The disaster artist is about
the making of the cult movie «The Room», so you should see that first instead to appreciate «The Disaster Artist» better.
One of our favourite movies of the latter part of this year in the upcoming The Disaster Artist, James Franco's feature that looks into
the making of the cult film The Room, one that is heralded as being the Citizen Kane of bad movies.
Ryan Moody says he was tapped by director James Franco in 2013 to adapt the book about
the making of the cult film «The Room.»
When James Franco set out to make «The Disaster Artist» — the behind the scenes story of
the making of cult classic «The Room» — he knew he'd have a tough critic in «The Room» director Tommy Wiseau.
The behind - the - scenes story of
the making of the cult film «The Room,» with James Franco playing the film's star / writer / director / jack - of - all - trades Tommy Wiseau.
Based on the best - selling tell - all book about
the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.
This week, Slate's culture editor Forrest Wickman joins the critics to discuss The Disaster Artist, James Franco's new film exploring
the making of the cult classic The Room.
«Lady Bird,» the directorial debut of Greta Gerwig, and «The Disaster Artist,» about
the making of the cult flick «The Room,» have both succeeded by courting younger audiences.
Secondly, the Dreamcast was a genuine surprise to me, and had all
the makings of a cult console even then with its unusual library and design features.
Not exact matches
(The name appears to reference the 1970s
cult film Soylent Green, in which humans ate a strange food that turned out to be other humans, but Rhinehart says that in the book version, soylent was
made of soya and lentils.)
As can be seen from the trailer below, the constant criticisms that Hoffman's character is «
making all this up as he goes along» and creating a
cult are pretty reminiscent
of common Scientology attacks.
Ads for its Galaxy phones mock the
cult of Apple,
making the corporate rivalry seem personal.
By
making sophisticated, affordable, and hard - to - find phones (Lei limits the number
of units he
makes), Xiaomi has developed a
cult - like following.
This
cult of hyper - performance is nurtured by a growing army
of personal trainers and yoga coaches who
make their living by fine - tuning and de-stressing business leaders.
Curiously, founder / CEO /
cult leader Elon Musk just tweeted an April Fool's joke yesterday that Tesla was declaring bankruptcy...
making light
of his company's dire financial condition as if he either doesn't understand or doesn't care.
once again this is a
cult and should be
made illegal in the united states i find this no more worthy than the hari krishnas
of the 60's only there more violent and have proven this several times over talking anti american constantly kick em to the curb...
Six years before that, Paul Vitz had
made a similar point in Psychology as Religion: psychology, he wrote, had become a substitute for faith» a new religion encouraging a
cult of self - worship.
The religious leaders
of this
cult are in control — they
make the rules and dictate what their followers must do and not do.
Mr. Bush, as many people have taken on the «Church is
making (insert name here) into a
cult member», Catholicism and Lutheranism have a process called confirmation where the adolescent is supposed to
make a choice if he / she wants to be a member
of the church.
Pagans do not care which god you worship but the
Cult of the Emperor
made the Romans care.
It is these aspects
of the church: control
of the finances
of members, control over all aspects
of interpersonal relationships, segregation
of believers into levels
of worthiness, not to mention the dubious credibility
of the sole person who
made up the entire religion... That
make Mormonism look a whole lot more like a
cult than a religion.
In fact every flip flop he has ever
made was reflective
of LDS belief... in other words when they did nt like his position they
made him change it and he always will obey that why it is a
cult... full control
of its members.
I am just glad that every time CNN tries to
make Mormons look normal more people look it up and realize how much
of a perverted
cult it is and it blows up in their face.
Most
cults make people afraid to leave for fear
of being rejected and
made to feel as if they betrayed God.
The leaders
of the Mormon Church / «
Cult» are not paid is often heard from the Mormon peons which somehow
makes these leaders good men.
All mormons believe in the
cult first no political decisions can be
made without church approval to preserve their cause
of taking money, property, and polygomy.
Anyone who has even just perused the book
of mormon can see the people followingthis
cult, as nice as they may seem, are
making a point to distance themselves from the real world.
After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and
made his beloved horse a high priest
of his
cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons
of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.
Nor should we neglect the way that the
cult clearly achieved prominence by the negative way that it disrupted and displaced competing focuses
of religious allegiance (a significant point
made by Susan Alcock).
This,
of course, restricts open discourse, and
makes it a
cult.
He managed to
make his own
cult of personality and, kept nations under his thrall through fear and intimidation.
In fact, we may rightly claim that the preaching
of the gospel and the administration
of the sacraments must necessarily go together; to put it in language used by Professor Whitehead in Religion in the
Making, the «
cult» (by which Whitehead meant the social action
of worship) and the «myth» (by which he meant the story which explains a society's worship) can never be separated.
Troyer believes that he and his wife were lured into a
cult made up
of breakaway members
of the larger Amish community near Bergholz in rural eastern Ohio.
We who live in a world which it can truly be said to have revolutionized acknowledge its social significance — and sometimes even
make it the object
of a
cult.
Several
of the Yale ministers, as well as other clergymen whom I have known, have criticized AA because some
of its members tend to
make it a religious
cult.
The provenance
of some
of this concern is perhaps unsurprising given that the crowds who came (over 6000 to the Oxford Oratory, for instance) included a minority
of Senior Citizens, who might possibly remember the
cult of relics from their youth, but was mainly
made up by the young and middle - aged.
the article is irresponsible in not
making clear to the reader that these images were created hundreds
of years after the fact by enemies
of Christ (Romans) who subsequently saw it as political beneficial to gain political control
of the otherwise uncontrollable christian
cult for the purpose
of expanding the roman empire.
God could
make his will / plan as knowable as chemistry and math (since he
made chemistry and math as knowable as he
made chemistry and math), but he doesn't, and so there's no way to determine what is or is not his will / plan so religions and
cults and private individuals continue to debate which books (written by men) are or are not part
of his plan or will.
Today we have plenty
of cults, sects and false churches replacing practical love and righteousness in daily life (that would require the true faith) through ridiculous rituals (for example, the Muslims keep the 5 Pillars
of Islam; that is enough to be a good Muslim, but they are not required to love all people independent from belief, nationality, etc.) The
cults, sects and false churches
make their members practicing a biased love.
Now that they're suddenly saying it isn't a metaphor because the author
of this article
made a few giant leaps in logic when connecting recent scientific evidence to some
cult that's been around for a few thousand years.
Mormonism is definitely a
cult and a corrupted version
of Christianity that nothing more than a
made in America club.
I am a born again christian, Santorum was in a
cult as well, as you all seem to think Rommey a morman
makes a difference it's God will to get Pres. Obama out
of office get your head on strait or we will have P Obama again and lose all our rights as Christians, and people in all walks
of life.
do you mean that the same mindless, lemming drones that follow their
cults in worshiping the man -
made gods can't comprehend the simple concept
of «we're all humans... no better than one another... and it's OK to co-habitate»
The LDS church's audacity to infringe upon your rights, even dead, and your children's rights, by forcefully and secretly
making them part
of their crazy
cult is just one example
of their lack
of respect and personal boudaries for everyone on this planet.
The
cult of Christianity has shifted back to a temple
made by human hands and away from a temple
of God's presence moving throughout the world as good news.
Whatever
makes you feel like your religion still isn't a
cult... which most
of us know that it IS.
This issue
of wearing religion on your sleeve is wrong and thinking it
makes you better than the rest or draw attention to yourself for publicity and self promotion, that ends up in big dollar contracts is akin to the religious
cult and religous business that is the Tammy and Jim Baker.
With his denial
of the rapture & his belief that the church is
making the world better, he shows that he is speaking for the roman catholic
cult.
CNN and writers like Borg
make one
of the original core elements
of American society look some kind
of wacky fad or
cult.
great, i always thought there should be more depth to
cults instead
of just telling flat lies and collecting money from the non-educated and brain - washed morons... this just
makes the whole thing
of CULT seem way more real, more so then it ever did!