Tommy Wiseau wrote, directed, and financed "The Room" back in 2003, a film so bad that it has transcended genres and is now known as a cinematic cult artifact. The film was so fascinatingly inept that it seemed too good to be true. Were Wiseau's intentions genuine? Did he really set out to make a good movie? The answer, as we’ve learned over the years, was a resounding yes.
If you have a Netflix subscription, you can catch James Franco’s excellent “The Disaster Artist,” now available to stream on the platform, which is a fictional recreation of how Wiseau came to make “The Room.” However, don’t expect “The Room” to stream on Netflix anytime soon. According to Wiseau, the streaming giant doesn’t want to showcase the disasterpiece.
On social media, when asked if Netflix plans to stream “The Room,” Wiseau's reply was short and sweet, he simply tweeted, “Netflix said no.”
Fine, the dialogue in “The Room” was akin to a third-grader writing a screenplay, the performances were wooden, and the sex scenes were some of the most howlingly funny in cinematic history. But showcasing this movie for the entire world to see at the tip of their fingertips would be a fascinating social experiment. Hell, maybe the film could be very popular on the platform, who knows, especially with social media now driving a lot of what people watch and don’t watch on streaming sites.