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I'm not the biggest fan of "good bad" movies. I usually have something better to do with my time. So it was with trepidation that I attended "The Room", on the recommendation of Willamette Week's fanboy review.
As they handed out plastic spoons and chocolate to people in line, I wondered just how this could compare to the intricate audience-response aesthetic of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The man introducing the film even warned us that "The first 20 minutes will be bizarre... but stick with it."
I am happy to say that I immediately took to this film. It's amazing how the director/star, Tommy Wiseau, is so blissfully ignorant of his own ineptitude. This is confirmed by the even funnier interview postlude, in which Wiseau reveals that he shot the film simultaneously in both 35mm and HD because "he didn't know which would turn out better" and that he'd be writing a book to help people learn about the differences between them. Apparently he bound the two cameras together with tape.
I probably can't ruin any plot points in this film, because the whole point is to be in the know. Let's just say that the plot points ruin themselves. The acting is charmingly horrible, and mismatched to their supposed ages. The characters are disturbingly naive.
Like a twisted version of The Andy Griffith Show, a man-child named Denny decides it would be a good idea to join the main couple in a pillow fight in bed. "Two's company, three's a crowd," offers a smiling Johnny, played by Wiseau, after which Denny happily complies and the couple continue without comment.
Occurrences do not change characters; they react and forget.
Subplots are arbitrarily tacked on, like an after-school special bit about Denny owing money to a drug dealer. And who could forget the bit about the mom having cancer... except the mom herself?
It's a bit like a really bad sitcom, except it isn't trying to be funny. But it is. I promise. And throwing spoons at the screen gets to be really fun, too. You'll see why.
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