Only Suckers Will Miss Friday's NYC Screening Of The Room
(Well, suckers and people who can't make it for valid geographical reasons.)
Did you hear? After the first two auditoriums sold out in record time, they've added a THIRD midnight screening of the most entertaining bad movie ever made, Tommy Wiseau's The Room, at the same theater at the same time. It's this Friday night at midnight in the east village, and you can still buy tickets here.
If you've seen The Room and live nearby, you're probably already going to the screening and you certainly need no convincing. But if you're like my friend, who I'll call "Smuggy", you might need a little pep talk, so I'll tell you what I told him when he tried to pre-emptively deny the awesomeness of The Room.
Me: I forgot, am I saving a ticket for you for The Room Friday?
"Smuggy": I don't think so. I'm just not a "seeing bad movies just to laugh at them" kind of guy.
Me: I hate you.
Okay, that's really hypocritical, since myself and every single person I've shown The Room to without exception have all tried to resist seeing the movie using the exact same logic. But I swear to you now: The Room is different, and what makes it different is the fact that every moment is bad in a new and surprising way. There are no boring parts (even the sex scenes, the only parts of the movie that could be considered slightly lagging, make up for it with a wtf skin condition and, um, comical thrusting.) Even though I was once exactly like poor, misguided "Smuggy," his attitude about this would make anyone who's seen the movie super-annoyed -- for one thing, our friends should trust us. For another, to not be interested in this movie even as it's gained word-of-mouth momentum at a frightening rate over the past few months is to show an unforgivable lack of curiosity. Okay, maybe it's not THAT important, but, if you're around (and not "very busy"), see The Room this Friday. You will not be sorry.
For the superfans, here's a new fake-rap video inspired by The Room:
To catch up on the Room phenomenon, read our Room archives. And, oh yeah, we're still not affiliated with this movie or the screening in any way: this is just a personal crusade to share something truly life-enriching. Once you see it, you'll want to share it with everyone, too. (That's why they call them CULT movies.)
Posted by Lindsay at 5:45 PM in Cult Hits, Events
Tags: The Room | Tommy Wiseau
skipping past the sex scenes also means you miss out on the sex scene songs, which are fucking great.
AND I WOULD CLIMB THE HIGH-EST MOUN-TEN
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you are my rose You Are My Rose YOU ARE MY ROSE
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I'm missing for valid geographical reasons, but I did see it for the first time yesterday and all I can say is: Thank you.
Btw, you can get this at Amazon for cheap.
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i'm hoping to make WISEAU FACE t-shirts for the SF screening.
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I just found out about the SF screening. We've got 1 month to call the screenprinters.
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Those tickets sell out too fast!
ARGH! I suck at going to things I like!
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I would go if it was free.
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I would go if out-of-state checks were honored.
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That's an interesting story. Are you going to Bay To Breakers this year?
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Definitely; remember last year? The barbecue chicken was delicious, rice, that was cool.
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LOVE this movie. It should be a law that everyone should see it at least like, 3 times (in order to get down the best lines by memory).
Would love to go to this, but I live in Missouri, and I guess we don't do stuff like that. So jealous.
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Don't forget to bring your SPOONS
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I love that they included the Beta Breakers throwaway line in the rap song. Tommy is such a screenplay-writing genius.
How's your sex life Mark?
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one of my favorite parts, which is a little more subtle than the more notable scenes, is when the psychiatrist character looks DIRECTLY INTO THE CAMERA. also when he goes to the flower shop and he and the florist have a brief exchange where they basically talk over each other the whole time. you know he stipulated that because he thought it was more natural-sounding, or something. what a fucking hero.
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I downloaded this and was bored for the first 15 minutes. After that, it became clear that this movie is truly awesome. I almost gave up, but your enthusiasm kept me going. Thank you Lindsay!
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Uhm.. thank you so much Lindsay for not only introducing me to the cinematic masterpiece known as The Room but also for sharing that rap video. I probably would've never found that on my own.
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the "you're my favorite customer" scene is both the greatest scene in cinema history and the greatest misuse of adr in cinema history. discuss.
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Has anyone heard anything about Wiseau making an appearance at the nyc screening? God that would be amazing.
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Playing the last Saturday of every month in Hollywood as well. $10 for pre-paid tickets.
Thanks for whomever informed me of this last month.
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This "Smuggy" character obviously hates joy.
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