Peculiar Project

Rating: Null/10 (20 December 2017)

I wonder how many viewers saw "The Room" with the real Tommy Wiseau, because that way you get the needed background to appreciate "The Disaster Artist". "The Room" was a truly awful movie, so bad it has acquired a cult following and was riffed on MST 3000. I just thought this picture would have marginal appeal to a select audience.
That said, I thought James Franco gave an astonishingly great performance as Tommy Wiseau, the Man With No Talent who wrote directed, produced and starred in this bomb for the ages. Franco is fascinating as the enigmatic, temperamental Wiseau and adds a dimension of vulnerability not apparent in "The Room". The film is based on the making of his signature movie, with some apocrypha added to flesh out the story. I still think you would have to have seen "The Room" for context.
But I wonder, though. Why make a movie about a lousy movie?