Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room'
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Popular Culture is a very broad genre. It encompasses from a variety of Sub-Genres; like Dramas or Superhero Movies, that have become popularised through either critical acclaim of movies so good they are great, or cult followings of movies that are so bad they are good.
One of these movies is the 2003 Schlocky Romantic Drama and Dark Comedy: The Room starring, produced and directed by Tommy Wiseau. It had a poor performance at the Box Office, it made a gross total of $1,800 (as of July 2003), nowhere near its production budget of $6,000,000.
(Stats from IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/)
However it developed cult following after audiences realised the (unintentional) comedic value of the film.
The Room tells the story of Johnny (Wiseau), a banker, and his girlfriend Lisa (Juliette Danielle) who are a happy, successful couple living in new San Fransisco, until Lisa starts an affair with Johnny's best friend Mark (Greg Sestro) behind Johnny's back.
Check out the trailer.
The premise of the film is a stock romantic drama plot, but this is not what makes this film so special. The writing and its delivery is so memorable because it is unintentionally comedic gold. Some of the lines in The Room are so bizarre they transcend belief. Here is a short video of one of my favourite scenes from the movie.
As you can see it is seriously a bizarre, poorly written and delivered movie.
Critically, The Room is a bad movie. The writing is poor and the acting is worse. It uses a poorly integrated green-screen and the pacing is of the movie is off, it moves too slowly though a story which has very little substance. It tries to cover its basic story-line by shoehorning in delicate issues, such as cancer and drug abuse, which is more jarring that actually providing any substance to the film.
Despite all these technical misgivings, The Room is still an fantastically entertaining movie. Its critical failings provide a certain character to the film and makes it very enjoyable to watch and is the reason why it developed such a huge cult following.
Furthermore, The Room is not a lazy cash grab by a big corporate studio, but rather an independently produced film. The Room is a product of Tommy Wiseau's passion for film and I wholly respect him for putting his work out there and for being such a good sport about the popularity it has gained and the reasons for it.
Tommy Wiseau's The Room is a legend of schlock cinema and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a light, entertaining movie to watch with some friends and have a laugh.
Popular Culture is a very broad genre. It encompasses from a variety of Sub-Genres; like Dramas or Superhero Movies, that have become popularised through either critical acclaim of movies so good they are great, or cult followings of movies that are so bad they are good.
One of these movies is the 2003 Schlocky Romantic Drama and Dark Comedy: The Room starring, produced and directed by Tommy Wiseau. It had a poor performance at the Box Office, it made a gross total of $1,800 (as of July 2003), nowhere near its production budget of $6,000,000.
(Stats from IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/)
However it developed cult following after audiences realised the (unintentional) comedic value of the film.
Image from IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/)
The Room tells the story of Johnny (Wiseau), a banker, and his girlfriend Lisa (Juliette Danielle) who are a happy, successful couple living in new San Fransisco, until Lisa starts an affair with Johnny's best friend Mark (Greg Sestro) behind Johnny's back.
Check out the trailer.
The premise of the film is a stock romantic drama plot, but this is not what makes this film so special. The writing and its delivery is so memorable because it is unintentionally comedic gold. Some of the lines in The Room are so bizarre they transcend belief. Here is a short video of one of my favourite scenes from the movie.
As you can see it is seriously a bizarre, poorly written and delivered movie.
Critically, The Room is a bad movie. The writing is poor and the acting is worse. It uses a poorly integrated green-screen and the pacing is of the movie is off, it moves too slowly though a story which has very little substance. It tries to cover its basic story-line by shoehorning in delicate issues, such as cancer and drug abuse, which is more jarring that actually providing any substance to the film.
Despite all these technical misgivings, The Room is still an fantastically entertaining movie. Its critical failings provide a certain character to the film and makes it very enjoyable to watch and is the reason why it developed such a huge cult following.
Furthermore, The Room is not a lazy cash grab by a big corporate studio, but rather an independently produced film. The Room is a product of Tommy Wiseau's passion for film and I wholly respect him for putting his work out there and for being such a good sport about the popularity it has gained and the reasons for it.
Tommy Wiseau's The Room is a legend of schlock cinema and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a light, entertaining movie to watch with some friends and have a laugh.
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