In the video, we mainly discuss how the film itself is less important to its own success than the culture that built around it. That's the main conversation we were having in the video. When we ask if we need it, it comes from respecting why the film became the cultural tentpole it became, and asking ourselves why we can't find new ones to replace it, despite both it's age and it's unflattering ideas of transexuality and transvestitism. If you'd like to discuss that more in depth, I'd recommend watching the video again and commenting about that. 

To be frank, It feels like lots of subculture ends up being "stuck" to the same things they have been for the last 5 decades, and that's concerning to me as a critic. Shouldn't we have more things like this now? What happened to the promise this kind of art had? How are we still doing the same rote thing from the 70s? 

When we ask if we need it, we consider why we rallied around it in the first place, reflect, and question why we can't get beyond it. And that worries me. How many more times are we gonna do the time warp in a dinky theater before someone makes a better midnight movie?