“The Disaster Artist” (** out of four) was an occasionally funny story about the bizarre filmmaker Tommy Visseau (James Franco) and how he created the notoriously awful 2003 film “The Room” and how he clearly had more ego and eccentricity than talent. Franco (who also directed) shows his admirable risks and taking chances again with offbeat material but his self-indulgent, mumbling performance and severely unpleasant character makes this tough to stick with all the way through. Dave Franco is good as his actor friend and Seth Rogen is funny as the script supervisor who later became the film director. The real Tommy Visseau is shown in footage at the very end.