The Disaster Artist Itty Bitty - Spoiler - Free! - Griddy review!

Hello and welcome to the Griddy Films Itty Bitty spoiler-free review for The Disaster Artist. This is gonna be the 2017 biopic just released in theaters starring James Franco and Dave Franco as Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero respectively. The movie is rated R for some language throughout and some sexuality and nudity. I guess you could say The Disaster Artist is kind of like if the movies Ed Wood and The Room had a baby and that movie baby was directed by James Franco. I think that kind of works. Now, first and foremost, if you haven't already seen The Room and you plan to see The Disaster Artist, see The Room first. It's not necessary I think you'll definitely still be able to appreciate The Disaster Artist. It stands on its own as a really good movie. But it will help with the humor and I highly recommend it. And I also just recommend seeing The Room to anybody. I recently watched it for the first time I'm gonna be posting a Nitty Griddy review of The Room on the same day as this review on so you can check that out, as well. So, one of the weaker aspects of The Disaster Artist is gonna come in genre. I talk a lot in my review of The Room about how it's really hard to place it in a specific genre because it's just a lot of poorly defined genre elements without really committing to anything in particular. It's also difficult to place The Disaster Artist in a genre, although for kind of the opposite reason. It's kind of a melding of a few different genres and there are very strong genre elements and tropes that kind of contribute to this melding together. So, you definitely have the biopic. This is based on the true story of the friendship of Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero and, secondarily, the making of The Room, so it definitely falls within the biopic genre, but even more than that, I think The Disaster Artist is a buddy film. It's very much so about the friendship between Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero and it definitely has some very silly and kind of outlandish moments that are pretty typical within a buddy comedy or even a bromance kind of genre. It has a lot more heart than you would normally see in a buddy comedy, and also the script is just very well crafted and has a lot more depth than you would normally get. It does fall into a cheesiness at times which, in a weird way, I think is in there to kind of balance out the shenanigans that you get from Tommy Wiseau, and that says a lot not just about Tommy Wiseau but about the cleverness of this movie and the craftsmanship of the script, that they were able to balance it out that way. So, it definitely, even though genre was one of the weaker areas of the movie, I think it does manage to do some strong and interesting things, particularly the biopic and buddy comedy kind of melding that we get here. The genre category, overall, I still gave an A- so it's definitely very strong and it speaks to to the strength of this movie as a whole that that's one of the weaker categories. I did give slightly lower scores to both the sound and the editing but I really didn't find a ton worth talking about in either of those categories. There wasn't any glaring faults, it just wasn't perfect. But those did get lower scores in my grid than the genre, but I just had less to talk about, so that's why I chose to talk about genre for the weakness of the movie. As far as the strengths for The Disaster Artist go, it's definitely, like I mentioned before, it's a strong movie all the way around. A lot of things were done really really well, which I will delve much more into in the Nitty Griddy review for The Disaster Artist, but as far as a spoiler-free review goes, what I can say for sure is that both the character aesthetics and the environmental aesthetics of The Disaster Artist were perfect. So what I mean by that, with character aesthetics, that's gonna be hair, makeup, and costumes and with environment aesthetics, it's gonna be sets, props, and locations. And what made this movie so perfect in both of those categories was largely just the way it was able to replicate so perfectly everything we see in The Room, from costumes to hair to make up to even the prosthetics on James Franco to make him look so much like Tommy Wiseau. I mean, it's just everything within those categories. The attention to detail is phenomenal. So, easily those two categories are perfect and like, I said at the beginning of this review, it's not necessary to see The Room before you see The Disaster Artist, but I think it helps to see The Room first just to further appreciate all those attentions to detail. And I think this movie is probably gonna get nominated for an Academy Award for for things like set design, possibly even costumes, and makeup for the prosthetics to turn James Franco into Tommy Wiseau. There's just a lot of areas that I think are gonna be award-worthy. Maybe not winners but I think for sure we're going to see some nominations in at least a couple of those categories. So, yeah, for sure one of the biggest strengths of this movie. So, overall, I gave The Disaster Artist a 91.23, which is a solid A. it's not quite a perfect movie but it's extremely fun, it's funny, it's heartwarming, it's inspiring. It's got a lot of things going for it and it's just a very well-crafted movie overall and an interesting look at an interesting guy. I mean, Tommy Wiseau, I'm, like, obsessed with him. He's--I just can't figure him out and I want to so badly but nobody ever will 'cause he won't let them. Which I think is good but he's just-- he's a weird dude and he sees the world differently. It's just a great movie so I recommend everybody go see it. I think it's likely to get nominated for quite a few awards and deservedly so. It's just a it's a great movie. Hey, thanks for watching. Let me know what you thought in the comments below and if you like what you saw, be sure to subscribe to Griddy Films on YouTube and like and share this video. You can also follow Griddy Films on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. If you'd like to learn more about the Griddy Films grid rating system, you can check out the Griddy Films website and if you'd like to learn how you can support Griddy Films, you can check out the Griddy Films Patreon page. Thanks again for watching and I'll see you next time!