![]() The Room first gained notoriety in Los Angeles, partly thanks to a billboard advertising it that stood over Sunset Boulevard for five years. You know how if you watch The Godfather, every scene is a masterpiece? It's the same with The Room: every scene is perfectly bad." "It's like your favourite nightmare," says comedy writer and Room convert Robert Popper. ![]() Characters disappear halfway through the film, the softcore sex scenes are excruciating, and the San Franscisco setting (it was actually shot in Los Angeles) is alluded to by amateurish back projection and repeated shots of the Golden Gate Bridge.Īnd elevating the whole affair to high-trash status is Wiseau himself, with his slurry Schwarzeneggerian accent and resemblance to a gym-pumped Christopher Walken in a wig. A mix of Tennessee Williams, Ed Wood and R Kelly's Trapped In the Closet, The Room is a simple story of a guy whose fiancee is cheating on him with his best friend, but devastating plot points such as cancer, drugs and pregnancy are thrown in – then completely forgotten about.
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