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I don't think he realized it was a B movie plot. He kept insisting that it would "make a million dollars."
If it had been evangelical Christian slop, I'm sure the owners would have gone for it sight unseen. "Jesus sacrifices himself to stop the buffalo at the end" = instant greenlight with those absolute dinguses.
Making a million dollars is about a B movie level of profit. The best bad movies are fueled by someone who thinks theyre making something amazing as well. I bet if someone else did a second pass on the script and made it less of an explicit ripoff there would be something there if not for the practical issue of having a buffalo be the shark. Jaws famously works partially due to how little you see the shark, buffalo live on land and cant freely hide beneath it. Theyre also a herd animal, which you could work into the movie like this buffalo is so fucked the herd wants nothing to do with it, but a bigass animal that tends to live on flat plains doesnt lend itself to suspense. Then there's making a fake buffalo not look fake
The original intention was that we’d see the shark a whole bunch; they built a complicated animatronic shark rig to feature heavily in the scenes. Problem was, mixing all those mechanical parts, hydraulics, and electronics with salt water resulted in an animatronic shark that broke down constantly. So they switched to having the shark only in fleeting moments as a matter of necessity.
That is exactly why The Room is considered to be the best bad movie of all time. It wasn't made by a hack just throwing something together for a quick buck, nor was it someone trying to make a bad movie, but they have to be a bit too self aware. It was genuinely a passion piece made by a guy who only has a vague idea how filmmaking works.
That isnt rare for good bad movies at all. The Room just happened to break through. Im disappointed at the hype it has when stuff like Miami Connection, Raw Force, Kill Point, Deadly Prey, Samurai Cop, Hard Ticket to Hawaii and more are just like...so much more goodbad. Neil Breen crushes Tommy Wiseau as a weird guy who makes movies and he has made a few