The Disaster Artist Vlog (and stories about awful movies Dan has worked on)

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  • I enjoyed The Disaster Artist. It's a good film for people who probably already know they want to see it. It's a bit Inside Baseball for a wide audience, not as accessible as its comparison Ed Wood, because there's a lot of moments that rely on the audience knowing just how awful the final product actually is, but if you think you're gonna like it, you're probably going to like it.
    Written and performed by Dan Olson
    Twitter: / foldablehuman
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  • @SeanBarkerNegaScott128
    @SeanBarkerNegaScott128 Před 6 lety +1244

    "I don't know where they learned to make sandwiches, but it was not Earth."
    Amazing.

    • @hunterhaller4065
      @hunterhaller4065 Před 6 lety +15

      Sean Barker going to have to work that one into my snarky vocabulary for sure

    • @worrywirt
      @worrywirt Před 6 lety +18

      Reminds me of that bit in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series when Arthur sets up a sandwich stall on a remote planet... but the other way around

    • @kidyuki1
      @kidyuki1 Před 6 lety +28

      They learned to make sandwiches at the same place where Tommy Wiseau learned about human interaction.

    • @littlefieryone2825
      @littlefieryone2825 Před 4 lety +7

      @@worrywirt That means that in the grander scheme of the galaxy, sandwiches are what makes earth special. When we make it, it's a master craft. When another species tries it, it's tomato soaked bread.

    • @LilStormborn
      @LilStormborn Před 4 lety +4

      @@littlefieryone2825 thats Sounds so pratchett-y I love it. Thank you for the smile:)

  • @dedem1315
    @dedem1315 Před 6 lety +753

    I don't think I've ever seen a man traumatised over sandwiches before

    • @EggBastion
      @EggBastion Před 6 lety +17

      dedem1315 - _'You haven't lived'_

    • @ClayMann
      @ClayMann Před 6 lety +8

      But then again, who does?

    • @ETYPEJaguar38
      @ETYPEJaguar38 Před 2 lety +1

      Battleship Potemkin I guess

    • @DevinMNox
      @DevinMNox Před 2 lety +4

      The times at which I resonate most with the emotion in Dan’s face and voice when he says “Your soul DIES,” are the times when someone brings me a dead kitten at work.
      …Somehow, someone managed to make a sandwich so badly that it rivals dead kittens in level of trauma.

    • @BimpytheWimpyShrimpy
      @BimpytheWimpyShrimpy Před rokem +2

      @@DevinMNox ... People bring you _dead kittens?_

  • @seekittycat
    @seekittycat Před 5 lety +324

    The movie is actually being very "soft" when it comes to painting Tommy's personality. It's even darker yet sadder tbh.

    • @zachesian_the_heathen9198
      @zachesian_the_heathen9198 Před 3 lety +53

      It comes across less an exploration of Tommy Wiseau's character and reflects more a caricature from the point of general perception. Doesn't compare to the book.

    • @morganalabeille5004
      @morganalabeille5004 Před 3 lety +67

      Yeah, the book kinda goes a bit soft on Tommy in the end, probably because it was written by his friend, but it also delves way deeper into Tommy's mental health issues and the impact his actions had on the people around him. At one point Greg Sestero talks about seeing The Incredible Mr Ripley and feeling haunted by how similar the relationship in that movie was to his relationship with Tommy.

    • @Lady-Lilith
      @Lady-Lilith Před 3 lety +34

      I was a bit annoyed they didn't highlight what a jackass he was, especially to all the women on set, and especially Juliette Danielle.

    • @John12494
      @John12494 Před 2 lety +8

      @@Lady-Lilith That's because James Franco is a jackass to the women on his set.

  • @dekopuma
    @dekopuma Před 5 lety +112

    I read the book first, and I was disapointed how relatively tame they made Tommy. They wanted us to sympathize with him when basically everything wrong was his fault, not out of naivety, but out of pure ego. The one 'ogre' scene they left in felt out of place because they hid the fact that he was horrible basically all the time.

    • @gozutheDJ
      @gozutheDJ Před 8 měsíci

      were you there?

    • @JohnGardnerAlhadis
      @JohnGardnerAlhadis Před 4 měsíci

      There was a _book?_

    • @fanboy50
      @fanboy50 Před měsícem

      @@gozutheDJ No, but Greg Sestero, who wrote the book the movie is based on was and knows Tommy personally and his accounts have apparently been corroborated by the other people that worked on The Room so it seems reasonable to trust his account.

  • @PanAndScanBuddy
    @PanAndScanBuddy Před 6 lety +322

    "And without mopping up the tomato juice" Nooooo "they would put the bread right on it." NOOOOOOOOOO

  • @davidbjacobs3598
    @davidbjacobs3598 Před 6 lety +266

    In terms of the "justifying monster directors" bit, it's worth noting no one's ever said a single nice word about Franco either.

    • @MegaZeta
      @MegaZeta Před 3 lety +11

      I'm pretty sure that someone, somewhere has said a "nice word about Franco". It's interesting how the Internet trains people like dogs to turn their statements into gibberish hyperbole.

    • @Adam-yr2nq
      @Adam-yr2nq Před 3 lety +82

      @@MegaZeta I am certain that statement above is not gibberish.

    • @yay4andy620
      @yay4andy620 Před 3 lety +40

      Plus he kidnapped spider man's girlfriend 😥

    • @MrRed-su4rc
      @MrRed-su4rc Před 3 lety +120

      @@MegaZeta I’m three years late on this but this statement really pissed me off so I’ll respond anyway. Literally everyone understood what was trying to be said. A lot of people say Franco is a prick and hard to work with. If you disagreed with that point you could have shared opposing information as opposed to trying to vicariously disprove this point with your condescending specificity of language argument. Specificity of language is important in certain contexts specifically academia but given this casual comment, with context firmly established with an audience in the know, a hyperbole was entirely effective in communicating his point. But go ahead and ignore the fluidity of language do you can condescend a fairly benign point.

    • @wesleywyndam-pryce5305
      @wesleywyndam-pryce5305 Před 3 lety +56

      @@MrRed-su4rc well how else are they going to assure themselves that they are the cleverest boy?

  • @TenkDD
    @TenkDD Před 6 lety +410

    Boy I wonder what bad movies it was that he's worked in where the people were disrespected etc... Sounds "Awesome".

    • @firefly4f4
      @firefly4f4 Před 3 lety +97

      I'm only watching this video now, two years or so after you made this comment, and I think you and I are "Channel"ing the same idea.

    • @setlerking
      @setlerking Před 3 lety +47

      firefly4f4 i feel like we are remembering something so others dont have to

    • @setlerking
      @setlerking Před 3 lety +18

      Zwick Flix Productions Quinton reviews has a video about it, two even. I think he recommended other videos there too.

    • @Jacob-yg7lz
      @Jacob-yg7lz Před 3 lety +23

      @@zwickflixproductions4379 Quinton Reviews' "Fallen Titans" episode on him does it pretty good.

    • @eddiedingle767
      @eddiedingle767 Před 3 lety +29

      I know he's been on one Argento film set.
      However, the no air conditioning/water/"sandwiches" definitely sounds like CA. No film set, no matter how shoddy, if it has anybody respectable now or at anytime, would allow that. If word got out that that was happening, nobody involved, from top to bottom, would ever work again

  • @danopticon
    @danopticon Před 2 lety +32

    I feel for the sandwich story. In my production days, I knew everyone in my city working in production. It wasn’t unusual, between paying gigs, for most of us to volunteer a few days or even a week’s work to someone’s passion project … and the first thing everyone looking for volunteer work realizes is: for a day or two you can get a crew to work for free, but you CAN’T get a crew to work without food! You WILL lose your crew over bad craft services!!

  • @hugo59208
    @hugo59208 Před 6 lety +375

    What a Story Dan

  • @DarkSoulsSauron
    @DarkSoulsSauron Před 6 lety +163

    i'm so glad Dante's Inferno got to the So Bad It's Good stack. unbaptised babies as an enemy type? the terrible renders of fantastic worlds? it's glorious.

    • @tdbla98
      @tdbla98 Před 2 lety +3

      Dante's inferno was one of my favorite games when I was a teen playing xbox360 games. It was such a fun, lame game. It's really in that zone of so bad it's great

    • @anewhero1216
      @anewhero1216 Před 11 měsíci +3

      I remember the first time I played Dante's Inferno was all in one sitting when I had the house to myself as a teenager, enjoyed it a lot and was very tired when I finished lol

    • @paultapping9510
      @paultapping9510 Před 9 měsíci

      ShadowMan on the Nintendo 64 qualifies, I think. The combat is annoying and repetitive. The bosses are underwhelming. The exploration is frustrating, annoying, amd opaque. The writing is unaccountably flowery and overwritten, and yet the game tries so damn hard you have to love it.

  • @LaZodiac
    @LaZodiac Před 6 lety +315

    Everyone with even a foot in the film industry has said the "it gets a little Too Real" and that makes me super sad.

    • @mindlander
      @mindlander Před 6 lety

      LaZodiac why?

    • @mindlander
      @mindlander Před 6 lety +4

      I never get free food where I work.. just bring your own

    • @LaZodiac
      @LaZodiac Před 6 lety +71

      If you have to ask this question than you know nothing about film.

    • @nodemer
      @nodemer Před 5 lety +7

      I have been to a few outdoor shooting for german television and they are stacked on drinks and Snacks and have a foodtruck for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Crazy overload, I pick apples for lunch at work.

    • @MegaZeta
      @MegaZeta Před 3 lety +7

      @@LaZodiac Translation: you didn't know what you meant, you just wanted to look connected and smart, and when someone called you out, you panicked.

  • @odinwalterinc6886
    @odinwalterinc6886 Před 6 lety +162

    I agree with your assessment of Wiseau. I just finished the book, The Disaster Artist, and he seems like a narcissistic, manipulative person. I didn't know someone could be so overly confident and delusional, while being so horribly insecure at the same time.

    • @ChrisLitzenberg
      @ChrisLitzenberg Před 5 lety +28

      I would say the current President gives Wiseau a run for his money

    • @TheStanishStudios
      @TheStanishStudios Před 5 lety +7

      I kinda prefer how terrifying the book made him- in the first part of the book Greg’s a bit afraid of Tommy’s jealousy!

    • @creamithmanning2632
      @creamithmanning2632 Před 5 lety +22

      What are you talking about? Overconfidence to the point of delusion and insecurity are basically peanut butter and jelly. They go hand-in-hand.

  • @ScottKorin
    @ScottKorin Před 6 lety +187

    More on-set horror stories, please.

  • @rickpgriffin
    @rickpgriffin Před 6 lety +429

    I hear "hummus and tomato sandwich" and think "I can make that work" (a firm roll with some give like ciabatta, toasted, a thick layer of garlicy hummus, sundried tomato spread (with roasted peppers?) with a slice fresh tomato and basil leaves) would probably make for a rather substantial vegetarian snack. The actual description is, unfortunately, exactly what I expected.

    • @ZipplyZane
      @ZipplyZane Před 6 lety +8

      Yeah, sounds good to me, too. I'm gonna try that at some point--though I may use a roast pepper spread. And I'll try it just hummus + tomato, just to see. It seems like it would taste okay.

    • @eraldylli
      @eraldylli Před 5 lety +32

      When you prepare it yourself a dish can be more tolerable, especially when compared to a dish made by someone else you don't know. The same sloppy mess can be deliciously messy or disgusting.

    • @4dultw1thj0b
      @4dultw1thj0b Před 5 lety +1

      That sounds delicious!

    • @m_crowley6674
      @m_crowley6674 Před 5 lety +2

      yo holy shit its the guy who does housepets! in a folding ideas comment section

    • @tarvisbickler3787
      @tarvisbickler3787 Před 5 lety +1

      Dan must hate halal food, and therefore islam, seize him.

  • @charlotte5459
    @charlotte5459 Před 3 lety +61

    Commenting years after this video was posted, but on the concept of awful directors being “worth it” because they make good art: that’s completely undercut by the fact that lovely people have made equally good art. If being abusive was the factor that made the art work, then that wouldn’t be possible.

  • @alisonpurgatory85
    @alisonpurgatory85 Před 2 lety +149

    Given James Franco’s abuse of young actresses, I wonder if his sympathizing with Tommy and justifying monster directors and sometimes going soft on him is a bit telling...

    • @copsuicide
      @copsuicide Před 10 měsíci

      How about James Cranko and he's addicted to beating off

  • @InfiniteAnvil
    @InfiniteAnvil Před 6 lety +107

    A So Bad It's Good video game you might want to check out is the first Harry Potter game for PC. It's a 3rd-person platformer with graphics that look like they belong on the PS1. The sound design & character animations are particularly entertaining - the voice clips for the spells are ripe for a remix; any time Harry lands on a ledge or needs to go up something steeper than a flight of stairs, he makes the same a disturbingly sexual grunt; and when you run, his robes cling to his ass as it makes anatomically nonsensical back-and-forth motions.

    • @beckyginger3432
      @beckyginger3432 Před 6 lety +5

      InfiniteAnvil did it have peeves In it?

    • @td3312
      @td3312 Před 6 lety +15

      It did, as I recall. I think peeves is a sort of miniboss in more than one of the Harry Potter games.

    • @sparksbet
      @sparksbet Před 6 lety +31

      FLIPPENDO

    • @musicalnotextr
      @musicalnotextr Před 6 lety +19

      I have quite fond memories of that game. It was, like, the first real computer game I played that wasn’t something educational like “Jump Start”

    • @andrewollmann304
      @andrewollmann304 Před 6 lety +15

      Not too mention the oddly shaped heads of the characters and the fact that their mouths never move. Oh, and Quirell snaps his neck to become Voldemort.

  • @djshire1984
    @djshire1984 Před 6 lety +158

    I had to pause after Dan said "your soul dies" because I was laughing too hard

  • @MorganScott82
    @MorganScott82 Před 6 lety +202

    Given some of the recent discussion around Channel Awesome and knowing that you had contributed some there, I wonder if some of these stories are about their sets. You don't have to confirm or anything, but I wonder. I love you content and insights.

    • @DomoftheDoctor
      @DomoftheDoctor Před 5 lety +51

      Your comment only just made me realise that this was probably what he was talking about. Damn, that whole business still upsets me.

    • @littlefieryone2825
      @littlefieryone2825 Před 4 lety +18

      Refresh my memory, did he contribute in the same sense that Lindsay Ellis and others used to contribute? I don't recall seeing him pop up in any clips I've seen of the Channel Awesome movies, but I haven't watched them.

    • @caedilly
      @caedilly Před 4 lety +16

      LittleFieryOne im assuming he was behind the scenes, i cant remember seeing him on screen at any time either

    • @sampagano205
      @sampagano205 Před 4 lety +35

      Eh, channel awesome didn't provide craft services at all. So bad craft services seems like it's beyond them.

    • @sampagano205
      @sampagano205 Před 4 lety +30

      Also in a video with Lindsay where they talked about their bad experiences on a film set where it's not even worth it for the experience because it's not even good for that, and Lindsay looking back was clearly talking about the channel awesome movies. Dan was in context clearly talking about different things.

  • @DT-od3hd
    @DT-od3hd Před 6 lety +211

    The phrase 'Humus and Tomato sandwich' will automatically trigger my gag reflex from now on

    • @Maldark404
      @Maldark404 Před 6 lety +30

      It's my BDSM safety phrase.

    • @Bluecho4
      @Bluecho4 Před 6 lety +11

      I know that would _definitely_ have gotten Christian Grey to stop whipping Anna. Can't be a sadist with no self control if you're too busy gagging.

    • @whitherwhence
      @whitherwhence Před 5 lety +1

      I'd prefare having a hummus and Tom sandwich. Like, cannibalism over THAT

  • @TheKaffinated
    @TheKaffinated Před 3 lety +18

    The amount of time my wife has had to tell people "You don't give cast and crew cold cuts on a overnight" is mind boggling. The other is pizza in 100+ weather when your outside all day. I once had a key grip who put themselves all in for this "friend" of theirs shoot, to only been tossed a can of green beans as her dinner, well it was madding.

  • @evanlk
    @evanlk Před 6 lety +210

    Deadly premonition might be the game you're looking for

  • @JaredPoirier
    @JaredPoirier Před 6 lety +208

    Dan I'm loving this new vlog series

  • @katethemathnerd
    @katethemathnerd Před 3 lety +8

    The 3-second Ed Wood impression is goddamned delightful!

  • @CarbonatedFox
    @CarbonatedFox Před 6 lety +149

    I always like hearing these personal stories from inside the industry. Thanks Dan, love the channel. Nice Mike Stoklasa impression by the way.
    Also you should dress up as Vsauce Michael next Halloween.

    • @mindlander
      @mindlander Před 6 lety +1

      Sean Perry haha perfect comment. agreed

  • @dominomasked
    @dominomasked Před 6 lety +25

    I am grateful to TW and The Room for giving me a way to explain reality to people who do offensive things and then want to take credit for "starting a conversation" when backed into a corner that would require a modicum of self-reflection from sensible intelligent person, "Yes, congratulations, you are the Tommy W of conversations. You made a thing because you're a coddled narcissist and no one had the power to stop you, and it was awful for all involved. Well done. There is nothing to be proud of here, but your pride nonetheless is understandable, if not flattering."

  • @lucasnakamura2787
    @lucasnakamura2787 Před 6 lety +14

    A friend of mine once worked in a production like that, it was a TV show where literally no one on set knew how to do their jobs. My friend was an intern on the production crew and literally everyone on her crew was fired for stupid and nonsensical reasons mid-production, so she, an intern still going to film school, had to produce the entire first 3-4 episodes of the TV show all by herself, all while in the constant dread of being fired at any second. She eventually quit under my and others advice, but it goes to show how usually things get this bad...

  • @YCCCm7
    @YCCCm7 Před 6 lety +36

    "I'm sure on some planet, your sandwiches are quite impressive, but your weak link is...
    This is earth!"

  • @chrisball3778
    @chrisball3778 Před 3 lety +5

    Aside from Ed Wood, the other classic 90's movie about the nightmare of creating low-budget cinema is Living in Oblivion. It was written and directed by Tom DiCillo, inspired by the experience of making his first feature film, Johnny Suede. It's more obviously fictionalised than Ed Wood or The Disaster Artist, but is a really funny portrait of film making as a kid of 'wrangling cats' exercise, where Murphy's Law rules. Steve Buscemi stars, and is as brilliant as usual, and there's also a very early appearance by Peter Dinklage.

  • @cannibalisticrequiem
    @cannibalisticrequiem Před 6 lety +63

    Watching this vlog again after the whole Change The Channel fiasco, I wonder if the incompetent director and producer you're talking about are the inept, ego-driven Walker brothers? 🤔

  • @user-ge8qs6lt1q
    @user-ge8qs6lt1q Před 6 lety +45

    The stack of shame under the stack of game.

  • @kendallschoen7129
    @kendallschoen7129 Před 6 lety +40

    I was working on a production where the only "craft services" was a party sized bag of Doritos and a half empty tub of ranch dip and some baby carrots. I feel the low budget scene.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean Před 11 měsíci

      I hope the crew working there was a single-digit size for which that amount of food was actually...significant.
      And that the production didn't last too long, because ranch goes bad if you leave it out for a few days.

  • @origamifan5515
    @origamifan5515 Před 4 lety +7

    I've seen a rather negative criticism of the movie that says it twisted the message of the book (which could be summed up as Sestero describing how starring in The Room ruined his life and how invasive and abusive Tommy Wiseau was during the shooting as well as in Sestero's private life, apparently going as far as moving in his flat while he was travelling in Romania, and opening his courier) into a movie that "Wish it was as deep as Ed Wood, but is just another story about an outsider finally meeting his audience thanks to the power of the happy ending and inspirational montage" and generally a waste.

  • @lita313
    @lita313 Před 6 lety +16

    I've been there with some shoots. If there's one thing my professors have screamed at us to have food for the crew so we don't get on the shitlist. Or how to protect us ourselves from lawsuits by making sure we have permits & actual signatures for things before we shoot.

  • @witchfynder_finder
    @witchfynder_finder Před 6 lety +12

    I'm so glad you think Blood on the Sand meets the "so bad it's good" mark.
    I love that beautiful mess of a game.

  • @JollyWangcore
    @JollyWangcore Před 3 lety +34

    Hi Dan, little late to this video I know. But if you're still looking for "so bad it's good" videogames then might I recommend you try story based singleplayer mods?
    While technically not the same thing as a videogame built from the ground up. A lot of mods are made on the foundation of a GOOD game (Half-Life for example) which can lead to the fundamentals being great (e.g movement, gunplay) while the story, pacing and level design can be absolutely all over the place.
    I've played mods with hundreds if not thousands of hours put into their creation that are just downright hilariously bad but are fun to play because they're built on solid foundations.
    "Hunt Down the freeman" is absolutely so bad it's good in my opinion for that exact reason.

    • @Jacox98
      @Jacox98 Před 2 lety

      Ayy it's Jolly, da man himself!

  • @alexisflores6678
    @alexisflores6678 Před 6 lety +40

    Deadass got an ad for the movie before watching this

  • @SamButler22
    @SamButler22 Před 6 lety +211

    Can you have a sandwich that's so bad, it's good?

    • @caitlinerickson7355
      @caitlinerickson7355 Před 6 lety +44

      Sam Butler yes, but only in the ‘state fair food’ sense of good.

    • @IshanDeston
      @IshanDeston Před 6 lety +7

      Garlic bread lasagna

    • @pow8408
      @pow8408 Před 6 lety +4

      Unhealthy but delicious.

    • @Bluecho4
      @Bluecho4 Před 6 lety +3

      Does that mean pizza is "The Room" of foods?

    • @raycearcher5794
      @raycearcher5794 Před 5 lety +9

      That's basically Subway's business model.

  • @muticere
    @muticere Před 5 lety +54

    I would argue that no great film is worth an asshole director. If we never had Psycho, if we never had 2001, I think we'd be okay. Those are great and influential films, but I don't doubt we'd have some equivalent variation in an alternate timeline where asshole directors don't get work.

    • @brianad1556
      @brianad1556 Před 4 lety +9

      Agreed, whatever was new or influential could have come from someone else, or several someone elses.

  • @Bluecho4
    @Bluecho4 Před 6 lety +57

    Ed Wood, from my understanding, was really passionate about two things:
    1) Making films (as in, making them at all)
    2) Making films _as cheap as possible_
    So his crummy film making, for me, has less to do with outright incompetence, and more to him just having really low standards, and valuing "getting a shot done in one" as its own metric for success.

  • @TheSchmuck2
    @TheSchmuck2 Před 6 lety +7

    I deeply appreciate your insight and comments about Tommy, The Room, and The Disaster Artist. Love your channel.

  • @taylorfarrell5835
    @taylorfarrell5835 Před 6 lety +61

    Dan if you "liked" the Room, you should check out his attempt at a sitcom called "The Neighbors". He plays not one, but two characters.

    • @EviePontecorvo
      @EviePontecorvo Před 6 lety +2

      Taylor Farrell ... tell me more about this terrible sitcom.

    • @chipmunkwarcry
      @chipmunkwarcry Před 6 lety +7

      O.O Who let this happen...

    • @andrewollmann304
      @andrewollmann304 Před 6 lety +2

      chipmunk warcry Hulu.

    • @wellonthebrightside
      @wellonthebrightside Před 5 lety +3

      Oh my god that video game was REMARKABLY terrible. A friend of mine who works in sound editing watched it with me and I thought he was going to have a panic attack while watching. And quite possibly the worst double-play I’ve ever seen.
      It’s entertaining when the terrible sound design and editing aren’t actively making it unwatchable. It made me appreciate just how competent a lot of the people working on The Room were.

    • @littlefieryone2825
      @littlefieryone2825 Před 4 lety +7

      May I remind everyone that Tommy tried to start a Let's Play channel?
      With Machinima?

  • @kamssun
    @kamssun Před 6 lety +19

    My man, I hear you, the movie felt so real that those scenes were uncomfortable. We all have some sort of variation on that "sandwich" story haha

    • @mindlander
      @mindlander Před 6 lety +2

      Miguel Garzón Martínez bunch of cry babies lol bring your own food

    • @nunciosidereo4070
      @nunciosidereo4070 Před 6 lety +2

      ry wyche I guess it depends. I seems that the director said that he was in charge of someone for bringing the food. If it was like that and then suddenly you find in the middle of work you don t have the food you ll be hungry weak and in a bad mood and ll make a bad interpretation in case of the actors for example. They are a bunch of cries babies if they couldn't go outside and buy something that's true.

    • @ameddayr
      @ameddayr Před 6 lety +28

      ry wyche
      To quote Folding Ideas from somewhere else in this comments section: "[...]you're not just looking at bringing a bagged lunch and a granola bar, you're looking at all three meals when you may be 45 minutes up the side of a mountain Monday and Tuesday, at an abandoned gas station in the middle of nowhere on Wednesday, back on the mountain Thursday, and in a warehouse in an industrial park Friday. Also "lunch" might be at 1:30 one day and 4 the next.
      Because of the instability, the lack of places on many sets to store your own food, its considered standard for the production to provide snacks and either provide at least lunch or make some realistic allowance for it that doesn't have the crew eating fast food for a month straight."

    • @Humorless_Wokescold
      @Humorless_Wokescold Před 6 lety +10

      I'm pretty sure ry wyche is a troll. He's been spamming comments like that all over the thread. I doubt any answers given in good faith will be listened to.

    • @jamesh6398
      @jamesh6398 Před 3 lety +7

      @@mindlander often contracts are signed with the understanding that food will be provided, the people running these shoots are knowingly providing the bare horrible minimum. They're deceitful and don't care about their workers. It's not about the lunch, it's about the fact that the lunch is representative of how they treat their workers as a whole

  • @hpspacecraft713
    @hpspacecraft713 Před 3 lety +2

    I enjoy the way you channeled Mel Brooks into that Ed Wood impression

  • @KaiseaWings
    @KaiseaWings Před 5 lety +19

    When you said someone was making the sandwiches on set I was like 'oh that can be nice' because my mum has done that sort of thing for working bees and the like, but then you finished the story and oh... no. Like even with crappy 7/11 bread you can make nice curried egg, tuna and cucumber, cheese and salad, and chicken sandwiches. It's not hard? Or even that expensive???
    But of course mum got turkish bread, bacon and eggs for the sandwiches xD Because she got annoyed by the people running the working bee who just gave them a bit of sticky bun. On a hot day. After they've been scrubbing decks and cleaning boats. C'mon. So she got permission to take cash out of the canteen till and made some proper stuff.

    • @tatehildyard5332
      @tatehildyard5332 Před 3 lety +3

      Awe. We love someone helping out doc workers just because she feels like it. And props to her for her resourcefulness. Even the crappy version of her sandwiches sound delicious

    • @KaiseaWings
      @KaiseaWings Před 3 lety +5

      ​@@tatehildyard5332 Heck yeah she's got that working class pride, respect your tradies and your workers. You can't ask people to work for free and then give them a crummy lunch. XD

    • @tatehildyard5332
      @tatehildyard5332 Před 3 lety +1

      @@KaiseaWings We have no choice but to stan your mum.

  • @FishyWishyGirl
    @FishyWishyGirl Před 6 lety +19

    Your cough-word-cough was so convincing I almost didn't realize what you said lol

    • @joshuagreen3185
      @joshuagreen3185 Před 6 lety +12

      "Cremaster" - i.e. the Cremaster Cycle, quite possibly the furthest up-its-own-butt work of avant-garde cinema ever made. Dan did a couple of videos about it: czcams.com/video/usfTxTXlCFc/video.html

  • @billygoatguy3960
    @billygoatguy3960 Před 3 lety +2

    This popped up on my youtube feed, this review doesn't get enough love. Your description of your experiences in the film industry was educational as an outsider.

  • @Dong_Harvey
    @Dong_Harvey Před 2 lety +5

    You know its something when people get accused and proven to have committed sexual assault.
    Tommy Wiseau kinda did exactly that, and the whole world went:
    'You know, I kinda saw that coming.'

  • @Jason_Bryant
    @Jason_Bryant Před 11 měsíci +1

    Dominic Noble recently made a video examining this movie and evaluating it as an adaptation of the book it is based on. Very much worth watching. Short version: Tommy Wiseau was much worse in real life, and this movie, as bad as it makes him look, is actually an attempt to make him look better than he deserves.

  • @bebella9005
    @bebella9005 Před 2 lety +4

    oof, your film set horror story reminded me of one of my own - a movie set that explicitly ignored union law. It was all night shoots, 12 hours each AT LEAST, and frequently with no days off in between. What did we have to eat? HUMMUS AND CRACKERS.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean Před 11 měsíci

      "We're filming at night, the crew's gonna eat their meals during the day. Snacks are enough."
      "Sir, this can't be legal."
      "Ain't a crime if you're not charged!"

  • @muddlewait8844
    @muddlewait8844 Před 6 lety

    These vlogs are terrific. I love that the guy who gave me conscious awareness of the CZcams jump cut makes something free of it.

  • @snowyalice
    @snowyalice Před 6 lety +29

    My suggestion for a game that's so bad it's good is "Ride to Hell: Retribution".

    • @FoldingIdeas
      @FoldingIdeas  Před 6 lety +38

      Ride to Hell is in a class all its own, because it's almost impossible to actually play.

    • @0ompa
      @0ompa Před 6 lety +11

      Would also recommend the Man vs. Wild video game. Games based an TV shows seem to be a special kind of trash.

  • @Baehellet
    @Baehellet Před 6 lety +11

    I'd love to see you talk about Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

  • @dominicmariano9201
    @dominicmariano9201 Před 6 lety +5

    I thought 'the disaster artist' gave Tommy's vision some legitimacy. Tommy is unintelligible and bewildering, just like his movie. This movie shows how Tommy interacts with the world, which helped me understand The Room a bit more.

  • @dduuddeechil
    @dduuddeechil Před 6 lety +41

    Okay but how did you get that adorable Extra Credits style Game plushie??

    • @FoldingIdeas
      @FoldingIdeas  Před 6 lety +34

      I got it from them at PAX, but they're for sale on their merch store. $25 and you support some rad people!

    • @dduuddeechil
      @dduuddeechil Před 6 lety +5

      Thanks man! 1 Christmas present down

  • @Personal_Chizo
    @Personal_Chizo Před 6 lety +26

    Tomato-soaked sandwiches? Yeah, I'm down for that!
    #SoakMeUpFam

  • @toosigoosi
    @toosigoosi Před 4 lety +3

    The entire sandwich bit is so specific that I want it to turn up in a short story featured in BASS 2020

    • @sammybird9692
      @sammybird9692 Před 3 lety +1

      I love this because I know what "BASS" stands for but I love imagining what people who don't know think it is.

  • @brianseiler9750
    @brianseiler9750 Před 6 lety +7

    I think we all know what at least one of the movie sets you were talking about was. You have my sympathy.

  • @ethanlassey5795
    @ethanlassey5795 Před 5 lety +4

    Okay I know this was uploaded a year ago but thank you for the Cremaster diss

  • @bikenesmith
    @bikenesmith Před 5 lety +7

    i dont know why but it is SO funny everytime you call tommy an ogre

  • @puzza0
    @puzza0 Před 12 dny

    am watching this for the first time, love your videos dude and I'm glad you're not in those awful professional environments anymore

  • @joneelillard892
    @joneelillard892 Před 3 lety +2

    2:26 That cover cough was surprisingly smooth

  • @allyadelphine
    @allyadelphine Před 6 lety +1

    I would enjoy listening to you talk about just about anything.

  • @Gaming_Groove
    @Gaming_Groove Před 6 lety +1

    The twitch streams you describe remind me of Kyle Bosman's Dumb Game Monday series over on Easy Allies (and before that on Gametrailers). The premise is that he picks out a dumb game from his local used game shop and plays through it, treating it as though it was a gift from grandma that he has to try to learn to appreciate. It's currently on hiatus while he is working on a sort of animated/puppet show, but it was a great time for all involved.

  • @eddieblackuncancelled
    @eddieblackuncancelled Před 2 lety +1

    Very entertaining as always. The book of The Disaster Artist is superb, too. Very, very witty.

  • @missmiko1
    @missmiko1 Před 3 lety +2

    That Cremaster diss was beautiful.

  • @djmannik
    @djmannik Před 2 lety +1

    Every now and then I think about the bad sandwich story. Hard to think of something worse.

  • @melonlemonade2
    @melonlemonade2 Před 6 lety +2

    Weird comment, but I brought up a video you made on Suicide Squad and he went 'I love Folding Ideas!' It was a really cool moment. Anyway, keep these vlogs up I'm lovin them.

  • @SongbirdAlom
    @SongbirdAlom Před 3 lety +4

    Please do an entire video in your Ed Wood voice.

  • @fordprefect8406
    @fordprefect8406 Před 3 lety +2

    Jesus that first part is like hearing a POW talk about their prison camp

  • @nickchambers3935
    @nickchambers3935 Před 2 lety +2

    “I try very hard to love these, even though they’re not worth loving”
    Is that not a Lucille Bluth quote

  • @NaramSinofAkkad790
    @NaramSinofAkkad790 Před 6 lety +8

    It feels like he's talking about the channel awesome movie set problems.

    • @taakotuesday
      @taakotuesday Před 3 lety +1

      was dan involved in any of the channel awesome movies?

  • @canalsincontenido
    @canalsincontenido Před 6 lety +5

    You should really read the book (or listen to the audiobook). The movie takes out a lot of the drama and horror, and it's all so relatable I was twisting and cringing as I listened.

  • @josephforjoseph
    @josephforjoseph Před 3 lety

    I apologize. I had to pause this video to watch a best moments compilation from The Room. I am back now. Please continue.

  • @marvellousm
    @marvellousm Před 6 lety +2

    So The Room is more like "Manos" the Hands of Fate rather than Plan 9. I like this take.

  • @spman2099
    @spman2099 Před 6 lety +2

    Resident Evil 6 is the BEST equivalent to a B-Movie game. It was critically panned, but it is a lot of stupid fun (and it is hard to not laugh at it frequently). I know it was a game with a huge budget, so you may think that it is a bad pick, but it is genuinely the best equivalent on the market.

  • @Kentex4
    @Kentex4 Před 3 lety +1

    The sandwich story is giving me film school flashbacks

  • @mightyNosewings
    @mightyNosewings Před 5 lety +8

    The video-game equivalent of a "so bad it's good" movie is clearly Heavy Rain.

  • @trptguy23
    @trptguy23 Před 5 lety +3

    "where food and water was not adequately provided" . . . So like "To Boldly Flee" 😂😂😂

  • @rruhland
    @rruhland Před 2 lety +1

    I enjoyed the hell out of the Dante’s Inferno video game because it had the self-assuredness to lean into the over the top nature of the world it decided to build. Someone saw the aesthetic that the first God of War trilogy built and decided “I’m gonna do that but with some Christian mythology instead of Greek.”

  • @QueerIsa
    @QueerIsa Před 6 lety +4

    Do you have any plans on uploading your "test playthroughs" of these games or not? I'm just curious to see your journey through the ones that made it to the pile of 'So Bad, It's Good'

  • @CesarDraigcyfail
    @CesarDraigcyfail Před 5 lety +5

    You should appear in a Best of the Worst episode, I want to see you discussing something with Jay.

  • @DonYurik
    @DonYurik Před 6 lety

    For me, the tie- in video game equivalent of The Room is The Phantom Menace for Ps1. I used to play this game a lot when I was a kid, using the cheat codes for invincibility and level selection. The amount of bugs, glitches, and weird character dialog that game has is astonishing. I would recommend you to give it a try, or look for funny compilations of that game in youtube (there were a couple of them I remember watching).

  • @radioactivehalfrhyme
    @radioactivehalfrhyme Před 3 lety +1

    Come for the bad movie anecdotes, stay for the Cremaster Cycle hot takes.

  • @SunnyB_adventures
    @SunnyB_adventures Před 3 lety +3

    Another thing is that you can't even make a sympathetic anti-hero out of Tommy because we don't know enough about him to say something like 'oh, he came from a tough background you know, and that's why he's so mean!' (not that that would justify it but whatever)

  • @sonya6191
    @sonya6191 Před rokem +1

    I think the next kind of these movies we need is one about Daddy Derek and Cool Cat

  • @l337llama
    @l337llama Před 6 lety +6

    Have you tried Deadly Premonition, or the Earth Defense Force series for that so bad its good video game hunt?

  • @metaldude4563
    @metaldude4563 Před 2 lety +2

    People don't seem to understand that it wasn't because Kubrick and Hitchcock were awful people that they made great art, it's because they had compelling visions and stories to tell. Plenty examples exist of people making great art without being a reprehensible asshole, and to excuse people's behavior by arguing it was necessary to make something great indicates that you're just looking for an excuse to also be a piece of shit

  • @CraftyCicada
    @CraftyCicada Před 6 lety +1

    I quickly learned that I always need to bring a cliff bar or something to set for very similar reasons...

  • @BaronVonQuiply
    @BaronVonQuiply Před 6 lety +2

    This went deep into Arthur Dent territory.

  • @AnimeOtaku2
    @AnimeOtaku2 Před 6 lety +11

    Ohhh, cute game plushie! Are you one of the actual Extra Credits army of Dans?

    • @FoldingIdeas
      @FoldingIdeas  Před 6 lety +16

      I am an orbiting Dan. We hang out at cons and support each other, but we've never actually worked together.

  • @crazykenna
    @crazykenna Před 6 lety +2

    There’s a great podcast about Hitchcock making Psycho called ‘Inside Psycho’, worth a listen. He made great movies but I have a hard time watching them when I think about what he did to Tippy Hedren.

  • @SavageGreywolf
    @SavageGreywolf Před 6 lety +1

    I thought it was more or less universally agreed upon that Ride to Hell: Retribution is the "The Room" of video games.

  • @churibman
    @churibman Před 6 lety +5

    Not a big fan of streaming but I'd love to see a video about what makes those top 3 games "so bad it's good"

  • @y4notu236
    @y4notu236 Před 6 lety +3

    Deadly premonition better be in that stack!

  • @dudepersonvids
    @dudepersonvids Před 6 lety +4

    I was originally planning to see this, but then I realized I should not plan too much or it may not turn out right.

  • @Mangomomomo
    @Mangomomomo Před 6 lety +6

    Dantes Inferno is lit af tho

  • @emb3863
    @emb3863 Před 6 lety +3

    I think it's partially because i'm already sleepy right now but I laughed so much over the whole sandwich part... it sounds awful

  • @tuamigajordana
    @tuamigajordana Před 6 lety +12

    Your soul dies *awesome*

  • @rawbebaba
    @rawbebaba Před 11 měsíci

    Dan opening about boring movies and boring games and perfectly sums up my experience having just watched John Wick 4.