I’d known about the movie for years but hadn’t been able to see it until now. For those who haven’t watched it yet, I highly suggest clicking the link and basking in Tommy Wiseau’s awesomeness for 90 minutes.
So does it stand up to all the hype? In a word, yes.
Seriously, the movie is a masterpiece for entirely the wrong reasons; objectively, it’s more rotten than a pile of horse shit, but if you understand it in terms of Mr. Wiseau’s - Hell, I dunno - monolithic approach to filmmaking then it’s resolutely awesome. Watching the movie, it’s easy to see how the entire thing basically equates to its writer’s/director’s/producer’s fundamental treatise on the role of women in adult relationships. Indeed, in Wiseau’s world, they’re conniving, manipulative, untrustworthy, narcissistic sociopaths.
That said, it’s also the best example of the types of things that shouldn’t take place in movies, and there is so much unintentional humor that it should be enjoyable to ANYBODY who can appreciate shitty movies.
Also, check out Patton Oswalt’s take on The Room as a seedy Eastern European money laundering scheme:
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See, this actually makes more sense than any of the other “where’d the funding come from” theories I read. (And do we have more of a bio on Wiseau now? Surely someone’s got to recognize this guy… unless he had them all eliminated! :eek: )
