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I started reading about this movie a couple of years ago when I was in L.A. It's a cult favorite, very popular with comedians and celebrities. Anyway, I forgot about it, but recently I've been seeing more articles on it. Entertainment Weekly ran a big one on it. The Onion just did a story on it.
The thing is, I understood it was supposed to be bad. But thanks to Youtube, I can now see how BAAAAAD this movie must be. It's astonishing really.
First off, tell me you believe a word this guy is saying (that's Tommy Wiseau, the director).
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Here is Tommy very unconvincingly freaking out:
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And (oddly) my favorite, tommy trying to remember all 4 of his lines.
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I really want to see this.
I guess posting 3 videos wasn't the best idea though.
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Wow, that was awful. These people can't be serious though, can they?
I also wanna see this badly now. I haven't seen acting that unintentionally (?) poor since a little b-movie called Werewolf was released on DVD about 10 years ago.
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<!--quoteo(post=26108:date=Mar 31 2009, 10:31 PM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Mar 31 2009, 10:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Wow, that was awful. These people can't be serious though, can they?
I also wanna see this badly now. I haven't seen acting that unintentionally (?) poor since a little b-movie called Werewolf was released on DVD about 10 years ago.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think Wiseau is trying to sell it as intentionally bad now, but there is little doubt in my mind that he was totally serious when he did it.
I forgot, this is my favorite scene. First of all, the flabby girl in blue is the one everyone keeps insisting is gorgeous, but the last line of this clip just fucking kills me. Maybe the worst line reading ever.
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Yeesh, talk about sneaking that in there.
BTW, you can buy the DVD on Amazon already for around $8. Mine is on the way. Let me know if you want a copy.
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This was the first review on Amazon.com
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->I have now seen Mr. Tommy Wiseau's cinematic tour-de-force, `The Room' three times. With each viewing, `The Room' becomes more complexly entangled in and inseparable from my own life. I no longer know where The Room ends and I begin.
It is, without question, the worst film ever made. Including movies made on beta max video cameras in special education high school classes. But this comment is in no way meant to be discouraging. Because while The Room is the worst movie ever made it is also the greatest way to spend a blisteringly fast 100 minutes in the dark. Simply put, `The Room' will change your life.
It's not just the dreadful acting or the sub-normal screenplay or the bewildering direction or the musical score so soaked in melodrama that you will throw up on yourself or the lunatic-making cinematography; no, there is something so magically wrong with this movie that it can only be the product of divine intervention. If you took the greatest filmmakers in history and gave them all the task of purposefully creating a film as spectacularly horrible as this not one of them, with all their knowledge and skill, could make anything that could even be considered as a contender. Not one line or scene would rival any moment in The Room.
The centerpiece of this filmic holocaust is Mr. Tommy Wiseau himself. Without him, it would still be the worst movie ever made, but with him it is the greatest worst movie ever made. Tommy has been described as a Cajun, a Croatian cyborg, possibly from Belgium, clearly a product of Denmark, or maybe even not from this world or dimension. All of these things are true at any one moment. He is a tantalizing mystery stuffed inside an enigma wrapped in bacon and smothered in cheese. You will fall in love with this man even as you are repelled by him from the first moment he steps onto screen with his long Louis the Fourteenth style black locks and thick triangular shoulders packed into an oddly fitting suit, and his metallic steroid destroyed skin. Tommy looks out of place, out of time and out of this world. There has never been anything else like him. Nor will there ever be.
The Room begins with `Johnny' (Tommy Wiseau) and his incomprehensibly evil fiance `Lisa' (played by a woman with incongruously colored eyebrows and a propensity for removing her shirt) engaging in some light frottage, joined by, Denny, (played with a deft sense of the absurd by Phillip Haldiman), their sexually confused teenage neighbor who is clearly suffering from a form of aged decrepitude. When Denny, who looks like the human version of Gleek the monkey from Superfriends, says, in a slightly creepy yet playful tone of voice, `I like to watch!' as Johnny and Lisa roll around the bed in a pre-intercourse ritual revolving around rose petals, you know you are in for a very special movie.
After a lengthy lovemaking scene (not to worry if you miss it the first time, they show it again in its entirety later in the movie) in which Tommy's bizarre scaly torso and over-anatomized rear-end are lovingly depicted over and over again as he appears to hump Lisa's hip, we discover that Lisa, for no particular reason, has become bored with Tommy's incessant lovemaking and decides to leave him.
Just when you think the movie might lapse into an ordinary, pedestrian sort of badness, Johnny's best friend Mark, a man who's job seems to be to wear James Brolin's beard from Amityville Horror, shows up and electrifies the screen with a performance so wooden that it belongs in the lumber section of Home Depot. Incidentally, Mark is played by Greg Sestero, who, in addition to being described as a department store mannequin, was also the line producer on `The Room' and one of Tommy Wiseau's five (5!!!!!) assistants on the movie. Lisa forces Mark, amid his paltry, unconvincing protests, to have an affair with her on their uncomfortable circular stairs. For no apparent reason Lisa decides that she is made of pure evil and wants to torture her angelic and insanely devoted fiancé, Johnny.
Lisa receives pointed advice from her mother who casually announces that she is dying of breast cancer and then never mentions it again. But Lisa is determined to make Johnny's life a living hell, in spite of the fact that she, according to her mother, "cannot survive on her own in the cutthroat 'computer business'". But not before they recycle the sex scene from earlier in the movie where we get another bird's eye view of Johnny's ludicrous naked body. Denny gets into trouble with a drug dealer. Mark shaves his beard. Tommy gets drunk on an unusual cocktail made from mixing whiskey and vodka. Lisa lies and tells everyone that Tommy hit her in a drunken rage.
A balding psychologist appears out of nowhere, offers some advice, then apparently dies while softly falling on the ground in an attempt to catch a football thrown by Mark.
All of these seemingly disparate events build up to two cathartic moments. The first is when Tommy expressively yells at Lisa with the line `You are tearing me apart Lisa!'. You will cheer at this line as you realize that the film has been tearing you apart the whole time. And the second is at Tommy's birthday party where the worst actor that has ever been born plays a unidentified man wearing a silk shirt who utters a phrase that perfectly describes the experience of watching The Room,
`It feels like I'm sitting on atom bomb that is going to explode!'
The shocking ending will leave you pleading for some kind of sequel.
See this film at all costs. See it twice. Or three times. Or as one kid that I met from Woodland Hills has, 12 times! See it until you can recite every precious line of dialogue this movie has to offer. Let The Room become your new religion and Tommy Wiseau your prophet preaching the gospel according to Johnny.
My dream is to someday buy a theater and run The Room 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until the print disintegrates. I hope it becomes your dream as well.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Mystery Science Theatre 3000 needs to make a comeback and do this movie. I was laughing pretty hard, especially the freak out scene. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rollin.gif[/img]
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i have to see this movie.
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Yeesh, talk about sneaking that in there.
BTW, you can buy the DVD on Amazon already for around $8. Mine is on the way. Let me know if you want a copy.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes. I need a copy of this movie.
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Ok, Butch it's on my to-do list. I'll make a few extras as well just in case. Maybe we can do lunch in a week or so and I'll bring them.
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That would be awesome.
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<!--quoteo(post=26182:date=Apr 1 2009, 12:21 PM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Apr 1 2009, 12:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Ok, Butch it's on my to-do list. I'll make a few extras as well just in case. Maybe we can do lunch in a week or so and I'll bring them.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm in for both a copy, and lunch, if you guys will have me. And by "have me", I mean anal sex.
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I'm in for both a copy, and lunch, if you guys will have me. And by "have me", I mean anal sex.
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i wish i could be there.
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<!--quoteo(post=26228:date=Apr 1 2009, 02:47 PM:name=veryzer)-->QUOTE (veryzer @ Apr 1 2009, 02:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=26207:date=Apr 1 2009, 01:16 PM:name=BT)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BT @ Apr 1 2009, 01:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=26182:date=Apr 1 2009, 12:21 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Apr 1 2009, 12:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Ok, Butch it's on my to-do list. I'll make a few extras as well just in case. Maybe we can do lunch in a week or so and I'll bring them.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm in for both a copy, and lunch, if you guys will have me. And by "have me", I mean anal sex.
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i wish i could be there.
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Hop on the Metra.
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<!--quoteo(post=26233:date=Apr 1 2009, 02:50 PM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Apr 1 2009, 02:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=26228:date=Apr 1 2009, 02:47 PM:name=veryzer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (veryzer @ Apr 1 2009, 02:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=26207:date=Apr 1 2009, 01:16 PM:name=BT)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BT @ Apr 1 2009, 01:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=26182:date=Apr 1 2009, 12:21 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Apr 1 2009, 12:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Ok, Butch it's on my to-do list. I'll make a few extras as well just in case. Maybe we can do lunch in a week or so and I'll bring them.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm in for both a copy, and lunch, if you guys will have me. And by "have me", I mean anal sex.
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i wish i could be there.
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Hop on the Metra.
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i don't have many sick days left.
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