Hot take: The Room is a masterpiece of bad filmmaking or just a mess?

My buddy Jake said The Room is genius because every mistake is intentional. I watched it and just saw 90 minutes of bad acting and weird scenes. Who thinks it's smart satire versus pure accident?

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gonzalez.grant28d ago

Man, STOP. Your buddy Jake is WRONG. The Room is NOT genius on purpose. I literally watched it three times trying to see the "art" and it's just a train wreck. There's a scene where Tommy Wiseau throws a football in slow motion for NO REASON. That's not satire, that's someone who had no idea what they were doing. The whole movie feels like a guy who watched one YouTube video on filmmaking and then tried to make a feature. Satire has a point, this movie is just a beautiful accident of incompetence.

averywright28d ago

I gotta push back on calling it a "beautiful accident of incompetence." People get way too hung up on whether Tommy Wiseau meant it or not. Maybe it doesn't matter. The end result is a movie that makes you laugh, cringe, and quote it for years. That counts for something, even if it wasn't on purpose. I think we overanalyze stuff like this when really it's just a weird, bad movie that happened to strike a nerve. Not everything needs to be either high art or a total failure.