Is Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003). I must admit, I’m way behind on this one (has someone posted on this film already?) as the film has had a sizable cult following–mostly in Los Angeles–for some time now. Let me share my feelings about this extraordinary…thing. Wiseau managed to cobble together 6 million dollars (how? no one quite knows) to realize on the big screen a play/novel he had written about a love triangle between Johnny (played by Wiseau), Lisa (played by…who the fuck knows, some woman he met in L.A. who had just stepped off a bus from Texas), and Mark (Greg Sestero, who had previously worked on “The Days of Our Lives”).
The film is so ridiculously bad–so poorly written, poorly acted, ao mind-boggingly ill-conceived, incoherent, and over the top, that it makes for one hell of a movie-going experience. Think Rocky Horror Picture Show but without the technical coherence and intentional camp.
I mention Rocky Horror because the only real way to experience The Room is to see it with a large group of people who have seen it before and, well, love it.
I’ve got links two video clips here. One of the trailer, and one of some footage some guy shot of a screening in L.A.
The trailer
Yes, that’s a green screen effect of a rooftop. Yes, the passion of Tennesee Williams. No, not Tennessee, Tennesee. The “quirky dark comedy” tag was added after the premiere when it was discovered that people were in hysterics watching it.
And, for good measure, here is the trailer for a pilot he shot for TV: a sitcom called “the Neighbors”
I think I read something about this in Entertainment Weekly last spring.
Oh, hi Mark!
HoLEEEEEE CRAP. This was kind of amazing.