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An infuriating stunt that misrepresents itself as James Franco and co-director Travis Mathews' reimagining of the 40 minutes William Friedkin claims he was forced to cut from "Cruising" to get an R rating.
…finds Franco and Matthews deciding to re-imagine 40 minutes of gay sex supposedly cut from William Friedkin's 1980 thriller Cruising (about five seconds of practical thought makes it pretty obvious that no such footage could imaginably have been shot, if for no other reason than the implausibility of Cruising having been conceived as a film that was two-fifths gay sex; it's not clear if Franco and Matthews, at any level of fictional or nonfictional remove, indulged in that five seconds).
…serves as a fascinating rumination on the current state of GLBT acceptance in society via a graphic re-creation of missing footage from 1980’s controversial Cruising .
Tim Burton’s Ed Wood is the obvious reference point, but The Disaster Artist is able to carve out its own unique niche.
What Franco and friends were going for here is another “Ed Wood,” but “Disaster Artist” isn’t about sweet but untalented people living in a collective delusional dream.
But the central relationship is undernourished; it’s no Ed Wood, a film that infused its crazy crusade with regret and surrogate paternal affection.
There’s a surface resemblance to Ed Wood, but Tim Burton’s gee-whiz, Horatio Alger tone and affection for Wood’s sincerity is a world away from Franco’s Wiseau, with his nowhere accent, abiding paranoia, and creepy possessiveness.
The Disaster Artist at times mixes two subtly different types of behind-the-scenes subgenres: a tale of indie-film calamity (think Living in Oblivion) and a tale of delusional but adorable, can-do scrappiness (think Ed Wood or Bowfinger).
The Disaster Artist comes off a lot like Ed Wood or even American Splendor where it feels like there’s always multiple layers to what Franco is doing, especially when it starts with testimonials by well-known actors who are fans of The Room.
He starred as Jewel in James Franco’s little-seen adaptation of William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying,” and he’s probably best known for his role as Charlie Holloway in Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus.”
Apatow’s cameo as an “asshole producer” in The Disaster Artist is undeniably clever.