Watched The Room for the first time and now I get the hype

I spent years thinking people were just being ironic about this movie, but I finally sat down with it last Saturday. The way every single scene feels like it was directed by someone who has never seen a human interact with another human is actually kind of brilliant in its own weird way. Has anyone else here genuinely laughed more at a "bad" movie than most comedies?

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the_piper14d ago

Honestly I was in the same boat for years. I figured it was just some inside joke people were too cool to explain. But I rented it last month and god, there's that scene where he throws the water bottle across the room and it just bounces off the wall. I was crying laughing but also totally uncomfortable because nobody talks to each other like that in real life. You're right about the honesty thing though. It's like watching someone's home movies where they forgot the camera was running. You can't fake that kind of awkwardness. I actually rewatched it the next night to see if it was still funny and it hit even harder the second time.

hugo82514d ago

The whole movie is dripping with this weird honesty that you just don't see anymore. Like how Tommy Wiseau says "you are tearing me apart, Lisa" and it sounds totally broken but he means it. That rawness is something we've scrubbed out of normal life now. You see it at work meetings where everyone uses perfect corporate language and nobody says what they actually think. Or even at the grocery store checkout where people just stare at their phones instead of having a messy human moment. We've polished everything so much that a trainwreck like The Room feels refreshing because it's real in the worst way possible.