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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Greg Sestero
4.29 AVERAGE
1.06k reviews for:
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Greg Sestero
4.29 AVERAGE
Absolutely incredible. Couldn’t put it down once I got to the last 100 pages. Would highly recommend to any fans of The Room.
One of the most ridiculous things I have read in 2017. Very funny and if you've actually seen The Room, it's a very illuminating read as well.
Hilarious, compelling character study that always feel genuine and even heart breaking at times.
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Immensely informative and fascinating.
Hilarious and fascinating insight into the disturbed and mysterious mind of Tommy Wiseau, from the viewpoint of a refreshingly sane individual.
A wonderfully written book about a wonderfully confounding man. Sestero and Bissell do well to take what could be and esoteric tale and to spin it into something at once both universal and intimate. That, and it’s hilarious and engaging throughout. The perfect companion piece to both The Room and the James Franco film
When the uninitiated see the cult following of The Room, they assume it exudes the same charm of Rocky Horror Picture Show or the same ineptitude as Troll 2. These are both inaccurate assumptions.
This movie was born out of a bizarre string of events, the sum of which cannot be replicated. A mysterious vampire man burned with American passion, escaped Europe to pursue that dream and slowly climbed his way into millions of dollars while living in San Francisco. Denied the look of an All-American pretty boy and the talent of the actors he idolized, the vampire man took it upon himself to make himself a star.
Using his amassed wealth, multiple film crews and a complete lack of normal human rationality, the vampire man made a low-budget movie for a whopping six million dollars. The fact that this movie exists is a miracle. The fact that more than 100 people ever saw it is a miracle. The fact that the vampire man has a rabid cult following is a miracle.
The vampire man saw his dreams in the clouds, took flight and ended up on the moon. It's at once an inspirational tale of what passion can accomplish, but a harrowing warning of what it can take to get there.
There is not another movie like The Room and there never will be. This book is a testament to how amazing of an accomplishment that is.
[ORIGINAL REVIEW, 11/22/13]
I have embraced its novelty, preached its gospel and studied its history. After reading this book and meeting Greg Sestero himself, I think that my journey of The Room has come to a satisfactory end.
Forget my own infatuation with the cult classic film. This book would not hold such high esteem if it were not for its superior literacy, thanks to the efforts of Sestero and Tom Bissell. The story itself, which is about as baffling as non-fiction can get, was told with the perfectly proportionate amount of humor, heart and truth.
Almost everything that you see in "The Room" on screen has a back-story. From the three-hour filming of a seven-second scene to the real-life frustration that made it on camera, you will never watch the movie the same way again.
Sestero also dives into his coming up as an actor and the (still murky) origin of the Tommy Wiseau. We come away not knowing if this delusional yet charming character should be revered or institutionalized.
Conflicted on the matter, I accept "The Room" for what it is: An unintended comedy that wasn't funny at all. After seeing the darkness that went on behind the camera, that holds even more true.
This movie was born out of a bizarre string of events, the sum of which cannot be replicated. A mysterious vampire man burned with American passion, escaped Europe to pursue that dream and slowly climbed his way into millions of dollars while living in San Francisco. Denied the look of an All-American pretty boy and the talent of the actors he idolized, the vampire man took it upon himself to make himself a star.
Using his amassed wealth, multiple film crews and a complete lack of normal human rationality, the vampire man made a low-budget movie for a whopping six million dollars. The fact that this movie exists is a miracle. The fact that more than 100 people ever saw it is a miracle. The fact that the vampire man has a rabid cult following is a miracle.
The vampire man saw his dreams in the clouds, took flight and ended up on the moon. It's at once an inspirational tale of what passion can accomplish, but a harrowing warning of what it can take to get there.
There is not another movie like The Room and there never will be. This book is a testament to how amazing of an accomplishment that is.
[ORIGINAL REVIEW, 11/22/13]
I have embraced its novelty, preached its gospel and studied its history. After reading this book and meeting Greg Sestero himself, I think that my journey of The Room has come to a satisfactory end.
Forget my own infatuation with the cult classic film. This book would not hold such high esteem if it were not for its superior literacy, thanks to the efforts of Sestero and Tom Bissell. The story itself, which is about as baffling as non-fiction can get, was told with the perfectly proportionate amount of humor, heart and truth.
Almost everything that you see in "The Room" on screen has a back-story. From the three-hour filming of a seven-second scene to the real-life frustration that made it on camera, you will never watch the movie the same way again.
Sestero also dives into his coming up as an actor and the (still murky) origin of the Tommy Wiseau. We come away not knowing if this delusional yet charming character should be revered or institutionalized.
Conflicted on the matter, I accept "The Room" for what it is: An unintended comedy that wasn't funny at all. After seeing the darkness that went on behind the camera, that holds even more true.
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