I've never seen this, but Vox makes a good case for it. It seems to have everything I look for in Movies, and I've seen (and admired) a lot of the recommended related favorites.
- Link: Wiki describes "The Room" (Spoilers!)
- Link: The Room Funniest Scenes (YouTube)
- Link: BBC Describes "The Room"
- Link: Vox Analyzes "The Room"
Reviews:
- Ross Morin: "The Citizen Kane of bad movies"
- Jason Bailey: "If there is a 21st-century Edward D. Wood Jr., it is probably Tommy Wiseau."
- Kurt Loder: "What puts 'The Room' in a class of its own is its overabundant idiocy. While you're still gasping at one of the film's moronic lines or vagrant plot knots, another one rises up to smack you in the head."
- Steve Rose: "To make a movie that's so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitously, The Room's writer/producer/director/star Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent."
- Ed Whitfield: "Watching The Room is like crossing over to a counterfactual universe where the rules of film grammar and screenwriting have been written by Dan Brown."
- Beth Accomando: "And that's the conundrum of 'The Room.' It's so very bad that it becomes riveting."
- Phil Hall: "It is a prime example of enthusiasm outrunning talent."
- Luke Y. Thompson: "'PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE'" gave me nowhere near as many belly laughs. Tommy Wiseau is a bit like Shatner or Schwarzenegger before they became self-aware."