Appreciation post: The time I watched 'The Room' at a dive bar in Cleveland

Last month at this rundown place on West 25th, they showed 'The Room' with a live audience tossing spoons at the screen. It turned a boring Tuesday into the most fun I've had watching a movie in years. Has anyone else found a bad movie night with a crowd makes even the worst film actually good?

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mila_murphy2129d ago

Took my buddy there last year for his birthday, thought it was just gonna be a normal movie night but people showed up with actual spoons from home and a cooler of beer. Someone started doing live commentary in a terrible Tommy Wiseau impression and by the end the whole bar was screaming "YOU ARE TEARING ME APART LISA" at the screen. I've never laughed so hard watching something so terrible. Makes you realize a bad movie is just a good time waiting to happen if you've got the right crowd.

clairen8529d ago

Hmm, not sure I buy that whole thing about bad movies being good times. @mila_murphy21, honestly it sounds less like a magical movie night and more like a chaotic mess where nobody could even hear the dialogue. Seems like people just want an excuse to drink and yell, not actually watch anything.

jamesroberts29d ago

Read something online about how these bad movie nights actually started as a way for small theaters to fill seats on slow nights. The spoon thing comes from that one scene in The Room where there's a framed picture of a spoon that makes no sense, so it turned into a tradition like Rocky Horror. Last time I went to one of these, some guy brought a whole set of measuring spoons and kept shouting measurements at the screen. Made me appreciate how a shared joke with strangers can turn a trainwreck into something you'd actually pay to see again.