{"id":964,"date":"2017-08-23T21:29:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=964"},"modified":"2017-08-23T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T21:29:36","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-the-room-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;The Room&#8221; (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest heir to the throne of best\/worst movie <em>ever<\/em>, a Frisco banker (<em>Tommy Wiseau<\/em>) correctly (finally) suspects his floozy fianc\u00e9e of having an affair with his best bud! Concerned friends &amp; family try to talk sense into her but she\u2019s determined to \u201clive her own life\u201d no matter who gets bulldozed! This thing just goes into such a different dimension of badness it\u2019s like the characters are in a <em>Lynchian<\/em> hell-loop! Acting\u2019s abysmally stodgy, story elements come &amp; go unexplained, &amp; dialog turns downright non sequitur actually helping transform antagonist\u2019s comportment frightening! After all, she <em>is<\/em> a \u201csociopath\u201d as Wiseau\u2019s psychiatrist pal warns! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2009 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201cBest\/Worst Floozy!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/the_room.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-965 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/the_room-657x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/the_room-657x1024.jpg 657w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/the_room-192x300.jpg 192w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/the_room-768x1198.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/the_room.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"__DdeLink__6_58462244111\"><\/a> NOTE: If you like this original Motion Picture Purgatory artwork I have many, many more being offered as perks for sale on the crowdfunding page for my newest animated cartoon \u201cBuilding 108: Barnacle Bill the Tailor\u201d! Pick &amp; choose from the list provided in the campaign perks description section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/building-108-cartoon-animation#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAB Press<\/a>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest heir to the throne of best\/worst movie ever, a Frisco banker (Tommy Wiseau) correctly (finally) suspects his floozy fianc\u00e9e of having an affair with his best bud! Concerned friends &amp; family try to talk sense into her but she\u2019s determined to \u201clive her own life\u201d no matter who gets bulldozed! This thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}