The Room Thawtz

So I got my instafart card activated. I'll be getting back into that soon. I'll do it mad lazy, just kinda lazy my way through it and not give it everything I got. I'm not going to bust my balls for these ungrateful lazy people who can't be bothered to do their own grocery shopping. Deal with it.

Discovered the Room. What is the Room? It's a bad movie, like the most unbelievably awkward film ever made. And it is. It's truly a hard thing to describe. Both fascinating in its style and awfulness at the same time.

I want to go see it live and support it, but I can't. I'm poor. Maybe some day.

It's a movie that's right up my alley though. I loved bad movies. I mean, that's what I always found fun to watch, movies that were not having their own heads up their asses and were kinda weird and fun.

I loved street fighter the movie back in the old days if that tells you anything. When I rented that movie, I was so happy to finally get a street fighter movie, yaaaaaay. Good LORD.

Other bad movies I liked despite them being garbage, super mario bros movie although I personally think it's genius, Howard the Duck was good if batshit, but biggest bad movie i loved was He-Man. Wow, that one really is a masterpiece of fail. Countless others. My point is I liked the awkward bad stuff that most avoided. And I was all about the old stuff, like anything looney tunes, disney, whatever, ate up the classics, one thing I loved watching too was the little rascals, stooges, I'm telling you that's the only thing good about my childhood my parents kept tons of old vhs tapes of classic classic WEIRD stuff.

 But anyway, lot of the movies I love personally and mean something deep to me are straight up hated online without mercy. Such is the internet. It's a hyperbole fest. I'd hope people don't take it seriously, but then I did exactly that years ago and it had a serious impact on my young brain and life back then. If you're at all wondering why I have an indifferent attitude about online life, that's the reason. I wish I was one of those guys who didn't let shit get to him at all and just bulldozed through his day unconcerned with people's bullshit. That's essential if you want to survive this mess called the internet.

There's a few things that don't exist here on the internet:

Imagination.

Reasonability/Open-mindedness

Sad to realize that's how this beast works. People don't let go of their own biased views and steadfastly reject any notion of a new idea or new perspective. It's the saddest thing. But yeah. If some random douche bag tells you what to think, that's the way it is, it's written in stone and wow, how pathetic do you have to be to wake up in the morning and boot up your computer just to play mini-hitler online even though you're Bob the gas station guy or some shit.

Do. Not.  Let. This. Thing. Get. To. You.

I've been watching tons of reviewers and stuff on youtube. For the most part, I'm siding with their views. They're not too bad. Some of them are retarded and hyperbolic and just out for clicks. It's a clickbait scam, that's what youtube has become. Used to be just upload a vid you think is cool so you can show it off. After monetizing youtube, it's CHECK OUT THIS CRAZY THING! Clickbait fest. Oh fuck, that's bad how it's full of vultures trying to get an e-check.

The net used to be a place where you actually just chilled out and relaxed not worried about f'n getting scammed by masters of the clickbait vid. Sucks how far it's declined.

Anyway my point is that like twice reviewer channels I thought were cool took a shot at superman returns as if it was this abomination of film making. I'm so done with superman returns, yeah, that whole fury and crazyness that happened over that film is long gone and far away from me now, but can't believe some of the animosity towards it lingers and there's still people that are trying to shape history's perception of it as if it was some total failure. Cuz they say it is. Sure it's no Catwoman, that's for sure. Boy that movie kicks superman return's ass. That's the kinda shade the film's getting and it's pathetic shit.

I mean, the movie was just good, a strange ass movie conceptually but there's so much art and majesty and reverence for superman in it. Such PASSION for superman in it. Then you go online and see reviewers shitting on it as if it was complete trash.

You know what's trash. Avengers. All the Marvel Garbage, all of it. Superman Returns is better than all of them combined.

That's what the shitty reviewer channels on youtube do. They cater to popular opinion, not their own personal views.

Only channels that actually have thoughtful unbiased, decent heartfelt meaningful reviews of films are the redlettermedia guys and Ralph the movie maker. Stuckman started as this, then he blew up and went corporate with his channel. I haven't watched him in years and I think I'm over him although he started well. He's become what he used to kinda counter against. How sad.

Overall and to conclude this. There's something called imagination. That's the best word for it I can think of, although there may be others. Maybe when you get older you lose the ability to make a movie work despite itself. Imagine that it's more than what it is on a more reality based level.

Ah I have the word I was looking for now. FAITH. This is what people online don't have, that faith in a film, ability to believe in its story beyond the outside world's influence or people's biased opinions on it.

I'll use batman and Robin as an example. It's actually a great batman comic book come to life. Has anyone EVER read a batman comic? They're batshit, pun meant. If I want to watch a fun ass batman movie, there it goes. Is it missing a lot of what it could have been, sure, but the soul of the batman comic is in tact and perfectly there. Batman's struggle is still there. All the core stuff is still there. I NEVER outright hated the film except for its botching Mr. Freeze. Other than that, it's played straight and works. Go online, and it gets destroyed without anyone giving it a chance. And that's how the net works, just has no common sense or anything.

It's stupid.... oh well. Shit. I forgot this post was about The Room. To put it briefly. I view the Room the same way. It's got a good heart, it's got some merit to it. I'm not blindly looking down on it and I understand why it is a phenomenon to people. I however don't feel like it's MY phenomenon. If I discovered it on tv one lazy day like I did Last Dragon, I'd feel it belonged to me. But I don't. I saw all the little videos on youtube about this thing called "the room" I ignored all of it. It wasn't until I read an article on gizmodo about the disaster artist that I discovered exactly WHY that gif of that guy walking out of the shed was all over ytmnd for years, and it's so cool. I do appreciate what people have been hugely into for so long and want to be a part of it. But I'm not going to get too involved or anything. I guess I'm getting too old. The Room though is something I wish I discovered years earlier, would be a treat to have felt about it like I do Last Dragon and other old weird films I discovered on tv and at the video store.

But overall the point stands, there's movies that are to me getting way too much crap online despite not really being the end of the known universe...