I opt for the latter. Such an awesome crap-fest!

It definitely wasn't on purpose.. He had to save face. Although it's that bad you just can't help but love it and get a good laugh.

Not only did he think it was a solid effort, apparently Mr. Wiseau believed The Room to be Oscar-worthy...

James and Dave Franco tell Vanity Fair about The Disaster Artist

James Franco would like to get one thing straight about The Room, the famously bad Tommy Wiseau film the actor examines in the upcoming comedy The Disaster Artist.

“The Room is not the worst movie,” James Franco told Vanity Fair at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday. “It is the best worst movie. I think that is an important distinction. There are thousands upon thousands of movies that people never watch, and people are still watching this movie. I think the secret sauce of The Room is that Tommy put his heart and soul into it, and whether they recognize it or not, people feel that.”

Franco directs, produces, and stars in the film as Wiseau. And he cast his brother Dave Franco as The Room co-star Greg Sestero. Dave, who joined James for the interview, added, “With this, Tommy was trying to make an award-winning movie, and you feel that.”

“I mean, he kept it in theaters when it first came out for two weeks so that it could qualify for the Oscar,” James laughed. “So it shows you how he felt about this movie.”

James made it clear, however, that he is not as deluded about the quality of the 2003 film as his real-life counterpart.

“It cost $6 million to make . . . and it looks like it cost about $6,” he laughed. “There was an insane billboard in L.A. for like five years that [Wiseau] must have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars alone, and it is the scariest thing you’ve ever seen, with his lazy eye, like, staring at you. It looks like an ad for a cult. I saw that billboard and was like, ‘No thanks; whatever they’re selling, it’s not for me.’ But [the advertising] paid off, because [The Room] plays in almost every major city at least once a year. I think we worked it out that he must make half a million or a million dollars a year, or something like that.”

Tommie Wisseau was aiming for an Oscar nomination, in his mind. If there's any truth to the disaster artist, he was trying to make a good movie.

Unintentional. I'm convinced that people can differentiate between movies that are created to be bad and movies that are bad despite the best intentions of the filmmakers. There's no dishonesty in Plan 9, but it oozes from films like Birdemic.

@AlienFanatic said:

Unintentional. I'm convinced that people can differentiate between movies that are created to be bad and movies that are bad despite the best intentions of the filmmakers. There's no dishonesty in Plan 9, but it oozes from films like Birdemic.

Well Ed Wood did have a passion for filmmaking. He just wasnt very good at it. But still i kinda of have a lot of respect for someone trying do what they love. Even if its not the best at it. Still i find Plan 9 and Bride of the Monster too be very watchable.

Of course it wasn’t bad on purpose. You can even tell most of the actors in the movie didn’t realize how bad the movie was. Except that one guy receiving a BJ. He clearly knew lol.