The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003)

[knives]

Apparently it's so good someone else wants to take credit for it.

[domino harvey]

Would like to have been there when Malcolm McDowell saw the Room

[gokinsmen]

The funniest thing is that there so many films worse than The Room...many of them "acclaimed" "arthouse" films.

[dx23]

Apparently it's so good someone else wants to take credit for it.

What he really wants it to get all that money Wisseau is getting from all the screenings and DVD sales. It's incredible that his $7 million investment is paying out big time. The rumor now is that The Room is going to be released on Blu-ray later this year.

[redbill]

It's incredible that his $7 million investment is paying out big time.

unless $6.8million of that was spent on crack, I find that number hard to believe.

[CSM126]

Apparently it's so good someone else wants to take credit for it.

What he really wants it to get all that money Wisseau is getting from all the screenings and DVD sales. It's incredible that his $7 million investment is paying out big time. The rumor now is that The Room is going to be released on Blu-ray later this year.

And don't forget the theatrical reissue in 3D!

[ShellOilJunior]

Apparently this is being released in January 2012 on Blu-ray. THE ROOM's Facebook broke the news a few days ago.

I'd confirm it but I'm at work (FB is banned here). Here's the text someone on IMDB had shared:

"Also, The Room on Blu-Ray is scheduled for a January, 2012 release. Wiseau-Films is working around the clock very diligently. They are literally spending every waking hour on this Blu-Ray. Consider yourselves lucky."

I'd like to know who exactly is employed by Wiseau Films? (besides Tommy and Greg Sestero (Mark)).

[domino harvey]

From the Facebook page:

‎2012 is the apocalypse of The Room. The release of Sestosterone's 'Room' book (which will contain unsayable excerpts from the original script), The Blu Ray, and The Room live appearances in London!

[dad1153]

Saw "The Room" last month the Landmark Sunshine Cinema theater in NYC for the first time (where it plays the first Saturday of every month). I wish I could talk about the movie but I can mostly comment on the audience I was with reacting to "The Room," although I was still able to get about 65-70% of the dialogue (but not the classic 'You're tearing me apart, Lisa', which got drowned by the entire theater saying it in unison). Sitting to the right of me was a young man who kept shouting spur-of-the-moment inanities (sample: 'Lisa, you whore!') and clapping at his own pace. To the left of me was a veteran "Room" watcher along with his new-to-this-experience friends that had timed and honed his shouts with such perfect timing (about 4-5 seconds before the actual scene appeared) to maximize their impact that his 'its 28, time to get up' line, for example, literally brought the house down. And that's "The Room" in a nutshell: an experience that's been taken over by midnight movie watchers of this generation like others in decades past did with "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and similar unintentionally-fun drecks. By the first half-hour I was throwing spoons at the screen (not my own but one's that landed on my lap or I picked from the floor) and even landed a couple of well-received zingers. If I want to watch the movie proper I'll have to rent/buy the DVD (and soon Blu-ray), but then it probably won't be as fun alone in the house without the theater crowd unless I download the Rifftrax commentary.

But why "The Room" someone asked? Why not another of the many dime-a-dozen disposable bad and/or Skinemax flicks (and make no mistake about it, "The Room" qualifies as soft-porn based on its first half-hour alone)? For one, because there's a romantic tringle (sort-of) at the center of its story the movie attracts more females than your average horror/sci-fi midnight attraction. Then there's Tommy Wiseau. This is clearly Tommy's baby, his pain about relationships, his vanity about how he perceives himself and thinks others perceive him (like Lisa's mother gushing about Johnny being a great catch) and his ego (I wrote/produced/directed/starred in this!, like Chris Carter's vanity card in "The X-Files") that are on full display in "The Room." That Wiseau is tunnel vision-blind enough to cast himself as the lead (and show more nude backside than Juliette Danielle's) and surround himself with non-actors that cannot overshadow his lack of thesp skills (or any other skills whatsoever) is what truly sets "The Room" apart from most disposable flicks that cast and photograph pretty people being sexy for sexy's sake. Along with the flick's legion of flaws (bad acting, bad set design, bad green screen work, bad dialogue, bad establishing shots of San Francisco repeated endlessly, bad character development/motivation/personality for everyone in the cast, etc.) "The Room" also has the modern day feel of Tommy's Ed Wood Jr.-like mindset at work in achieving his non-native English speaking goals at any cost. This sincerity and true 'auteur' vision (Wiseau's and nobody else's) separates "The Room" from the crowd by injecting the whole thing with an appreciation for the ridiculous that's both laughable but also appreciated. There cannot be a "Room" phenomenon without an audience appreciative of the fun it brings to those that watch it. It's symbiotics, which is as plausible an explantion for the movie's midnight movie afterlife as to where the six million production budget went.

[ShellOilJunior]

Thank you, Domino.

This should be an interesting release to say the least.

[onedimension]

Just watched this. It's like if Harvey Keitel had a traumatic brain injury and went into acting because he'd failed at going into porn..

[ShellOilJunior]

Has anyone heard any news about the blu-ray release?

I suspect Tommy just discovered the DNR button or is having trouble with Windows Movie Maker...

[knives]

Maybe he just got fed up with this world and decided not to hit it?

[ShellOilJunior]

E'body betray him.

[domino harvey]

You've seen the trailer, now watch almost seven minutes of crisp footage from Wiseau's legendary follow-up project, the Neighbors

[ShellOilJunior]

Coming to Blu on 12/28/2012

No word on the extras but $35!? For that much dough it better include the book on HD vs. 35mm he once threatened to write.

[ShellOilJunior]

Some pictures up over at blu-ray.com. Looks like Tommy forgot to proof the back cover paragraph.

[CSM126]

Some pictures up over at blu-ray.com. Looks like Tommy forgot to proof the back cover paragraph.

Looks like Tommy personally dictated the back cover paragraph if you ask me.

[Murdoch]

"Are you ready to see reflection of your life?" certainly seems like a Wiseau-ism.

[ShellOilJunior]

Tommy has gotta be doing this on purpose...

y2j420 over at blu-ray.com posted this:

[Finch]

There are almost as many mentions of Tommy Wiseau on the front and the back of the cover as there is of Michael Cimino on the Criterion release!

[antnield]

Arrow Video (UK) are releasing a dual-format edition in July, which I'm hoping isn't an April Fool.

Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
- Audio Commentary with stars Mike Holmes and Greg Ellery, moderated by Brian Sewell
- Never-before-seen alternative ending
- An Introduction to the film by “The Wolf Of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort
- “Bonus day, a banker’s delight” – a featurette on Wiseau’s research into the financial industry and its employees personal lives
- “I Just Like To Watch You Guys” - Philip Haldiman remembers ‘The Room’
- “In A Few Minutes, Bitch - A Feminist Reading of ‘The Room’” – celebrity panel debate
- Trailers and Radio Spots
- Gallery of posters and promotional advertising
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Theydon Bois, illustrated with original archive stills and posters

[MichaelB]

I smell an April Fool. Theydon Bois is a Central Line Tube station, not a critic. And glorious though it would be to have Brian Sewell moderating a commentary, I can't really imagine it happening for real - or at least not for this film.

[mfunk9786]

Of course they pull a prank with a release people would actually pay for by the thousands... smart business move, guys.

[ShellOilJunior]

Greg Sestero's The Disaster Artist coming Oct.1

I'm not sure where he gets off calling Wiseau a "disaster artist" when we all know everything Tommy did was deliberate.