I used to hate The Room but then I saw it with a live audience

For years I thought The Room was just terrible and that was it. I watched it alone on my laptop and couldn't figure out why people called it fun. Then last month a buddy dragged me to a midnight showing at this old theater in Austin. The crowd was yelling at the screen, throwing plastic spoons, laughing at every weird line. Tommy Wiseau's delivery got funnier with fifty people around me losing it. The football scene in the tuxedos had the whole place in tears. Now I get it, the badness is the whole point when you share it. Has anyone else had a movie click for them only after seeing it with a crowd?

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casey_lane7327d ago

A live audience for The Room is a whole different beast, I can't believe something that awful turns into that much fun. @king.aaron is dead right about those Alamo Drafthouse shows being the perfect spot for it. The spoon throwing alone is worth the price of admission with a crowd that gets the joke.

king.aaron27d ago

A buddy of mine from work swore up and down that "The Room" was a comedy masterpiece. I thought he was messing with me until he took me to a show at the Alamo Drafthouse in Houston. The second Tommy said "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!" some guy in the back screamed "at the seams!" and the whole place just erupted. That night made me realize bad movies are always better when you're surrounded by other people who know they're bad.