'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'

"Camp" is not a cinematic tenet that I get a lot of the time. To me, it's like being bad for bad's sake. Especially when it's the goal for many people to be good.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the ideal camp film. It's over the top and ridiculous. It's not only camp, but it's cult. Maybe the penultimate cult film. People crowd into theaters for sing alongs and shit.

I guess I can appreciate that. Isn't art's purpose to evoke some feeling and if it's still evoking those emotions spanning generations, 30 years after the fact, then that's a good thing.

Enjoyment makes art important. If no one enjoys it, what's the point? Millions and millions of people love this film. Even many who weren't even born when it was released.

Something that I think gets overshadowed due to the film's credibility as being "good" is Tim Curry's performance. He's fantastic, which makes sense since he pretty much created the character himself. It was his first film role and he could not have asked for a better one, in hindsiht of course.