The Room

Famous for being the 'Citizen Kane' of bad movies, this was a screening like no other and a film like no other.
The audience laughed, shouted, played along with the absurd and....well very bad happenings, with some motifs to be shouted at appropriate moments. We were allowed to join in the fun, shouting 'SPOON' and throwing little plastic spoons whenever the spoon picture came on screen, shouting 'FOCUS' whenver the camerawork became rather hazy amongst other fun themes.
This can't really be reviewed, all that can be said is that it is a nice change to go along to a (nearly entirely full) cinema where the audience are so actively engaged and the film is mercilessly deconstructed by the punters.
The question is, was it deliberate? We decided that it was not, this film was made seriously and just turned out as it did. The content is slightly too....boring, or at least mundane (always hillarious) to be a parody, and there is not any self-knowing looks or references that most films of that genre would convey. If this IS a iss-take, it is down with heroic deadpanedness. The prodcution values are also not a huge amount worse (alright, a bit) than a number of TV movies, and the script never entirely jumps the shark. It is rather like a compendium of clunking lines in badly written scripts of otherwise 'serious' films.
So, a fun night, a fun showing, go along if it is in your area. Although watching it by yourself would certainly require a large amount of drinking, to get one in the festice mood required. All together npw 'HI DENNY....BYE DENNY!'