Greatest Movie Ever Made - The Room - Film Review
Is The Room the best movie ever made? Yes.
The Room is directed by Tommy Wiseau, who also wrote and produced it, and stars him, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero and Philip Haldiman.
Plot
Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) is a San Franciscan man who seems to have it all: a high-paying job as a banker, a bunch of friends--one of them being Mark (Greg Sestero), to whom he's the closest--and a future wife named Lisa (Juliette Danielle), whom he's been with to for seven years. From the outset, Johnny's got everything going for him...that is, until he faces the worst form of betrayal ever, and from then on everything begins to crumble.
Review
I barely know where to start, I'm just going to list random stuff until this review ends.
Tommy Wiseau says that this film is a "black comedy" when it's painfully obvious to the viewers, and other cast members have admitted, that this was meant to be a serious drama that failed.
Subplots show up just to be abandoned, "I got the results of the test back, I definitely have breast cancer." "They're curing lots of people everyday." I'm glad that's settled.
Denny (Philip Haldiman) owes a drug dealer named Chris-R (Dan Janjigian) some money, he doesn't have it so Chris-R holds a gun to Denny's head, Johnny, Mark, Lisa and Claudette (Carolyn Minnott) all show up and Johnny and Mark take Chris-R to jail in record time. This is never brought up again.
Oh, and the police will just accept anyone you say needs to be in jail.
The poster and title are both misleading because the title alone gives an impression that this is going to be a horror film when it's a crappy romance drama.
We always need to know that Lisa is beautiful, Mark is Johnny's best friend, or that we're in San Francisco, because this thing has "screensavers" of San Francisco.
Tuxedo football. That is all.
Mark must have short-term memory loss, he seems to forget he's in a sexual relationship with Lisa in every scene he's in as he always asks what's going on.
Let's talk about the infamous rooftop scene. According to Greg Sestero's book The Disaster Artist, that scene took 32 takes, and apparently that was the best of them.
The rooftop scene was filmed on a set and it shows, you can tell it's a green screen and the corners on the roof don't connect properly.
Tommy had some weird choices during production of this movie, such as when they filmed in the alley, Tommy made them film on a set when there was an actual alley nearby.
In the Room universe, people don't pay for what they order in coffee shops, cheesecake and water are the most popular items, and casually asking another man about his sex life in public is an acceptable thing to do.
The best thing to give to someone who doesn't drink is a combination of scotch and vodka. If you love Lisa, you'll drink it.
Another famous scene in the movie: The flower shop scene. How do you not recognize Johnny even though no one else in the entire world looks like Johnny? Why were they rushing through the scene? Why does he just say "that's me"? Tommy wasn't even sure if the doggy in the scene was real or not.
Tommy Wiseau's chicken sound. I guess chickens sound different on his home planet.
After Johnny's birthday party ends terribly, he throws a huge tantrum and starts getting weird with Lisa's red dress and then kills himself. The scene happens at night, but when he throws his TV out the window, it's day. He destroys pretty much everything in his apartment, from people talking about Johnny's financial status in the movie, everything in that apartment is his.
During the party, Johnny tells everyone what he and Lisa are expecting, but she admits that she just lied to keep things interesting.
For some reason there are framed photographs of spoons in the background of some scenes. I don't know why.
I don't wanna get too much into detail about the sex scenes as I'm trying to keep this pretty PG, but what I will say: Worst sex scenes ever filmed, also the best sex scenes ever filmed.
This film has had a huge impact. There are still theatrical screenings to this day, a theater near me plays it, I've never gone to one but I would like too. This thing has hit Rocky Horror Picture Show levels of popularity as a cult hit. People dress up as characters and interact with the movie like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
You have to see this movie to believe it. Go and watch it, it's interesting. If you hired five comedians to make a movie like this, it won't even be close to what this is.
This film even has an unofficial video game adaptation that you can play online for free. Go play it, it's fun, but you have to find all spoons to unlock the true ending of the game.
A lot of people love this in the "so bad that it's good" way. I wonder if there is someone (besides Tommy) who likes this movie because they genuinely think it's good.
I'm sure there's more I can talk about, but I'm writing a review for Star Wars: The Clone Wars so I'm gonna finish that.
See you later tonight with a review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, tomorrow for a review of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and on Sunday for reviews of The Disaster Artist and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Serious rating: 1/10
Entertainment rating: 10/10
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