst" movies of all time, I think
that a movie has to be a) a ridiculously pretentious attempt at serious
movie making, b) a low budget and poorly thought out attempt to jump
on and exploit the "SF market" bandwagon, or c) a blatant insult to the
intelligence of the audience.
If you've only seen Rocky Horror once, go again. The movie grows on you
after a while. After about the tenth viewing, when you can sing all the
songs and recite all the lines as well as you can for every Star Trek
episode, you may find that you enjoy it. Then again, you may no longer
be sane any more.
/Mary (I've always been pressed slightly off center!)