The Room

Psychedelic

I'm surprised there's no threads here about this film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/

It is one of those so bad it's good films, taken to a whole new level. The acting, script, just everything is awful. But it's so damn funny, from start to finish.

Some guy called Tommy Wiseau is the producer, director, writer and lead actor in this film. It has become a bit of a cult film in the US. It was originally released in 2003 but seems to be getting very popular now, with the London premiere only last year.

I honestly can't recommend this highly enough. I watched it twice in a row I laughed so much. I don't know if everyone will like it though, maybe a few others here who have seen it can back me up.

Here are some scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64ZK7KDfTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLs-PkfUS2g

Valmont

I would love to see it although I'm not sure I would actually buy it. If the IFI or somewhere does a show I'll go along.

johnny_ultimate

It is a film so incompetent that it may just be brilliant. It hasn't the slightest regard for pacing or competent storytelling. Subplots (such as the drug dealer and cancer ones) are briefly mentioned and completely discarded. Plenty of scenes serve no purpose whatsoever, like the football scene
in the alley. The sex scenes are excruciating and cheesy, in particular the soundtracks. There is probably around ten minutes of actual plot. If it wasn't so damn funny, you couldn't possibly watch it. But moments like the flower shop scene make it all worthwhile - sequences of such transcendant badness they become almost inspired. Plus, pretty much anytime Tommy speaks is gold.

There is a place in town that shows it regularly on Thursdays, still have to see it there, meant to be a great (and interactive!) laugh!

lizardfudge

Yep. Spy on South William Street show it most Thursday evenings.

Always a good laugh.

Meeja Ireland

lizardfudge wrote: »

Yep. Spy on South William Street show it most Thursday evenings.

Always a good laugh.

I saw it in Spy, and I would definitely recommend it. I'm not sure how funny it would be to watch on your own, but get a few mates and have a few drinks and it really is a hoot.

It's not like your normal so-bad-it's-good film, which I often find dull. This is a film so insanely misconceived in every element that Ed Wood would have walked out in a rage.

lizardfudge

Yeah. Really not one to watch on your own.

tba

This should be the film clubs next outing!

lizardfudge

If it isn't coming up in Spy any time soon I'll get the projector out and hold a private screening in my apartment.

MikeC101

lizardfudge wrote: »

If it isn't coming up in Spy any time soon I'll get the projector out and hold a private screening in my apartment.

Wait a minute, is this a subtle way of getting people into your apartment so you can use our blood for your lizard shapeshifting antics?

lizardfudge

I suspect Tommy Wiseau might actually be a lizard... he certainly has only a passing notion of how humans actually interact with each other.

johnny_ultimate

It is possible that Tommy is a lizard. I'd contact David Icke about it if I took him seriously (which I don't).

Dublindude69

The best way to watch the Room is with Rifftrax.
http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/room

MikeC101

There was an interview with Wiseau in either Total Film or Empire, and they played it pretty straight. He comes across as someone who really believes "The Room" is something deep and meaningful, and made lots of references to the various themes, allusions, and symbols in the film.

It also said the movie cost something like 5 or 6 million dollars, which he put up himself. (Sure he made that back many times I'm sure...or not). Which lends credence to the lizard theory.

He also hinted at a horror film in the works, of which he said "you won't sleep for months" after seeing it, or something to that effect.

lizardfudge

He also has a pilot for a sitcom. There's a trailer for it online.

Spy are showing it tomorrow by the way... but with the sound turned off in the smaller Monkey bar... so that's not much use.

MikeC101

lizardfudge wrote: »

He also has a pilot for a sitcom. There's a trailer for it online.

The man is a veritable polymath! Is there nothing he can't do?

lizardfudge

Lets not forget about puppet Tommy Wiseau:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9Y8d1glyE

bonerm

Oh Hi Mark!

I would also like to recommend this piece of crap. 99 minutes of unintentional comedy gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4KzClb1C4

Brimmy

I heard Spy are meant to be showing it with Tommy there himself sometime this week or next. Can't see it on the official site and Spy's site is down

johnny_ultimate

Brimmy wrote: »

I heard Spy are meant to be showing it with Tommy there himself sometime this week or next. Can't see it on the official site and Spy's site is down

If this is true, I will quit work to be there.

Well, maybe not. But yes to this if it is true. And you're so banned if its a lie

Brimmy

Brimmy wrote: »

I heard Spy are meant to be showing it with Tommy there himself sometime this week or next. Can't see it on the official site and Spy's site is down

There is no planned Irish appearence on his current tour though that said there is nearly 3 weeks between now and his next scheduled appearence. He's a really cool guy and someone you can easily caht to about absolutly nothing, hoping that his planned TV show gets picked up soon.

Spy Dublin

hello there! here is the info for THIS COMING THURSDAY! ALL WELCOME!


SoundCheck Is Two
OH HAI MARK. To celebrate our second birthday, SoundCheck is inviting one of the stars of our favourite film The Room, Greg Sestero, alongside our fave DJs in for a shindig! IT'S MARK FROM THE ROOM.

Our last birthday party was crazy good, and this one is going to be even better. Like, it's Mark from the Room, WTF amazingness.

We will be kicking off from 7, and Greg Sestero will be answering all your Room related Qs and hanging out and generally being amazing.

SoundCheck screens The Room every month to a rapturous audience. For the first time ever in Europe, or indeed anywhere outside America, Greg Sestero who plays the lead role of ‘Mark’ in the room will meet fans, host a Q&A about the film, and present a special screening of the epic cult film. He also might even play a little American football on South William Street.
Admission to this one-off event is just €5. Stay tuned to the SoundCheck blog (http://soundcheckdublin.wordpress.com) for further details.

If you've never seen The Room..

TRAILER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCj8sPCWfUw

THE ONION'S GUIDE TO WATCHING THE ROOM:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/a-viewers-guide-to-the-room,25721/

Things to bring:
A tongue
At least one cheek
Plastic spoons
American Footballs

PS Greg is bringing us some The Room merchanidse for dedicated Roomies, such as T-shirts and bobbing Tommy heads which he will be signing




http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101876903190348&ref=mf

Brimmy

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Renn

Awesome.

Jimmy Bottlehead

OH HAI BOARDS!!

What an epic night. Possibly the most fun I've had out in years! Went with a group of friends, we figured everyone would be dressed up as the characters... instead, we were the only ones dressed up!

The screening was hilarious with the crowd interaction, and Greg Sestero was tremendously nice to everybody, taking as many pictures as asked and doing a Q&A session afterwards.

Here's a pic of us with the good man himself...

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs576.snc3/31420_388024141306_526141306_4410809_2666017_n.jpg

Renn

Haha, brilliant. Saw you guys going around at one stage.

Who the hell was the annoying fat bloke that kept shouting during the q&a? Should have thrown all the balls at that guy.

johnny_ultimate

Would've loved to be there, but alas I had to work. I am still meaning to go out to one of the screenings some night, it does sound like great craic indeed.

Brimmy

Was awesome. Needed more Tommy bobble heads though.

With each passing hour though I'm regretting not buying a tshirt or poster...

monkeyfudge

HAha... love the costumes.

We should make it one of the film club outings some week.

Renn

Brimmy wrote: »

Was awesome. Needed more Tommy bobble heads though.

With each passing hour though I'm regretting not buying a tshirt or poster...

More? I didn't realise there were any there...

Brimmy

By more I meant any at all of course...

Can't even find them on the official website or ebay

bonerm

Brimmy wrote: »

By more I meant any at all of course...

Can't even find them on the official website or ebay

?

http://www.theroomstuff.com/

monkeyfudge

That's the only time I've ever seen an overly flattering bobble head.

MrSir

The Room is such a life changing experience.I quote it everyday,I watch it as much as I can, I even had to buy an american DVD player to get the DVD!I sound crazy but everyone should see this movie.It really is perfection.

bonerm

MrSir wrote: »

The Room is such a life changing experience.I quote it everyday,I watch it as much as I can, I even had to buy an american DVD player to get the DVD!I sound crazy but everyone should see this movie.It really is perfection.

Sounds to me like you are the expert.

MrSir

bonerm wrote: »

Sounds to me like you are the expert.

You must be kidding aren't you?

Superbus

MrSir wrote: »

The Room is such a life changing experience.I quote it everyday,I watch it as much as I can, I even had to buy an american DVD player to get the DVD!I sound crazy but everyone should see this movie.It really is perfection.

It's not true don't even ask.

mstan

Oh Hi Doggy

Brimmy

MrSir wrote: »

You must be kidding aren't you?

I don't think he was kidding because you know what they say, love, is blind.

goose2005

Tommy Wiseau in any role makes anything brilliant - Wiseau as Hamlet, Don Corleone, etc

MikeC101

Brimmy wrote: »

I don't think he was kidding because you know what they say, love, is blind.

Maybe you should have a girl, Brimmy.

goose2005 wrote: »

Tommy Wiseau in any role makes anything brilliant - Wiseau as Hamlet, Don Corleone, etc

Amen!

"Oh hai Mark!"

bonerm

goose2005 wrote: »

Tommy Wiseau in any role makes anything brilliant - Wiseau as Hamlet

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
Oh Hai Horatio!

From imdb - this made me laugh out loud reading it:

Mark: How was work today?
Johnny: Oh pretty good. We got a new client... at the bank. We make a lot of money.
Mark: What client?
Johnny: I can not tell you, its confidential.
Mark: Oh come on. Why not?
Johnny: No I can't. Anyway, how is your sex life?

In fact just reading the quote page is a side-splitting read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eapRzs2502c

I LOVE when they all shout, "I DID NOT!"

MrSir

Brimmy wrote: »

I don't think he was kidding because you know what they say, love, is blind.

That's life!

bonerm

MrSir wrote: »

That's life!

Do you understand life? Do you?

MrSir

bonerm wrote: »

Do you understand life? Do you?

I can't tell you that it's confidential.Anyway how is your sex life?

bonerm

MrSir wrote: »

I can't tell you that it's confidential.Anyway how is your sex life?

My Lisa is great when I can get it.

MrSir

bonerm wrote: »

My Lisa is great when I can get it.

What about Betty that her name?

super_furry

Aw crap, how did I miss this? Do Spy still show it on Thursdays?

bonerm

MrSir wrote: »

What about Betty that her name?

Betty? She's a stupid bitch. She wants to control my life. I'm not going to put up with that. I'm going to do what I want to do, and that's it. What do you think I should do?

MrSir

bonerm wrote: »

Betty? She's a stupid bitch. She wants to control my life. I'm not going to put up with that. I'm going to do what I want to do, and that's it. What do you think I should do?

You know what you need?You need a drink.