So I watched 'The Room' in a sold-out theater in Austin last weekend and it was a whole different experience

I've seen that movie at home like 5 times by myself and it was funny and all but nothing prepared me for watching it with 300 people yelling at the screen. Everyone threw plastic spoons during the spoon scene and some guy in the front row kept yelling 'you're tearing me apart Lisa!' at random moments. Has anyone else done a midnight screening of a bad movie and felt like it totally unlocked a new level of appreciation for how awful it is?

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king.val1mo ago

Oh man did your friend ever do one of those? My buddy Mark dragged me to a showing of Birdemic in some dive theater in Dallas. Place smelled like old popcorn and sadness but when the eagles started dive bombing people the whole place lost it. Someone threw a cardboard cutout of a tree across the room and a girl started spraying a water bottle at the screen during the rain scene. It was chaos. He still talks about it years later like it was a religious experience.

jamie8041mo ago

Birdemic sounds like the kind of bad that turns into something special. Can't beat a crowd that's all in on the joke.

gray_morgan1mo ago

Roll with it and bring extra spoons if you ever go again - learned that one the hard way. @jamie804 is spot on, the whole crowd being in on the joke turns a so-bad-it's-good movie into a full on experience. Try to grab a ticket for a showing that's already got a cult following, it makes a huge difference.