Ok so having now watched Fateful Findings and Double Down, this Neil Breen is *WAY* worse than Wiseau.
There's a bit of a pattern in having a delusional idiot write himself as the flawless hero lead, but where Wiseau dabbles, Breen jumps in head first.
Still haven't seen I Am Here.... Now and I think I might have to save it for a special occasion.

This is is a bit off topic , but I was thinking it would be great to host a total train wreck ( for lack of a better term ) event that would feature Tommy Wiseau , Neil Breen , Tom Green , and ( perhaps ) Crispin Glover making speeches to a crowd about whatever they wanted to . It could take place under the name of " Bad Movies Bash Night " and it would start off with Wiseau giving a speech about The Room/psychology while Tom Green would run around wearing a cheese helmet . Then Neil Breen could enter and do his thing , followed by Crispin Glover in his Letterman era getup . What would result could very well turn out to be a comedy skit for the ages .

Maybe the show could fade out via the Amazing Atheist getting on stage and singing his songs or doing a rant about religion/politics . At any rate an event like that would be ( potentially ) awesome and I'd pre order a ticket if it ever came to materialize .

I downloaded Double Down from YouTube but still haven't watched it. Watched Fateful Findings twice though with different people.

Breen and Wiseau have a lot of similarities. Breen spends all his time painting himself as some kind of ultimate moral superiority, but hey, so did Wiseau. Literally about a third of the dialog in The Room was just talking about "what a great guy Johnny (Wiseau's character) is" and similar rhetoric. We were constantly reminded that Lisa is "so beautiful" and that Johnny was "so amazing and good for everyone." Well done guys, you wrote vehicles for your own egos with no subtlety at all, ha ha!

I Am Here.... Now feels the most like an actual movie, in that there's something of a plot propelling things forward. It's still a complete Breen nightmare of ego and incompetence, but it may be his finest from a technical standpoint. Still need to see Pass Thru though.

Our man seems to not be thrilled by the whole Disaster Artist project : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMwpMVJ9oog

He hasn't taken any legal action against the creators of the book or the movie , so that's a bit of a good sign .

That's funny because he's in that movie.

I actually went to school with a guy who has met him.

He said he was actually a pretty interesting guy in person.

If Tommy Wiseau was a metalhead, what bands do you think he'd listen to?

He seems like a Type O Negative kind of guy to me.

He looks like bizarro world Peter Steele.

I watched Fateful Findings for the first time in full a couple days ago. My god, this movie makes The Room look like actual Citizen Kane. It might just be the most inept movie I've ever seen in my life, but less in an explicitly "funny bad" way that The Room is and more a mix of "funny bad" and "I'm wasting my time watching this bad".

I showed Fateful Findings to my mom, brother, and kid recently. It definitely has that borderline feel of "hilariously bad" and "wasting time" mix. I think the wasting time element comes from the shots where nothing is happening and he's just filling time with scenery. But whenever dialog is happening, it's pretty amazing. Like The Room, it becomes really repetitive to pad time, but it has such a great payoff.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BANK SHOOTS HIMSELF.

He very, very slowly shoots himself.

Also, the entire scene with the neighbor woman shooting her husband, the daughter finding out, and Neil Breen wiping the guy's blood on his face is the new best bad movie scene ever. It's the "I did naht heet hur!" scene from The Room up to a million.

I would say it's more like this scene:


"How could you commit suicide?....I can't help you out of this one Jim"

I can't see Wiseau anymore without remembering that one comic that claimed he was DB Cooper. It was a joke, but it just makes so much sense.

The official trailer for Disaster Artist is out : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMKX2tE5Luk

The defining moment of Tommy Wiseau is the sex scene in The Room where he keeps trying to grab the actress's boob, and she keeps batting his hand away. That's what the guy is all about: trying to use his work as a way to get some action (sex, fame, etc) and getting shot down because he's too much of a creepy weirdo.

This deserves more attention!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=89RP0oPEiv0

This is a must watch parody.

I dunno about Big Shark. The vibes of self-awareness are pretty damn strong, which could seriously undermine how funny it could be. I'll probably watch it anyway, but self awareness seemed to be creeping into the latest Neil Breen movie to at least some degree and it does take away some of the magic.

I'll be honest, shit like this just makes me roll my eyes. Shit like The Room only works when you came across it at the video store or on some shitty television channel at 1 AM and you and your friend laughed at what in the hell you were watching and you moved on with your lives. Now it's a trend and a meme, Tommy Wiseau is halfway to a household name, and your grandpa is now on his tablet going "HaHa So BaD It'S GoOd".

The joke's dead. Tommy Wiseau was once funny precisely because he was just a "normal" guy trying to make a movie and miserably failing and someone should tell him that's as far as it goes and he should go back into the shadows (of course he won't, because $$$). Now he's a self-aware caricature who has been endlessly enabled by a culture obsessed with being awkward and ironic and it's just annoying.

UHH HAY

GLENN DANZIG APPARENTLY MADE THE ROOM OF HORROR ANTHOLOGIES.

Any Chicago folks get a chance to go see this?

Some great moments from the article:









I have got to see this fucking movie.