10 Awesome Films You’re Embarrassed To Have In Your Collection

3. The Room

Ah, the Citizen Kane of bad movies. There's no way that I'm ever getting rid of The Room, because I need to show it to my grand-nieces and grand-nephews. I need to sit them down and make them watch the folly of a rich man's hubris. That man is Tommy Wiseau, who has the dubious distinction of being not only one of the worst directors of all time, but one of the worst actors, too. I prefer not to think of Tommy Wiseau as a man of many talents, but a man of many things rolled into one. It's like somebody threw the hair and stilted speech of Ozzy Osborne, the face of an Easter Island statue, the fashion sense of a rejected boy band member, the delusion of Ed Wood, and the laugh of Mickey Doyle from Boardwalk Empire into a cauldron. And Tommy Wiseau was what rose up from the concoction. There is a strange beauty in something so terrible. Why play football in tuxedos? Why are you dealing drugs, Denny? Why are you TEARING JOHNNY APART, LISA?! Our children need to know that this happened. That even though we have landed a probe on Mars, built the Large Hadron Collider, and discovered Higg's Boson, we also lived in the era of The Room. There are some mysteries still beyond our reach.