Many people consider The Room to be the worst movie of all time. So why do thousands of people flock to midnight screenings of it every month?
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Tommy Wiseau’s film The Room (2003) is by many accounts the worst movie ever made. The plot barely makes sense, the set design is comically inept, and most of the dialogue sounds like it was fed through Google Translate multiple times. Yet, for 14 years, people have been congregating at midnight screenings all across the globe to watch what some people call “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.”
Despite the film’s incoherency, audiences ritualistically throw plastic spoons, shout call and response lines at the screen, and toss around footballs in the aisles at monthly screenings. Knowing all the inside jokes and participatory cues gives viewers what sociologist Pierre Bourdieu termed “cultural capital.” People who know when to shout specific lines or when to hurl spoons are deemed Room veterans.
Contrary to what you may think, researchers have found that an appreciation of this kind of “trash cinema” can actually indicate higher levels of intelligence. Trash films share more characteristics with avant-garde art films than they do with typical commercial Hollywood fare. Audiences are drawn to both “trash” and “art” films for many of the same reasons, like their transgressive nature and their rejection of mainstream aesthetic norms.
Watch the video to know more about The Room and be sure to pick up Bissell’s book (that he co-wrote with Greg Sestero) to read many more legendary stories about the production of the “best worst movie.”
Special thanks to Stephen Goldmeier for permission to use his photo in the video.
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i'll tell you why… because… it's a cult classic.
isnt the room a so bad its good movie tho?
Oh High doggy. Your my favorite costumer!!
The reasons seem fairly obvious?
The whole "seems like an alien made this" bit made me smile. That is pretty much exactly how I described The Room to a colleague of mine just a few weeks ago.
Like you know how when a person made such terrible joke and you and your friend just laugh becuz of how terrible is it
It's better experience without the ironic stance
I watched blood in blood out at least 400 times. Ill wait a while to watch it again. Great movie, check out city of god.
That's the one most best Youtube channel and very interested about audience and critics opinions, but it's sad when critics and other hate base and fan base took opinions and criticism too seriously.
oh , hi mark
Y’all should do a video about why ppl still watch the worst YouTube channel ever (vox).
I did not hit her, it's not true, it's bullsh*t, I did not her, I did not…
Thats not the worst. India makes way worse movies, every year.
Cause it’s funny lol
'Anyway, how's your sex life?'
a movie so bad that it's actually good.
Cause its funny
Still better than The Last Jedi
Have they even seen Joshua and the promised Land by Jim Lion???
I imagine the same reason why people read vox, to mock it.
It’s so bad it’s good??
Lmao I never heard of it but now I have to watch it
why?
It's the best disaster ever made. Of course we watch it
Its so bad its FUNNY
Because unintentionally funny is the best kind of funny.
Even if Tommy secretly is a comical mastermind who never breaks character.
I still prefer Plan 9 from Outer-space as the best bad movie of all time…along with Manos, hands of Fate…so bad they’re good???
The room is not even close to the worst movie
the room was Not low budget
2:40 you have to have a high IQ to understand the subtle humor
Watch the movie "gunda". It is the room raised to the power of a billion
The thing is boring ≠ bad. Bad films can be funny but boring films are usually unwatchable
“It is like a movie made by an alien, who has never seen a movie, but has had movies thoroughly explained to him.” ???
the room is actually my favourite movie of all time.
I spent 50 dollars on shipping alone to get this masterpiece to my doorstep.
The Room is the movie equivalent of Oblivion
It's so bad that is good
Its surreal
Weird I just watched this pan another site, finished it literally 5 minutes ago and I see this video on my YouTube recommended. Illumanati confirmed
You mentioned Dancer in the Dark and now I'm about to cry all over again. (T^T)