So Bad, it's Bad!

Rating: 3/10 (1 February 2018)

I'm not sure if it's because I have a bias having already listened to the audio book (audio book is recommended because Greg Sestero does a perfect Tommy Wisseau impersonation, which really adds to the story), but I really wanted to like this movie and pretty much wrote it off as liking it even before I watched it. I was already a fan of The Room and the Disaster Artist book and had seen several interviews in reference to the movie, so liking this seemed inevitable, but it was horrible. That's what I theorize happened. People wanted to like this movie and it has such an interesting back story that they tricked themselves into thinking they liked it? Much like the room it didn't feel like a real movie. It's hard to imagine that this was a normal budgeted movie with normal actors and a normal director, because every aspect of the movie felt B rate. The only part that didn't was when they were reenacting scenes from The Room. I was in a full theater and this movie attracted minimal laughs. It got a handful of chuckles, mostly forced chuckles, but no real laughter.
I am absolutely beside myself that James Franco got nominated and won best acting awards for this performance. It's easily the worst best actor award ever given in the history of cinema and I have nothing against James Franco's acting in his other roles, but this was bad... he does one of the worst impressions of Tommy Wisseau that I've ever heard. It's not even close.
Anyways this was disappointing and has me baffled because no one in the theater where I watched it was laughing. It's such an interesting story in general that I think perhaps that carried it through such a ridiculously bad movie.
I think that movies and books are two different formats, so I usually get annoyed when book readers whine about a movies interpretation of a book, but in this instance the movie is so far removed from the book. One thing the movie did was, they completely cut out all of the really horrible crap that Tommy did and would do, instead turned some of his lessor antics into minor nuisances to keep him likable to the audience. Anyway I look at it, this movie was really bad.