There is this outstanding, revealing interview by Steve Heisler on the A/V Club today with The Room director Tommy Wiseau. It's long, but totally worth it -- everyone who has seen The Room should read it (at least three times). There are too many quotable quotes to possibly namecheck them all, but here are a few:
On Why Denny Acts So Weird:
AVC: What do you think Philip Haldiman brought to the role of Denny?
TW: I think he brought a lot stuff. One thing was people actually, he's really retarded a little bit.
On Privacy:
AVC: How do you relax?
TW: That's personal question, actually.
On People Calling The Room "So bad it's good":
"I'm not, like, some people say, "They don't laugh with Tommy, Tommy not laugh with them," or something like that; no, on the contrary. I enjoy very much, and I wish I could attend all the screening in the world, it's impossible. You see, it's contradicting. I don't like to use this phrase, but they come out, I think, because of the Internet, they come out with this statement. For me, it's very difficult to understand.
On Critics:
The person who wrote the article about it for Variety did not see the movie.
The interview also reveals that Tommy's next movie is about vampires and basketball and STRONGLY suggests that the sex in The Room was real. Also, Tommy doesn't think women should be allowed to be firemen. Just read the thing, if there's any justice in the world it'll win some kind of journalism award.
So Rifftrax, one of the companies you can pay to talk over bad movies for you, has just added The Room to their roster, and a lot of tipsters are sending it in. I don't want to start some sort of beef with the MST3K Claymates or anything, but, wait, this is supposed to be better than watching the movie itself and thinking your own funny thoughts in your own funny head? Because if this sample, from one of the "best" scenes in the movie, is representative, the only service being provided here is two annoying guys with the most obvious jokes distracting the audience from even having the chance to notice the funniest things about the scene. They're basically like "Want us to ruin the experience of seeing The Room for you? That'll be four bucks."
So last week, even though it kind of felt like torture, I begged any readers living in one of the four cities where the strange new movie/internet trailer sensation After Last Season was screening starting last Friday to send in their impressions of the film if they just happened to be seeing it anyway. Here are their reactions to a movie that seems even more mysterious now than it did when it was just a trailer (and a video I found of a bunch of guys right after they saw the movie -- an After Last Season Parking Lot, if you will).
If you had told me a year ago that Charles Gibson would be reporting on the Amazing Cult Phenomenon That Is The Room, I would have said "Nahhh." But in yesterday's World News Webcast, he did just that! The Room is now THAT huge! Also, if you've been trying to ignore The Room, this report explains the movie and the cult around it pretty well. And do not miss the SECRET SURPRISE at the end, when one of Videogum's favorite actors talks about discovering The Room.
Those who went to the (now monthly!) midnight screening of The Room in New York on April 24 were treated to David Cross and Jon Benjamin wearing wigs and impersonating Tommy Wiseau and Denny, respectively. The impression is approximate, but some of David's lines are hilarious ("Tennessee Williams is one of the great defenders of my work.") The event's organizers put up video of their introduction, complete with drunk-crowd interaction.
A tipster (thanks, Brad) sent us this amazing video, with the following message:
My mom sent me this. She knows the producer and said it cost 25 million dollars to make.
Please just keep that figure, 25 million dollars, in your head for the whole time that you watch this.
But WAIT, it only gets better. As mentioned in the video, You Make My Day is FEATURE FILM for which this is just a PREVIEW! Aye-aye-aye. The official website for You Make My Day: The Movie describe the film thusly:
An Epic Musical Romantic Adventure set in a mystical island kingdom where horses reign and birds keep watch.
Yup. Yes. I would say that sums it up perfectly. The Epic Musical Romantic Adventure, whatever that means, is the vanity project of "Emmy Award Winning Composer Michael J. Lewis." What Emmy did he win? Most Obviously Wants To Fuck A Beautiful Horse? This is absolute madness. But WAIT, the website has even more videos, which I have posted after the jump. You take the blue pill ignore the jump, the story ends, you wake up in your bed, and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill follow the jump, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you just how deep the rabbitMake My Day hole goes.
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