i've been neglecting my blog, at least with entries that have substance to them. i should probably post more, but twitter has been picking up my random internet posting slack. add me! i have had a lot happening in the last few months i haven't posted much about, and i need to post up tons of pictures. maybe i'll get to some of that this week? in the mean time you can read about a silly movie i saw last week.
friday i went up to cleveland to see "the room," a movie so bad it ends up being good. i'd seen bits and pieces of it between naps, and didn't think it was worth checking out because, well, what i saw sucked. the beauty is when you watch the whole thing. at first i wasn't too interested in it, but the more tarrah would tell me about it, the curiouser i got about it. yeah she owns the dvd, but i never got around to watching it. as it is, i'm behind on movies i know i'll like, hehee.
it's been getting this "rocky horror picture show" style following, complete with yelling at the screen and throwing things, thus why i wanted to sit in the back! we ended up sitting in the front, but noone threw anything so thats kinda good.
the short of things is tommy wiseau basically he wrote, produced, and starred in. noone bothered to tell him that it was a horrible movie with so much wrong with it, that it still got put out there. odd plot holes, unexplained people in the movie, weird quasi-symbolism, bad songs that seem like they're skipping, corny dialogue...the list goes on....
they toss around a football all through the movie in confined quarters and are at most 10 feet apart. i wanted to take a football to toss around, but being the non-athlete that i am, i don't own one. there is a scene where they toss around a football in tuxedos, so i wore my tuxedo shirt. i didn't think i'd get much use out of that shirt when i bought it last week for a wedding, but i guess i was wrong??
i'd hoped people would have gotten more into it, there were maybe 60 people there and a few were yelling things at the screen. tarrah says they get crazy in LA at screenings, but oh well maybe in the future clevelanders will be more into it. from the sounds of things, they are going to screen it semi-regularly at the cinemateque.
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