Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"

Haiiiiiiii you mean

Does anyone else feel like the underwear story guy is a huge ham and maybe the only actor who realized how awful the whole production was? Every scene I see him in, he seems like he's super hamming it up.

His face during the blowjob is incredible.

Might go to the Red Vic midnight showing next weekend, I haven't seen it except for the clips above. Bringing some friends but worried they might hate me after...

Get ready for a highly participatory experience.

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And do other screenings shout out implications at the end that Mark and Denny are giving Johnny's dead body a blowjob!?. Because they did here. Eww.

Yeah, this happened...
It was lots of fun! Love the underwear guy so much. And the scene with Tommy setting up the tape. And the line "your point of view is so different from mine!".

Oh I forgot about the tape thing, that was hilarous.

The film was *so consistently bad and incoherent* that I couldn't help wondering if it was deliberate, though people who worked on the film insist he really is just crap, so...

I came out completely baffled, like surely it takes quite a lot of effort and money to actually make a film yet to not give a flying fuck what anyone says in it or does or what it looks like...??

I love this movie so much.

Oh it's obviously real. There's way too much hurt shit in the flick and the guy himself is that cracked in real life to fake it.

And the line "your point of view is so different from mine!".

I was the only person at my showing who said this along with the movie.

http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/my-extended-evening-with-the-rooms-tommy-wiseau,38245/

You know what they say. Love is blind.

This movie is amazing at creating a very surreal atmosphere by trying to mimic everyday experiences (playing football, talking with your parents, having lots and lots of unfortunate sex) and failing in a completely unexpected way in every instance. I love the little details like the magical appearing vase, things that demonstrate a vision driven enough to continue on in the face of continuity issues. And the characters are all hilarious and tragic at once. A classic.

I want to see him and Christopher Walken in a buddy cop film. It would revive the genre.

call it Creep Out

Does anyone else feel like the underwear story guy is a huge ham and maybe the only actor who realized how awful the whole production was? Every scene I see him in, he seems like he's super hamming it up.

― Mordy, Saturday, March 20, 2010 2:12 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

i think the only actor who was aware of how awful and absurd the whole thing was was the "i feel like i'm sitting on an atomic bomb waiting for it to go off" guy.

I want to see him and Christopher Walken in a buddy cop film. It would revive the genre.

Holy shit this is the best idea ever someone pls email Walken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9H3-zaF0EY&feature=player_embedded

Meh. Just mean and not imho in the spirit of The Room and the joy it has brought my life.

zora and mortar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6dtcHkMdAA

my favorite scene

My fave part of that scene:
"I had a 2,000 dollar check I couldn't cash."
"Why not?"
"Because it was an out of state bank."

Ignoring the fact that not being able to cash an out of state bank check is preposterous -- it sounds like Tommy was writing the script, got to that part and thought -- hmmm, this won't be believable that he had a check he couldn't cash. I'll need to explain it. This is a good explanation!

Yeah I remember laughing hard at that!

My beloved DDR game shouts out random phrases including "Youaahhh tearing it up" but each and every time I think it's gonna be "Youahhh tearing... me apart lisaaa!"

So how did you meet Lisa?

Well, there was this out-of-state check, you see...

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

lol came here to post that^

lisa actress is a real estate agent? http://www.praxismagazine.com/interview/jdan.htm

apolls if that interview's already been posted..

AR: What is your favorite line from the film?
”Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!”

<3

never would've made it through this watching on my own, but with a couple of friends it worked very well

Saw it for the 4th time last night.

i admit, i was singing "everywhere you look!" during all the Frisco footage, so it's funny that that's one of the live screening habits, but i don't know if i could bring myself to watch the movie a second time

I watch it stoned every time -- which is why I think I continue to enjoy it.

it's pretty enjoyable with or without drugs or alcohol, but it really benefits from having friends with you when you watch

http://twitter.com/TommyWiseau

I wish he would update. :(

<3 <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57eAL7TkjTc

he's an awesome interviewee:

http://notcoming.com/features/tommywiseau/

TW: You know what, if I had been in front of you, I would hug you.

So then I did the research. I’ve done so much research; my background’s acting and also psychology. So, to respond to your question, I think that people connect because it’s the real world. And, you know, we are very simple people when you really think about it. You may use fancy words, you may be a graduate from Stanford University or Berkeley, whatever, but it doesn’t mean that you connect with people, you know?

So there’s a lot of symbolism within The Room. From the beginning, it’s no secret that I’ve encouraged people to actually see it several times. You see, sometimes a certain group of media, they don’t give the creative process a chance, or they don’t give enough credit—but never mind about that. We all connect to The Room directly and indirectly, when you really think about it, if you’re honest with yourself.

And again, my take is also that I don’t expect everybody to love The Room, but I’m pretty sure that people will find at least an element, a sentence or word, or whatever else within The Room that connects with their life directly or indirectly.

Wow. Is it just that he seriously doesn't get *why* people go crazy over his movie? Or is he being obtuse on purpose?

MW:

As you know, a bunch of people who go to see The Room in the theatres love to throw spoons, and I just have to know: do the spoons have any significance in the movie?
TW:

Absolutely. You see, at first, we didn’t have plastic spoons in the world. But we used to, a long time ago – not even a long time ago – we had wood spoons. You see, plastic also represents the technology, but at the same time also created something that we don’t like, because plastic is not nature. But it can be part of nature, if we find a formula, how to create the plastic without chemicals, which I think we may do someday. Because now we have technology – I don’t know if you know about it, but I do know about it – that looks like plastic but it’s not plastic.

o_0

A couple of my friends are going to see it at The Ziegfeld on Friday, Wiseau is appearing. They're trying to drag me along, but I am not spending actual money ok, $15 to see this movie.

Seeee itttt

Yeah dude its not just a lol Bad Film. It really is an experience in a cinema if it already has a rabid fanbase.

I basically had NFI what was going on half the film (couldnt hear dialogue over the screaming!) but it didnt matter, it was too hilarious.

No, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it already on DVD, watching with the same friends, two weeks ago! They've just gotten super invested in it now, wanting to see it again already, getting more people to see it... I just don't know if it's worth the effort and money to see it again, even in that crazy midnight showing audience. Amazingly, it looks like it's already sold out.

oh hai guyz.

tickets bought: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/108934

I get to ask him a question!

Ask him why Johnny + Lisa weren't horrified when Denny said he likes to watch them. Isn't someone voyeuring on your sex-life ridic creepy?

I tried to watch this by myself at home on DVD and got about 30 seconds into the second love scene before turning it off.
I guess you have to see it with a group.