The Room.
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I've got one better for you.
After Last Season.
I have corresponded with two people involved with the production of the movie -- and it was submitted to a few independent theaters (and actually screened).
It was not a joke; it was not done ironically. The movie is truly that awful.
After Last Season.
I have corresponded with two people involved with the production of the movie -- and it was submitted to a few independent theaters (and actually screened).
It was not a joke; it was not done ironically. The movie is truly that awful.
It looks like the kind of "movies" my buddy and I would make with the VHS (yes, VHS not mini-tapes) Camcorder I had in highschool. Infact... I think the writing for our scripts was a buit sharper and we had higher production values.
There's a Rifftrax for The Room! Oh, I've got to get-in on that!
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I saw the Room a couple years ago when Adult Swim ran it. I dont know, but I still cant help think that its all a big elaborate hoax.
Camcorder ? No.
Wiseau did, however, buy brand new film and digital (which was $30,000 on its own - most independent filmmakers rent) cameras because he didn't know the difference between them.
He then put both on the same mount so he could compare the differences.
Looks like he took the review down for some reason.
I saw it (totally unaware of how bad it was) when some friends who were fans brought me to a midnight screening at a local theatre...wow. It was like being at the Rocky Horror Picture Show--the audience was throwing plastic spoons at the screens, yelling at the characters, and spouting catchphrases.
What was with them always tossing around a football? That was weird.
I made no implication this movie was made with a camcorder.
I was however saying that my buddy and I used to make "movies" using my camcorder back in "the day" which were better than the very low budget movie/trailer Timby linked to.
Thanks for keeping up.
There must be some-kind-of link hiccup.
Try THIS ONE.
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Ok, It seems both NC and Lupa's videos are down so there must be a rights issue (which is dum considering both of their reviews, and use of footage, would qualify as fair use and they both actually reccomend the viewer to see the movie! I, myself, have bought the movie as a result of these reviews. So we'll see how this comes out. The Google Cache link above seems to work, there should be one for Lupra's review which I'd also recomend viewing as, well, she's a cute red-haired geek chick, so.
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I saw it (totally unaware of how bad it was) when some friends who were fans brought me to a midnight screening at a local theatre...wow. It was like being at the Rocky Horror Picture Show--the audience was throwing plastic spoons at the screens, yelling at the characters, and spouting catchphrases.
What was with them always tossing around a football? That was weird.
There's a theatre that has regular screenings of it nearby, which I didn't learn about until after we'd watched it. In fact, the night we watched it at my apartment, Tommy Wiseau himself showed up at a screening one town over!
Trekker - the only thing you've indicated is that you didn't read my post properly and decided to react to what you think you read instead. As usual.
In a response to a post made by Timby which linked to a "movie" made by indies on a budget of $3.50 I said that "it looked like the kind of production my buddy and I did on a camcorder."
You then said: "Camcorder? ... No. Tommy (the guy who made The Room) did buy two film cameras... yadda yadda."
So, please, tell me how my interpretation of you correcting me on something I wasn't even wrong on was out of line?
What was with them always tossing around a football? That was weird.
Not just that, but tossing a football around three feet away from one another.
Trekker - the only thing you've indicated is that you didn't read my post properly and decided to react to what you think you read instead. As usual.
In a response to a post made by Timby which linked to a "movie" made by indies on a budget of $3.50 I said that "it looked like the kind of production my buddy and I did on a camcorder."
You then said: "Camcorder? ... No. Tommy (the guy who made The Room) did buy two film cameras... yadda yadda."
So, please, tell me how my interpretation of you correcting me on something I wasn't even wrong on was out of line?
I wasn't correcting you, that's where you went wrong. I was expanding upon your point that Wiseau hasn't got a clue how to shoot a movie.
Tommy Wiseau is just being big baby and felt that NC's review of The Room was stealing, due to a few clips being used, and so the NC has done a sketch mocking Tommy (not hard to do). The Critic has got into trouble with the media companies before on YouTube, however they haven't bothered him on his own website and he's instead been busted by a little guy, but the review is ironically up on YouTube instead.
Yup. Tommy Wiseau apparently doesn't "get" that and, unfortuantly, if a copyright holder tears up whether it was "legal" or not the company threatened a lawsuit which made TNC's hosts (Blip) pull the video.
Hopefully at somepoint the video will go back up when Blip realizes they're in the right.Tommy's biggest complaint was that they used quite a bit of the movie's content (I don't believe fair-use laws have anything to say about how much is too much, however) and they "altered" the content which, again, is part of fair use.
But Tommy was being a baby, played the copyrights card and the little guy gets hurt.
