I think Tommy Wiseau , or the emperor of unintentional comedy as I call him , deserves a thread of his own . So here it goes :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA3CI7ke59k



I'll mostly be sharing his awesome lecture clips , but feel free to post about anything related to him .

This guy isn't even FFA material, because he doesn't deserve even more attention than he already has. Putting hackfrauds on a cult pedestal has never been beneficial to anyone.

However I can see where you're coming from, he does look like he's a member of a metal street gang.

hackfraud? fuck off. tommy is legitimately 100% himself at any given time. there's 0 fakeness or pretension. hell, The Room is as goodbad as it is because it's solely one man's vision, untainted by any outsider influence. i genuinely love that movie, unironically, cause of its honesty and weirdly innocent approach to things.

keep your stupid comments in your pocket

Yup, like Frog said, The Room is 100% genuine and actually kind of cool to watch because of that. Of course it's also batshit insane and doesn't make sense. But it's super endearing and interesting because there is nothing else like it. I'd rather watch it than, say, any James Wan/Zack Snyder/Eli Roth/etc movie.

The Room is a total blast. By far the best worst movie I've seen, superior even to Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (the source of my username). My friends and I went to multiple special showings, one with Tommy Wiseau there in person (I missed it unfortunately), another at midnight at some arts theater where people did the spoon-throwing etc. (Throw a spoon at the screen every time there's a framed spoon in the shot.) I'm also hyped for Disaster Artist.

I couldn't get into anything else I've seen that featured Tommy Wiseau. It was way too self-aware for the most part, whereas The Room was just a glorious surreal train-wreck out of nowhere. They tried to sell it as a "black comedy" after the fact, but that was obviously to save face.





Does anyone know where I could find the Adult Swim version they showed about a decade ago on April Fools Day? The way they edit the sex scenes is quite funny.

This is probably the best Tommy Wiseau related thing I've ever seen:

Tommy Wiseau us indeed a unique creature among men.

However, have you dared to hear of... Neil Breen?

Oh, I declare, if you know The Room and Birdemic, then the completion of this trifecta of filmmaking what-the-fucks is none other than Nevada real estate agent-cum-filmmaker, Neil Breen.

This Your Movie Sucks is a good intro to the man.



Yes, one of his movies is on Amazon Prime... somehow. Also, one is, or was, completely free on YouTube.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

so fucking good. watch the edited one on youtube cause the actual movie is way too long.

i'm still mad as hell they took i am here....now off youtube. god, the alien chimp robo jesus (yes) costume is hysterical. and that sex scene where he keeps switching between being neil breen and the being the cyborg alien jesus ape is truly iconic. neil breen is a god among boys and his films are to be celebrated.

The Room is one of the few movies I own a blu ray of. Mandatory viewing.

Despite the fact that I despise nearly everyone involved, I absolutely cannot fucking wait for The Disaster Artist. Here's the trailer:



The book version is quite the read. Quite. The. Read.

I was also looking forward to the Room Full Of Spoons documentary, but Wiseau put the kibosh on that apparently.

I sat through his television show The Neighbors (at one point was only available via Hulu, no idea of it's current status), and it sadly didn't hold up. The retconning of The Room by Wiseau as an intentional "black comedy" (rather than the the earnestness of producing The Room as a serious romantic melodrama as per his original intent) must have gone to his head-now that everything he does has to be funny makes the TV show feel so unbelievably forced.

I also don't know what to make of this:



And finally, alongside the Star Wars mashups, this never fails to crack me up:



I suppose I'm slightly obsessed with this guy's work.



Wiseau is known to be incredibly stingy with his likeness/IP on YouTube, especially if it exposes any truth about his background or paints him in even a slightly negative light.

Tommy on the American Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unx3J1OdQVs

The Room is one of my favorite movies of all time for all the reasons already stated in this thread. It's a complete mess of a movie, a fever dream brought to life, but it's not like it's maliciously bad like many other shitty movies that have disgraced the world. It's like a naive, completely oblivious type of bad, the kind of bad only achieved by other bad movie auteurs like Ed Wood, Neil Breen and James Nguyen. It's kind of why Wiseau's post-Room material is just not as interesting; as mentioned before, because The Room is seen by so many as a funny bad movie, Tommy's trying to make intentionally funny stuff now, and it just does not work at all. It's the same reason Birdemic 2 doesn't work.

And yes, The Disaster Artist looks like gold just from the trailer. For those who want to read the book, the preferred way of doing it would be through the audiobook, as Greg Sestero does a spot-fucking-on impression of Tommy Wiseau whenever the latter is quoted. It absolutely makes the experience almost all by itself, even without regarding how excellent everything else in the book is.

I've only seen Fateful Findings so far, where he goes on an anti-laptop rampage over several scenes and he sets up supposed drama with comedic timing. There is literally a scene where he's walking up to his house talking to his girlfriend on the phone saying, "okay honey, I'm walking up to our house now. I'm coming to the front door, what's this? Why is your purse on the ground?" BEST. EXPOSITION. EVER.

That movie is hilariously awful. He develops magical powers to pass through walls in the end for no reason other than plot convenience. And it ends with the suicides of "prominent, powerful people in the government."

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BANK KILLS HIMSELF.

President. Of the bank.

Totally agree. Deliberately making "so bad it's good" movies is not something that can be done. It feels contrived and obvious. It's why "look at our funny bad movie" films like Sharknado are just hot fucking garbage.

A movie can only transcend badness if there was honest effort put into making it a good movie to begin with, only to run head-on into failure walls every step of the way.

Wiseau truly believed he was making a powerful dramatic piece, which he later attempted to rebrand as a black comedy despite the lack of intentional humor in the film.
Nguyen really wanted to deliver a powerful environmental message amidst some kind of misguided homage to The Birds.
Ed Wood really believed in the movies he was making and the stories he told, heavily evidenced with how he threw himself into the role for Glen or Glenda?
Neil Breen truly believes he's making edgy science fiction thrillers, where the hero just happens to just look like a real estate agent pushing 60, and is always a staggering moral superiority to everyone he meets.
Fertilizer salesman Harold Warren seriously thought it was easy to make a movie and believed he'd succeeded in crafting a solid contemporary horror story with Manos: The Hands of Fate.


Suffice to say, this is a formula that only works when honest effort collides with hilarious failure. Someone's dream really has to be crushed for this to work.

Case in point: Samurai cop 1 vs Samurai Cop 2. (both are more worthy of anyone's time than "The Room" though. Hackfraud Tommy is making my head hurt. There's also a smell of patchouli in my nose whenever I see him onscreen... or just on a photo for that matter. yeah I have a problem with the guy)

A friend of mine tried to get laid by Greg Sestero. He wasn't into her, apparently. Either that, or it was another case of the, "What are you doing? I mean, the candles, the music, the sexy dress... What's going on here?"



Spot on. An interesting corollary is that bad comedies are "just plain" bad, never laughably bad.

I'm a major fan of Tommy mainly because he's funny without ( at least seemingly ) trying to be . As others have probably mentioned , his seeming lack of self awareness is what really makes him a boss . Many people try to be funny on purpose , whereas Wiseau can make you laugh by saying a few simple lines .

For what it's worth I think it would be great if a movie was made about his life . Of course it's unlikely that that will happen ( with his permission anyways ) while he's still alive , but it should definitely be done eventually .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disaster_Artist_(film)

Disaster Artist isn't about his life , its about the making of The Room .

Well, it's half about the making of the movie and half an autobiography of Greg Sestero and how his friendship with Tommy factors into his life. There's a whole chapter where Tommy's backstory is explored, with the contents kind of explaining why he's so secretive and protective of his personal history.

Since the trailer, "The Disaster Artist" I had to watch the original "The Room" to be prepared.

In my honest opinion, and I say it very slightly, - I think Tommy has some sort of disability or some sort of brain damage, that he might not know about or anyone else in that matter. His ability to understand what bad acting and good acting is, his brain simly cant distinguish the two. Thats my belief on why he acts the way he does.

True but I think it would be swell if a movie were made about Tommy's life from the very beginning . One that would portray his childhood in Poland as well as the time he spent in France and Louisiana . It's not likely that such a movie will be made in the foreseeable future , but it would be interesting nonetheless .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50qCFqZMMk&t=923s

This is a good review of the Room that shows why it's so great and not just absolute shit put out to rake in money like the Sharknado sequels

He'd immediately put the kibosh on that. There's no way we'll ever get a Tommy Wiseau autobiographical movie while he's still alive. Honestly, The Disaster Artist is probably the closest we'll ever get to it in the first place.

This thread inspired me to buy a DVD of it. I watched it on Adult Swim years ago, haven't seen it since.

This is supposedly what the for now shelved documentary Room Full Of Spoons covers, at least in part-Tommy's true back story. Wiseau was actually a willing participant at one point, but there was an apparent falling out and we know how that ends up.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4177972/?ref_=nv_sr_1

I haven't read The Disaster Artist yet, but doesn't Greg say that Tommy had been in a car accident at some point? Brain damage would definitely explain his slouched face, slurred speech (that's more than just an eastern european accent) and apparently hair-trigger temper.

This guy was the worst part of Samurai Cop 2, and that is really saying something.

He was indeed in a pretty bad car accident many years ago in California. He was fucked up something fierce and was in the hospital for several weeks. I don't recall the book going much further than that though, nor does it speculate on this being partially why Tommy is the way Tommy is, but it's a definite possibility.

Our man Wiseau on the subjects of success and comedy :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZV98nlxC4

The way Sestero pulls this off is priceless :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ6mdxbCHI0[youtube][/youtube]

Thank you for this. This is incredible.

The Room is a good "bad movie" but Wiseau's reimagining of himself as a comedic genius after it exploded for all the wrong reasons is just annoying. He's not funny at all - The Room is funny because he wanted it to be a drama. Now he's trying to be funny at every turn and it's just awful to watch.

They cut out the best line from the "suicide" scene, dammit.

Click here for the timestamp (it's around 9:05)

https://youtu.be/d2BKT-8FD4s?t=533

I'M GONNA SHOOT THIS DAMN CAR ALL FULLA HOLES

neil fucking breen. total legend.

I'd say it's very hard to tell whether Wiseau is trying to be funny or not . The man is probably among the top 10 most eccentric well known people today , which is why I'm such a big fan of his material .

It's got to be said bluntly: Wiseau is a POSER! He was a poser serious filmmaker and now he's a poser comedian. He's constantly tried to grab onto as much undeserved fame and credibility as possible and has been able to only because the internet deigned to notice one wack film as opposed to a million others. Anyone who is a fan of Wiseau is a fan of a POSER!

Poser ? I was under the impression that the word poser only has relevance when applied to music . That said I don't see what's wrong with liking poser filmmakers . I mean doing so is far more forgivable than liking Bon Jovi IMO .

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