Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"

Seeing this next Friday :)

xpost also interested in answer to Trayce's question, but keep the spoilers on the downlow!

Hahah there's so many YT trailers now that there's very little spoileration to be had, tbqh.

Hmm i guess, like I've seen the roof scene, the flowershop scene and lots of reviews, doubt that will detract massively though.

My main worry, if one film could call it that: I don't know if you've seen/heard of the Troll 2 cult fandom, but I worry that the film just won't be entertaining and worth sitting through apart from the odd lol/wtf moment. Maybe sitting in a big cinema after a few drinks with a good crowd could alter things though.

Have any of you seen it in London?

The Room is nothing like Troll 2. Troll 2 is really just a really bad, poorly acted film. The Room is transcendentally so - like really you won't be bored at all.

Yeah, Troll 2 is way more boring, although it has a few transcendent moments.

The opening 10 minutes or so defy belief.

Let me put this better..it's incredible bizarro comedy.

I buckle my belt real tight so I won't get hunger pains!!!!

I love Troll 2, but not for the same reasons as I love The Room. They're just different, both awesome in their own way.

Neither Troll 2 or The Room are boring. They're both truly "so bad they're good" movies. Where The Room has a leg up is its director/star, a singular human anomaly. We would like to study him.

last Friday:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs575.snc3/31359_806772464401_5014672_45943796_5804748_n.jpg

drove from Tampa to Atlanta for it!

Where'd you find that wax sculpture of him?

That isn't like a real person next to you....it's a mannequin or alien right?

You think that looks like plastic, you should see his arse in the movie :/

He's wearing a second belt round his knees!

Jeans, red tie and Marks and Spencer's blazer wtf

four belts in total

yeah someone asked him why he was wearing so many belts during saturday's Q&A, I think his response was that it was a secret

this man is made of secrets, it seems

And belts. Secrets and belts.

And melted plastic.

and the passion of tennessee williams

he said one of his favorite directors was "Orsol Wolles"

Haha ok that explains yr fb post.

nice lynndie!

Saw this tonight. Of course, it was phenomenally bad. But I just think of instead of sitting through the room for 80 minutes, I could've watched Bad Lieutenant instead.

Also it struck me that, no matter what he says in interviews, Wiseau probably set out to make a serious film, realised how awful it was during the process and amped that up for the finished product.

Some totally bizzaro wtf moments like that roof location, the football tossing, the sex scenes, the appalling continuity.

You can still watch Bad Lieutenant.

In fact, you should!

xp oh absolutely - this movie could never have been made by someone who didn't have the absolute conviction that he was making a "great" film

i think the imdb post upthread gives a decent picture of how the movie came to be the way it was.

Saw it again on Sat in SF. I think twice is enough for me :)
The only difference I noticed compared with last time is ppl were shouting out "Cancer!" a la "no returns" when the mom kisses Lisa (or anyone). Don't worry about it!

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/drips_blood_alex_teaser/

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So anyway The Room is finally playing in Glasgow at a midnight screening, and part of me really would like to go. However, I have limited funds and the same theatre is also having both a Kurosawa and a Claire Denis retrospective, and I would feel far too guilty about spending money on The Room while neglecting Rashamon or Beau Travail. I'm also not entirely convinced going to the cinema to laugh at cult movie crapdom is not an incredibly annoying, smug thing to do.

it's not

Its this thing.

the room will change ur life dude

so i downloaded & watched this recently. The scene at the beginning with Denny in the bedroom made me think the movie would have some interesting ideas -- johnny plays it cool with him being there; perhaps it's a social circle where nothing is private -- but no, the movie is just stupid.

i did like how lisa's mother was always vertically stretched.

the computer business is too competitive

btw I made Johnny, Lisa and Denny in the Sims 2. Denny is currently a teen but about to transition to an adult any day now, and naturally he and Lisa will begin an illicit affair. Lisa is the neighborhood skank.

the same theatre is also having both a Kurosawa and a Claire Denis retrospective, and I would feel far too guilty about spending money on The Room while neglecting Rashamon or Beau Travail

i can't advise you to neglect Rashamon or whatever in favor of The Room, but, The Room is pretty amazing and worth seeing and transcends mere "so bad, it's good" status. it's weirdly compelling in a way that inspires multiple viewings. everything about it, without exception is seriously bizarre...its attempts to portray conventional human behavior are consistently, hilariously "off"

the entire film is a series of stuff like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S9Ew3TIeVQ

i haven't watched it in a group setting, but i can imagine it being really fun

^ It sounds to me like you are the EXPERT, del!

0_o @ The-Room-as-Sims

btw I made Johnny, Lisa and Denny in the Sims 2. Denny is currently a teen but about to transition to an adult any day now, and naturally he and Lisa will begin an illicit affair. Lisa is the neighborhood skank.

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lol <3

We want screengrabs

^ It sounds to me like you are the EXPERT, del!

(insert Tommy's inimitable dried-out laugh here)

so i downloaded & watched this recently. The scene at the beginning with Denny in the bedroom made me think the movie would have some interesting ideas -- johnny plays it cool with him being there; perhaps it's a social circle where nothing is private -- but no, the movie is just stupid.

Yr doin' it wrong. Watching it alone on a computer/TV at home looking for a watchable film is so utterly not the point of this movie.

Also, omg @ Room Sims, Mandee! You rule for that.

PSST:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c7ahqiCvF0&feature=player_embedded

Christopher Nolan + Tommy Wiseau, the two great auteurs of our time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlCTFLNNsk4

That vampire movie can't be as good as the Room, can it? You gotta figure Tommy's at least a little self-aware now.

http://more.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/movie/story/8f5242a829a91f41862576e30000d1ac?OpenDocument