The Room

Tommy Wiseau's disasterpiece "The Room" is one of the most memorable films ever made. Tommy Wiseau's confused direction, insipid acting and idiotic writing all combine to create the greatest accidental comedy of all time, but chances are that you already know plenty about the film. My intention is to solely review this DVD, which I feel does not get enough recognition as being nearly as hilarious as the film itself.First of all, when the DVD starts, there are no introduction videos for any of the companies involved with the film, it just jumps straight to the menu, which has many peculiarities.The Room has an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (1.78 times wider than its height), otherwise known as 16:9 or Widescreen. However, it's clear that Tommy Wiseau cannot stick to one aspect ratio. The dvd is mastered in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio (as indicated by the back of the box and seen by playing the film on my widescreen television), but for some reason, all of the menus (which have this hilariously bad green color-graded background of Tommy Wiseau) are in 1.33:1, or 4:3/fullscreen. This is annoying because the image is then pillar boxed on widescreen TVs (black bars on the sides of the image.) I have nothing against the 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio and I watch several 1.33 films on my TV, which are all pillar-boxed. However, the menus on this disc still annoy me because the DVD is mastered in 1.78:1, not 1.33:1. If the DVD is mastered in 1.78:1, the menus should also be in 1.78:1.But this is not the only example of Tommy Wiseau mishandling the aspect ratios for his content. The extras (which are all B-Movie gold) are all filmed in 1.78:1 with the exception of the Behind-the-scenes documentary. However, on several of them (including a laughably contrived interview), he letterboxes (black bars on the top and bottom of the image) the 1.78:1 to fit into a 1.:33:1 image in which he edited the 1.78:1 footage. However, as I said, the DVD is mastered in 1.78:1, not 1.33:1. The only time you ever need to letterbox a 1.78:1 image is when the image is being played on a screen with an aspect ratio taller than 1.78:1. However, the DVD is exactly 1.78:1, so the letterboxing is not needed in any way. As a result of Tommy Wiseau's idiocy, the widescreen extras are surrounded by black when they fit the screen perfectly. Something tells me that Tommy Wiseau knows nothing about editing video.The extras on the disc, while somewhat limited, are worth buying the dvd for, even if just to laugh at them. The DVD comes with Two trailers (a long one and a short one), Deleted scenes (which are actually one very poorly edited deleted scene infected by extreme continuity errors and unnecessary letterboxing), an interview with Tommy Wiseau (yet again unnecessarily letterboxed), a fly-on-the-wall Behind the Scenes documentary and a Still Photo Gallery.The two trailers expertly display Tommy Wiseau's failed attempts to pass the film off as a quirky black comedy. The greatest error in both trailers is the inclusion of the tagline "A drama with the passion of Tennessee Williams" and the quote "Experience this quirky new black comedy, it's a riot." Anyone with a limited knowledge of Tennessee Williams will understand the faults of including both of these quotes.Tennessee Williams was a brilliant playwright who wrote some of the most engaging, intense and claustrophobic stage-dramas ever performed. Let me stress the fact that these plays were extremely intense, because they put you on the very edge of your seat with their dialog heavy and character driven stories. In fact, arguably his two masterworks, "Street Car Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" were both committed to great films. Tennessee Williams famous works are not in any way comedic. Some of them contain comedic moments, but for the most part, they were terribly serious. It simply does not work to state a black comedy has the dramatic attributes of Tennessee Williams. It's yet another example of how Tommy Wiseau's failed attempts to pass the film off as a black comedy despite it's obvious intentions to be a serious character driven drama, very much in the style of Williams. In fact, any fan of William's work will see the influences he had on Tommy. For example, both "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and this film attempt to tell the story and build the character relationships through exposition, they both lead up to an explosive last act and they both deal with a faulty relationship. However, Tommy Wiseau does not effectively use the time he spends toward telling the story through exposition and fails to communicate the story in a way that the audience can relate to.Moving on with the extras, the deleted scene (there is only one deleted scene included), an alternate version of the interaction between Denny and Chris-R, is even worse than any portion of the film. For one thing, the cinematographic style is very different than that of the scenes which made it into the film. There are very few cuts and the camera moves back and forth haphazardly along a dolly-track for most of the scene and the scene is in the same place that Johnny, Mark, Denny and Mike play football, except there is a basketball hoop added to the set. The dialog is slightly different (including a hilarious addition of Denny trying to buy time by baiting Chris-R to play horse with him). The editing is very poor and fails to edit out the scene preparation at the beginning and end of the scene.Also included on the disc is a contrived and poorly conducted interview of Tommy Wiseau, obviously done by Greg Sestero, who played Mark. Judging by the contrived nature of the questions and their answers, it was clear Tommy Wiseau had an agenda to dismiss the severe critical dislike of his film. In fact, in one question, he directly addresses people who dislike the film. It's really something you should see for yourself, so I will talk about it no more.There is an entire 30-minute documentary sans narration made up of randomly assembled footage of the production and a very small interview of Carolyn Minnot, the actress for Claudette. It's also worth watching to see how everything went wrong throughout, so I wont spoil anymore.Finally including are two poor still photo galleries, including poor and unnecessary stills from the film and a few of the film's production. This portion is really not worth watching, so I wont really discuss it.Overall, if you want the film and are curious about the extras, I highly recommend this dvd.

I have now seen Mr. Tommy Wiseau's cinematic tour-de-force, `The Room' three times. With each viewing, `The Room' becomes more complexly entangled in and inseparable from my own life. I no longer know where The Room ends and I begin.It is, without question, the worst film ever made. Including movies made on beta max video cameras in special education high school classes. But this comment is in no way meant to be discouraging. Because while The Room is the worst movie ever made it is also the greatest way to spend a blisteringly fast 100 minutes in the dark. Simply put, `The Room' will change your life.It's not just the dreadful acting or the sub-normal screenplay or the bewildering direction or the musical score so soaked in melodrama that you will throw up on yourself or the lunatic-making cinematography; no, there is something so magically wrong with this movie that it can only be the product of divine intervention. If you took the greatest filmmakers in history and gave them all the task of purposefully creating a film as spectacularly horrible as this not one of them, with all their knowledge and skill, could make anything that could even be considered as a contender. Not one line or scene would rival any moment in The Room.The centerpiece of this filmic holocaust is Mr. Tommy Wiseau himself. Without him, it would still be the worst movie ever made, but with him it is the greatest worst movie ever made. Tommy has been described as a Cajun, a Croatian cyborg, possibly from Belgium, clearly a product of Denmark, or maybe even not from this world or dimension. All of these things are true at any one moment. He is a tantalizing mystery stuffed inside an enigma wrapped in bacon and smothered in cheese. You will fall in love with this man even as you are repelled by him from the first moment he steps onto screen with his long Louis the Fourteenth style black locks and thick triangular shoulders packed into an poorly fitted suit. You will even grow to love his metallic, steroid-destroyed skin. Tommy looks out of place, out of time and out of this world. There has never been anything else like him. Nor will there ever be.The Room begins with `Johnny' (Tommy Wiseau) and his incomprehensibly evil fiancée `Lisa' (played by a woman with incongruously colored eyebrows and a propensity for removing her shirt) engaging in some light frottage, joined by, their sexually confused teenage neighbor, Denny--played with a deft sense of the absurd by Phillip Haldiman--who is clearly suffering from a cruel form of aged decrepitude. When Denny, who looks like the human version of Gleek the monkey from Superfriends, says, in a slightly creepy yet playful tone of voice, `I like to watch!' as Johnny and Lisa roll around the bed in a pre-intercourse ritual revolving around rose petals, you know you are in for a very special movie.After a lengthy lovemaking scene (not to worry if you miss it the first time, they show it again in its entirety later in the movie) in which Tommy's bizarre, scaly torso and over-anatomized rear-end are lovingly depicted in great detail as he appears to hump Lisa's extra vagina located somewhere near her hip, we discover that Lisa, for no particular reason, decides she is bored with Tommy's incessant lovemaking and affectionate attention and decides to leave him. But not before she destroys his life.Just when you think the movie might lapse into an ordinary, pedestrian sort of badness, Johnny's best friend Mark, who seems to have no job other than to wear James Brolin's beard from Amityville Horror, shows up and electrifies the screen with a performance so wooden that you could buy it at Home Depot and build a spice rack with it. Incidentally, Mark is played by Greg Sestero, who, in addition to being described as a department store mannequin, was also the line producer on `The Room' and one of Tommy Wiseau's five (5!!!!!) assistants on the movie. Lisa forces Mark, amid his paltry, unconvincing protests, to have an affair with her on their uncomfortable circular stairs. Lisa decides that she is evil incarnate and proceeds to torture her angelic and insanely devoted fiancé with various lies and manipulations.Lisa receives pointed advice from her mother who casually announces that she is dying of breast cancer. And then never mentions it again! But Lisa is determined to make Johnny's life a living hell, in spite of the fact that she, according to her mother, "cannot survive on her own in the cutthroat 'computer business". But not before they recycle the sex scene from earlier in the movie where we get another bird's eye view of the insanity that is Johnny's naked body. Denny gets into trouble with a drug dealer. Mark shaves his beard. Tommy gets drunk on an unusual cocktail made from mixing whiskey and vodka. Lisa lies and tells everyone that Tommy hit her in a drunken rage.A balding psychologist appears out of nowhere, offers some advice, then apparently dies while softly falling on the ground in an attempt to catch a football thrown by Mark.All of these seemingly disparate events build up to two cathartic moments. The first is when Tommy expressively yells at Lisa with the line `You are tearing me apart Lisa!'. You will cheer at this line as you realize that the film has been tearing you apart the whole time. And the second is at Tommy's birthday party where the worst actor that has ever been born plays a unidentified man wearing a silk shirt who utters a phrase that perfectly describes the experience of watching The Room,`It feels like I'm sitting on atom bomb that is going to explode!'The shocking ending will leave you pleading and hoping for a sequel.See this film at all costs. See it twice. Or three times. Or as one kid that I met from Woodland Hills has, 12 times! See it until you can recite every precious line of dialogue this movie has to offer. Let The Room become your new religion and Tommy Wiseau your prophet preaching the gospel according to Johnny.My dream is to someday buy a theater and run The Room 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until the print disintegrates. I hope it becomes your dream as well.

I've watched this movie multiple times and it's still very entertaining. Yes, the acting, script, and editing is terrible, but that's what makes it so good! This sets the standard for bad movies.

Dieser Film ist genial schlecht, das weiß man auch, wenn man ihn bestellt. Schuld daran sind nicht Kamera oder Komposition, sondern das furchtbare Drehbuch und die Darsteller-Leistungen. Dennoch: Wenn man weiß, was einen erwartet: 100 Minuten sind gefühlte 60!!! Könnte man einem Film ein besseres Kompliment machen? Sehr unterhaltsam und mit hohem Kultpotential!! HG EM

Si planeas comprar ésta película entonces ya sabes que es terrible.Mala, sin sentido y pésimas actuaciones, es la película perfecta para ver con amigos y reír a carcajadas.Además viene con un pequeño afiche, es una foto de Tommy Wiseau y el reverso es un comercial de su marca de calzoncillos.

I saw this film whilst inebriated around the time of it's release. Though meme culture has made me want to watch it again properly to finally tick it off the to-do list.I figured I'd go all in and buy the Blu Ray and it was an excellent move. Not only did I get a Tommy Wiseau headshot inside the case, but the film had so many more surprises in store that had somehow escaped spoiler to me through all the pop-culture coverage this film has had.It was region-free too, so it played fine on my PAL PS4. Don't be put off by this costing more than normal films, if you're a person of culture and humour. You will get a lot of mileage out of this disc.I have no regrets, I have naaaahht.

If you're a fan and in anyway like having a copy of your favourites it's worth the higher price. I was hesitant, but decided to get it and everything about the actual physical experience fits The Room in the best ways. It also arrived on my birthday, definitely one of the best presents you could ask for. It seems to be region free also.