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Tommy Wiseau (writer)
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A film with the passion of Tennessee Williams. more
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"The Room" is an American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies. It has five major characters...
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1 win
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The Room – So Bad It’s Good (Kind Of)
(From FilmShaft.com. 7 September 2009, 11:32 AM, PDT)
The Room…So Bad, It’s Good (Kind Of)
(From FilmShaft.com. 7 September 2009, 11:17 AM, PDT)
(From FilmShaft.com. 7 September 2009, 11:32 AM, PDT)
The Room…So Bad, It’s Good (Kind Of)
(From FilmShaft.com. 7 September 2009, 11:17 AM, PDT)
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Wiseau, they're laughing at you, not with you
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Tommy Wiseau | ... | Johnny |
 | Juliette Danielle | ... | Lisa |
 | Greg Sestero | ... | Mark |
 | Philip Haldiman | ... | Denny |
| Carolyn Minnott | ... | Claudette |
 | Robyn Paris | ... | Michelle |
| Mike Holmes | ... | Mike |
| Kyle Vogt | ... | Peter |
 | Greg Ellery | ... | Steven |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Dan Janjigian | ... | Chris R |
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Rated R for sexuality, language and brief violence.
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USA:99 min
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Kyle Vogt quit the film due to creative differences with Wiseau. This explains why Peter is not at the party at the end. Peter's lines were given to Greg Ellery
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Revealing mistakes: When characters leave the roof via the stairs, they turn left. But the stairs physically can't go anywhere because of the layout. This is best highlighted when Mark leaves the roof.
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Referenced in "Veronica Mars: Un-American Graffiti (#3.16)" (2007)
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Okay, honestly I had to review this film as a way to try and find some understanding as to why it has such a cult following. I will say up front that the one good thing about it was that it was screened on 35mm, but that is where the good points end. I hope this acts as the first review that wasn't written by one of Tommy Wiseau's relatives or some other close friend of his. Read the other reviews on IMDb and you'll see what I mean.
What was this suppose to be? I saw "The Room" as part of the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival and from the program notes it was apparently supposed to be a black comedy. Huh? The only thing funny about it was how seriously the director and his cast took the project. The acting was terrible, even for low budget standards. The editing was something straight out of a soap opera rather than a full length feature with all it's generic establishing shots and sitcom-esque attempts at time passage.
The "love scenes" in this film, and I use that phrase loosely, are borderline nauseating. The actors are unattractive at best. It was like watching my parents get it on. However, it made me laugh. It made everybody laugh. But no one was laughing with this director's self proclaimed elaborate joke. Instead, most were laughing at how horrible it was one scene after another.
The bottom line is that Wiseau set out to make a deep, thought provoking film about betrayal and trust and all those common themes that many great films have explored. The problem comes in the fact that he failed so horribly that the finished product came off as funny and now he's acting like this is what he meant to have happen. This was not meant originally to be funny...it couldn't have been. I'm not buying it. This film was simply a big mistake that some people enjoy watching like a car accident out on the freeway.