Confusing and awkward portrait of The Room.

Rating: 2/10 (15 January 2018)

I have to admit off the bat: I have not seen and have no intentions of seeing "The Room". Why sitting through an awful movie has a cult following only lowers the bar for engaging and entertaining movie scripts, something that seems to be affecting the movie industry as a whole. I honestly think money is the only thing driving the success of "The Room" and that the "cult following" has been completely manufactured. What I can't understand is how "The Disaster Artist" is receiving such positive reviews. The plot is bland and scenes are uninteresting. The story contains no major plot twists or anything to engage the viewers. Characters are not established well, scenes are disjointed: the movie feels bland.
How on earth James Defranco got the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy is beyond me. Nothing James Defranco's Tommy Wiseau says is particularly funny, it's literally making fun of a man that may have mental health issues. There was no difficulty or complexity in creating the Tommy Wiseau character for "The Disaster Artist", all that was needed is a funny accent, a wardrobe copy and mirroring the shots from "The Room". That's not great comedy.
Overall I am disappointed in this movie given the amount of hype it generated. It seemed like the cast and crew were piggybacking off the artificially created cult following of "The Room". If anything the nomination win and success of the movie shows how emotionally out of touch Hollywood is at the moment.