Best F(r)iends: 5 Reasons It’s Better Than The Room

Best F(r)iends and The Room both are equally popular films, and the leading actor in both of the films is Tommy Wiseau who is one of the most bizarre actors in the film industry of Hollywood. The Room was released in the year 2003 and directed, written & produced by Tommy Wiseau. The film also starred the actress Juliette Danielle as Lisa and the actor Greg Sestero as Mark. The story of the film The Room revolves around a love triangle between Tommy Wiseau as a banker Johnny, his deceptive fiancée Lisa, and his best friend, Mark.

On the other hand, the film Best F(r)iends is a thriller film. It was released in the year 2017 and directed by Justin MacGregor. This film also starred Tommy Wiseau in the lead role along with Greg Sestero. The tale of the movie is about a homeless drifter who started working at a morgue in Los Angeles because his boss was hiding a mysterious past, and Greg wanted to realize this to him.

Here we will discuss the five reasons that Best F(r)iends is better than The Room.

Best F(r)iends: Self-Aware Humor

Best F(r)iends is an average film, but Greg Sestero played a vital role in the film. His screenplay was capitalized on the mysterious and loud personality of Tommy Wiseau. However, people found this film ridiculous, but unlike the film, The Room, Sestero was already aware of the fact that the twisted story of friendship was not that much serious.

The tale of the film involved a homeless drifter who was working at a morgue for his boss. The boss of Sestero was interested and highly attracted to collecting gold teeth and crafting face masks for the dead bodies. The suggestion of Sestero to his boss of selling the teeth in the black market to earn money quickly threw both of them into the world of crime. Some of the useless dialogues from the movie counted in the strangeness of Tommy Wiseau.

Sestero’s Vision

Greg Sestero was the only person who could genuinely understand Tommy Wiseau. Sestero considered Wiseau as his best friend behind the scenes of the film, and even he did not know the actual age of Tommy Wiseau. According to the views of Sestero, the film Best F(r)iends was inspired by true events, and this is the reason that the film Best F(r)iends is far better than the film, The Room.

Fitting Tribute To Wiseau’s Legacy

Although the film Best F(r)iends is not a successful film according to most of the people, there is another fact that this movie was not meant to stand in the first place. The film, Best F(r)iends is a fitting tribute to the ‘Ed Wood-like’ legacy of Tommy Wiseau along with his work in the film, The Room. But still, if you consider Best F(r)iends ironically or unironically, it will always be a better film than The Room.

The Friendship

According to the title of the film, friendship is the best aspect of Best F(r)iends. We cannot judge about the real-life friendship status of Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero, but they have shared an incredible and emotional friendship bond in the film. If we talk about the film, The Room, the friendship bond of Wiseau and Sestero was also depicted in this film, but their bond has been described more strongly in Best F(r)iends. This is because The Room has depicted Wiseau as a self-centered and tragic hero while Sestero as a crybaby.

Makes Best Use Of Idiosyncrasies

Even after having some flaws in the film Best F(r)iends, it can still be enjoyed if you watch the movie as an experimental film. The director of the film is Jason MacGregor, and he made the best use of idiosyncrasies of the leading pair, Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero.

After discussing all the five reasons that can prove the film Best F(r)iends more appreciable than the film, The Room, we have concluded that both of the films are not that good. But, due to the real friendship bond, which Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero shared on the screen and behind the scenes, the film Best F(r)iends is undoubtedly better than The Room.

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Centigrade: Movie Review and Summary

The thriller genre survival film from IFC midnight that touches upon claustrophobia fails to impress.

The actors who star in the film are Genesis Rodriguez and Vincent Piazza. The story is about a couple who somehow gets trapped in a frozen car with no help near them.  However, the fun is evidently missing from the plot.

The film is directed by Brendan Walsh who also co-wrote the script with Daley Nixon. Both of them are newcomers to feature filmmaking and tried to embed fact and fiction by basing a story upon real-life events. The film is about an American novelist and her husband who gets trapped inside a frozen car while they were on a book tour in Norway.

The premise is certainly fiction and the statement that it is based on “real-life events” is sort of a vague phrase to make the story more likeable. A real-life story is not always cinematic because we live in a boring world. But blending fact and fiction can sometimes be even more dangerous from a filmmaker’s point of view.

Anyway, the first scene is one of the few talking points of the film. During the first scene itself, without beating about the bush, the film introduces what it’s all about. Novelist Naomi (Genesis Rodriguez) and Matt (Vincent Piazza) are trapped in a car and are discussing how they spent the whole night in the car.

Their car is sort of covered in both snow and ice and this has made the car invisible on the road. Also, their mobile network has disappeared. So, basically, they cannot call for help.

Though the story takes place inside the car, a few shots of the outside environment make us realize how ruthless the weather is, which is accentuated by some good shots taken by the cinematographer Seamus Tierney.

As the movie goes forward, Naomi and Matt ponder over several ways which can get them out of there such as “How can we break the window?”, “How can we get our mobile network working?” “Why did it stop working in the first place?”

The film is less about suspense and more about drama. It touches upon the emotional aspects of their relationship. Both of them have a secret that they haven’t revealed to each other.

It is revealed later on in the film that Naomi is pregnant, so a different variable of a child makes their grim situation even worse. Neither the plot nor the twist is unpredictable, and that makes the film kind of boring in the middle. The film does start off really well as the opening shot makes us worry about the characters, but the story never transitioned into anything much deeper, and the intensity of each shot stayed as it is until the climax. The conclusion, however, is not that bad.

Genesis Rodrigues delivers impressive performance and she might be the only reason some people might go through with the film. The duration of the film is 98 minutes, and though most of the screen time is focused on the dilemma inside the car, there are few shots that do give us some glimpses of filmmaker Walsh’s talent.

In the end, there is nothing more to talk about. The film really is about survival, but it failed to connect with us, and it will be fair to summarize everything in four words- It failed to solidify.

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