Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"

i was worried this was going to be just boring, but it wasn't at all. the audience participation stuff probably helped smooth things over, but damn, such an intense level of sustained shittiness.

I was thinking about this film the other day (as I often do) and I think it appeals to me for the same reason that TVtropes appeals to me. It deconstructs narrative to bare bones that, left as is, are totally meaningless. It's like some kind of unconscious dreaming id of human narrative -- like dreaming.

Every time I have to give my husband directions to somewhere that involve going on Guerrero Street he always asks if it's near the hospital.

Anyway, how is your sex life?

In honor of "Bay to Breakers" yesterday:

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

What's this look that Denny + Mark are giving each other at 2:34 in that clip? Are they co-conspirators in something we're never shown? Does Denny distrust Mark because he suspects he's having an affair with Lisa? Is Mark secretly Denny's father? Are they just having eye-sex?

Not sure, but:

http://theroomsoundboard.com/

of course that website exists. how could it not

lol @ how many "I dont want to talk about it"s Lisa has. I noticed that when I watched the movie, by the end I was yelling "you never do you bitch!" at the screen.

I don't have anyone to go see this movie with. I might not go

Hey whoever just msged me re this thread I dont know who you are! lol stupid msg system.

really glad i saw this for the first time (like a week or two ago) with someone else, but not in a theater full of people I don't know. You definitely want to share the experience but I liked being able to rewind and not have people who know the film shouting over it. Really does live up to the hype whether you're someone who doesn't really do ironic films or does them all the time.

Yeah now ive done a cinema viewing I'd like to get a DVD out and watch it with some friends or a date. it'd be hilaro.

"hey, I'm thinkin' about moving into a bigger place, man, I'm making some good money"

might be my fave.

nm worked out who messaged me now lol.

has no bearing at all on the lines before or after, or the rest of the scene, or anything that happens in the rest of the movie. but the sound editing and cuts put it right in the scene, so effort went into putting it where it is, it's not a mistake.

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ha watching it again, i totally have that wrong. it IS the start of another conversation.

He's too busy to play cards because he expects Lisa at any minute, yet he subjects his buds to a rambling story then asks them if they want to eat something?

Holy hell, I had a DREAM about this movie last night. At first it was just me and some friends going to a showing, at which Wiseau was appearing. I remember walking around looking for a seat. and then the next thing I know I'm actually *in* the film, as a minor character. Lisa kept taking beers out of a large, commercial fridge and laughing very insincerely at everything.

wtf.

Saw this last night. LOL @ Q&A with Tommy Wiseau beforehand.

his responses were 1/3 incomprehensible gibberish, 1/3 cryptic hints ("the most famous person who has ever been to a screening of the room, is a woman and name starts with C. Ha ha!"), and 1/3 "that is a very boring question"

haha!

He also ended every answer with "I rest my case."

LOL I was gonna ask you for an update on this. How was the audience during the film? I'm actually curious if each city/country has developed its own diferent memes/jokes for shouting and whatnot.

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!