The room is my all-time favorite "so bad it's good" movies, as is the case with many others.
His new shows, the neighbors, looks in the trailer that it's trying to hard to be terrible, but curious to check it out still. Has anyone seen it?
I saw the first episode or part of an episode, can't remember, at a midnight screening of the Room. I did get the distinct impression it was trying to be terrible and it wasn't funny. The beauty of the Room was it was made with sincerity while Neighbors seems so obviously like "oh people like terrible? Okay I'll give them that!" But anyone can make terrible movies/TV. The gold of the movie is the total lack of self-awareness. Neighbors just failed for me.
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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.
I don't think it's intentionally terrible, but I do agree that it's not funny. I think it's equally bad and nearly as inept, but it's trying to be a sitcom and intentionally creating catch phrases that are all terrible and none of the jokes work. That's not a surprise, but it's just lame. I saw only one or two and I really couldn't watch anymore, it was awful without the charm.
shareYeah, maybe it was because it was trying to be a comedy. Bad comedy isn't funny. Bad drama can be funny.
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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.
That's exactly it. Wiseau's attempt to make a drama is hilariously inept, and his attempt to make a comedy is inept so it gets no laughs. His bizarre presence can only be so entertaining if there's nothing else. His jokes missing the mark in The Room still managed to be funny somehow though.
It was interesting though that the production values didn't improve at all. I would have assumed he would have to have learned something from then to now.
It was interesting though that the production values didn't improve at all. I would have assumed he would have to have learned something from then to now.
"oh people like terrible? Okay I'll give them that!"
The gold of the movie is the total lack of self-awareness.
Every single scene looks like the first scene in a porn film.
Look- it's trying to think!
I bought the season DVD off Amazon for 9.99 and regretted it as I watched what I guess was the first episode. I say I guess because at varying times to break up scenes there is a cutaway to the front of the apartment complex with a bunch of gif images running on top of it for no reason, so there is no real way to tell when one episode begins and ends. What I got from this show was that it is all of the stuff that Tommy wanted to include in The Room but didn't have time or money for, seeing as how he originally wrote the movie as a book that was over 800 pages long. I'm assuming that these characters were meant to be neighbors to the Room characters but there wasn't a way to fit them all into the movie so Tommy created this show to give them the screen time he wish he had the first time around.
The main problem with this is that it is trying to be "so bad it's good" which just makes it bad. Since Tommy is in on the joke that people view his movie and career as, he's just trying to play it up for the audience and it comes off as unnatural, whereas The Room worked as "so bad it's good" because the cast and crew were legitimately trying to make the best movie they could.