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Tommy loves Lisa, his future wife. But Mark, Johnny's best friend, is sleeping with Lisa. And Lisa's mother has breast cancer. And Denny, Johnny's adopted son, has a drug problem, or at least a money problem. What does all this have to do with each other? Not much.

Could "The Room" be the greatest film ever made? Writer, director, producer and star Tommy Wiseau thinks so. The rumor is he submitted the film to the Academy for consideration as best picture. Sadly, he was turned away. "The Room" may not be the best picture of the year, but is probably the single greatest film of all time, at least from a purely entertaining point of view.

Yes, the love scenes are recycled. Yes, some of the dialog makes no sense. Yes, there are countless subplots that go nowhere. Yes, one of the main characters disappears halfway through and is replaced by another guy. Yes, the music is bad. Yes, yes, yes. But somehow, the more things that seem to be wrong with this film -- a film that Wiseau assures us was "meticulously" made -- the better it gets.

I was laughing so hard, I was in pain within fifteen minutes and cried. All of the "Oh, hi Mark" lines, and the epic "you're tearing me apart" were too much for me. I ended up spewing my guts, and several bottles of Coors Light, all over the place. The intensity of the awesome in the picture just blew me away.

I have a new favorite film, and that film's name is "The Room". What other film could make me want to play football in a tuxedo or sing the "Full House" theme song? Only one film has that power... for the full effect, you really need to see a midnight screening of this film with the audience participation. Or at the very least, download the RiffTrax and laugh all over again... this film could be watched fifty times and still not begin to get old.

It's not every day that a bad movie can be life-affirming. And that's what makes "The Room" such a treasure. It's an exercise in shoddy filmmaking, but there's something about it that's just . . . well, it's just a whole lot of fun. And yes, I do mean it's a lot of fun to bag on this hot mess, but doing so has never felt so satisfying.

If you boil this movie down to its base elements, Johnny loves Lisa, Lisa cheats on Johnny. Why does she? Ehh, not really sure. It's not like he deserved it, really - I mean, he's a super nice guy. He's not the best looking guy, but she didn't seem to have a problem with it. And the rest of the movie is just Lisa being a galactic hussy (seriously, they don't come more arbitrarily two-timing than this).

There's a lot here that goes unanswered. What happened with the mother-in-law's cancer? Will Denny get off drugs? Why does Mark turn on Johnny? You can tell this is supposed to be a big tragedy, kind of an inept Tennessee Williams joint. But nothing about this comes off like it should. Subplots are introduced and then forgotten, the dialogue's full of non-sequiturs, and there's not really any meaning to anything. Add to that the bad green-screening and the Skinemax production values, and you're witnessing a veritable trainwreck.

But, my god, is it entertaining. Ninety minutes chock-full of unintentional hilarity. The reputation is there for a reason, and it's definitely earned. The "so-bad-it's-good" label is thrown around so often these days, but it truly applies here.

In the best way possible.

8/10

Finally after all these years finally watched the cult classic "The Room" as it's a favorite for many art houses and independent movie chains as the film still has countless midnight showings. Many consider it the worst movie ever made, however after watching I disagree, as I liked it the film was blended with drama and twist of love and lust that lead to bad means for all involved as really it was a good black hearted comedy.

Set in the city by the bay "San Francisco", Johnny(Tommy Wiseau) is a successful investment banker who enjoys life and love as he plans to marry his younger and sexy girlfriend Lisa(Juliette Danielle). However this is the game of life it's not always a bed of roses(unlike the love making scenes!)as lust, passion, lies, and betrayal take over.

Johnny has a best friend named Mark(Greg Sestero) and all three become involved in a web a deadly game of temptation as these games slowly, but surely lead to loss for all involved. This film is a great take and spin on life, love, and friendship, as can anyone be trusted? It proves love runs deep, yet when lust and passion mix it's a deadly combination. Overall well done movie that teaches lessons in a painful way, and the movie is spiced up by love making scenes and the acting and on screen chemistry between the actors is good for a low budget independent that would become a historical cult classic.

The room is bad. Very bad. But under all the the bad their is hart. It's a mans vision, one mans vision and he did it.. he did it. He made a movie. How many of us have made a film. Exactly.. he made a movie and it's a movie. Hats off to the guy who had a dream. A dream to make a moveie and throw a football around. And then to make that movie...and throw a football around...while speaking words. And to ride that movie till the wheels fell off..good luck to tommy.

When you combine the simple love triangle story with the wierdest acting, dialoge and directing you have ever seen and then top it off with extra sub-plots that appear and disappear within single scenes you get a movie that has caused the definition of bad to collapse on itself and create a supernova of pure cinematic genius.

First of all, I have never written a review on IMDb before because I've had no interest because people rate this stuff all the time so there's no need to add "just another one"....BUT

This movie inspired me. It inspired me to get up everyday and be happy that I wasn't "that guy" who made the (possible) worst movie in recent history. And you know what? It's not even the worst movie ever, I recently watched Shutter Island and I couldn't even get through that but this movie made me curious on what funny line or bad acting would happen next.

I was literally brought to tears of joy reading the reviews of this film after watching this movie. I gave this movie a 2 STAR rating. 1 for it's quality of...everything, and 1 for making my week!! I haven't laughed so hard recently. Yes, I realize that this isn't even exactly a full on review; it's more of how over joyed I'm feeling right now that I can make it in life.

Simply said: This movie is so bad...it's good.

Chip chip chip!!!!!

This movie is one of the best I've seen in a long time. OK, it's not anything like Cinema Paradiso or Shawshank Redemption, I must say. But, in fact, this movie has something so special about it that I cannot explain: this has an aura. It's a golden ticket to a place that you would never reach with any other movie.

Yeah, the last sentence doesn't make any sense. So does this movie. It's so hilarious it's wrongly cataloged as "drama". The Room isn't drama: it's black comedy alright.

Be warned: you cannot watch it with a closed mind. You must watch it expecting a non-conventional acting by Mr. Wiseau (which is a genius, by the way) and, definitely, a non-conventional, extremely eccentric plot. If you do that, you will enjoy one of the best movies of all the times. In fact, the best eccentric-black-comedy-drama ever filmed.

There are people here stating that The Room is just a bad movie. It isn't! They are lying! They are haters, and, in turn, bad critics.

Again: watch it without any prejudice. Ignore the alleged "bad acting" and "bad plot". There is not such thing in this piece of art. In fact, ignore anything I said here. Just watch it and judge by yourself.

I could sit here and pick apart everything that's wrong with The Room, AND what is hilarious about it, but frankly, I'd be here all day.

When I think of the worst movies ever made, most have one thing in common: They have fantastical elements. The Room is like a colossally inept soap opera. Not that I watch a lot of dramas, but this one certainly takes the cake in my book.

In the grand scheme of vanity projects, this one may have, over the years, become the most notorious one (at least that I can think of). The real kicker is, this particular project cost $6 million to make! Fortunately for writer/director/producer/AND star Tommy Wiseau, his movie gained a massive cult following. For all the wrong reasons.

One thing that's made abundantly clear after viewing his Blu-ray and its extras (add distributor to that list), is the fact that Wiseau is a galaxy-wide narcissist. In the extras, which are all bookended by Wiseau's pompous production company logo, he states they went through FOUR crews making this movie. I think that alone speaks volumes. He is credited with 5 assistants (granted, some may have just hit the road). I would be remiss if I didn't mention my jaw was on the floor whenever Wiseau was speaking in the interviews. Total and utter nonsense. I am 100% certain he was responsible for practically every aspect of this film. Honestly, who else would crap out such a creation? The Room was filmed in both 35mm and HD... simultaneously. And he claims he wrote an 800-page book on the difference between the two. Why? Well, ya got me.

How about the part that he wrote for himself to play? He plays a flawless human being, generous, loyal, understanding... surrounded by infidelity, backstabbing, gossip, drug abuse, thugs (er, A thug), the Mom from Hell, selfishness... and, how about a little football?! Maybe in an unrealistic superhero movie you see this degree of saint-liness. The ending is a real kicker, too. He reduces everyone who wronged him in life to sobbing, and to feel sorry for him, because, you know, what a great guy! Poor Johnny! Positively ludicrous.

He really flaunts his, er, odd body in his sex scenes, where his caboose is the star of the show. Notice if he's in bed with his fiance Lisa (Juliette Danielle), in every shot from behind, the sheets are strategically pulled back, exposing his ass. Straight from the director! Speaking of which, it was nice to see the fetching Danielle disrobe during these scenes... Of which there were FOUR occasions! Granted, one scene had recycled footage in it... On the other hand, it was almost FIVE! She gets down to her bra in an aborted sex scene. It definitely gets to the point of silly, and it's not like ANY of these scenes are well-shot or acted.

There is a Cult of The Room. There seems to be a Rocky Horror-like reaction to its showings. A biopic was done based on co-star Greg Sestero's book. I've watched some showing/Q&A footage on Youtube, and it certainly seems like Wiseau is having a good time with it, audiences responses, and participations. I don't know if he still thinks it should've been considered for Best Picture, but it's reassuring to see him have such a good sense of humor about it.

I went into this one knowing it was going to be bad and boy was it! It has everything you want in a terrible film

Over the top or completely deadpan acting ✅ Poorly written dialogue/continuity errors resulting in repeated conversations ✅ Tossing a football around having never thrown a football in your life ✅ Cringeworthy "gratuitous" sex scenes ✅ Emotional outbursts with emphasis on the wrong words ✅ Unintroduced/unexplained characters showing up out of nowhere and then disappearing into the shadows from whence they came ✅

I highly recommend it. Grab the tissues first though because you will be crying from laughter.

It's not that bad of movie something striking real to life about the movie, Some of the acting is okay it parts .. It's a fun loving poorly make movie that breaks all the Hollywood rules of movies but as heart.. Yes the movie as heart and a soul to it..

Geez, some people said some pretty mean things about Ms. Juliette. Please be nice! She's pretty. She doesn't need to be Cindy Crawford to be attractive. If we all needed Cindy, we wouldn't be up to our eyeballs in people like we are, so more average looking girls must be pretty awesome! I suspect you will feel the same once you age and mellow (and maybe have a real chance to interact with a few...) Ok, flame on... ;)

I was gonna write a All-Merican review for this movie, but I DID NAHT. I thought it better just to keep my stupid comments in my pocket.

This movie is very likable, because we never know what will happen next. I think it became a cult film, because it surprises the viewer on any minute. Plus, this movie despite being terribly made, has a vision behind it. And that changes everything: this was not made to be a direct-video crap, or a Hollywood blockbuster going terribly wrong: but a guy that wanted to make the best movie in history of film, and tried so so hard that failed miserably.

It has too many memorable scenes, awesome awkward sex scenes, great lines that fans throw the whole time, the worst sound effects i heard on a movie, a camera that can't focus on the characters while they're talking, or the obvious plot lines that lead nowhere, or at least end by themselves.

It surprises us every minute, because we don't have any clue how he will solve "situation x". in a good film we can guess (or be surprised), and in a bad film we already know what will happen- and that's why is bad.

On this field "the room" works exactly like an excellent film. even more: because a lot of solutions that wiseau brought, came so out of nowhere, that never in a million years we could guess them. he has a very rooted deep twisted logic into what we think a movie should be...and that weird vision is exactly why this movie is so magical.

and why it worked. because it did. No film in the world has a cult following for all these years without working. should deserve a better grade here, definitely.

Literally all I can say about this entire movie is that Lisa is the most pathetic, bitchy, unforgivable woman ever! Like she has absolutely NO heart to put someone through that kind of heartache. She didn't have one single savable characteristics throughout the entire movie. I felt really bad for Johnny! Then her at the end acting like she's upset that he's dead!? F**K that biznitch!

One of the best sports movies ever made, can't recommend it highly enough to those interested in a career in playing football. Sure there's a lot of fluff around the football scenes - but it's worth it. When Johnny and Mark and Danny and Peter go out and throw the football around in tuxedos, I'm just not sure what else you could want.

Honestly not sure if I should rate it high or low. It truly is the best bad movie ever made. It's a dilemma. A real dilemma. I haven't obsessed over a movie like this ever. It's so terrible in so many places, yet done in such a way that it is hilarious and captivating. Arrgghh!!! Please tell me. 1 Star? Or 10 Stars? I went for 8 because the sex scenes were truly, truly awful. Nothing redeeming about them whatsoever.

Best. Bad. Movie. Ever. I'm intrigued by the main character Tommy Wiseau. I also hear the supporting actor "Mark" has written a book recently about his experience working on The Room. And they have both teamed up again and are coming out with a new movie soon. I doubt they'll be able to recapture the essence of this movie though.

Seriously, watch this with your friends. I watched this on a Friday night with my 5 friends (2 of whom were high) and we had a blast. The HORRIBLE and CRINGE green screen, acting, dialogue, drama, characters, plot, directing, and more are truly hilarious enough to appreciate. Tommy Wiseau certainly has the ambition to be SO bad, but so unforgettably and unapologetically bad that I can't help but respect it. I really should watch the documentary showing how this movie was made. This is truly timeless in certain ways and I was always curious to watch it. Actually very happy that I did and with a hilarious group nonetheless! I'm not sure what would've happened or how I would've reacted if I watched it alone.

Wow, this was something. It's like it's so bad that it magically became good. Everything about it was so odd and curious. I felt I was watching a porn parody, especially during this exchange between Lisa and Mark: "I miss you." > "I just saw you. What are you talking about?" > "I just wanted to hear your sexy voice. I keep thinking about your strong hands around my body. It excites me so much." Juliette Danielle also resembled Ella/Jean Hollywood with a little bit of WWE's Bayley, too, regarding the way she smiles and laughs sometimes; she even resembled Sean Murray sometimes with the way her mouth moved while talking. Not only that, she looked like three different people throughout the film.

It even has nudity and "sex scenes" to give it that subtle authenticity, but there's a problem. This wasn't porn, giving you blue balls/blue bean, as Tommy Wiseau probably didn't even meet the standards of porn, so he had to settle for making this film, and we're all thankful for it, aren't we? Say, "Thank you, Tommy Wiseau!" He was also quite ripped, which I wasn't expecting.

This film is cinema in its most authentic form, and I'm not kidding when I say that. Part of me was expecting it to be so bad on all fronts that I wouldn't have been able to enjoy it as much as I'd liked. Instead, none of it was that bad. But more importantly, not only was it quite enjoyable, I liked it quite a bit!? My favorite scene was when Mark playfully pushed Mike down onto the trash cans, causing me to almost cry from laughter. That was so unexpected but so hilarious.

I mean, come on. There's so much to like about this film, like the impressive, straight-to-the-point not-messing-about dialogue with fantastic delivery and the long sex montages with the loveable song choices (seriously, though) that start playing so suddenly that it's comical: the obsession with throwing a football to each other, Tommy Wiseau's performance (down to the accent, line delivery, and that adoring, Zach Galifianakis/Alan in The Hangover films-esque laugh Johnny keeps doing every five seconds), and Greg Sestero's performance/how Mark kept being confused by Lisa's antics.

Objectively, everything about this film isn't that good. Thrown into it; characters exist, and dialogue is said, but none of it has substance, and there aren't any introductions for the characters; they're not even caricatures. It's wild. Then, there was the ending, which was the cherry on top. It gave the impression that everything leading up to it was clear with its intention, expecting you'll be able to predict what happens at the end. The problem is that the opposite of what I said at the beginning of this paragraph would be necessary, so the ending came suddenly. And somehow, there's still some vague sense of coherency in the middle of all that confusion. But that's the bare minimum; the fact that everything about this film isn't that good still stands.

However, it goes both ways. You can love it, too. And while it's easy to look at it objectively, especially as far as the acting is concerned, I thought Carolyn Minnott did well. A big part could've been because of everyone else, but I think her acting performance was genuinely good. I thought some parts of Robyn Paris' performance were good, also. Same with Dan Janjigian's performance. And the soundtrack was good; I liked the songs a lot, and the score was somewhat decent. Some people probably consider this film the lowest of the low and worst of the worst, giving it the lowest rating possible, although others, while still hating it, are more lenient. So, I guess I said that to say: it isn't all terrible.

I know the story, which is probably stretching it, is so simple that it might get a groan out of you. I know the acting is questionable, and the pacing/structuring/editing probably adds to the feeling of that Renata Sorrah GIF going on in your head. That's probably more than enough to be unbearable and for most people to HATE this film, but I didn't. I loved it.

Ok this is very fun to watch we all know it, its an interactive masterpiece.

That's the only thing that really dissapointed me about this brilliant movie. The tragic lack of plastic spoons pretty much throughout. I'm planning a re-make.