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The Disaster Artist | Watch Along (Patreon)

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2025-04-26 15:00:23
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The Disaster Artist | Watch Along

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Owen

Fuck yeah!

Owen

Bless you guys, I have laughed my ass off at both of these. Thanks so much

Chris Thompson

If you want to stay on the Tommy & Greg train you should check out the Best F(r)iends movies. They’re more professionally made than The Room, and written by Greg, but they have the same quirkiness and are all about their real life friendship, but with a darker twist.

Smapdi

Forgot how fun this movie was, but it definitely is trying to do some myth-making, or trying to create the "official" story of The Room. You probably would not be surprised to learn the premiere scene is total nonsense. In reality, most of the audience left within minutes, and the movie would have been immediately forgotten. Except, a college student happened to watch it during it's two-week run, came back with his friends, they all became obsessed with it, and it spread through word of mouth from there. The movie basically uses the premiere scene to show what The Room eventually became, which in reality took years. It is accurate that Tommy Wiseau says he always meant it to be a comedy (you know, a lie), but that also took years. I was curious if there were any other major changes to the story, and I found a few interesting facts: - Wiseau basically had to bribe Greg to be in the movie - This movie actually massively underplays just how much crew turnover there was while filming the Room - Greg never met Bryan Cranston, and he was never up for a part in Malcolm in the Middle (this one actually bums me out) I don't have a source for this one, but I distinctly remember reading once that Tommy was basically MIA for most of the editing of the movie. Not trying to downplay anything. The Room still doesn't exist without Wiseau. But, if this is true, I think it's part of what makes it so compelling as a movie. You can tell the people behind the camera actually have some competence, and they're trying to make something out of Wiseau's narcissism and incompetence. That tension accidentally produced gold. To be clear, I love The Room, and I'm not trying to rain on any parades. Trying to separate the truth from the self-aggrandizing narrative both Wiseau and Sestero are presenting is part of the fun for me.

Diegesis

"You can tell the people behind the camera actually have some competence, and they're trying to make something out of Wiseau's narcissism and incompetence. " i think this part is underrated about this film. for how bad it is, it doesnt make sense how competently it's put together. that's the biggest difference between the room and samurai cop or birddemic. the production itself isnt necessarily the bad part.

Dan

Now I'm curious, how much does the movie differ from the book? Are you taking from any other source material or just comparing to the book? Interesting details I hadn't heard about.

Smapdi

Oh no, this is coming from the wiki page for the film. I've read so many articles which are about the book and the movie that i should just read it at this point. The story about how the movie first started getting spread was from an interview with comedian David Cross in a doc about cult movies. I think it was just called The Greatest Cult Movies.

Oscar H

I watched the movie for the first time live when you guy's reaction came out and I was left with more questions...this movie explains a lot and it honestly makes me appreciate the *vision*. I wonder if Bob Odenkirk will make the original movie as it was intended with a lot more context and storyline, at least that's what I hope. I 100000% want to see the movie how it was formed inside Tommy Wiseau's brain.

Chris Bruneau

This was enjoyable, and makes me suggest Ed Wood, which is also a very entertaining film with a similar theme

f hf

I love this movie. No one ever reacts to it so I'm glad you two were able to see it

Dan

I've seen people accidentally react out of order and that's sad lol

Dan

I had a BLAST watching you see this! I can't believe Maple was cry-laughing rather than laugh-crying, what a special moment to have on tape haha -- the crying because of the emotions and then laughing 'WTF' at yourself, making it even funnier, haha. Yeah, watching the Room and the Disaster Artist in order makes for a special kind of experience that's hard to recreate any other way. Cheers!

SabotheHunter

Maple crying at the story of Tommy and Greg fully sent me

Pyt

So I waited to watch this until I was able to get my hands on the book. The book differs quite a bit in terms of how Tommy and Greg's friendship was portrayed. The book, which was written by Greg himself, depicts their friendship as incredibly toxic. Tommy was very manipulative and what many people would consider just abusive. Greg described Tommy as "being able to drain the life and light out of someone." It was so bad that Greg moved out of the apartment not because he got a girlfriend but because he just wanted to get away from Tommy, and once he was away from him he felt happier than he ever felt. Also he left well before any script for "The Room" was written. It really paints Tommy as this lonely and extremely jealous person, but Greg would stay for as long as he did because Tommy would give him money (which in the book Greg would mention that Tommy would call money "candy"). I've done some light Google searches but it does seem that the two are still friends. Alright so I also just want to give some examples of where the story of the two is different in the book and the movie. First the move to LA wasn't two friends deciding to go, Tommy was supposed to just sublet his apartment to Greg and a few months later Tommy just moved in without warning. So if you read the above paragraph and thought "well why would he star in Tommy's movie?" Its because he offered Greg so much money that he literally couldn't say no to it. Like it was enough that he could live out in LA for a long time, also Tommy offered to buy him a new car. Another thing that the movie removes is that Greg was starting to get roles, not big roles or anything but he was getting calls and was moving his way up as an actor. The turnover with the crew was really downplayed in the movie, they changed crews MULTIPLE times in the book because just how insane Tommy would act on set and would sling homophobic slurs as they walked out. I don't want just recap the entire book so I'll just do one more. The Bryan Cranston scene never happens in the book, but it is true that it was Tommy that made Greg shave his beard and it was super weird because Tommy had the behind the scenes crew follow them into the bathroom as Tommy tried to direct Greg in how to shave his beard. Edit: A couple more. Tommy had this thing about not allowing people to speak French around him, its why the word fiancé is never said during the entire movie and instead everyone says "future wife/husband." There was no big blowoff on the last day of shooting, but Tommy did tackle Greg at some point because he said something in French, and that made it into the movie.