The side by side comparisons of The Room and The Disaster Artist are kind of hilarious. Maybe it’s the difference in acting that really sets them apart or maybe it’s the fact that James Franco actually has to try and lower his standard to the level of Tommy Wiseau. Is it really mean if it’s true? Enough people have commented on how bad The Room is at this point that it should have been given a parody quite a while ago. The mere fact that it is now is testament to how many people have been buzzing, for some reason, about The Room and how horrible it really is. Seriously it’s become the sudden standard of bad movies in Hollywood when quite honestly bad movies have been made since the dawn of the motion picture.
With each side by side comparison you can easily see how The Disaster Artist is the better movie and yet it’s emulating the vapidity of The Room. It’s kind of sad when a parody can bring forth the real feeling of the movie it’s being based on. Honestly I’m not sure how much more I can say about The Room without repeating myself over and over but the film was something that might have come out of a drama club back in high school, where mistakes were meant to happen and the rough, rudimentary form of acting was supposed to occur so as to allow the teachers and instructors to tell people what they need to work on.
In other words, The Room is the practice run, while The Disaster Artist is more like the final print. It seems so very tragic that such a thing should be so but Tommy Wiseau either needs to work on his directing first and his acting second or vice versa. Everything about The Room was horrendous from the acting to the lighting to the settings. It’s almost as though Wiseau was going for the cheesy 1980’s look without recalling just how really cheesy the 80’s looked sometimes. He didn’t seem to take into account that such poor filming really didn’t translate all that well into the 2000’s, at least not the effect he seemed to be going for.
Some people might look at these side by side comparisons and see little if any difference, but truthfully The Disaster Artist is smoother, the dialogue isn’t as choppy, and the scenes actually look fresh and not washed out as they do in The Room. Plus as campy as he’s trying to act, Franco is not nearly as ridiculous as Wiseau who laughs at nearly everything once or twice even if it’s not funny and has all the acting talent of a wax dummy.
Talking about The Room constantly seems to be all the rage right now and I still can’t understand why. The film was nothing to talk about and yet for some reason it’s been revived and rehashed throughout the year as though to seek out some redeeming quality that it might still possess.
Let me know if you find anything.
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