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What a story, Greg.
It all started when Nataly suggested we watch The Disaster Artist one day. Naturally, we had to watch The Room first, I insisted. How young I was. How innocent. Having seen Manos: The Hands of Fate, and watched countless hours of MST3K, I thought I knew bad movies. I was so wrong. Seven billion years later, after frequent breaks to collect ourselves and reassemble our brains, we finished The Room, and I immediately started this book because I needed something, anything, to explain what I had just witnessed and how it came to be.
This book, while entertaining and oddly touching, doesn't quite manage that (I doubt anything could), but it's as close as most of us will probably get to understanding the mind of one Tommy P. Wiseau. I might have more to say after my Chem exam, although history suggests I'll never get around to saying it. And we later watched the movie based on this book, which was entertaining, funny, and appropriately terrifying, but took too many (imo) unnecessary liberties with the source material while leaving out some bonkers stuff. But then I pretty much always say that about movie adaptations.
If you've seen The Room, you should read this book. If you want to read this book, you should probably watch The Room first. I'm sorry, and you're welcome.
It all started when Nataly suggested we watch The Disaster Artist one day. Naturally, we had to watch The Room first, I insisted. How young I was. How innocent. Having seen Manos: The Hands of Fate, and watched countless hours of MST3K, I thought I knew bad movies. I was so wrong. Seven billion years later, after frequent breaks to collect ourselves and reassemble our brains, we finished The Room, and I immediately started this book because I needed something, anything, to explain what I had just witnessed and how it came to be.
This book, while entertaining and oddly touching, doesn't quite manage that (I doubt anything could), but it's as close as most of us will probably get to understanding the mind of one Tommy P. Wiseau. I might have more to say after my Chem exam, although history suggests I'll never get around to saying it. And we later watched the movie based on this book, which was entertaining, funny, and appropriately terrifying, but took too many (imo) unnecessary liberties with the source material while leaving out some bonkers stuff. But then I pretty much always say that about movie adaptations.
If you've seen The Room, you should read this book. If you want to read this book, you should probably watch The Room first. I'm sorry, and you're welcome.