The Room

Name: The Room
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: July 18, 2003
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 9

2003

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Overwhelming dislike based on 5 Critic Reviews

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Wiseau-Films | Release Date: July 18, 2003 | R

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,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, with a double personality, and her deadly schemes lead to her own downfall. Mark is a young, successful and independent best friend of Johnny. He has a good heart, but gets caught up in Lisa's dangerous web and gives into temptation. This eventually brings him to great loss. Claudette is the classy, sophisticated mother of Lisa who has had disappointing relationships in her life. She wants her daughter to be married as soon as possible so she can benefit. Denny is an orphan boy, naive and confused about life, love, and friendship. Denny is very ambitious and also very grateful to the people that are in his life. "The Room" depicts the depths of friendship and relationships in one's life and raises life's real and most asked question: "Can you ever really trust anyone?"… Expand

Director: Tommy Wiseau

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 99 min

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J.R. Jones

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. Read full review

Marc Mohan

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. Read full review

Bill Stamets

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]

Scott Foundas

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. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

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. Read full review

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ThePotatoez

Nov 16, 2015

Tommy Wiseau's The Room is utterly glorious! It's comedically bad, to a sense where me and my friends constantly reference it's... Well, itself. It's unbelievably bad, it had me rolling in the floor constantly, I can't say I've laughed as hard ANYWHERE else, I wholeheartedly recommendTommy Wiseau's The Room is utterly glorious! It's comedically bad, to a sense where me and my friends constantly reference it's... Well, itself. It's unbelievably bad, it had me rolling in the floor constantly, I can't say I've laughed as hard ANYWHERE else, I wholeheartedly recommend watching this movie with any of your unsuspecting friends, I've watched it three times already, it doesn't ever loos it's magic. It truly is legendary!… Expand

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ReviewScope

Apr 29, 2017

An emotional rollercoaster, a beautifully executed classic that has gone down in history as a cult classic. I have watched this movie billions of times, and will never think twice about re-watching it even more in the future. Masterpiece.

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MrCinnamon

Oct 17, 2011

This film is a misunderstood masterpiece. Yes its badly written, directed, acted, dubbed and every other aspect of film making. But its so entertaining because of this, especially with a group of friends. Its much, much, much funnier than most comedy films today.

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WarpViper

Feb 27, 2019

It is one of those movies that are so bad they're good. Very entertaining movie.

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Goatlips

Jun 11, 2020

Film Born From The Neurotic, Misogynistic Thoughts Of A Cuckolded Man?

Yesterday I watched 'The Room' (2003) so I could then watch 'The Disaster Artist' (2017 - 6/10, Franco's Wiseau impersonation was neither 100% accurate or a hilarious caricature) and then maybe 'Room Full Of Spoons'Film Born From The Neurotic, Misogynistic Thoughts Of A Cuckolded Man?

Yesterday I watched 'The Room' (2003) so I could then watch 'The Disaster Artist' (2017 - 6/10, Franco's Wiseau impersonation was neither 100% accurate or a hilarious caricature) and then maybe 'Room Full Of Spoons' (2016/2020, documentary - but maybe Wiseau's been ridiculed enough).
This film is so bad it's become cult viewing, yet the overall plot will be familiar to most people despite it being a subject rarely covered by mainstream movies. It's like they've filmed the looping neurotic daydream thoughts of a cuckolded man, hence several lines and ideas are repeated and much of it is illogical or doesn't really fit. The script sounds like it was written by an 8 year old - an 8 year old monkey. Tommy Wiseau's acting is as though he has brain damage, or is heavily sedated with anti-psychotic drugs. Alternatively, like an android that's failed the Turing Test. The other actors weren't quite as bad, but with their lines and Wiseau's direction it's hard to be sure if they're actual professionals or not. Terrible film with many illogical moments, but somehow still feels more real and relevant than most films. The audio and video quality is largely okay, and the music actually wasn't too bad, plus there's a few soft-core sex scenes - if you think that's a redeeming feature. 3/10.… Expand

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zperry-20

Aug 15, 2014

Tommy Wiseau. Do i need to say more , he directed , produced and starred in this insult to cinema. He pulls out every cliche in the book except it is executed poorly and the film has lazy storytelling and characters.

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CTHReviews

Jul 22, 2018

Granted, my favorite experience in a movie theater was when me and my best friend and his friends watched The Room in a packed theater, and we all just made fun of the film. But let's be honest: everything about this movie falls flat on its face.

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