Bad Movie Lovers Rejoice: We have a new Tommy Wiseau

yikes so amateurish.....no way.

This trailer was good.

Good in what way?

I'm only sorry that I was not the first to discover this obstreperous atrocity. Truly awful!

Years & years ago I watched Contadora is for Lovers (horrible title), the movie was so bad, laugh out loud funny in only the serious parts, I thought the director couldn’t possibly be serious or even semi-successful. Proved wrong on both counts?!?

Wow... I thought you were exaggerating, OP. That looks amazingly awful

I just saw that movie recently r5. The gay movie Beatific Vision sounds better than movie posted at the OP.

Obviously a comedy, a really really bad one but "The Room" was supposed to be deadly serious.

Oh wow. That trailer made me blush.

This movie cannot premiere before movie theaters reopen -- if ever a film was made for enjoying communal mockery, this is it!

What's so brilliant (I looked at a couple of Gehan Cooray's other clips at OP's link) is that all his supporting players effortlessly out-act him in every scene because, you know, they can actually act. Or maybe they just haven't been let in on the joke? It's hard to tell.

The other fascinating thing revealed in those clips is that apparently he's actually had some classical singing training -- his voice might land him an Off-Broadway role, if he could act. I just assumed that he'd used someone else's voice for the Billionaire movie because the dubbing in those snippets is SO bad that you'd never believe he was actually singing at all.

Whenever the movie comes out, I'm going to celebrate it by getting drunk and viewing it with some friends.

Well, thanks, OP -- I've now gone down a Gehan Cooray rabbit hole, and swiftly found this totally legit and not-at-all PR-created paean to his "multi-hyphenate" prowess in the internationally renowned Lanka Business News.

Now I really can't wait to see the film.

Yikes that was so bad - that acting reminded me of a high-school play.

The original play is an odd mix of political point-making and rather flat broad humour.

At that link at r11 it lists Cooray's accomplishments, and then says, "prompting Marc Cherry, the creator of hit TV series Desperate Housewives, to refer to Gehan as a 'multi-hypenate.'"

But it doesn't say multi-hypenate what. In that nasty queen Cherry's mouth multi-hypenate sounds like a true insult.

Thank you, OP! I couldn’t believe how incredibly terrible that was.

That was utterly dreadful! 😆 I still kinda want to see it, though.

[quote] What's so brilliant (I looked at a couple of Gehan Cooray's other clips at OP's link) is that all his supporting players effortlessly out-act him in every scene because, you know, they can actually act. Or maybe they just haven't been let in on the joke? It's hard to tell.

It's true. And none of them are terribly wonderful actors, but they mop up the floor with him. I kept watching the movie so that more actors would come along, since the first scene is just him and the attorney and it goes on forever (and feels even longer), because I was curious if much of the cast was as incompetent as Cooray. They are not. Then I kept watching because I was marveling at the fact that all these actors could keep a straight face during his performance. I can just imagine what the holding area must have been like.

Again, I cannot believe that AMPAS put this on their streaming app without proof of a release date. They even listed it in their films eligible for Best Picture guide. I wish I could share it with all of you, but I'm not jeopardizing membership. God, I hope this gets some kind of release. I imagine it will. Anyone with this kind of ego and totally skewed sense of his own abilities would never deprive the world of his multi-hyphenateness.

At first I thought he must be camping it up and playing things for laughs. Then it became clear that he was deadly serious and also one of the worst actors to ever appear on film. I so want to see this.

It was so bad it was entertaining. Thanks for the link, OP!

That trailer was kind of funny. I'd watch it. And the guy in the cap was cute.

Holy shit! Did any other current (or in my case, reformed) soap fans notice Heather Tom (Vicki Newman, Katie Logan) toward the end? She has like 5 Emmys and this is the best she can do?

The trailer is dreadful, but how did reasonably talented actors end up involved?

Oh my God. I need to see this AND have Brendad Ickson on the red carpet for the premiere.

[quote]With a panache reminiscent of Old Hollywood and the grand acting styles of such stars as Bette Davis and John Barrymore, director Michael Philip visualizes the production with a deft feel for the complex characters, while he catapults it with breakneck speed, recalling the romantic movie comedies of the 1930s.

[quote]“I would be ecstatic if both the Hollywood film industry, and a broader global audience at large, could regard THE BILLIONAIRE as the 21st century equivalent of classic Hollywood films like My Fair Lady, All About Eve, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, while also appreciating my themes of diversity and inclusion,” Cooray says.

MARY!

I couldn't possibly muster up an opinion about that horror show of a trailer until he leaks his nudes.

His dick will be the deciding factor.

I feel like this could be the West 40s of 2021.

OMG, has anyone checked Mark Sam Rosenthal's purchase history for shoe polish???

South Asians will go through any lengths to get a whiff of white dick...even spend millions writing and producing their own projects.

I can’t even come up with words to describe the feelings that trailer stirred up in me. Despair, perhaps.

The lead reminds me of C. Thomas Howell's character from Soul Man

[quote] South Asians will go through any lengths to get a whiff of white dick...

I can confirm r27 is correct.

I don't understand. How can he be gay and asexual?

Where can I watch this in full?

India has declared him an Untouchable.

[quote] India has declared him an Untouchable.

So has WeHo.

OP/ r17, do you know any way we could view this movie? I think it has the makings of the ultimate DL classic.

In fact, we should organize a virtual DL viewing party, with live commentary on its own thread. It will be a must-see, and part of the DL entry exam for newcomers.

I agree with R34. A watch party with Prosecco and compulsory caftans should be a rite of passage.

I thought Sam Mraovich was Tommy Wiseau of gay-themed movies.

omg was there ever a more un woke movie than Soul Man? i wanna see it now !!! and often!!!

[quote]I thought Sam Mraovich was Tommy Wiseau of gay-themed movies.

Yes. This looks bad, but not Ben & Arthur bad.

For starters, it looks competently filmed, no matter how bad the acting is.

It looks like shit.

[quote] For starters, it looks competently filmed, no matter how bad the acting is.

It's not.

It looks like it was filmed with professional equipment and on actual locations.

Ben and Arthur was shot on videotape, and had some sets that were literally made of cardboard.

I can't wait for a blu-ray of this!

Fuck, I feel like this is what it would look like if I tried to star in a film

The acting reminds me of the trans performers on Pose. Very bad and camp

Trannys are so busy pretending to be the opposite sex (badly), they have no more to play an actual character.

Did anything happen with this movie? I still desperately want to see it.

Who's the bearded hottie in the cap?

Could it be intentional camp?