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After reading 'The Disaster Artist' and finding out about Tommy's life..


...I kinda understand him. I recommend the book to everyone. Very few books have invoked such emotions in me as this one. Tommy is truly one of a kind.

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After reading Greg's book, I have the impression that Tommy is a hard person to deal with, but at the same time, you can't really get angry at him. Spoiler for anyone who hasn't read the book:

I think Tommy may have had a serious head injury after the car accident, hence why he acts the way he does.

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For me he is was and still is a pretentious *beep* even after reading the Disaster Artist; I actually admire that Greg never punched him, I would've.

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Over halfway through the book at the moment and I am disgusted at the way he treats people. Obvioulsy, there is something wrong with him over the accidents, but he is very delusional and treats people extremely bad. I hate that and there is no excuse. Greg became friends with him and trusted him, and he really screwed him over by being so jealous and competing with him like a lunatic. I'm past the part where we wanted to become a model, just because Greg was. Like seriously, do you not own a mirror? It seems like he is just trying to better others to soothe his own ego, I couldn't stand someone like that, I wouldn't be able to be so nice and keep my mouth shut.

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I'm not particularly fond of Tommy OR Greg after reading that book.

Even given the fact that tell-all books have to be taken with several billion grains of salt, there's enough independent material to support the conclusion that Tommy Wiseau is not someone that's healthy to be around. He doesn't really understand America or Americans and prefers to bluff rather than learn.

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If Sestero was trying to make himself the sympathetic character, he failed miserably. Putting aside the fact that the book read like an overgrown mean girl gossiping to her hangers-on about the school misfit, Sestero had two opportunities to force Tommy into civilized behavior--once with his replacing Don/Dan, once with Juliette's back acne--and he chose not to do anything.

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That's just speculation on your part (regarding the head injury resulting from his car accident).

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It explains pretty much everything though. Damage to the frontal lobe can be something as simple as hitting the dashboard the wrong way during a crash and it would explain his behavior, impulses, memory issues, and the wildly telling fact that he couldn't complete the sequence of walking down two steps; looking up and speaking his lines during those 32 takes of the roof scene.

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And thus, the trollouroboros is born, and we are all doomed.

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The guy is def not all there. That is irrefutable.

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The guy is def not all there. That is irrefutable.

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