Unpopular opinion: 'The Room' is actually a perfect date movie

I know everyone calls it the worst movie ever made, but last weekend my girlfriend and I had the best time watching 'The Room' at home. We got pizza and just laughed through the whole thing, and by the third act she was quoting "You are tearing me apart, Lisa" before I could. Has anyone else found that bad movies can actually bring people together better than good ones?

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nancy5241mo ago

Real talk though, the key is that neither person has to pretend to be impressed or strategic about what to say after. You can just both sit there in genuine disbelief at what's happening on screen and bond over how insane it is. My roommate and I watched "Birdemic" once and we still scream "The trees are attacking!" at each other years later. Bad movies strip away all the pressure to have a deep conversation or impress someone, which honestly is half the stress of good movies anyway. There's something weirdly romantic about being able to laugh at something terrible together without pretense.

wrenh651mo ago

Three years over a bird movie, @nancy524? That's a long time to hold onto a joke.

the_dylan10d ago

Yeah @nancy524, I used to be one of those people who thought you had to watch "important" movies on a date to prove you had taste or whatever. But you're totally right about that pressure thing. I remember forcing myself through a whole French film once just to seem sophisticated when really I was just bored and overthinking every silence. Bad movies just let you be yourselves and laugh at the same weird nonsense without any of that performance anxiety, which is way more real than pretending a slow art house film is changing your soul.