Synopsis
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An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
2017 Directed by James Franco
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
James Franco Dave Franco Ari Graynor Seth Rogen Paul Scheer Josh Hutcherson Jacki Weaver Nathan Fielder Jason Mantzoukas June Diane Raphael Alison Brie Zac Efron Hannibal Buress Megan Mullally Judd Apatow Melanie Griffith Andrew Santino Joe Mande Sharon Stone John Early Charlyne Yi Jessie Ennis Peter Gilroy Lauren Ash Karen Macarah Sugar Lyn Beard Bob Odenkirk Brian Huskey Megan Ferguson Show All…
James Franco Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg Vince Jolivette James Weaver Jonathan Watson Ryan Moody Ashleigh Erwin
Roy Lee Toby Emmerich Joseph Drake Nathan Kahane Kelli Konop Richard Brener Scott Neustadter Michael H. Weber Hans Ritter John Powers Middleton Michael Disco Alex McAtee Erin Westerman David Neustadter
New Line Cinema Rabbit Bandini Productions Point Grey Pictures Good Universe RatPac Entertainment Ramona Films
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i think the biggest reason this concept doesn’t work for me at all is because this movie tries to show us the “real tommy” behind the scenes and what he was thinking and feeling, when in reality he is a complete enigma and to assume anyone knows the first thing about him is foolish
this movie is a gift to the world. a true mitzvah. "a pure good," to quote Ben Kingsley in Schindler's List (as I do on the regular).
James Franco's performance as Tommy Wiseau is so good that Daniel Day-Lewis had to retire out of shame. i look forwards to pushing him for major acting awards all season long.
i have *no* idea how this will play for those who are unfamiliar with THE ROOM, but for me… this was heaven.
WHEN THEY DID THE SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON OF THE ORIGINAL THE ROOM AND JAMES FRANCO’S VERSION AT THE END I FELT LIKE I WAS HAVING A FEVER DREAM. U’VE NEVER EXPERIENCED SURREALISM UNTIL U’VE SEEN TOMMY WISEAU AND JAMES FRANCO BOTH SIMULTANEOUSLY YELL “YOU’RE TEARING ME APART LISA!!” IN THE EXACT SAME VOICE AT THE EXACT SAME MOMENT ON THE BIG SCREEN I WAS FUCKFNF SCREMAING DNSJDHDKS. anyway i’m having a breakdown thank u james franco
1994: Johnny Depp as Ed Wood
2017: James Franco as Tommy Wiseau
2040: Adam Driver as Neil Breen
This would make more sense if there was no THE ROOM and it was just a story about a mysterious asshole who supervises a total creative failure. But since it can't or won't actually investigate or pathologize Wiseau, the sole point of interest in any of this, it just seems like a work of both narcissism and pointless irony, which seems appropriate for the whole stupid whirlpool. You guys can keep it all, I'm out.
The funniest thing in this movie is Adam Scott's opening talking head where he says "who remembers or cares about what won best picture ten years ago? But people are still talking about The Room".
The film that won best picture ten years ago was No Country For Old Men.
I am so glad this wasn’t a disappointment. One of the funniest films I’ve seen in awhile and also one of the most inspiring. Very important film to see as a film major.
I haven’t been this proud and in awe of a movie since Lady Bird. Please give James Franco his GODDAMN OSCAR.
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James Franco, to put it bluntly, doesn't understand Tommy Wiseau. He may expertly mimic him in all his tirades and insecurities, his repetitive doses of myth and gobbled "American" energy, but the illusion is awfully clear-cut. Although a stale biopic end-credits card may state otherwise, Franco's rendition of Wiseau is sharply defined towards the realm of the artificial, with no sense of lacking self-consciousness, no grasp on his accidental, toxic vanity. There's certainly respect, admiration, and nostalgia in the 'act' of making it big in Hollywood, and yet it feels refracted toward Franco's own successes, not Wiseau's. It's a selfish work, plain and simple, even going so far as to represent The Room's popularity as an extended grace-note rather…
I would pay a lot of money to watch a shot-for-shot remake of The Room starring the cast of The Disaster Artist. Full review at ScreenCrush.
This is a movie whose genre entirely depends on the audience you watch it with.
I saw it with a bunch of people who cackled at every actor they recognized and every vaguely-foreign and grammatically-incorrect line of Franco-Wiseau's mouth, and they made it into a comedy, for better and for worse (but mostly, for worse.) Scenes that would almost definitely read as dramatic or character-revealing in the script play out as comedic moments because the audience found something innately hilarious about broken English. (That's a harsh and probably unfair description of what Franco's bringing to the table here, but ultimately– it IS why everyone was laughing. And at multiple times, it's exactly why they want you to be laughing.)
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