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The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This is a vey enjoyable, well made movie about unbelievably real events in the Hollywood movie industry. James Franco did an amazing job playing Tommy Wiseau, a guy I could hardly believe existed for real.The baggy, ill-fitting, clothes, the weird accent, the long, black hair are reproduced to perfection, as are some of the scenes from the infamous "The Room" that roll with the end credits.Even if I don't live in the USA and the "The Room" never reached European screens, I could see bits and pieces online and I found them hilarious. I was therefore intrigued by this biography. But even if you are not familiar with the source material, this movie is thoroughly enjoyable.

This film has only a fraction of the charm of Tim Burton's endearing testimonial to Ed Wood and epitaph to Bela Lugosi. Instead we get mainly plain weird. There were funny moments, but not the sort of rolling in the aisle funny. This is certainly a rare case of 'it would be helpful to read a review beforehand' so that you realise it's actually a film about the making of a weird film (that has somehow become a cult work), plus a bit of backstory, and don't take it entirely at face value (which I did for most of the film and would've rated it lower in consequence). So it's worth a watch but is unlikely to be remembered, except perhaps in a bad joke sort of way.i think the essential difference between this and Ed Wood - and it makes all the difference imho - is that the latter was always working against adversity and lack of funding, which actually inspired a lot of innovation (even if much of it came across as tacky and amateurish). In contast, Wiseau has a secret bottomless fund that means he can bankroll his own film and keep changing personnel on a whim. The only suspense if whether everybody else will be able to put up with him long enough to get the film finished, and I dare say the regular cheques helped a lot in that process.

If you haven't watch The Room, then don't watch The Disaster Artist. It is a prerequisite and will help you understand the masterpiece of James Franco's mind. It might also help you understand Tommy Wiseau (the creator of The Room).There isn't much to say and The Disaster Artist. They nailed it.

I'm reading some very confused reviews here. Yes, the movie is a dramatized portrayal of the relationship between Tommy W and Greg Sistero and their work together on the infamous 'the Room', but all of the behind the scenes depictions and buildup to the actual film are inspired by Greg Sistero's 'The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made', his ***BEST-SELLING*** BOOK of the same name. I've just scrolled through like 20 reviews that say something to the effect of " why make a movie about a bad movie I've never heard of?!" Well, person with no attention span or access to an internet search engine, that's the whole point of the book, and the Disaster Artist film. The book is an insiders look at the mysterious and confounding figure of Tommy Wiseau, and a telling of why and how he became one of the most improbable success stories of Hollywood. No one just sees a bad movie and goes "hey let's make a movie about this bad movie that no one knows about." 'The Room' has inspired a legion of cult film fans to further explore it's mysterious director/star, Tommy Wiseau. The co-star of the film, Greg Sistero, wrote a book called 'The Disaster Artist' loaded with anecdotes about the mysterious director and his relationship to him, many of which were just as confounding and hilarious as 'the Room', and at times heartbreaking and tragic. It's a great true story, THAT'S why this movie was made. That being said, I found the 'disaster artist' film to be kind of a hollow disappointment compared to it's source material. The liberties taken in the movie do more to hurt and weaken the story than flesh it out. I won't compare the two in detail because you should just read it for yourself (it's a very entertaining book), but I will say that I find it ironic that a story about two aspiring Hollywood scrubs trying to make it in the entertainment world got such a shallow Hollywood treatment. I'm not surprised, just disappointed. 6/10