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I was super excited to watch it and I wasn’t disappointed, but for entirely different reasons than I expected. The absolute absurdity of the film is genuinely h

I was super excited to watch it and I wasn’t disappointed, but for entirely different reasons than I expected. The absolute absurdity of the film is genuinely hilarious, I was stifling laughter for most of the runtime for how ridiculous the acting, situations or environments were. It’s like a high budget The Room.

toomanyrichies 2y ago
> It’s like a high budget The Room. Another commenter said something which made me think of "The Room" as well: > it seems like all the actors were given the stage notes to forget how to act, but in a way that only a skilled actor could For the longest time, I thought that Tommy Wiseau was some sort of Andy Kaufman-esque comedic genius, because how else could one director get so many things wrong, unless it was on purpose? Until now I really had no interest in seeing this movie. I mean, a character named "Wow Platinum"? Really? But you may have just convinced me to give it a shot.
- naruhodo 2y ago
  Based on someone with the last name Silver or Gold perhaps. Wow could be a alluding to a first name with connotations of wonder or surprise. For example, Aaron is a Hebrew name meaning "miraculous".
  - mola 2y ago
    Aaron(aharon) is indeed a Hebrew name, but it doesn't mean miraculous. If you really force it, it means tall(Ron) mountain(har). As opposed to a lot of other Hebrew names, it is not picked for some literal meaning but due to a biblical figure Aharon which was Moses's right hand man.
    - naruhodo 2y ago
      Ah. I took it from an online article about names with connotations of surprise. I thought they might know what they were talking about.
glimshe 2y ago
It is NOT a high budget The Room. It's not an amazing movie, but it has some very good parts. Makes me think of the concept behind that book "Javascript, the good parts". Once you take out the flat, and occasionally cringe, parts, there is a lot of good stuff to be seen (unlike Javascript!). The Room has no good parts - it's all terrible unintended humor.
philistine 2y ago
It's not like The Room. Tommy Wiseau wanted to be Marlon Brando, a serious actor in a serious drama. He just so happened to write the most embarrassingly revealing movie ever made. All his insecurities are laid bare on the screen, and they're presented so transparently that you can't help but laugh. Megalopolis is like a Neil Breen movie. A power fantasy with magical powers, with a cadre of power-hungry demagogues who must concede to the morality of the main character.

toomanyrichies 2y ago

> It’s like a high budget The Room. Another commenter said something which made me think of "The Room" as well: > it seems like all the actors were given the stage notes to forget how to act, but in a way that only a skilled actor could For the longest time, I thought that Tommy Wiseau was some sort of Andy Kaufman-esque comedic genius, because how else could one director get so many things wrong, unless it was on purpose? Until now I really had no interest in seeing this movie. I mean, a character named "Wow Platinum"? Really? But you may have just convinced me to give it a shot.

naruhodo 2y ago
Based on someone with the last name Silver or Gold perhaps. Wow could be a alluding to a first name with connotations of wonder or surprise. For example, Aaron is a Hebrew name meaning "miraculous".
- mola 2y ago
  Aaron(aharon) is indeed a Hebrew name, but it doesn't mean miraculous. If you really force it, it means tall(Ron) mountain(har). As opposed to a lot of other Hebrew names, it is not picked for some literal meaning but due to a biblical figure Aharon which was Moses's right hand man.
  - naruhodo 2y ago
    Ah. I took it from an online article about names with connotations of surprise. I thought they might know what they were talking about.

glimshe 2y ago

It is NOT a high budget The Room. It's not an amazing movie, but it has some very good parts. Makes me think of the concept behind that book "Javascript, the good parts". Once you take out the flat, and occasionally cringe, parts, there is a lot of good stuff to be seen (unlike Javascript!). The Room has no good parts - it's all terrible unintended humor.

philistine 2y ago

It's not like The Room. Tommy Wiseau wanted to be Marlon Brando, a serious actor in a serious drama. He just so happened to write the most embarrassingly revealing movie ever made. All his insecurities are laid bare on the screen, and they're presented so transparently that you can't help but laugh. Megalopolis is like a Neil Breen movie. A power fantasy with magical powers, with a cadre of power-hungry demagogues who must concede to the morality of the main character.