The Room/Tommy Wiseau

There was an interview with Tommy Wiseau in onionav a couple of weeks back, and his answers were so odd, sometimes in Sarah Palin-esque broken english, that I had to see the movie. Well. Bizarre. From the interview it sounded like he might know what he is doing, but golgi, oh, woe is me, the thing is more amateurish than an Ed Wood movie. There was a bit in the interview where he talked about using a film camera and an HD camera side by side, but the movie looks like it's all HD, and maybe not HD, maybe just regular crappy video. Just visually very unimpressive. Though part of that may be the quality of the transfer to dvd. Anyway. The movie started out as a drama with terrible 'acting', but basically evolved in my mind into a comedy because the acting was so ridiculously bad. There's a onionav cult canon article about it that gets in to the plot and everything if you want to know more. My immediate reaction to the movie (when i still thought of it as a drama) was that I'm selling this on half.com asap, but the movie kind of grew on me. I wouldn't recommend buying it, that's for sure, I don't think he needs any encouragement to make another movie, but if anyone wants to borrow it....

From wikipedia: It is also implied several times that Lisa is very, very beautiful and looks good in a red dress. However, this is not particularly true. It is rumored that the repetition of a single sex scene was caused by {her} refusal to "be near a naked Tommy Wiseau ever again".

Also from wikipedia: the movie is only shown, midnight-movie style, in 2 cities, LA and Montreal. And it was mentioned, obliquely, in Veronica Mars episode #60 (season 3).

From YouTube: Trailer, Lisa's Beauty, Chocolate is the symbol of love (the funniest scene)