The Disaster Artist.



The Disaster Artist  is a film that follows the making of one of the best, worst movies ever made, The Room.

I took a risk and watched The Disaster Artist without having seen the film that it is based on, The Room, and that risk did not pay off.  Admittedly I have read reviews and am familiar with many details of The Room, which is what led me to think it would be a worthwhile watch.  It has an all-star cast, production value and I went into it with an understanding of the fundamental premise.  Unfortunately that was not enough to capture and keep my attention.  This is a film that is definitely for the fans on The Room, as well as for people who live life in, on and around film-making.

Having not seen The Room, it distanced me from the humor of the majority of The Disaster Artist.  It was mildly amusing to watch James Franco with a ridiculous accent, in a ridiculous wig doing ridiculous things, but that's available in many of his other films where there's a good basis for that character.  Having a character based on a real human being just makes you want to see that human in real life.

Overall, it was a well-made dramatic re-enactment about an exceptionally unusual human being who develops a friendship with an up-and-coming young actor who set out to follow their dreams together.  While this is a decent premise, the majority of the movie focuses on describing how anyone could possible think to spend six million dollars on what was an inarguable piece of garbage.  By the end of it I was left trying to figure out how to watch The Room for myself in hopes to validate the time I spent watching The Disaster Artist. Definitely not a movie for the common folk, but not terrible either.

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