Great movie about bromance.

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2020)

And you don't need to see The Room first. It's not just a movie about a making of, it's about a friendship.
I watched this right after watching The Room and loved it. It's funny, weird and touching. I went and read the book right after. The movie does a great job of adapting it and making it a movie. There are changes for sure, but the essence is there.
If you loved this movie I highly recommend the book, it's much better, only because there's more of it. Tommy is so funny I laughed out loud many times reading it. The "Hi, Mark," scene has so much more to it. When asked what Tommy got his degree in he says, "I study the psychology." Tommy is a landlord to many places and has a giant key ring but doesn't label them so when he goes to his place he tries key after key until he gets the right one. Those are just a few...
Franco does a great Tommy. And actually they make Tommy look a little better in this, in the book he's meaner at his worst.
The thing that makes The Room so bad isn't that the acting is bad, or the dialogue is bad, or the set decoration is bad, or the story is bad, which it all is. It's really that the situations are so strange and bizarre. You've never seen a movie like this because even the worst Hollywood movie is going to be done by professionals and the script is going to go through a few filters. The Room has zero. You are seeing into Tommy's head. And it's weird. In Tommy terms all of this stuff makes sense, because this is how he sees the world.
I made a short of my own and sat in a theater full of people watching my years and years of hard work so I really felt for Tommy during the premier. It hurt me to watch him. I knew that feeling. Fortunately people enjoyed mine, or at least they pretended to.