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"Sell out warning! Oh, hi Mark! Greg Sestero (aka Mark) swoops in to answer all the burning questions plaguing you about this cultish peak of cinematic bad/goodness. The Disaster Artist cannot prepare you for this full screen experience: the heckling, the encyclopedic megafan script recitals, the spoons …… "
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A event on Thursday 22nd May. The event starts at 19:00.
It's that time of year again - The Bristol Bad Film Club returns with the most infamous 'bad film' of all time on the biggest screen in the city... with one of its stars!
Greg Sestero is the co-star of cult film The Room and best-selling author of the ‘The Disaster Artist’, a memoir of his time as an aspiring actor in Hollywood, which led to his bizarre friendship with the mysterious and iconoclastic director of The Room, Tommy Wiseau.
The premise behind The Room is a simple one. It is the story of a banker named Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) who suspects that his fiancée Lisa may be sleeping with his best friend Mark (Greg Sestero).
However, surrounding this simple love triangle is a car-crash of cinematic head-scratching conundrums. Various subplots are introduced and then either ignored or not resolved (such as the fact Lisa’s mother is suffering from cancer), rooftop screens are done with awful green-screen effects, scenes are frequently out of focus and then there are the two awkwardly long and incredibly unerotic sex scenes (the latter of which simply reuses footage from the first).
The cult film, which is the result of Tommy Wiseau’s vision (as well as playing the lead, he wrote, directed and financed the movie), is a perfect storm of badness. It has become a worldwide phenomenon which has attracted an army of loyal followers and has continued to play to sold out audiences at midnight screenings all around the world.
If you’ve never seen The Room, you will have at least heard of it and you owe it to yourself to finally see what all the fuss is about – especially on the biggest screen in the city. Love it or hate it, you’ll never forget it.
The event will include a Q&A with Greg Sestero and exclusive footage from 'The Room Tribute' starring Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad).
https://bristolbadfilmclub.co.uk/
Entry requirements: 18+
Greg Sestero is the co-star of cult film The Room and best-selling author of the ‘The Disaster Artist’, a memoir of his time as an aspiring actor in Hollywood, which led to his bizarre friendship with the mysterious and iconoclastic director of The Room, Tommy Wiseau.
The premise behind The Room is a simple one. It is the story of a banker named Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) who suspects that his fiancée Lisa may be sleeping with his best friend Mark (Greg Sestero).
However, surrounding this simple love triangle is a car-crash of cinematic head-scratching conundrums. Various subplots are introduced and then either ignored or not resolved (such as the fact Lisa’s mother is suffering from cancer), rooftop screens are done with awful green-screen effects, scenes are frequently out of focus and then there are the two awkwardly long and incredibly unerotic sex scenes (the latter of which simply reuses footage from the first).
The cult film, which is the result of Tommy Wiseau’s vision (as well as playing the lead, he wrote, directed and financed the movie), is a perfect storm of badness. It has become a worldwide phenomenon which has attracted an army of loyal followers and has continued to play to sold out audiences at midnight screenings all around the world.
If you’ve never seen The Room, you will have at least heard of it and you owe it to yourself to finally see what all the fuss is about – especially on the biggest screen in the city. Love it or hate it, you’ll never forget it.
The event will include a Q&A with Greg Sestero and exclusive footage from 'The Room Tribute' starring Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad).
https://bristolbadfilmclub.co.uk/
Entry requirements: 18+
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