The Room - 2003

Hi Nikki

Oh hi everyone!

I watched The Room today... WOAH... not much could have prepared me for that!

The Room is written, directed, produced and acted by Tommy Wiseau (interesting guy!) and first showed in NZ at the International Film Festival last year (although I volunteered at the festival, I didn't go to see it on the big screen) but it was made in 2003 and in most reviews I've read it's dubbed "the worst movie ever made" and hence you want to see it and when you do you love to hate it. It's got such a big cult following here it shows every month on the big screen now in Welly and Auckland but I don't know if I can bring myself to go along... you see I watched it on the laptop today and that was funny and sedate but apparently, if you go along, it's as interactive as a screening of Rocky Horror and you're extremely likely to get plastic spoons thrown at the back of your head (my bro has a whole basket of plastic spoons in his room just for Room screenings!). Footballs also get thrown around and there's lines to shout out too...

LISA YOU'RE TEARING ME APART!

At first, I thought I was watching a soft core porn - there are a lot of sex scenes with soft filters an abudance of candles bad R&B and rose petals, and then I just got confused. I mean, in what other movie does your mother tell you casually she's got breast cancer, and then it's never mentioned again but you see her lots and eat cake together and talk about affairs instead... Basically, it's a badly acted drama with most of the lines DUBBED over (because the actual script was even worse?!?!) with weirdly developed characters and one room featuring a lot. How he spent $6 million developing and marketing the film, I do not know but it may come back in cult followings and midnight screenings?  I would love to know if some of the cast have come to any NZ screenings - I know when I went to see Troll 2 it was cool to have one of the cast there and it was cool when there was a call to the guy who's actually a dentist... I can imagine if you were there with lots of people you would laugh so much you might not get a chance to throw your spoons.

I won't illuminate much more of the plot except to say that I find it interesting when you boyfriend has longer hair than you (unless it's an Anita Blake novel, then it's just sexy but the guy is a vampire so hey...)

Watch it with a big group of friends and brace yourself.

3 down, 98 to go.