THE ROOM Discussion - Page 2

It's like his universal translator is broken.

AVC: What do you think Philip Haldiman brought to the role of Denny?

TW: I think he brought a lot stuff. One thing was people actually, he’s really retarded a little bit.

I love this man.

If he keeps trying then maybe one day he'll say a coherent sentence on accident.

Anyone wanna guess where the fuck he's actually from?

Rifftrax just did a commentary for The Room.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOCMqtOCY-A

Many thanks to Mike Nelson for finally doing this one.

Supposedely, the budget for this film was 6 million dollars!

How was all that money used?! I mean, shitty script aside, I would think for 6 mil you could at least get a DOP who wouldn't shoot images that look like sub-student film shite.

As a tax write-off, maybe?

Well for one he went through 2 crews, that can't be cheap. Secondly he took out a giant billboard praising the film and his performance. It was up for something like a year as well.

And the Rifftrax is amazing.

The latest Empire mag has a 4-pages piece on this guy with commentaries of H'Wood people (Edgar Wright, Kristen Bell, Paul Rudd...) which is sorta amazing too, even mentioning that IIRC the funding may have come from highly dubious sources (ie. gunrunning) due to his ties with some Eastern Europe gentlemen.

So at least this guy's already got the typical Hollywood connections.

He simultaneously shot every scene on film and HD, too. Still waiting for his book on the subject.

Oh my god, did Uwe Boll have plastic surgery?

Finally seeing this Friday night and I'm more excited than I was for Avatar Day!

The grindhouse theater in London is going to be playing, so I'm finally going to get a chance to see it. Is the movie really as funny all the way through, as those youtube clips suggest?

It's astounding. There's a part about 20-30 min in where you almost convince yourself that it's all a big, brilliant parody effort, but as it sails past the 90 min mark, you realize that it really is a completely sincere, searing drama as rendered by someone who has a) no idea how to write, film, or perform in a movie, and b) never interacted with a human being in any genuine capacity. It's like a slice of life film made by an alien whose only knowledge of people comes from a very special episode of Family Matters and part of some masochistic porn.

I suggest you bring booze.

That sounds utterly fantastic, just the way I like my bad films. I'm going to have to coerce some friends to watch it with me, I don't think my gf would enjoy it. And thankfully this theater serves booze as do most in London.

Netflix finally delivered this gem to me. WOW. How they left this off the "party watch" feature is beyond me, but yeah. I tried counting the establishing shots of San Fran but gave up early on. The florist scene is my favorite "you are my favorite customer" followed closely by super-segue "oh, hi mark!". Oh and the worst sex scenes ever committed to film. Truly a treat.

It's honestly one of the greatest movies of all-time.


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?

recently saw this with a friend and he described it as a 90's soft core porn film with a soap opera plot starring Christopher walken on PCP...

Finally saw this in a theater. Oh my god, what a fun time. The scene with the drug dealer and Denny is so fucking fantastic. And Lisa's mom lecturing is the icing on the cake. Priceless.

I love how they break out into playing football every once in a while. But they never actually play football, they just toss the ball around two feet from each other...and one time they even do it in Tuxedos for no reason whatsoever! Hahahahaha!

The Lisa-neck bone thing was fucking disturbing. Looks like she swallowed a hamster on its wheel and got it caught in her throat.

Wiseau in Chicago on Feb. 12th. I'm heading down from Milwaukee for this momentous occasion. Any others Chewers going for it?

Does anyone else get the giggles for at least an hour after watching this movie? I remember some weird continuity error or hilarious line reading and I go into fits again. The one that's on rotation in my brain is Lisa's amazing power to have everyone go outside and inside whenever she needs some alone time with her man.

Also the way characters are introduced is amazing. The best being "Dude at the Party who Catches Lisa Being a Ho".

"You're going to drag us all down with you!"

And finally, the sex scenes. I've seen butcher shop windows sexier than Tommy Wiseau's naked body. Truly nightmare fuel.

When he reminisces about first meeting Lisa, he says "she was sitting, drinking her coffee, and she was so beautiful and I say hi to her."

I like to think that everyone takes such pleasure in saying "Hi" in the Wiseau-universe because saying it was the start of his character's greatest happiness.

As the Rifftrax commentary says :"About 70% of this movie is people greeting each other"

If you haven't heard the Rifftrax on this movie, do so immediately.

Edit: Not for nothing, but how much did Wiseau pay for the rights to use the "Happy Birthday" song? Could this be where a good chunk of the budget went to? Because it sure as hell didn't end up on screen.

Also, a Tommy Wiseau montage.

Wiseau is shopping around a sitcom called The Neighbors. Here's the trailer.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGpwx...layer_embedded

Of course he's going to be there the day after I fly out of the country for six months. I've only just seen The Room recently, but I'm utterly in love with this retarded masterpiece.

I. Love. This. Movie.

I watched it for the first time last week, and my friends and I are convinced that Tommy Wiseau is an alien.

S'funny you mention that, the term we coined while watching was Porn Opera. It's a new genre!

Oh my fucking God. Apparently they got together 27 shitty, desperate actors and threw them in a location for two hours of improv and couldn't wring a single decent five seconds of usable material out of it. That's seriously even worse than anything he did in The Room. And it's about a workplace... but called The Neighbors. Head explode.

Watching the tuxedo scene for the first time is a magical experience. Every time I'm with a first-time viewer it's hilarious watching them try to make sense out of that scene.

With every viewing, I keep finding new things about the film to love, but as of now, my favorite moment occurs in the scene in which Johnny is confiding his relationship woes to Peter, and in the middle of the conversation, Mark interrupts with "Hey, guys, I've been making a lot more money lately. I'm thinking about moving into a bigger place." It's so out of left field. Even Peter and Johnny look shocked.

I'm really considering checking out Homeless in America. Has anyone actually seen it?

My best guess is that some time during the production phase, it was in the script that Tommy and Lisa actually do get married and then it got dropped.

There are lots of scenes in this movie vying for best but right now, the scene where Johnny hooks up the tape recorder to the phone and his sneaky face right after is the front runner. The Denny drug abuse scene is also a classic with Lisa shouting all her lines including one of the worst I've ever heard: "What kind of money? WHAT KIND OF MONEY DENNY!?!?!?"

I think what makes this movie so special is the obvious Tennesee Williams influence mixed with the bland surreality of early 90's "TGIF". It's a mixture just as intoxicating as Whiskey mixed with straight Vodka.

He made 'The Neighbours' ages ago, I don't think it's ever going to see the light of day sadly.

That's two bad. Out of all of Wiseau's future projects, I'd be most excited to see his take on the Vampire genre. Also, where can one find the full "Neighbors" pilot online? I must see the whole thing.

Imagine what Wiseau would do if a studio gave him $100 million to make a buddy cop movie. Lethal Weapon on shrooms. I'd be there opening day. Or much more likely the first guy in line at the video store.

My dream Wiseau project would be a Harry Potter-like fantasy movie. That or the big screen adaptation of "Family Matters" in 3-D.

I'm sure this has already been mentioned, but I have to say that one of my favorite things about this movie is that it seems like Wiseau knows as much about how a chicken sounds as does the average member of the Bluth family.

"Whassa mattur, Mahrk? Cheeken? CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP!"

I was thinking that myself.

My favorite line reading....

"Let's get something to eat huh?"= "Let's get somthing the eat....HA"

You know something just occurred to me. Since the movie was shot in 35mm and HD at the same time, is it possible to make a 3d version of "The Room"? I mean who wouldn't want to see that?

It's making its Detroit debut this weekend. Going to see it on Wednesday. Can't wait.

Finally got this.

Favorite moment so far: "I told you, I'm very busy!"

Most disturbing moment: Tommy's ass zits (left cheek) a bit into the first sex scene.

I have an opportunity to go to a showing of this tonight, but I'm having a hard time selling any of my friends on it. Boo-urns. I'll figure something out!

Lie to them. Drug them. Tell them it's an obscure Italian porn flick starring Monica Belluci from 1998, or a prequel to Avatar, or the finale of Lost has leaked, or whatever you have to in order to get them to that theater. Threaten their loved ones if they do not go, these so-called "friends" of yours. Once they have seen it, they will understand why it was necessary. They may never forgive you, but damn it, they will never forget you. Nothing will ever be the same.

The universe has conspired against me. I got a friend to join me and called to purchase tickets only to learn that the showing is sold out. HOWEVER!!! This is actually their 3rd time doing a screening and they plan to do another one next month.

I will be ready.

No, you won't. But that may be for the best; I shudder to imagine what horrors could possibly have prepared me for The Room.

Well, I meant ready to purchase tickets before the sell out.

But at the same time, I have actually watched part of the film alone. But I stopped it and decided to save myself for the rowdy crowd experience. The theater guy on the phone who told me it was sold out just started chuckling to himself about their previous screenings.

Some first viewing observations:

-The guy with the glasses is like a bizarro David Wain.

-Mark, played by Greg Sestero, is possibly my favorite character. The actor is like the perfect genetic splicing between Paul Walker and Ian Somerhalder (Boone on Lost), with a little bit of Jared Leto thrown in to spice it up. The only problem is, Greg ended up with all the recessive genes. I wouldn't trust this guy to make me a ham and cheese sandwich, but I would put him in one of my movies.

-Lisa's $400 tit job. No room in the budget for a nose job too?

-Don't try watching this stoned. Tommy Wiseau's face will give you panic attacks.

The overall effect of watching this movie is remarkably similar to a bad acid trip. I've had one for real, and this is what it's like. Everything is just wrong, it's like reality is circling the drain of a dirty truck stop bathroom sink.

I'm also concerned that the entire cast was suffering from radiation poisoning. All of them must be horribly deformed now, except for Greg Sestero, who is immune, and lived on to play Model on "Fashion House".

Haven't seen it, but no way is it worse(better) than Troll 2. No fucking way.

The Room as on the same level as Plan 9 from Outer Space. Haven't seen Troll 2 but I can't see it being worse than this.

Troll 2 doesn't even have trolls in it...and it gets worse from there. Do yourself a favor.