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The Disaster Artist - Teaser Trailer #1

Ōkami;243847906 said:
I also HIGHLY recommend you read the original screenplay of The Room after reading The Disaster Artist, if you thought the movie was a crazy trainwreck, Wiseau's original plan was way, WAY crazier.
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Where can this be found?? O:

How... how could something be "WAY crazier" than what we got!?!

TheSkullPrince said:
Just ordered the book off of Amazon, can't wait to read it!
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Sign up for an Audible account and listen to it first! The book has pictures in it, I think, so they're both worth having/reading/listening to but the audiobook is SO good. That can't be overstated.
 
jasminlovesyoux said:
I watched The Room with a good group of friends like over 10 years ago. We laughed, we cried, we made an unforgettable experience. Now this recreation is looking phenomenal, and all the memories are flooding back. You better believe I'll be there to watch this ASAP!
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It's not really a recreation. It is to The Room what Saving Mr. Banks is to Mary Poppins
 
The book is so good. I can't wait... unfortunately I must wait, though, because it may never even come out in this country.
 
Einchy said:
Really excited for this but I gotta say, I'm a bit disappointed in James Franco's accent here. He's such a good actor that I thought for sure he would nail Tommy Wiseau but in that clip he just sounds like James Franco.
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Yup, I honestly expected a lot better.
 
Movie of the year potential right here.

The wikipedia page's photo killed me:

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Pinko Marx said:
You are. The joke is that it's one of those so bad it's good, but I'm saying that the good only comes from when the bad catches you off guard and you start to realize just /how/ bad it is. If you go in knowing it's all bad the element of surprise is gone, and thus some of the funny with it.
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That makes more sense and I agree, once the shock factor is gone, it returns to being just a bad movie.

I will say though, the way you worded it made it seem as though you thought they were intentionally making a bad movie which was definitely not the case here. The magic for a lot of people with cases like Tommy wiseau or ed wood or Claudio fragasso, is how they genuinely believe they are genius.
 
Ōkami;243847906 said:
I'm mad that this is so far away, been looking forawrd to it since January.

The new film Sestero and Wiseau are making is called Best F(r)iends and it looks incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLSgfjKbYCc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZXdU3iuAyI

Properly emulating Wiseau is impossible, so Franco is doing well in that regard

I also HIGHLY recommend you read the original screenplay of The Room after reading The Disaster Artist, if you thought the movie was a crazy trainwreck, Wiseau's original plan was way, WAY crazier.
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Wow, his acting is actually not that bad. Good job Tommy!
 
WordAssassin said:
Where can this be found?? O:

How... how could something be "WAY crazier" than what we got!?!



Sign up for an Audible account and listen to it first! The book has pictures in it, I think, so they're both worth having/reading/listening to but the audiobook is SO good. That can't be overstated.
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Not really into audiobooks, but I might consider it since everyone seems to love the audiobook version.
 
Monocle said:
Franco's Wiseau impression is really not doing it for me after I've listened to Greg Sestero consistently nail it in the audiobook.
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I've heard scores of Wiseau impressions and this is seriously the worst of them.
I've never tried to do one and I know I could do better. That's how bad it is.
They needed a lot more makeup on Franco, too. Tommy's face is supposed to look like the surface of the moon.
 
BoogieWoogie said:
I just heard Sestero's impression of Tommy for the first time.

Holy shit, it's fucking crazy how on point it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K40IToeN51Y
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Exactly, it isn't impossible at all. But then again he knew Tommy closely for quite a while. Still, you'd think an actor like Franco would be able to get it close by just watching the movie over and over.

TheSkullPrince said:
Not really into audiobooks, but I might consider it since everyone seems to love the audiobook version.
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I'm not either since I can read much faster than someone can talk, but it is seriously 100% worth it for this specific instance.

TAJ said:
I've heard scores of Wiseau impressions and this is seriously the worst of them.
I've never tried to do one and I know I could do better. That's how bad it is.
They needed a lot more makeup on Franco, too. Tommy's face is supposed to look like the surface of the moon.
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I'm really surprised by it. I thought for sure Franco would nail it so I'm really hoping it's just this one scene. I mean with all the hype he's been building since this was announced it feels obvious that he's a major fan of the movie so I thought he'd really go all the way on it.
 
Oveja Negra said:
Can anyone explain to me where does all the hype comes from?

I'm not trolling, I'm really curious about it, cause while I haven't watched the movie this is based on, I've read about it so it's not an "unknown" subject to me, yet... I fail to comprehend all those "OMG DAY ZERO!!!!" comments.
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honestly im amazed they have continued to squeeze blood from this stone. the movie itself is really bad but that's about where it ends. TW has made things since then and they have been unwatchable and not at all in the charming way The Room is. The Room itself is a half-way interesting trainwreck that is a convenient content-producing work for an intellectually vapid culture.

imo a lot of it has to do with internet culture, how everyone is a critic, how everyone has to know everything now, how everyone has to out-smart everyone else. The Room is the ultimate "bad movie" product. what it sells is a feeling of superiority. you can prove that you have good taste by pointing to your superiority to this bad movie. plenty of people that have no taste and no idea what art is can pretend to be film critics vicariously. quite similar to people doing dumb "random" shit and calling themselves "performance artists" or "avant garde". people with no culture pretending otherwise.
 
Adam_Vania said:
honestly im amazed they have continued to squeeze blood from this stone. the movie itself is really bad but that's about where it ends. TW has made things since then and they have been unwatchable and not at all in the charming way The Room is. The Room itself is a half-way interesting trainwreck that is a convenient content-producing work for an intellectually vapid culture.

imo a lot of it has to do with internet culture, how everyone is a critic, how everyone has to know everything now, how everyone has to out-smart everyone else. The Room is the ultimate "bad movie" product. what it sells is a feeling of superiority. you can prove that you have good taste by pointing to your superiority to this bad movie. plenty of people that have no taste and no idea what art is can pretend to be film critics vicariously. quite similar to people doing dumb "random" shit and calling themselves "performance artists" or "avant garde". people with no culture pretending otherwise.
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Jesus dude.

I just wanna throw spoons at the theatre screen.
 
Adam_Vania said:
honestly im amazed they have continued to squeeze blood from this stone. the movie itself is really bad but that's about where it ends. TW has made things since then and they have been unwatchable and not at all in the charming way The Room is. The Room itself is a half-way interesting trainwreck that is a convenient content-producing work for an intellectually vapid culture.

imo a lot of it has to do with internet culture, how everyone is a critic, how everyone has to know everything now, how everyone has to out-smart everyone else. The Room is the ultimate "bad movie" product. what it sells is a feeling of superiority. you can prove that you have good taste by pointing to your superiority to this bad movie. plenty of people that have no taste and no idea what art is can pretend to be film critics vicariously. quite similar to people doing dumb "random" shit and calling themselves "performance artists" or "avant garde". people with no culture pretending otherwise.
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Damn

Fun's nemesis
 
Adam_Vania said:
honestly im amazed they have continued to squeeze blood from this stone. the movie itself is really bad but that's about where it ends. TW has made things since then and they have been unwatchable and not at all in the charming way The Room is. The Room itself is a half-way interesting trainwreck that is a convenient content-producing work for an intellectually vapid culture.

imo a lot of it has to do with internet culture, how everyone is a critic, how everyone has to know everything now, how everyone has to out-smart everyone else. The Room is the ultimate "bad movie" product. what it sells is a feeling of superiority. you can prove that you have good taste by pointing to your superiority to this bad movie. plenty of people that have no taste and no idea what art is can pretend to be film critics vicariously. quite similar to people doing dumb "random" shit and calling themselves "performance artists" or "avant garde". people with no culture pretending otherwise.
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wow u r smart
 
Adam_Vania said:
honestly im amazed they have continued to squeeze blood from this stone. the movie itself is really bad but that's about where it ends. TW has made things since then and they have been unwatchable and not at all in the charming way The Room is. The Room itself is a half-way interesting trainwreck that is a convenient content-producing work for an intellectually vapid culture.

imo a lot of it has to do with internet culture, how everyone is a critic, how everyone has to know everything now, how everyone has to out-smart everyone else. The Room is the ultimate "bad movie" product. what it sells is a feeling of superiority. you can prove that you have good taste by pointing to your superiority to this bad movie. plenty of people that have no taste and no idea what art is can pretend to be film critics vicariously. quite similar to people doing dumb "random" shit and calling themselves "performance artists" or "avant garde". people with no culture pretending otherwise.
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You're looking at it wrong.

The Room is ultimately a story about a man so out of touch with the real world that he willed the most impossible and insane movie into existence despite doing EVERYTHING wrong every step of the way.

It's not just about how funny the finished product is and pointing and laughing at this guy's vaguely Eastern European accent. The film itself is the punchline to the impossibly strange story of Tommy Wiseau, and it is so fascinating because it's ultimately a look inside the mind of a man who SWORE he was making the greatest film in the world and failed so spectacularly that he went all the way in the opposite direction.

Movies like Sharknado or Birdemic are cheap because there's no real heart to them. They're bad on purpose, and their self-awareness kills the joke because they're in on it from the start. The whole appeal of The Room is trying to get WHY Tommy thought any of this would be anything other than the worst thing ever put on film, and how he impossibly made the movie a reality against all (mostly self-imposed) odds.
 
Adam_Vania said:
honestly im amazed they have continued to squeeze blood from this stone. the movie itself is really bad but that's about where it ends. TW has made things since then and they have been unwatchable and not at all in the charming way The Room is. The Room itself is a half-way interesting trainwreck that is a convenient content-producing work for an intellectually vapid culture.

imo a lot of it has to do with internet culture, how everyone is a critic, how everyone has to know everything now, how everyone has to out-smart everyone else. The Room is the ultimate "bad movie" product. what it sells is a feeling of superiority. you can prove that you have good taste by pointing to your superiority to this bad movie. plenty of people that have no taste and no idea what art is can pretend to be film critics vicariously. quite similar to people doing dumb "random" shit and calling themselves "performance artists" or "avant garde". people with no culture pretending otherwise.
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For people nitpicking this scene, consider 2 things:

1) During the infamous scene, Greg Sestero is supposed to be on it. On this trailer, you can see him next to Rogen's character. This suggest that this version of the scene may not be the final scene we see on the movie.

2) About Franco not doing the exact same gestures and expressions as the real Tommy during this part, remember that this movie was ADR'd to hell and back, so he doesn't need to sound exactly like Wiseau did during the infamous scene. Same can be said about him throwing the bottle before Wiseau did on the film. This is not supposed to be the final version of the scene we see on film, as I said on the first point.
 
Adam_Vania said:
honestly im amazed they have continued to squeeze blood from this stone. the movie itself is really bad but that's about where it ends. TW has made things since then and they have been unwatchable and not at all in the charming way The Room is. The Room itself is a half-way interesting trainwreck that is a convenient content-producing work for an intellectually vapid culture.

imo a lot of it has to do with internet culture, how everyone is a critic, how everyone has to know everything now, how everyone has to out-smart everyone else. The Room is the ultimate "bad movie" product. what it sells is a feeling of superiority. you can prove that you have good taste by pointing to your superiority to this bad movie. plenty of people that have no taste and no idea what art is can pretend to be film critics vicariously. quite similar to people doing dumb "random" shit and calling themselves "performance artists" or "avant garde". people with no culture pretending otherwise.
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You're looking at it all wrong. It's a completely unique film that has been around for close to a decade. Movies don't last that long and remembered like this unless it's special, and it is. Basically the Ed Wood of our time. Nothing wrong with that at all. It's not about superiority, it's about people truly enjoying the movie and the story behind it.
 
PsihoPerihelion said:
For people nitpicking this scene, consider 2 things:

1) During the infamous scene, Greg Sestero is supposed to be on it. On this trailer, you can see him next to Rogen's character. This suggest that this version of the scene may not be the final scene we see on the movie.

2) About Franco not doing the exact same gestures and expressions as the real Tommy during this part, remember that this movie was ADR'd to hell and back, so he doesn't need to sound exactly like Wiseau did during the infamous scene. Same can be said about him throwing the bottle before Wiseau did on the film. This is not supposed to be the final version of the scene we see on film, as I said on the first point.
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yup!
 
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