Review of The Room (2003) by Larry C — 13 Dec 2017
As someone who loves watching shitty movies, I have been searching for something to take the mantle of this century's "Manos: The Hands of Fate" and I found my white whale in this movie.
Written, directed, produced and starring Tommy Wiseau, this was his attempt to showcase himself as a sort of Renaissance man visionary akin to someone like Orson Welles but the only thing this movie has in common with "Citizen Kane" is that the acting is as wooden as Charles Foster Kane's sled Rosebud [*warning: 1941 spoiler alert]. Somehow even though Wiseau wrote the script the words leave his mouth with the same delivery as a dog eating peanut butter.
In the movie "E.T." when E.T. got drunk and they dressed him up in clothes and a wig that was a more believable human portrayal than what Wiseau exhibits in this movie and E.T. could probably throw a better spiral too as half of the movie in inexplicably devoted to impromptu pickup football catch sessions.
If there were a separate rating for the enjoyment I had watching this movie I would give it five stars but I can't in good conscience give this more than one star for the intentional vision he had.
This review of The Room (2003) was written by Larry C on 13 Dec 2017.
The Room has generally received negative reviews.
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