Shades of Ed Wood

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2018)

"The Disaster Artist" is a fun film about the way that actors, directors, producers, designers take themselves too seriously. It is a great parody of the pretentious nature of the film industry.
Like Ed Wood, Tommy Wiseau gained notoriety because he was so bad as a film artist. "The Disaster Artist" works closely to the making of the amateur film "The Room," which was self-produced by Wiseau and garnered the distinction of being "the Citizen Kane of bad movies."
James Franco is great as the Wiseau character, and the ensemble cast seemed to be having a ball in the making of the film. The DVD includes a number of bonus tracks with the cast discussing the project. One of the points that was made is that it takes excellent actors to recreate truly bad performances, like those of "The Room." The company was stellar in pulling off this challenge; they generated a truly infectious humor in the making of that horrible script. The payoff comes when the final product is screened to a live audience.
As Franco indicated in the bonus segment, the goal of the film was to "recreate something that was done so poorly." Kudos to everyone involved in the project for their ability to make a movie that was a genuine turkey!
"The Disaster Artist" is a tribute to Tommy Wiseau, a kid with dream, who never gave up. As the Frank Sinatra song goes, "Here's to the losers!!!"