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[Movie] The Disaster Artist

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Haymitch, Jul 18, 2017.

  1. Haymitch

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    Having seen The Room at least 10 times and having met both Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero, this is a must watch for me.
     
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    Word? What's your feel on the "Is Tommy Wiseau for real" question having met him?
     
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    Oh, I don't think it's an act. That's how he is. Honestly the idea that this is all just a "work" gives him too much credit. When talking with him you don't get the impression that he's especially intelligent.

    When I met him he was wearing this weird ass leather outfit with 3 belts and suspenders, was sickly pale, and tossed a football around with us in traffic. This was just outside the River Oaks theater when he made an appearance before a midnight showing.

    Greg Sestero on the other hand seemed like a very normal guy who was still not the most comfortable in that kind of social situation.
     
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    Cool cool cool, just as I thought/hoped.
     
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    I HIGHLY recommend the book. It's fantastic. It had me in tears from laughter several times.
     
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    Looks amazing

     
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    Franco's resemblance and mannerisms are pretty freaking uncanny. Looks great.
     
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    Franco should be the favorite at this time for the Oscar. He looks like he nails it!
     
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    yeah but did he really hit her tho?
     
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    He did NAHT
     
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    Just saw The Disaster Artist yesterday. Very good.
     
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    Pizza_Da_Hut I put on pants for this?

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    I can't get anyone to see this with me so am going solo. I think this puts me in a Wisseau-like orbit of patheticness.
     
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    Saw it on Saturday. Enjoyed it. Would recommend for all The Room fans. You could tell Franco was a genuine fan himself.
     
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    James Franco seems to totally hit or totally miss on a character, it’s kind kind of of strange. Looks like he hit this one. Will see though I don’tknow much about the source material.
     
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    I thought the performances were great, but the direction was lacking. Felt like a TV episode rather than a movie, but maybe that amateur quality was purposeful.
     
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    saw it on Tuesday, loved it, one of my favorites of 2017 along with Lady Bird, definitely recommend it even if you haven't seen "The Room"
     
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    after watching it, i feel like tommy wiseau is just a super l337 troll who cannot turn it off.

    can't take dave franco seriously tho...breh is like 5'4" while the real greg is like 6'5"
    also what a wasted opportunity, they had alison brie and didn't give her teh noodz scene.
     
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    I made it through about 40% of this and gave up.

    Can't for the life of me figure out what was entertaining about it.

    I assume this is just for folks "in the know" about this movie (The Room) and the guy (Tommy). That's not me.. so I couldn't care less, was hoping the movie would pull me in... it was just boring and annoying.

    My two cents...
     
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    Yeah, you really need to watch The Room first in my opinion. Speaking of, I’m jealous of people getting to watch it for the first time.

    I just watched Disaster Artist yesterday and loved it.
     

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