I want to sue IMDB for listing this movie in the ‘100 movies you should watch before you die’- was my first reaction after I crawled and watched this movie interruptedly for first 20 minutes.
But then I realized that it was a thoroughly thought out
recommendation. For two reasons-
(1)
You should watch the best and worst things
before you die.
(2)
It gives you self confidence that there are
people who are miraculously worse than you.
I have more than one reasons to recommend this movie-
1. The movie is a masterpiece except that it lacks three things- script, acting and direction. But has a strong vision. Of consistency. Of being consistently bad.
2. This movie is a clean sweep- of all the best parts and worst parts that have ever happened to mankind.
3. This is one of the most truly titled movie one comes across….because the only thing authentic about the movie is the room. Everything else- the acting, the terrace, the dialogues are fake and untimely.
4. This movie is inspired by Abraham Lincoln words “of the people, by the people, for the people”. This movie is all about Tommy Wiseau. His bad acting, his bad hair, his poor narration and his senseless dialogues.
5. This movie is like porn and still not like one. Here's why-
This is like porn because no matter from where you start watching, you don’t feel you have missed any part of the ‘story’ because everything is so repetitive. And it is different from porn because you’d think thrice before love-making after watching the terribly shot intimate scenes in the movie.
See we either rewind or pause while watching a a double x scene on the screen when alone? Well in this movie you'd forward!
6. Movies like The Room never get nominated for Oscars. Why? Because a special category needs to be created to reward them. Because the contemporary cinema has no class to compare them with other movies.
7. The movie has a happy ending (has a literal one too) as Tommy shoots his brain out in the last scene. Because if he didn’t, he would have to face the trail of mass murders of everyone who watched this movie.
Unlike you going “No…No…No” at a suicide scene, you’ll see yourself cheering up the protagonist “Yes! Yes”. With a thank-you after the bullet is shot.
8. In the end, I personally feel that this movie has a social cause. Like we have special toilet seats for the physically challenged people in the cinema halls, this movie serves to be the first ever movie exclusively made for mentally challenged people.
9. Last, but not least, after seeing so much bad intimate scenes, I must admit- This movie is like a delayed orgasm only to be faked in the end. (Sorry. Couldn't resist)
10. This movie is a killer. Literally.
What about http://www.empireonline.com/features/50-worst-movies-ever/ ?
ReplyDeleteIt has this movie in #10. “ Famed far and wide as the most inept film ever made, The Room combines the worst of every discipline, to the extent that it was dubbed "the Citizen Kane of bad movies" by Entertainment Weekly”
While the Guardian has offered this comment:
“ ……The Room is so unfeasibly bad, it has become a cult hit ….”
Beware the website that you follow.
As Mark Twain said:
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."