"The Room" is a modern cult classic for an audience who enjoys a good laugh from seeing a lackluster indie-film with numerous errors or quirks about it. Think "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" audience without the garish makeup, dancing or singing. The writer/director/actor Tommy Wiseau would take the praise either way about the film.
Essentially, the film is about love and betrayal, why attraction is more important to some than stability. Lisa (played by Juliette Danielle) is having second thoughts about marrying Johnny (played by the aforementioned Wiseau) and chooses to make a rash decision behind his back which affects a number of their friends and family. It's a simple plot, and the simple production makes you feel like you're watching a play or an after-school special about being truthful (if it wasn't for the nudity, it would be). The movie's original music was a nice addition, and it even had a theme made for the movie, which you hear at the beginning and somewhere in the middle. The rest of the music was underground R&B and thrown into the film during one of the four sex scenes and the credits.
There are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, mostly due to Wiseau's awkward delivery of his lines that he wrote and the painful delivery of most of the cast. Characters pop in and out of scenes at random and with strange motives, and some of Johnny's heartfelt emotional moments are cut short to say hi to his best friend, Mark. The chemistry between the cast makes them feel like strangers amongst one another, and some characters are downright goofy, making faces (Mike) and acting stupid and weird (Denny). There's even an entire scene that has no business in the movie (the drug dealer gone insane).
Overall, the movie is meant for college parties and midnight screeners as a goof, not a masterpiece theater. It won an award somehow for an Audience Award of the Best Feature Film in the New York Int'l Indie Film & Video Festival, and I have to imagine there were plenty of tongue-in- cheek voters on that panel. By a quick read of the trivia found on this site, it sounds like Wiseau really poured his money, heart and ideas out there, but what it produced was as savory as a Jell-o dessert.
Essentially, the film is about love and betrayal, why attraction is more important to some than stability. Lisa (played by Juliette Danielle) is having second thoughts about marrying Johnny (played by the aforementioned Wiseau) and chooses to make a rash decision behind his back which affects a number of their friends and family. It's a simple plot, and the simple production makes you feel like you're watching a play or an after-school special about being truthful (if it wasn't for the nudity, it would be). The movie's original music was a nice addition, and it even had a theme made for the movie, which you hear at the beginning and somewhere in the middle. The rest of the music was underground R&B and thrown into the film during one of the four sex scenes and the credits.
There are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, mostly due to Wiseau's awkward delivery of his lines that he wrote and the painful delivery of most of the cast. Characters pop in and out of scenes at random and with strange motives, and some of Johnny's heartfelt emotional moments are cut short to say hi to his best friend, Mark. The chemistry between the cast makes them feel like strangers amongst one another, and some characters are downright goofy, making faces (Mike) and acting stupid and weird (Denny). There's even an entire scene that has no business in the movie (the drug dealer gone insane).
Overall, the movie is meant for college parties and midnight screeners as a goof, not a masterpiece theater. It won an award somehow for an Audience Award of the Best Feature Film in the New York Int'l Indie Film & Video Festival, and I have to imagine there were plenty of tongue-in- cheek voters on that panel. By a quick read of the trivia found on this site, it sounds like Wiseau really poured his money, heart and ideas out there, but what it produced was as savory as a Jell-o dessert.