• swab148
    11•1 month ago

    I am in awe of this movie. It is horrible. I’ve seen a lot of bad movies in my time, but I am absolutely shocked by this one. This dude had absolutely no self-awareness, nor must he have had accepted any criticism. There is no saving grace for this absolute trainwreck of an entity that we can only call “film” in the strictest sense, because it was recorded on 35mm film. The creation of the film itself has more artistic value than the movie that was inflicted upon it.

    I’m gonna watch it again tomorrow with the Rifftrax commentary.

    • trubedourEnglish
      4•1 month ago

      The Disaster Artist is a great watch as well once you’re familiar with The Room!

      I’m glad you’ve enjoyed it, it’s one of my favorites of all time :)

      • swab148
        1•1 month ago

        I’m also looking forward to the remake with Bob Odenkirk lol

        • @papalonian
          1•1 month ago

          the remake with Bob Odenkirk lol

          I haven’t heard anything about a remake, but Odenkirk was in the original version. He’s the director that tells Tommy he would make a great villain typecast.

            • @papalonian
              1•27 days ago

              I see. It looks like it might be in production limbo, though. The concept seems really interesting - I’m wondering what is meant when they say they want to deliver the content of the original material in a serious fashion. Like… did they rewrite the entire script to make sense? Or is it just a line for line remake?

              • swab148
                1•26 days ago

                From other interviews and articles I read, it’s a line for line remake, but they tried to make it as serious as they could. Bob Odenkirk said something along the lines of, “I tried to play this part as if I were handed the script,” meaning he’s not intentionally hamming it, but some of it obviously can’t be taken seriously. Also, it’s 100% green-screen, so take of that what you will.

                I would be interested to see what a rewritten version would look like, maybe take some of the stuff that didn’t make it into the final version or making some fan theories canon, flesh out some subplots etc. Ultimately I think that a rewrite would just end up being a boring drama with an uninteresting plot, because underneath it all, Tommy didn’t write an interesting story. It’d probably still be popular with existing fans, but I think that making it “good” would be a hard derivation of the original, to the point that it might not resemble The Room at all other than character names.

    • TheTechnician27OPEnglish
      17•1 month ago

      Often called the “Citizen Kane of bad films” due to both its cult status as the best bad movie of all time and to the remarkably layered depth of the badness, The Room is a 2003 dark drama indie film written by, produced by, directed by, and starring Tommy Wiseau – an enigmatic eastern European man who originally wrote the film as a play and a book and took inspiration from his favorite classics like A Streetcar Named Desire, Rebel Without a Cause, Citizen Kane, and The Guns of Navarone. Imagine if you took a film that was so truly, earnestly, passionately trying to live among those movies solely for a love of the medium and yet failed completely at emulating every single aspect of them, and you have The Room. I seriously can’t recommend it enough; there’s not a single movie I can say that I’ve watched 8 times and would happily watch again except this one.

        • TheRealKuniEnglish
          2•1 month ago

          After you’ve seen it, go watch The Disaster Artist.

          • swab148
            2•1 month ago

            I did, it was fantastic as well! I’ve been nonstop consuming The Room content for about two days now, I’m just so fascinated.