A waste of 90 minutes of my life

A Major Disappointment

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

James Franco performed Tommy wiseau so good and directed the movie well too. Dave Franco was not bad and The movie's story is so funny however not much comedy came out of it. Also the lack of the effect of the music of the movie could have made the scenes a lot more better and give them another whole better look. The movie's rhythm was boring a little bit too. The scenario was too fit for the characters. Only watch it to see James as Tommy. 6.5/10

This movie and the acting received some acclaim during the most recent awards season. My wife chose to skip it but I watched it at home on DVD from our local public library. James Franco produced and plays the lead role of Tommy Wiseau, who says he is from New Orleans but appears to be a naturalized US citizen originally from Poland.Wiseau famously made "The Room" in 2003, a movie with an average IMDb rating of 3.6 with highly skewed voting, 23% "10" votes and 37% "1" votes, and is widely considered a disaster. Or as some say "the best worst movie ever made." Wiseau spent $6Million of his own money which itself is unexplained.So this movie is mostly about that, how Wiseau decided to use his own funds to make the movie he wrote, starring himself. The writing is poor, the acting is poor, but it was made with great sincerity. Clips of many scenes are easily available in online videos. James Franco is really superb as Tommy, as well as his brother Dave Franco as Tommy's friend and fellow actor, Greg. It is a very oddball movie but also excellent, I enjoyed it thoroughly. As an big bonus, after the credits start there are a series of scenes showing the original side-by-side with the same scenes in this movie.

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