10 Serious Movie Moments That Are Unintentionally Hilarious

8. The Entire Movie - The Room

It's impossible to pick just one unintentionally hilarious moment out of Tommy Wiseau's brilliantly terrible movie The Room, touted as "the Citizen Kane of bad movies". Though Wiseau has jumped on the bandwagon of ironic cult fandom the film has adopted, the wide belief is that Wiseau intended to make a serious, somber drama, yet stymied by the rickety production quality and his terrible acting, the result is something very different entirely.

So widespread is the film's popularity that Wiseau often attends sold out screenings across the world to meet fans. This is one film that truly lives up to the hilarious hype; pretty much every scene is stingingly funny, owed to Wiseau's ridiculous look and also his woeful line delivery, spoken not unlike someone unfamiliar with the English language, simply parroting an off-screen cue. Then there's the idiosyncrasy of the dialogue, too, such as a diner conversation which diverges to become one about his friend's sex life with no warning, and cancer sub-plots that end up going nowhere...

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