Dan Olson / Folding Ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Je2c7ZJes&t=0s

Full version of Charlie Tango.

Edited by Eldritcho on Dec 5th 2018 at 7:05:15 AM

I died when she sang, "I'm not the crack whore."

I think Dan purposely avoided the more sexual lines because it's frankly easy to make Sex lines sound awful, especially without context. That and Youtube being what it is.

B-E S-U-R-E T-O D-R-I-N-K Y-O-U-R O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E

Ah, Dan, continuing the proud tradition of pouring stuff on your face. Someone even made a wallpaper version
Also, I don't really get the joke with Deck the Halls and Chinese accent . Is it just Asian Speekee Engrish?

Yes, it is just "laugh at these foreigners being unable to speak!" joke. It is not even the right accent, I don't think. It is Japanese, not Chinese, that is famous for not having an "L" sound (Li is a common Chinese name, after all).

I've never heard of this movie before. Glad for that.

I see, it's the Japanese Ranguage trope. Didn't catch that at first cause, as you said, the restaurant's Chinese not Japanese, but then again Interchangeable Asian Cultures.
*David Attenborough voice* Here in the wild Youtube comment section do we Poe's Law in its natural habitat. Is it serious? Is it satire? Dan certainly thinks it's not satire, but I guess we'll never know.

The whole scene feels too sincere to be satire, in all honesty.

A video discussing Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and analyzing exactly why this movie is so spectacularly bad. It is a good movie and a good watch to learn how a movie fail. It is also a second edition of a older video from 2012.

You know, more than anything, I am curious why this video. Why, of all his old videos, he decided to remake this one. I mean, the new one is much better, of course, but to my memory it doesn't bring that much new information. The older video could still stand on its own merits. So why this?

Edited by Heatth on Jan 11th 2019 at 10:43:57 AM

He literally answers your question in the description

Edited by Ghilz on Jan 11th 2019 at 2:09:27 PM

Funny, I thought I had looked at the description. Still seems like a weird choice to me, though. I guess I just don't think this video changed enough to be worth the time (for him, not the viewers), specially considering it is already a very niche topic anyway.

Ok, so I came across this tweet on Dan's twitter and I thought it was photoshoped at first, but nope, this is the Chun Li's actual ending in Street Fighter II. Just... wow. If only they'd keep this ending for the movie.

We should be getting his vlog of Glass today. He did not like it.

... everything about that post made me happy. Hope it's up by lunch.

it's out

Dan talks about the movie Serenity (2019), which many compare to Book Of Henry

Hey look, a video game movie! Continuing the proud tradition, I see

Seemed like a good idea that got lost in the way, honestly. A few rewriters by a more polished writer could result in something interestingly experimental.

Also: I was intrigued that Olson's opinions on Split/Glass mark the first time I so vehemently disagree with him.

I'm more of the opinion that while Split's probably my favorite Shyamalan movie, Glass was quite the disappointment.

My favorite Shyamalan movies, in order, go something like:

1 - Unbreakable.

2 - The Sixth Sense.

3 - Split.

4 - Glass.

5 - Signs.

6 - The Visit.

Everything else is just complete disaster after complete disaster (except the Village which I mildly enjoy before the twist throws the entire thing off its rails).

Glass and Split have pretty much interchangeable spots in that list, too. Liked them a similar amount, but in different ways (Split is slick and "safer" while Glass is flawed but more ambitious).

Is ATLA so low that it doesn't register?

Wasn't Lady in the Water and Devil a Shamalyan movie?

Lady in the Water was, and Devil was written by him but directed by someone else (As was Stuart Little)

Also missing is After Earth

And the best Shyamalan movie is the Happening, because it's an amazing comedy to watch with friends.

Edited by Ghilz on Jan 26th 2019 at 9:13:19 AM

Well I did mention those were my favorites. All the others not among those six are complete disasters to varying extents. When the man goes high he can go really high (with Unbreakable being legitimately one of my favorite films) but when he goes low he can go underneath the bedrock of the fucking earth.

I know not that which you speak, sir.