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- 2003
- R
- TPW Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 2003
- R
- TPW Films
- 1 h 39 m
Summary Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. Johnny can also be a little too trusting at times which haunts him later on. Lisa is a beautiful blonde fiancé of Johnny. She has always gotten her way and will manipulate to get what she wants. She is a taker, ...
Directed By: Tommy Wiseau
Written By: Tommy Wiseau
- 2003
- R
- TPW Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 2003
- R
- TPW Films
- 1 h 39 m
The Room
9
5.2
Summary Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. Johnny can also be a little too trusting at times which haunts him later on. Lisa is a beautiful blonde fiancé of Johnny. She has always gotten her way and will manipulate to get what she wants. She is a taker, ...
Directed By: Tommy Wiseau
Written By: Tommy Wiseau
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
9
0% Positive
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0 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
100% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
9
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
100% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
This inept 2003 melodrama has become a Rocky Horror-style cult favorite...As someone who's watched more bad movies than you can imagine, I'm mostly immune to the so-bad-it's-good aesthetic, though I can see how, viewed in a theater at midnight after a few drinks, this might conjure up its own hilariously demented reality.
Tommy Wiseau's film oozes sincerity, which is then slathered in a thick coating of oblivious narcissism, and sadly serves as an example that not everyone should follow their bliss...It's the emotional earnestness that places The Room squarely within Susan Sontag's famous definition of pure camp.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 402 User Ratings
5.2
45% Positive
181 Ratings
181 Ratings
9% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
46% Negative
186 Ratings
186 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 402 User Ratings
5.2
45% Positive
181 Ratings
181 Ratings
9% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
46% Negative
186 Ratings
186 Ratings
You can laugh at lines like: "Hey, everybody, let's go inside and eat some cake"; "Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!"; "Man, I just can't figure women out. Sometimes they're just too smart. Sometimes they're flat out stupid. Other times they're just evil." In Wiseau's worldview, if "The Room" were a woman, she wouldn't be "evil" or "too smart." That leaves "flat-out stupid." [12 Feb 2012, p.B2]
The Room marks the writing-directing-acting debut of Tommy Wiseau, who's not just one of the most unusual looking and sounding (with an unidentifiable Eastern European accent) leading men ever to grace the screen, but a narcissist nonpareil whose movie makes Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny" seem the apotheosis of cinematic self-restraint.
That’s the trick to making a cult film. It can’t just be bad, it has to be memorably so, and The Room is.
I will love this movie and hate it at the same time. Nothing about this film makes sense, the acting, the writing, the directing, and even the green screen effects are terrible. But what i will say though is that if you want to see a film that is so bad it's good, this is it, this masterpiece of garbage is overall highly entertaining for the common man realizing its major flaws. If you want to see a film with a good amount of quality and effort put in, don't see this, but if you want to see something so bad that you can make fun of it throughout the entire running time (with friends or relatives to share with) than this is the perfect movie for you.
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One of the worst movies I have ever seen. And that makes it one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. The acting is so wooden. The script so silly. The camera isn't that bad to be honest. The only reason I am not rating this higher, is because there are parts that are so bad they are just horrible. If you are making this movie, watch this movie so that you know that at lest you are doing something right.
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A completely artificial and shameless film that is a great insult to the audience! Of course, if we look at this film from a comedic point of view, it is a good film because the whole film is playing like a circus! But I do not think that Tommy Wiseau made this film for the comedy genre because it is quite clear that it is a very weak drama.
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Production Company
Wiseau-Films
Release Date Jul 18, 2003
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A film with the passion of Tennesee Williams.
Awards
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
