#greg sestero

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Sestero earning the hell outta that paycheck with this greatness

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Look, I’m gonna be honest. Based on the way people are talking about Megalopolis, it sounds like a high budget version of The Room. What I mean is:

1) self-indulgent vanity project

2) director/auteur who has gone full blown crazy with their creative freedom

3) behind the scenes disaster

4) nonsensical plot/dialogue and bizarre character choices

5) some viewers have said that the only way to enjoy the movie is to watch it with a group so you can all have a good laugh

6) clearly trying to be a serious epic, ended up being unintentionally hilarious

7) people just being baffled by the end result

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Showed up in my Facebook memories. Greg Sestero shared it. 🤣

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I read the disaster artist AND IT WAS SOOOO FUCKING GOOD OMG

It's a shame that they fumbled movie adaptation this hard... the genre is off (the book only starts somewhat comedic but then delves deeply into psychological horror more and more devastating as it goes on)

The dinamic between the main leads is also off... it really shows in the poster, so I redrew it more akin to a feel of a book under inspiration

I think the tonal dissonance can be described the best through a familiar meme:

Movie: ✨Wow, Tommy, Isn't it SO cool that even people as QuRky as you can make it in Hollywood?✨

Book: okay, greg, now hit the second tower

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The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) miniseries

-(finished) watchin' Season 1 (miniseries)- 11/23/2023- 3 [1/2] stars- on Netflix

Great Ending!!

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Podcasters Of Horror Bonus Episode – The Christmas Tapes (2022) Review + Interviews with stars Dave Sheridan and Vernon Wells

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Review: The Disaster Artist

Synopsis:

In 2003, an independent film called The Room—written, produced, directed, and starring a very rich social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau—made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed in the head,” the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Now in its tenth anniversary year, The Room is an international phenomenon to rival The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Thousands of fans wait in line for hours to attend screenings complete with costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons.

Readers need not have seen The Room to appreciate its costar Greg Sestero’s account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and interpersonal relationships to achieve the dream only he could love. While it does unravel mysteries for fans, The Disaster Artist is more than just an hilarious story about cinematic hubris: It is ultimately a surprisingly inspiring tour de force that reads like a page-turning novel, an open-hearted portrait of a supremely enigmatic man who will capture your heart.

Plot:

Greg Sestero wanted to be an actor. His French mother did not approve and took every opportunity to tell her son to pursue a different career. After molding in high school, Greg needed to join an acting class to be considered by agents in Los Angeles. The class he signed up for was led by Jean Shelton, who was terrifying. Ready to rip anyone apart, there was no pleasing Shelton with the skits they had to perform. Only one person was not afraid of Shelton and that was Pirate Guy. Later, Greg learned his name to be Tommy Wiseau, who was fearless, and stood up to Shelton about how he wanted his scene to be. Wanting that same kind of fearlessness, Greg asked Tommy to be his scene partner, which led to a friendship like no other. On their first of many dinner runs, Tommy gives Greg this advice: “You have to be the best” (51).  Working together on their L.A dream, Greg found a much-needed friend in Tommy, someone he could be himself with and not be afraid of rejection. For Tommy, we never knew what he saw in Greg, only that it led to a type of friendship that led to the creation of The Room. 

The Room was a movie Greg did not want to be in. Even though he was helping Tommy, the other cast members saw Greg as a summer intern, and not an actor himself. Tommy however saw no other way, and was constantly at him to play Mark, who in the film is Tommy’s character, Johnny, best friend’s and the person who sleeps with Johnny’s future wife, Lisa. Promising him a large sum of money and a new car, Greg’s girlfriend, Amber, also told him to take the part, sealing Greg’s fate of being in The Room. Greg goes into the details of the making of The Room, explaining why Johnny has plastic spoons in frames during the living room set, that Tommy showed up four hours late on the first day, and how he expected everyone to show up, every day, even if their scenes were not being shot. The rooftop scene was being filmed outside, thus different lighting in all the scenes. Johnny's ‘I did not hit here’ line took three hours and thirty-two takes. Greg details out all the behind the scenes issues of The Room, the moments that at the time did not seem significant, but we're. All in all, The Room happened, four months late and cost over six million to make.

Thoughts:

As a fan of The Room, this book was absolute gold. The Room is a cult classic film because it was so bad, it would make the grumpiest people laugh. With plots that go nowhere and bad acting (or was it just a bad script?) The Room is a movie everyone must see at least once. Taking his experience from The Room, along with his personal friendship with Tommy, Greg Sestero, along with Tom Bissell, wrote this book about the making of The Room for us super fans. Read like a story, this book switches from the making of the Room, to Sestero’s life, with and without Tommy, before the script for the Room was written. You got to read from Sestero’s point of view of meeting Tommy, how he moves into Tommy’s L.A apartment, to their friendship falling out and coming back strong in the end. The Disaster Artist, tilted appropriately because that is what Tommy Wiseau is, as an artist, he is a disaster. This book, to me, is better if you know the plot of The Room, as it helps to make the connections easier as you understand what scene Sestero is explaining. If unable to stomach the movie itself, The Disaster Artist film, starring James Franco as Tommy and Dave Franco as Greg, is another great film that truly captures the horribleness that was The Room. A fun, inspiring and funny story, The Disaster Artist, is about Tommy’s escapade to defeat the Hollywood system of making the movie, and his best friend Greg, who was at his side when this happened.

Read more reviews: Goodreads

Buy the book: Amazon

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Had some gnochi at a "pasta bar"

Watched The Room in cinema with a Q and A with Greg Sestero

Broden from Aunty Donna was there

I said "Gday"

He said "silly movie wasn't it?"

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Now a 90 minute trip home 💀 picked up a midnight mocha for it 👍

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Gene Jones having this screeching freakout because the doc's office keeps making him wait was one of my favorite recent movie moments

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THE DISASTER ARTIST- 2017 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Based on Greg Sesteros book of the same name, The Disaster Artist is the story of how Tommy Wiseau (James Franco) and Greg Sestero (Dave Franco) became friends and went on to make "The Room".

The Room was a critical and commercial flop with it being frequently referred to as one of "The worst movies ever", but it then gained a huge cult audience and started screening sold out shows to fans all over the world.

One of my favourite movies.

Tremendous movie. Definitely the best of any of the films James Franco directed and he is absolutely brilliant as Tommy. He won the golden globe for best actor and had an awkward moment with the real Tommy onstage.

10/10 soundtrack and excellent cast. Dave Franco, Alison Brie and many others.

Its fascinating seeing how well they recreated the scenes from The Room. And hilarious watching A List actors like Zac Efron appear to play Chris R. Surreal.

Movie is both hilarious and heartwarming.

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Retro Puppet Master

Ok, let's address the big thing first; yes everyone, playing a younger Andre Toulon in this one, is Mark from The Room himself, Greg Sestero! That's one of the main reasons this one has gotten a bit more attention in recent years, especially since Sestero included a couple of chapters in his book The Disaster Artist, about this one. Now the question is, which is actively the worst of the two films; The Room, or this? Well, this one is certainly a lot less active Incel-y than The Room, has some more endearingly silly ideas, and it wastes a lot less money (Tommy Wiseau infamously blew six million bucks on his flick!), but The Room is more funny-bad and gives a fascinating look into the mind of its creator. I would say, it would be quite the endurance test screening the two in a double bill.

As for the film as a whole, hoo boy, the previous Puppet Masters weren't really great, but this one is a true mess. Now the reason for the "Retro" concept might be down to marketing; Full Moon did licensed action figures, just as the adult market for that really became a bit thing, and they were big sellers. In fact, some say that the reason the company kept going at all was because of how well those things sold in Japan for some reason. So they needed to refresh the line, hence this one having the young Toulon first getting the magic, and with early versions of the Puppets, the 1.0 versions if you will. Of course, all this makes a mockery of the fact we already had flashbacks to this in 2 & 3, and not only does this wreck the continuity again (we've had like three different explanations for Blade's look now!), it looked so much better than this.

Yeah, the previous Puppet Masters were far from blockbusters, with that on occasion peeking in, but none of them feel as cheap as this one does. It mostly takes place around one building, and a train carriage that's clearly just set up in a different bit of the building, it has really tacky cinematography, and there are some horrible early 90s video toaster effects early on. As for the Puppets... oh dear. No David Allen, he already left the series and sadly passed away in 1999, and boy is he missed here. There are moments like at one point, if you watch the version in 4:3 aspect ratio, you blatantly see the hand lifting up one of the puppets! (Hey, since it's Sutekh behind events again, maybe it's Doctor Who's infamous Hand of Sutekh!) There's a lot more I could go on about, like how the Servants of Sutekh (sorry lads, that position is filled!) are complete knock-offs of The Strangers from Dark City, but I think I've said more than this film deserves already to be honest.

Thankfully, there is a way to watch this and actually enjoy the experience; over to you Rifftrax crew!