Out-of-context AVC Comments Upvoted Months/years Later
Dec 2, 2014 11:47:14 GMT -5
Albert Fish Taco, Great Unwashed, and 4 more like this
Post by Floyd D Barber on Dec 2, 2014 11:47:14 GMT -5
This may be my oldest upvote yet. The good Colonel upvoted 2 of my comments from a long forgotten article about a long forgotten flop movie.
Col. Alphonse Dore Cliburn CBE upvoted you on Floppiest Flop Case File # 126 Delgo 9 days ago
Floyd D Barber • 6 years ago
Jennifer Love Hewitt is......."Titular"
An epic love story of ancient Rome.
Here is my 8 bucks. Sign me up.
I just realized Im posting here at 11:20 on Christmas eve. No wonder my family hates me.
"Get the damn cat out of the Christmas tree, Ill be in there in a few minutes."
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Col. Alphonse Dore Cliburn CBE upvoted you on Floppiest Flop Case File # 126 Delgo 9 days ago
Floyd D Barber • 6 years ago
True story: I saw the Rocky Horror Show on its first run in a two screen theatre in a small town in the midwest. This was mid-late 70's, I dont remember exactly which year. (OK, I dont remember a lot about those years, but that is another story.)
I had the hots for the girl who worked the ticket booth/consession stand, and around that time I saw almost every movie that place showed. Either their booker was doing a lot of drugs, or they just had a hell of a time getting enough movies to fill two screens, because in addition to new releases they showed everything from Roger Corman American International drive in type stuff to old Ma and Pa Kettle movies and even ran some silent Harold Lloyd films. I pretty much watched them all..or at least bought a ticket and then spent as much time as I could without getting kicked out by the manager, hanging around the consession stand trying to convince this gal to go out with me.
Anyhow, I guess I had seen whatever else was showing that week, and the poster looked pretty weird, so I bought the ticket and took the ride.
When the movie started I think there were maybe 1/2 dozen people there.
Let me re-emphasize, this was not in the city, this was in a cornfield, and that at this time, Rocky Horror was not a cult hit, not any kind of hit, not even a blip on the radar, and was not being promoted at all.
I paid as much attention to movies as anybody else my age did back then and I had never even heard of it.
No one there had any idea of what to expect.
By the time it reached the big "Dont dream it, be it" number, I was the only one still in the theatre.
I had never seen anything quite like this, to say the least. It was weird enough in a big WTF??? way that I had forgotten to go hit on popcorn girl.
When I walked out she said to me "Wow, you are the only one this week to sit through the whole thing."
That movie completely and totally disappeared off the radar, at least around there, for maybe 5 or 6 years.
By then I was living in a college town nearby, and some friends took me to a midnight movie to see...Rocky Horror.
I tried to explain to them that over the last few years I had tried at various times to describe this movie to people around my hometown, and when i did they usually had advised me to seek professional counseling.
No, wait, that is not correct, there was no professional counseling back then, they usually told me to shut up and have another beer.
I did not become a Rocky Horror fanatic. I have not seen it several hundred times, but I watch it occasionally, and I am glad I had the experience, and pleasure, of seeing it in an empty theatre, without warning or expectation.
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Col. Alphonse Dore Cliburn CBE upvoted you on Floppiest Flop Case File # 126 Delgo 9 days ago
Floyd D Barber • 6 years ago
Jennifer Love Hewitt is......."Titular"
An epic love story of ancient Rome.
Here is my 8 bucks. Sign me up.
I just realized Im posting here at 11:20 on Christmas eve. No wonder my family hates me.
"Get the damn cat out of the Christmas tree, Ill be in there in a few minutes."
1 ^
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Col. Alphonse Dore Cliburn CBE upvoted you on Floppiest Flop Case File # 126 Delgo 9 days ago
Floyd D Barber • 6 years ago
True story: I saw the Rocky Horror Show on its first run in a two screen theatre in a small town in the midwest. This was mid-late 70's, I dont remember exactly which year. (OK, I dont remember a lot about those years, but that is another story.)
I had the hots for the girl who worked the ticket booth/consession stand, and around that time I saw almost every movie that place showed. Either their booker was doing a lot of drugs, or they just had a hell of a time getting enough movies to fill two screens, because in addition to new releases they showed everything from Roger Corman American International drive in type stuff to old Ma and Pa Kettle movies and even ran some silent Harold Lloyd films. I pretty much watched them all..or at least bought a ticket and then spent as much time as I could without getting kicked out by the manager, hanging around the consession stand trying to convince this gal to go out with me.
Anyhow, I guess I had seen whatever else was showing that week, and the poster looked pretty weird, so I bought the ticket and took the ride.
When the movie started I think there were maybe 1/2 dozen people there.
Let me re-emphasize, this was not in the city, this was in a cornfield, and that at this time, Rocky Horror was not a cult hit, not any kind of hit, not even a blip on the radar, and was not being promoted at all.
I paid as much attention to movies as anybody else my age did back then and I had never even heard of it.
No one there had any idea of what to expect.
By the time it reached the big "Dont dream it, be it" number, I was the only one still in the theatre.
I had never seen anything quite like this, to say the least. It was weird enough in a big WTF??? way that I had forgotten to go hit on popcorn girl.
When I walked out she said to me "Wow, you are the only one this week to sit through the whole thing."
That movie completely and totally disappeared off the radar, at least around there, for maybe 5 or 6 years.
By then I was living in a college town nearby, and some friends took me to a midnight movie to see...Rocky Horror.
I tried to explain to them that over the last few years I had tried at various times to describe this movie to people around my hometown, and when i did they usually had advised me to seek professional counseling.
No, wait, that is not correct, there was no professional counseling back then, they usually told me to shut up and have another beer.
I did not become a Rocky Horror fanatic. I have not seen it several hundred times, but I watch it occasionally, and I am glad I had the experience, and pleasure, of seeing it in an empty theatre, without warning or expectation.
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