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I still haven't seen The Room edit: a shameful snipe
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Apr 29, 2024 17:10
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Pham Nuwen posted:I still haven't seen The Room Nor I, I don't think I ever will.
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Apr 29, 2024 17:58
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Eh, you're not really missing much. It isn't nearly as funny or fascinating as the Internet makes it out to be. Pretty boring
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Apr 29, 2024 18:35
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Yeah, The Room is an insufferable slog.
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Apr 29, 2024 19:02
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The Room is mostly fascinating for perfectly capturing the feeling of watching daytime TV while sick with a raging fever
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Apr 29, 2024 19:25
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Pham Nuwen posted:I still haven't seen The Room I just watched it the other day; Greg Sistero (the fellow who plays Mark) introduced it and talked a little bit about it, then we saw it in a theatre. I loved the movie when I saw it on my own, but the theater experience is definitely the way to go. One of the best movies I've ever seen because of that. A room full of people who are in on the joke, and genuinely love the movie for what it is.
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Apr 29, 2024 20:05
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Pham Nuwen posted:I still haven't seen The Room You can't really watch it without Rifftrax (either the original version or live).
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Apr 30, 2024 00:33
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Mister Kingdom posted:You can't really watch it without Rifftrax (either the original version or live). I guess if you've got no friends to watch it with that might be an acceptable alternative.
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Apr 30, 2024 03:06
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hmmm. surprised at the hate the room is getting in this thread. i assume people are watching it alone (which is crazy), but it is incredibly fun with friends
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Apr 30, 2024 04:11
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the best way to experience "The Room" is to watch a 10-20 minute highlight reel on youtube, then watch "The Disaster Artist". "The Room" has just too much cringe and boring, not enough funny overall.
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Apr 30, 2024 08:05
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teen witch posted:I rewatched They Live on Saturday and rereading the initial reviews from its release are baffling. They Live is a surprisingly deep film. It trawls through issues like capitalism, media, collaboration, social classes. And then there's a 10 minute fist flight.
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Apr 30, 2024 09:24
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The alley fight is one of the funniest fight scenes I've seen.
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Apr 30, 2024 09:31
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Every time I rewatch They Live, I swear that the fight scene gets longer than the last time I watched it somehow.
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Apr 30, 2024 09:35
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When I saw it the first time, a friend got up during the fight scene, went to the bathroom, ordered some food, had a drink, came back, and the fight scene is still going ....
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Apr 30, 2024 10:15
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DontMockMySmock posted:the best way to experience "The Room" is to watch a 10-20 minute highlight reel on youtube, then watch "The Disaster Artist". "The Room" has just too much cringe and boring, not enough funny overall. God drat but you are wrong as hell.
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Apr 30, 2024 10:25
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My wife and I have watched The Room at least 7-8 times together, twice in theaters. We seldom like the same movies but it's probably our collective favorite.
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Apr 30, 2024 11:44
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the only interesting thing to me about the room is the genre. Most rich people who finance their own movies, write/direct/star in it usually go for action.
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May 7, 2024 18:46
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credburn posted:I loved the movie when I saw it on my own, but the theater experience is definitely the way to go. One of the best movies I've ever seen because of that. A room full of people who are in on the joke, and genuinely love the movie for what it is. That kind of reminds me of my experience with Cats. Just absolutely terrible, and the theater was filled with people (including myself) who knew what to expect (an abomination). I can't imagine how boring & awkward it would be to watch it by myself on my laptop/TV.
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May 7, 2024 21:36
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YeahTubaMike posted:That kind of reminds me of my experience with Cats. Just absolutely terrible, and the theater was filled with people (including myself) who knew what to expect (an abomination). I can't imagine how boring & awkward it would be to watch it by myself on my laptop/TV. I also had a great experience at Cats. The entire theater did -- except for one poor lady who shushed us (there were at least a dozen of us) and later was heard mumbling, "It's NOT funny"
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May 8, 2024 02:32
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Southland Tales is on Pluto TV. Man what an insane film. I love it for it's craziness.
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May 8, 2024 21:08
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I am a connoisseur of terrible movies but my absolute favorite bad movie is...BATTLESHIP! It's so earnest. Everyone tries really hard. Liam Neeson is in it for some reason with the worst American accent of all time. Let's not forget the army veteran with no legs who is super bummed about not being able to kill people anymore and he finally gets his chance to take lives again. Or Rihanna giving the performance of her loving life. There's even a wise The little details like the enemy ordinance being represented as pegs or the map that represents a grid system that works based on tsunami ocean buoys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hai3iJHOO10 What do you do when all your ships are sunk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iGp8D9832Y How about a Battleship drift right before unloading pure unadultered American firepower? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCqDdsZY7RA It's beautiful. It's so loving good.  e: Honorable mentions: Tokyo Drift Battle: Los Angeles White House Down do not sleep ever on an action movie that stars a famous musician as an important character 3 DONG HORSE has a new favorite as of 03:47 on May 9, 2024 |
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May 9, 2024 03:29
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3 DONG HORSE posted:I am a connoisseur of terrible movies but my absolute favorite bad movie is...BATTLESHIP! He has that accent in just about everything, I love it. Tell me, does he pound his fist against a desk and yell with conviction "YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP!!!"? Because if not, what are we even doing? I also liked Battle: Los Angeles. The alien designs were unsettling as hell. And it's just schlocky ooh-rah GWOT jingoism with no filter. Aaron Eckhart screaming "US MARINES" every time he entered a room was pretty funny. Actually back to Neeson for a bit, I kind of enjoyed the A-Team remake. It too was stupid good fun.
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May 9, 2024 04:13
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Mister Speaker posted:He has that accent in just about everything, I love it. Spoiler alert: the Missouri never sinks  an old navy veteran does reference the line though: "You ain't gonna sink this battleship"
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May 9, 2024 04:26
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3 DONG HORSE posted:do not sleep ever on an action movie that stars a famous musician as an important character Why don't bands make full length movies any more? Two Beatles films, You Can't Stop the Music and Spice World.
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May 9, 2024 04:58
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Oh! That reminds me of a fun stinker of a movie: Daniel Stern, Ed Begley Jr, the drummer out of the Doors (seems like they wanted John Bonham but he was "unavailable") and Malcolm McDowell as aging rock star Reggie Wanker.
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May 9, 2024 08:48
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The Room is best watched in its entirety, because a lot of its confusing allure is just how weirdly stitched together all its bits are. Half the scenes in the movie have no relevance whatsoever to the core plot, even if you ignore the scenes that are just shots of San Francisco, and there are tons of vestigial characters. It's worth watching just for the experience, and also because it's impossible to predict which bits of this crap will be hilarious to any given viewer. Chrpno posted:Oh! That reminds me of a fun stinker of a movie: This movie doesn't suck, although it is extremely of its time. It's actually shockingly clever for a dumb '80's comedy, imho.
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May 9, 2024 09:26
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Antivehicular posted:The Room is best watched in its entirety, because a lot of its confusing allure is just how weirdly stitched together all its bits are. Half the scenes in the movie have no relevance whatsoever to the core plot, even if you ignore the scenes that are just shots of San Francisco, and there are tons of vestigial characters. It's worth watching just for the experience, and also because it's impossible to predict which bits of this crap will be hilarious to any given viewer. Watching The Room in a theatre really makes you notice how many scenes just go on for 4-5 seconds after they really should have cut, how many pointless establishing shots there are, the completely nonsensical dialogue everywhere, etc. At the same time it's eminently watchable because Tommy Wiseau spent a ton of money to buy really high quality digital cameras and even got the studio guys to help film it. If he didn't spend so much of his own money to shoot and promote this pointless vanity project then The Room would have been a lot less fun.
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May 9, 2024 09:38
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3 DONG HORSE posted:I am a connoisseur of terrible movies but my absolute favorite bad movie is...BATTLESHIP! I never felt more patriotic than when they fired up the old ww2 battleship with all the old veterans while AC/DC blasted in the background. That they then drifted the boat to victory like they were in Tokyo Drift or Initial D was a masterstroke.
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May 9, 2024 12:14
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Chrpno posted:Oh! That reminds me of a fun stinker of a movie: That's a great music ensemble film. We argued about who Reggie Wanker is meant to be. David Bowie? Marc Bolan? It also features Lou Reed as the enigmatic musician "Auden" who works the entire film traveling to the gig in a taxi, writing a song.
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May 9, 2024 13:16
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hallo spacedog posted:Southland Tales is on Pluto TV. Man what an insane film. I love it for it's craziness. I wouldn't describe as a good film. But it's so absolutely, 110% into its own crazy idea, that's admirable. Everyone is so serious and the film never blinks at its own absurdity. It's amazing.
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May 9, 2024 13:18
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nonathlon posted:I wouldn't describe as a good film. But it's so absolutely, 110% into its own crazy idea, that's admirable. Everyone is so serious and the film never blinks at its own absurdity. It's amazing. I agree completely - it ISN'T GOOD by any metric of the word good but it's very much its own batshit insane thing and I think that's amazing. I wish there were more films like that. Just giant weird sprawling insanity.
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May 9, 2024 15:39
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PuttyKnife posted:I never felt more patriotic than when they fired up the old ww2 battleship with all the old veterans while AC/DC blasted in the background. I think you mean the old WW2/Korean/Gulf War battleship because they stuck it in the harbor for 30 years and then reactivated it in the 80s. They slapped Tomahawk launchers on it and installed some of those old compact Macs which were still on the desks when I toured it in 2007. OT sure but the Missouri is a loving cool ship.
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May 9, 2024 17:45
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hallo spacedog posted:I agree completely - it ISN'T GOOD by any metric of the word good but it's very much its own batshit insane thing and I think that's amazing. I wish there were more films like that. Just giant weird sprawling insanity. I just glanced at the synopsis on Wikipedia and saw it has Seann William Scott in it. I'm gonna have to watch it, I think. No idea why, but I love Seann William Scott.
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May 9, 2024 19:34
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Oh man you're gonna get more than you bargained for then
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May 9, 2024 20:24
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Milo and POTUS posted:Oh man you're gonna get more than you bargained for then
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May 9, 2024 22:36
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No but he plays two roles, and twins at that. Double the stiffler!
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May 9, 2024 22:55
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hallo spacedog posted:I agree completely - it ISN'T GOOD by any metric of the word good but it's very much its own batshit insane thing and I think that's amazing. I wish there were more films like that. Just giant weird sprawling insanity. yeah. it's also somehow much more real in 2024 than it was when it was released
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May 9, 2024 23:24
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Elissimpark posted:I just glanced at the synopsis on Wikipedia and saw it has Seann William Scott in it. I'm gonna have to watch it, I think. don't read anything more about it, just inhale it and breathe out understanding
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May 9, 2024 23:25
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Milo and POTUS posted:No but he plays two roles, and twins at that. Double the stiffler! vincemcmahon_fallingoutofchair.gif Incidentally, in relation to my previous post, I genuinely enjoyed Dude. where's my car? and occasionally, to puzzle and annoy my wife, will do the Zoltan 'z' thing. Elissimpark has a new favorite as of 16:33 on May 10, 2024 |
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May 10, 2024 16:30
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My wife and I still do the 'I know your body! *fingerwag*'
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May 10, 2024 22:26
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