The Best and Worst From The Room’s First Nationwide Release

On Wednesday night, Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic, The Room, finally got a nationwide release. The film, known as “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”, was screened at over 500 theaters across the country, more than ten years after its initial release.

While this is the first wide-release, the film has been a cult classic for years and regularly is shown across the country at midnight screenings. These screenings, though, aren’t like any others. For instance, it’s commonplace for fans to throw spoons at the screen, and moviegoers regularly dress in costume to look like characters from The Room.

Here, we’ll take a look at how it all went down on Wednesday night (January 10th, 2018).

Worst:

• Apparently some venues weren’t aware of the rituals that are associated with The Room. Twitter is flooded with folks who outline the banning of spoons at certain theaters, complete with management giving them the business over their behavior.

• One guy took a date to the screening, a lady who obviously didn’t know what she was in for, only to have her bail halfway with a bogus excuse. Sorry, dude. (He stayed for the whole thing like a champ!)

Best:

• Fathom Events, the company that endorsed the wide-release, was totally in on the joke and added several additional features in addition to the actual film.

• Fans got to see the trailer for Tommy Wiseau’s next film — also starring Greg Sestero — Best F(r)iends.

• Sub-titles=genius. After all, there are some parts where you don’t know what the fuck Tommy is saying.