The Room

Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (not to be confused with the Oscar winning movie Room) was originally intended to be a drama but ultimately turned into an absurdist comedy. By all intents and purposes it is a terrible movie with horrendous acting, a laughable screen play and questionable directing and cinematography, but it is also the best worst movie ever made and needs to be watched by all.

Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) and Lisa (Juliette Danielle) are in a long term relationship and for apparently no reason at all Lisa decides to become evil and manipulative and cheat on Johnny with his best friend Mark (Greg Sestero) whilst also lying about Johnny hitting her in a drunk rage. Plot points are brought up never to be explored later; characters are introduced late in the movie and never to be seen again and the random use of green screen make the film look like it is based in some kind of psychedelic alternate world.

Tommy Wiseau makes this movie (not only literally but also figuratively) with is odd personality, his unusual ethnicity and his indicative confused acting. He looks like and undertaker who is wearing his father’s suit that doesn’t quite fit him for the majority of the film. Greg Sestero’s acting so wooden that it belongs in Bunnigs Warehouse and has a beard that changes from scene to scene.

This is a must see movie for everyone but especially for budding film makers as an example of what actually makes a bad film. If you watch The Room as a bad drama than you are going to have a bad time, but if you watch it as an absurdist comedy it will be one of the best viewing experiances of your life.

[I also highly recommend the audio book of ‘The Disaster Artist’ which is written and spoken by Greg Sestero about the making of the room and his relationship with Tommy Wiseau. The book enhances the experience by describing the train wreck that was the production of this film.And Sestero can do the best impersonation of Wiseau that it sounds like Wiseau is speaking himself.]