Why people keep watching the worst movie ever made
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2017
- 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.
The room: 25% rotten tomatoes
I did NAAHT
“I didn’t hit her! I did naaaaaat! Oh hi Mark”
“Enjoyment of trash films linked to high intelligence, study finds.”
we watch it because it’s the best worst movie
The room isnt a movie, it's an experience
If we raid area 51 we will meet the director
The room: we are the worst movie of all time
Simple : "
This video literally describes what a meme is.
"low budget"
This whole movie is litteraly just a fever dream on three tabs of acid.
"It's like a movie made by an alien, who has never seen a movie, but who has had movies thoroughly explained to him."
still better than youtube rewind
This movie was supposed to be a drama but it ended up being the best comedy of all time.
So basically:
I'll never stop laughing at the bizarre conversation with the florist. it's almost like the lines are being spoken out of order.
"I did not hit her, oh hi Mark"
The Room's dialogue sounds like a early access RPG
This man is what you imagine as a man who watched “the room” for 100 times