Last night I had some people over to watch autuer Tommy Wiseau’s cinematic tour de force charmingly awful feature, The Room. Okay, well I invited some people, but actually @jarvitron was the only person with enough balls to show up. (with a 12 pack of Miller High Life, I might add. There’s a guy who knows how to party.) But that’s okay, because @jarvitron is awesome and my housemates @djscandal and @superBR were on hand, as well. Plus we had chips and salsa and I still have tons of fudgesicles, popcorn, ice cream sandwiches, etc, left for next week.
The Room was everything the trailer hints at, and more. At the risk of spoiling it for you, (impossible) I include this bullet pointed list of items that make this film great.
- people playing football on very small rooftops while having serious discussions
- random characters who show up out of nowhere at pivotal plot points and just sorta hang out the rest of the film
- a script that appears to have been written by a schizophrenic adolescent
The Room has a large cult following in LA, where there are regular screenings, allegedly often attended by Tommy Wiseau himself! According to the Wikipedia entry, Wiseau sells T-shirts and DVD’s at the events, as well as doing Q & A’s. Fans dress up as their favorite characters, throw footballs at each other from a few feet away, and yell insults at the film.
I highly recommend you check out The Room. (You may be able to download it from The Pirate Bay. Just sayin’.)
Thanks to Portland Merucury Film Editor Erik Henriksen for telling me about this stunning work of cinema.
“You’re tearing us apart!!”
Some friends of mine just had a movie weekend at their house, and this was the first movie we watched. It is so horribly horribly horribly bad in a very horrible way… and somehow we watched it all the way through. Of course, there were like 10 of us doing a good MST3k impression. It’s a movie I’ll likely never forget…
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