The Reel Rejects - THE ROOM (2003) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING

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Starting point is 00:01:37 this movie is weird I don't know but if you're ready I'm ready let's watch the room that movie oh do you all hear this music though right here do that the movie cue the sexy music He's over. Cue it, yeah. Cue it, yeah, yeah. Cue it, yeah, yeah. Okay, listen. Written by Tommy,

Starting point is 00:02:04 directed by Tommy Wise out. He's starting it. Okay, we get it. Now, I have to turn this down because the music is too distracting. You guys? That was ridiculousness. I now understand why.

Starting point is 00:02:19 There was a billboard. Like, obviously, Tommy, I don't know where he got his money from. Like, I want to, look it up to be like how did Tommy get rich rich enough to make this feature film and rich enough to have a billboard on sunset boulevard for legit i swear to you guys it was up there for like three to four years and there was um and a brent a billboard on sunset boulevard uh it's just like i guarantee you it's like it's like 20 000 a month plus he used to have screenings i remember that uh because i've been in

Starting point is 00:02:53 LA, too stinking long. It was when I first moved to L.A. And I remember seeing those billboards and them having screenings and me just looking at this weird billboard of like the room just going like, what is that? Like, what is this? And that is exactly what I think right now? Like, what was that? What is this? A God, I hope and I pray that Tommy and his brain was like, let's make it a bit of a satire. Let's try to not be good, not be believable. Don't speak from the heart or the gut. Don't be emotional when you're supposed to be emotional. Tommy Wazow Studios, Tommy's stage?

Starting point is 00:03:33 What? Does he have his own studio? Wissau films. How many films I, you guys, I'm losing my mind in like, this guy did some sort of life thing. This is like what I want for my life. my films would be good. That feels so mean, but you guys, this was obviously not good. Obviously not.

Starting point is 00:03:58 I didn't believe anyone in here. I'm so surprised that people were on set and people spoke and they were just like, yeah, that was good. Let's move on. There was also one shot where the camera adjusted during it and it was during Tommy's breakdown when he's like, how I met Lisa and I met her and my check didn't go because it was out of the state or whatever and the camera adjusted itself and I feel like they didn't that was the one take they had so they had to use it maybe I don't know you guys but okay let me collect let me collect my thoughts here

Starting point is 00:04:34 to also I'm so sorry I forgot to say if you're listening to this on apple or Spotify please give us a five star rating comment oh my god I can't like I legit want to talk to people about this film because I'm I'm losing it like it was the thing about it is is that I was fully engaged. I didn't get tired. I didn't yawn. It was just so bad that it was good and such a blast to watch. And I'm like, Tommy's really smart if he specifically made it bad, but I don't think he did. My favorite is when he comes out with a water bottle and he's like, I did not hit her. I did not hit her. I did not throw. Oh, hi, Mark. What? It's perfection. That's a comedy, you guys. This is performed like a sitcom slash soap opera,

Starting point is 00:05:26 except they didn't know that they were filming it like that. Like, I think they thought that it was good. I think they thought it was good. And that's what makes me feel bad. That's what makes me feel bad about, like, being like, it was bad. Because movies, guys, movies are really hard to make. They cost a lot of money in a lot of time. And obviously Tommy did well for himself.

Starting point is 00:05:47 I assume he just got loaded, moved to L.A. and was like, I have money to spend and I'm gonna make a feature film and I have enough money to have my face on a billboard sort of like, what's her name? Angeline. You know, Angeline with the pink Corvette around here in L.A.? Like she did the exact same thing.

Starting point is 00:06:06 And then you make a name for yourself and I'm like, I gotta look it up. I have to look it up. We have to share the juice. We have to find out like, okay, Tommy Weizau, American. Yeah, come on now. And filmmaker. Now, he's 68 right now. He's Polish. Okay. Now, it says he's known for writing, producing, starring in the 2003 room, the film, which has been described by many critics as one of the worst films ever made and has gained cult status because of it.

Starting point is 00:06:48 Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay, hold on. We got to go to Wikipedia and be like, how, okay, he, wait. And he created the 2015 sitcom The Neighbors, written and produced during Tommy, oh, okay, it's not The Neighbors I was thinking of because this is the poster. Please zoom in on this, editor's.

Starting point is 00:07:18 Like, oh, wait, I should put it here. Like, that is the poster. Oh, God, bless Tommy. Like, what did he do before? Like, what is he about? You guys, I'm trying to find it to be like, where did Tommy wazow? Okay, many details about his personal life, including his source of wealth, have remained unverified. And have been the subject of intense fan speculation in various conflicting reports.

Starting point is 00:07:48 Okay, there's been a nonfiction book called The Disaster Artist, My Life Inside the Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Cistero, as well as its 2017 film adaptation, Chronicle The Making of the Room and Wazow's Life behind the scenes, you guys, I have to watch that. Hold up. 2017 film adaptation, Chronicle the Making of the Room. You guys, we have got to watch that. I think that has to be my next solo reaction. What? Okay, so we don't know. He's very secretive, I guess, about his early life. He's claimed to have lived in France. He grew up in New Orleans. He gave an age indicating he'd be born in 69, but found out that Weizau was born much earlier than he claimed

Starting point is 00:08:48 mid to late 1950s, so he's lying about his age. In the 2016 documentary, room full of spoons, a long time associate of Wazau claims to have researched his background and concluded that he's Polish and originally from the city upon

Starting point is 00:09:03 Paznan and that he was born in 1955. Wow. Okay. Wow. Okay. This is just crazy. I just want to know where he got his money from. like so much. Here's one last thing I'll say. Was out to describe being wrongfully arrested following a drug raid at a hostel and being traumatized by his mistreatment by the French police, which led him

Starting point is 00:09:28 to the U.S. to live with an aunt and uncle in Chalmette. These claims have not been verified. Oh my God. Then he moved to San Francisco. You guys, he supposedly gained the nickname the Birdman for his bird toys. What? You guys, I can't. I'm going to fall into a hole. I mean, I will literally just fall into a hole being like, now I'm obsessed with time he was out and like, what is this guy?

Starting point is 00:09:59 You guys, okay, let's get back to the movie. He's a strange man who was from Poland, that he was mistreated by the police in a drug, in a drug hostel? Wow. So then maybe he was a drug, he was like drug cartel. and then they went and he escaped. He came U.S. drug money, baby. Heck yeah, that's probably what it was.

Starting point is 00:10:21 Drug money. And then he's like, let's make a movie. Oh my goodness. I love it. Everyone in this was not a good actor, but I appreciate them bringing it to the table. The one person I believe when they walked in was the mom. I believed her.

Starting point is 00:10:38 And then after a while, I was like, who is like directing this for them to be so stagnant? and the pacing to be so like off. It's just so like, I don't know, you guys. Oh, my God. And the fact that when they're on the roof and that they wrote in the bully with the gun that comes after Denny. He comes to the roof and it's like, it's out of nowhere. There's no, he's just like, I'm going to kill you.

Starting point is 00:11:06 And then all of a sudden, everyone who lives in the building decides to come to the roof to save him. it's like so ridiculous it's as if the script was written without that in there and he was like no soap operas have more drama we've got to add a bully with a gun it's got to be about drugs because that reminds me my life in Poland right he's bringing in all this stuff I guarantee you a girl cheated on him and he was like trap and then he was like I'm going to write about it right he's like ah he's hurting and then he's going to write about it he's going to write about right so maybe he's that's the French police, the bad bullies, the French police in the film. Denny, I don't know who Denny is to him in real life.

Starting point is 00:11:48 I'm thinking they're all come from real life. I bet you he dated a girl who cheated on him with his best friend. But I'm going to tell you right now, it might have been because you were in the drug cartel, maybe you weren't, but also because your hair, maybe it smelled. It looked a little nappy a couple times. Like, I think you got to, you got to bump up the showers and the brushing of the hair. maybe also so weird the way he speaks and I'm like is that how people in Poland at like with a Polish accent do they actually speak without emotion of like what are what do you think I love

Starting point is 00:12:28 you Lisa what did he say and he said um what he say he's like I'm tired of this world tired of this world like he when he pulls his hands down it's as if he saw when he was a child a movie where someone gets angry and he's like let me try to replicate it but he looks like he looks like a kind of like a child who's having a tantrum and I don't believe that he's an adult Lisa I love you I love you why are you doing this I'm like wait is he Is he actually like that? Like when he gets emotional, does he speak and do that? Because I do not believe him.

Starting point is 00:13:13 I don't believe him, but it made for great entertainment. I did not hit her. I did not. I did not. Oh, hi, Mark. That is perfected to me. That will live on in infamy. I want to walk into a room.

Starting point is 00:13:32 You guys, on reactions, I'm going to walk up in here and be like, I did not hit her. I did not. I did not. Oh, hi, Reject Nation. Oh, it's so good, you guys. Okay, what else? Hold on. Let me, let me connect my thoughts so I can, like, speak about this more. There was a combo of, like, the sexy scenes. It was obviously, like I said this during it, the dolly shots in it were reminding me very much of music videos shot, like, back in the day with, like, the cross dissolves. and the freaking, what do you call it, like the mosquito sheets hanging down from the bed. I'm like, people don't really do that anymore. That was such an early 2000s thing where people thought that was like cool and sexy. All right, re-eject nation, let's get real for a moment.

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Starting point is 00:16:06 remember he he picks up the red roses not once but twice he he sprinkles them on her and then during the second love scene there's a whole song about red roses like i'm pretty sure the song is named red roses so he had a thing with red roses and his girlfriend i i swear to god this is all pulled from real life like because if he if he was literally sitting down writing this and thought like this is the most amazing script I've ever written I get why he had to be the one to produce it and put the money into it that sounds so mean but you guys get what I'm saying okay like come on um wow I just okay let me think about let me think about what else I'm just I'm sort of like I get I get why it's a cult classic.

Starting point is 00:16:55 I'm fan-girling a little bit over the room. I would love to order a t-shirt. This is why this, I, this is why this movie has worked. It is, yes, one of the worst films ever made. And right now me watching it, it was so much fun, so much fun to poke on. I would have hated, imagine if I had, if I had gone to one of those screenings and I'm just this like little 20-year-old girl sitting in a theater and I thought like that I would have to laugh or feel bad realistically while watching this? Because I guarantee you Tommy went to every one of

Starting point is 00:17:28 those screenings. He was probably in the back and he probably had a Q&A and was like, hello, I'm Tommy Wiesel. This is my film and I'm so glad to have you watch the room. It means a lot to me. That was bad. I know that was bad. That was a bad representation of him, but you guys get it. It would be so awkward and I guarantee you, this was his, this is his like, this is his golden trophy. This This is his, like, legacy that he is leaving behind is the room. And it's named the worst movie of all time. Oh, I feel bad for Tommy because I'm like, Tommy, you knew it was bad, right? Like, you knew, you knew it was going to be, right?

Starting point is 00:18:10 You got, you had to have known a little bit that it was bad. So hopefully he didn't get too sad. Hopefully you didn't get too sad. And then, but then, I'm like, but then you won. It became a cult classic. Like people then become obsessed with it, which is now it's making sense in my brain why that billboard was up on Sunset Boulevard for so long. He had to have made money off of this film. Like it had to have been so bad that it's good that then for years in L.A., people were like, you have to go see the room and just go and have fun with friends.

Starting point is 00:18:41 It's so terrible and just go and laugh and have a good time because that's what this movie would be. I would love it if we could be in a theater where you would be allowed to. I don't know. Talking would be annoying because you're not supposed to talk in the theater. Never. And don't take your phone out. Shoo-shu. But in this, it would be fun if you could have like, oh, how would I set this up? I would set it up where it's like two friends and then you have like six seat spaces, a space of six seats. And then two more friends in space. And then you space it out so that everyone can make fun of and talk about the movie. But it's not like a cacophony because then you wouldn't be able to hear them. movie right because it's just every second you want to be like what what like they're mad and they want to they're slap each other and then immediately they're like oh we're good man it's all right man we're good like within one second within one second he read how to save the cat or whatever that save the cat script is book i've never read it but i guarantee you he was like methodical he's like there's got to be conflict. It's got to happen quick. Let's make it like a soap opera. Oh, man.

Starting point is 00:19:57 Oh, what else? What else can I like think about right now? I love that he was so weird during that fight at the end when she was leaving that they got a pickup of her hand going in the bag to pack and then he grabs it. Normally that shot would mean to me that she was grabbing something she wanted to hide. But no, Tommy was just like, we have to grab it. So. that we know, so that I grab her hand and it makes it serious. And so we also know that she's definitely leaving. Um, I do, the ending is so sad. It's so sad because I'm like, oh, man. And of course, that they're both, they're both crying over his body at the end. And, and then the guy, what is his name? Mark? Mark is like, I don't want you anymore. You can.

Starting point is 00:20:50 killed him. It's so classic soap opera. I love it. Because once you start playing that game of like establish it in the beginning, which they did, people just are like, no, I know, you're right, mom. I should stay with him. But I don't love him anymore. Like that's how the script was written like within one set and she would change her mind. That now when they change their mind at the very end, you're like, yes, this totally works. With everything that this script has been doing from the beginning, they're doing it till the end. So, so pop. and and it just it made it work in a weird way because it just goes yeah he was he was doing that weird writing the whole time especially at the party when when they get in that fight

Starting point is 00:21:33 him him when johnny and mark getting the fight and then he's like i got to go cool off johnny goes outside and then the next shot is what's her nuts and mark like slow dancing together and then of course johnny has to come up again and then what We have like another conflict and then we have a bigger fight. Oh, man. I just, I just love it. I just like, honestly right now, it was so terrible and I can't stop talking about it. It was so bad.

Starting point is 00:22:06 And I can't stop going like, that was so good because it was so bad. I love it. And I also am glad that Tommy is still alive. He's 63, apparently according to Wikipedia. But I'm like, wait, if he was born in 1950, he would actually be like 84. Ah! Whatever, if you're 63 or if you're 84, because you probably lied about your age. Because in this movie, he looks like he's 50.

Starting point is 00:22:35 He probably was like, I'm 28. And I'm like, honey, no. But good job on you, Tommy, for keeping him in shape because he was like, I'm going to do a feature film. And he did some, he did some ab work. He had some abs going on, some pecks. He had some muscles going on, right? He looked good for being 50. Maybe he was 40.

Starting point is 00:22:56 I don't know. He looked good, okay? Everybody in the movie was, like, was pretty. The girl was pretty. Mark is real cute, too. I feel like nobody can really come back from this movie except for maybe Mark because he's so handsome that people, I think, like maybe if he's actually a good actor, I was kind of looking at his face thinking, I feel like he works now, but it could be totally wrong about that.

Starting point is 00:23:24 Everyone else, I'm like, no, there's no way you can work after this. You just can't because people are going to be like, you're terrible. Like, I would never hire you unless I was like, you knew you were making a bad movie and that's how you were directed and you knew it was bad the whole time, right? Like there's been some movies that I was in. I'm not naming names. That the dialogue I know is bad. I'm getting hired as a lead actor to carry this film. I don't have any say in the words that I'm saying, I'm not a name, so I can't be walking in like Brad Pitt being like, I'm not going to say these words, right? I have to make shitty dialogue believable. The thing is, in this movie, they made shitty dialogue, still shitty. Still not believable. They just, and I think

Starting point is 00:24:09 that in the movies that I've done that are, they're not like terrible, but the scripts aren't great. There's stuff that I'm like, why didn't they do this or this? Could have made it so much better um but i still think that when i came at it when i when i would say the lines and i'm there on set that i make it as believable as i can even though the crap coming out of my mouth the writing could be a lot better but they hey they say casting directors say that if you can make shitty dialogue good then you're a good actor and i think i've done that multiple times with some bigger movies that um again i shall not name um but That's a reason also why I made Prime of Your Life.

Starting point is 00:24:50 It's a short film of mine. All my short films you guys know are on my YouTube channel. Just look up Tara Erickson. I'm all over the place online. But why I made Prime of Your Life was a little bit like I wanted to make a film. I was entertaining. But I also wanted to just show the side of like my life realistically what it's like to be an actor. And how, yes, if you're a struggling actor where it's like, if you're not a name, you're a struggling actor.

Starting point is 00:25:14 Period. Even if you work a lot and you can pay your rent by acting, which, yes, I've done that many months, sometimes many years. Lately it hasn't been as great, but it goes up and down where I'll book a lot of commercials or something. And lately for the last few years, the business has just been poopy. But I always want to stay creative and make short films. And that's why I made Premier Life to basically just display kind of what it's like day to day to be a struggling actor. but I wanted to make it funny and entertaining. And it's not the best short film out there,

Starting point is 00:25:47 but I do think that at least the two characters that are in it, which is me and my other friend Blaine Weaver, who played Peter Pan, so you can look up Prime Your Life. He's great. He's great actor. We're believable in it. And I think what makes, like, the room so great is that no one was believable.

Starting point is 00:26:05 Like, and once you start with one person not being believable, and if everybody else was kind of, wouldn't have been a cult classic. It's because everyone is terrible? I feel so mean saying that, but it's true because everyone was bad and not believable, it made it a cult classic. It's almost like they made a satire without knowing it.

Starting point is 00:26:28 And I love that about this movie. I want to find, can you guys please send me a t-shirt of the room? Does the real reject have a peel box? They have to, right? Because I don't. can someone please send me a t-shirt of the room i guarantee you it's going to i bet you Tommy's up there and he's like $120 like i bet you he's trying to sell i'm like i want a t-shirt that just says the

Starting point is 00:26:51 room with his face on it because that's what i think the poster looks like because i saw that when i clicked on the movie to play it ah you guys the room it's going to haunt my nightmares it's going to hot my dreams oh god what if i start dreaming about Tommy was out that's going to be terrible hope I don't. What if this makes me want to make bad movies just to get a cold classic film made? I could never do it. You guys, I don't even, I would literally have to act like a robot to be a bad actor. That sounds bad. And not everything I've done has been great. But I do think there's a little touch of believability in it, okay? And I really think a lot of these people are like, why would you do that, Mark? I don't love him, mom. Like that's, I have to focus and make

Starting point is 00:27:37 that bad. Okay, that takes a lot of focus, y'all. Oh, I can't. I love this movie. I just, honestly, just for me, I want to be like, I give it, I give it, I need to give it two ratings. I give it one star for agreeing that it's the worst film ever made and also five stars for being the most, like, fun disaster of a movie to watch. Like, that was so, fun. I would want to have a screening party with friends to be like, we're going to watch the room and make fun of it. It's terrible. Like, how did they not see how bad it was when they were making it? But then maybe they did, and maybe they're way smarter than us. I don't know. I think that's, I think I've talked for a while. I think I've talked too long. This was my,

Starting point is 00:28:26 this is such a great first solo reaction. I please you guys share the crap out of this. I would really love the support. I want to keep doing solo reactions on here and hanging out with you guys. make sure that you like this and then comment comment all your comments i want to see them you guys i'll be i'll be i need to be on the comments in this video like when it comes out because i just want to share with you guys and see what the fudge you guys think about this like oh my god i can't i can't get over it i don't even know what else to say except that was a lot of fun i'm glad i got to watch it with you guys um share it make this make this go viral you guys let's make Let's make this reaction of the room go viral so that we can also be part of like the cult classic.

Starting point is 00:29:12 But then they'll be like, oh, but she realizes it's bad. But she's having a good time. Like I would label this movie a blasterooney. I really would. And that's, I think, all I got to say. I think that's it, you guys. I love you so much. Thanks for being here with me and supporting me on my first solo reaction.

Starting point is 00:29:32 I love you, Citizens of the Rejagnation. And I will see you. on the next one. Bye.

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The Reel Rejects - THE ROOM (2003) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING

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