No, starring and directed by James Franco

That's not much better.

I would definitely read that.

Do they gloss over the fact that he's a glue sniffer?

The book is super entertaining and very funny, but it does tend to romanticize Wiseau a lot. I understand Sestero probably didn't want to stir up shit and just wanted to tell a funny story, but a lot of the book is "OMG THIS GUY IS SUCH A MYSTERY" when anyone who has seriously looked at The Room and Wiseau is like "Yeah, he's laundering European drug money. It's not a mystery."

Well, if you were reading it for an honest investigation into the truth behind Wiseau's life and money, then for sure it's a disappointment. I liked it as a story about a starry-eyed naive boy's Hollywood dream being completely derailed by a narcissistic and delusional criminal. And it's funny as hell.

The book absolutely slows to a crawl whenever it's Greg talking about his own life, which is at least half of it. But the Tommy stuff is riveting.

Just for the record the reason I specifically said "glue sniffer" is because when he was on his tour a few years ago a friend of mine at the time was tasked with entertaining/wrangling him for a few days and literally walked in on him sniffing glue.

Which completely explains his acting style.

I hope the sort of people who make this kind of thing don't find out about Breen.

Donald G. Jackson was self aware enough to innoculate himself at least, this kind of thing feeds on our cultural fetishism of the bullshit "authenticity" myth.

Even if this is good it's a sign of what's to come.

Tim Burton's Ed Wood was a terrible movie.

Authenticity myth?

http://beergraphs.com/bb/648-the-long-con-abi-marketing-and-the-my th-of-authent/

https://theperfectresponse.pages.tcnj.edu/2015/04/02/the-myth- of-personal-authenticity/

http://www.complex.com/music/2015/07/rap-authenticity-myth-mee k-mill-drake-action-bronson-ghostface-killah

https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/real-id-perpetuating-the-myth-of-a uthenticity-by-laura-newland/

http://mortentolboll.weebly.com/self-help-and-the-mythology-of -authenticity.html

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/commen t/unfiction/myth-authenticity-limits-access-under-sun

http://www.tureckbach.com/publication-documentation/page/bach- myth-authenticity



tl;dr it is how you sell expensive tacos to white people in modern day Brooklyn

The only thing worse is being stuck in a 'social setting' with that one person who thinks they're showing how profound and out there they are by arguing that like, actually Ed Wood or some other director of Z-grade films is unironcially one of the greatest directors ever.

All of us on this webzone are exactly what you two are describing, as far as I understand.

SO WHO ELSE IS ALREADY WORKING ON THEIR COSTUME FOR THIS YEAR'S ZOMBIE MARCH?

Sorry. I don't like terrible movies, ironically or morbidly.

I don't mind watching a clip of them, but the whole thing would be like watching traffic for an hour to see an accident and then sitting through the cleanup.

I can enjoy the hell out of incompetent movies, but there is a fine line between amazing bad and waste of time bad. There's definitely an "pre-approved" vibe that skews to the latter.

I find Breen to just be boring bad. Everyone's hailing him and the next Wiseau or Nguyen but his movies are, at best, something you'd leave running in the background while you do something else.

In the case of The Room, it's more like watching a notorious intersection where accidents happen every ten minutes.