Comments on: NYC: THE ROOM IS FINALLY HERE

By: Great Job!

Great Job! — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:58:16 +0000

Tim and Eric just did an entire episode dedicated to and featuring none other than beloved The Room director Tommy Wiseau!

By: ecs

ecs — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:25:16 +0000

WRONG. The Room has been alive and well in New York for years!

By: Vlad the Inhaler

Vlad the Inhaler — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:22:31 +0000

“…so I guess it’s a passionate black comedy….”

I thought only Tyler Perry was allowed to make those…

By: bj

bj — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:34:49 +0000

brainwak: u didnt say too much buddy, that was an awesome story.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:10:55 +0000

In LA where I live there’s this Billboard for the room. Must have been there 4 years straight. Everytime I saw it, it made me so fucking angry. “this guy must have leased this fucking billboard for 5 years to sell his shitty low budget movie” (this was before I ever considered watching it, or knew anything about it)

one fatefull drunk night in San Fran, a friend had it. and I said. “oh god, you have this terrible looking C movie?” “why?”

they slowly sat me down and said…………………….. DUDE…….

I hear since the movie has hit Ironic Cult status, director tommy wiseau changed his motive to “It’s a Black Comedy”

the debate about this movie still swims in my head “Actually Mentally Retarded” or “Full on Genius, Master of all Parody”

I don’t think I will ever decide.

By: neezy

neezy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:48:18 +0000

god. this seems like a ‘thing’ that I am gonna have to be like oh yeah I’ve heard of that for at least a good part of this coming year, and I don’t even want to watch this movie once. So when I acknowledge I’ve heard of it I’m also gonna be like, and you’re retarded for bringing that up. Can we just start the backlash on this thing immediately so it doesn’t get all that cool?

By: John S. Rad

John S. Rad — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:06:27 +0000

It’s no DANGEROUS MEN.
http://www.laweekly.com/2005-11-10/film-tv/the-passion-of-the-rad/

By: BTW

BTW — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:56:23 +0000

BEE TEE DUBS? Wow, I want to totally hate on that but I know I’m going to use it later in the day, so…fucking brilliant.

By: brainiwak

brainiwak — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:11:40 +0000

I had the pleasure of seeing the room about 6 years ago, whist the cult was in its infancy. The screening took place in a private theater inside some office building in Westwood. Tommy was there, as were several of the “talent”. It was really uncomfortable as the movie came on, because everybody was trying really hard not to laugh with Tommy in the same room. The cat wasn’t out of the bag yet, with people openly mocking it, but it was clear that’s what everybody had come to do. After five minutes, a steady stream of tears was flowing down my cheeks from holding in laughs. Thankfully, some brave bastard let out a chuckle, which ushered in the waterfall of laughter that followed the rest of the film.

Afterward, we hung with Tommy and his crew and Tommy’s manservant Raya. Raya looked exactly like Tommy with blond hair and spoke enthusiastically with a seasoned surfer accent. I detected a tremendous amount of homoerotic tension between the men. Initially, Tommy seemed defeated by our response, but the more he mugged in photographs the more he cheered up. He spoke of other projects, one a sitcom called “Neighbors” that sounded exactly like “Friends, and a vampire movie. Some of my friends exchanged numbers with Wiseau, hoping to be cast in these future creations that never materialized.

I’ve said too much. I could probably write several pages, maybe a memoir, The Room and Me. Go see it.