The Room
The Room
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Tommy WiseauDrehbuch:
Tommy WiseauKamera:
Todd BarronMusik:
Mladen MilicevicBesetzung:
Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman, Carolyn Minnott, Robyn Paris, Mike Holmes, Kyle VogtInhalte(1)
"The Room" is an electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies. It has five major characters, Johnny, played by Tommy Wiseau is a successful banker with great respect for an dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. Johnny can also be a little too trusiting at times which haunts him later on. Lisa, played by Juliette Danielle, is the beautiful blonde fiance of Johnny. She has always gotten her way and will manipulate to get what she wants. She is a taker, with a double personality, and her deadly schemes lead to her own downfall. Mark, played by Greg Sestero, is a young, successful and independent best friend of Johnny. He has a good heart, but gets caught up in Lisa's dangerous web and gives in to temptation. This eventually brings him to great loss. Claudette, played by Carolyn Minnott, is the classy, sophisticated mother of Lisa who has had disappointing relationships in her life. She wants her daughter to be married as soon as possible so she can benefit. Denny, played by Philip Haldiman, is an orphan boy, naive and confused about life, love, and friendship. Denny is a very ambitions and also very grateful tot he people who are in his life. "The Room" depicts the depths of frienships and relationships in one life and raises life's ral and most asked question: "Can you ever really trust anyone? Enter "The Room" and leave forever changed! (Verleiher-Text)
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Watching this surreal flick puts you in the position of a lab mouse, or a hamster, thrown into an aquarium with a king cobra. You loathe what you are looking at, but you are so hypnotized by the sight of the cobra that you just stare into its eyes in fascination until the snake swallows you. You can't take your eyes off this excrement, it has an undeniable charisma, as absurd as it sounds. It's like throwing a bunch of soap-operas, Red Shoe Diaries, a subtly conceived episode of Emanuelle, and the complete bibliography of Rosamunde Pilcher into a big blender and mixing it with tabloids and gossip magazines, spiced it up with Zdeněk Troška, Ovčáček, Turkish Star Wars and the nightly TV broadcasts of tarot readers on TV Barrandov, drinking this shit bottoms up, or drowning in it. I’ll watch this at least once more with my mates. PS: Thanks to the curators of The Shockproof Film Festival for the great titles!
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I really don’t like it when people give ironic high ratings to bad films. At all. I don’t care about guilty pleasures, I just don’t like bad films by incompetent creators. I think they are offensive to those creators who at least try. But The Room is something else! If it had been made like this deliberately, I would be a brilliant comedy, but the fact that this is the result of a series of accidents and some kind of bizarre aliens can’t erase the positive emotions that I have from this “film”. No bullshit, I haven’t been so fascinated by a film in a long time, even if it is really bad, and how improbably bad it is sometimes, but still.
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Wenn man diesen Film in einem Kino voller lachender Zuschauer*innen sieht, bewertet man ihn meiner Meinung nach ruhig mit fünf Sternen und hat dabei ein reines Gewissen. Ich habe ihn alleine gesehen. Deshalb habe ich oft ungläubig den Kopf geschüttelt, als ich all die "Schauspielleistungen“ gesehen habe und als ich gehört habe, was die Figuren sagen. Ich habe mich auch gewundert, wie viele Bettszenen nur in die erste halbe Stunde reinpassen (die Brüste der Hauptheldin habe ich in dieser Zeit so gut kennengelernt, dass ich das Gefühl habe, selbst mir ihr geschlafen zu haben). Ich habe erst beim Finale gelacht. Da wurde mir auch eine seltsame Sache bewusst – The Room hat mich überhaupt nicht gelangweilt.
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A treasure. A showcase of bad to terrible filmmaking decisions and insane dialogues, but executed with such sincerity and verve that it actually reflects perfectly why we all love movies so much and why it's so tempting to be a part of them. A phenomenon called Tommy Wiseau, who under normal circumstances would be replenishing bananas in Tesco, a man without the slightest sign of talent or creativity, has created a work that generations of film fans will enjoy for its undisguised idiocy – and I confess to being one of them. Lisa is the greatest bitch, Mark the worst best friend, and Wiseau is the funniest actor in history; and coupled with dialogues that leave you speechless, or the truly unforgettably bad direction of actors who randomly and pointlessly appear and greet each other at every encounter, you just can't help but love The Room at least a little guiltily and sincerely. In terms of experience, at least 4*, in terms of quality, its Boo!, so I’m giving it a conciliatory 2*.
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Dieses Ding entzieht sich jeglichen gewöhnlichen Maßstäben. Es spielt absolut keine Rolle, ob es prozentual oder mit Sternen bewertet wird. Anstatt Müll könnte ich hier einfach ein riesiges WTF schreiben und nichts bewerten. Ob Sie fünf Sterne geben oder Müll!, hängt meiner Meinung nach nur davon ab, ob Ihnen die Helden dieses Films unterhaltsam erscheinen und Sie über sie lachen, oder ob Sie sie aus tiefstem Herzen hassen und töten wollen. (Es ist offensichtlich, dass ich letzteres Gefühl hatte.) Ich habe nichts gegen Benutzer, die mit voller Punktzahl bewerten, denn ich kann mir sehr lebhaft vorstellen, wie sie sich königlich darüber amüsiert haben. Auf jeden Fall ist The Room eine unglaubliche Scheiße, deren Grässlichkeit unaussprechlich ist. Stellen Sie sich alle möglichen denkbaren Fehler vor, die ein Filmemacher in seinem Film machen kann, und sie sind alle hier. Dies sollte an Filmhochschulen als Beispiel dafür gezeigt werden, wie man keinen Film dreht. Tommy Wiseau ist ein Außerirdischer vom Planeten Žumpa, mir fällt keine andere Erklärung ein.
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"I used to know a girl who had a dozen guys. One of them found out about it, beat her up and she ended up in a hospital." "Hahahahahahahahahaha. What a story!" Shockproof Film Festival – NOW!
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Never have I had such a great time watching a film that I booed. So why this rating? Simply because the film is bad in every respect. It makes any South American soap opera look like a professional masterpiece worthy of the critics’ award. But it was the terrible performances both in front of and behind the camera that made me almost split my sides. All the sex scenes, all those characters appearing and disappearing (Denny was killing it), Johnny's laughter, all the dialogue (especially the scene in the flower shop), and the character of Mark's best friend created a geyser of hilarious fun. It’s a “Boo!” from me but "Wake up, Johnny!"
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Given that this is a cult film that many viewers can't get enough of, I guess I expected it to be even more of a hit. I have to admit, though, that Tommy Wiseau's acting is just so bad and so unique that at times you'll just stare at what he spits out. He's being serious, isn't he? It doesn't matter; this is something that can easily deter you. And probably excite you. For me, my enthusiasm is more restrained.
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The film is so bad it's actually brilliant. An exquisite gem that goes beyond the bizarre. Lousy quality in all respects and a complete lack of logic. I would be lying if I said I hadn't had fun watching this, though. You shouldn’t worry too much about why the characters start playing catch all of a sudden or why they change opinions literally in mid-sentence because nothing at all makes sense here. Absolutely random shots of the San Francisco skyline accompanied by (all sarcasm aside) a perfect central musical theme, with acting (uhm) performances from another planet. The script is terrible, but whenever Tommy Wiseau is on screen, prepare to be (if unintentionally) amused. A well-deserved cult status. "Oh, hi, Mark."
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