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post #51 of 82
1/15/08 at 3:44pm
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The Terry Jones/Terry Gilliam commentary on Monty Python and the Holy Grail is frustrating. Maybe, already owning the excellent and comprehensive book "Python on Python", I already knew too much, but I hate when they try to edit multiple commentaries together and pass it off as a single one. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam recorded their commentaries seperately, so there's none of the comraderie, the dialouge, the banter that makes commentaries fun. Also, Gilliam spends as much time giving a verbal history of the whole troupe as he does talking about the movie, and even then he's mostly just tickled pink at how silly everything is. Weak.
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post #52 of 82
1/15/08 at 4:13pm
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Originally Posted by Kevin K
(For the converse, the guy on the new Criterion Seven Samurai set comes to mind. It's a movie, not an economics seminar, egghead!)
Funny you should mention this. Criterion credits a few film scholars on one of the audio tracks, and I don't own this version yet so I'm not sure which guy you're talking about, but one of them was a professor of mine in college. And I think one of my classes was held in a room usually used for business courses.
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post #53 of 82
1/17/08 at 10:57pm
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Gondry and Kaufman's commentary track for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is kinda disapointing. Kaufman is very quiet, usually only chiming in to praise the actors or answer Gondry's questions, and Gondry is often incoherent, taking a long time to explain what he's trying to say. Also long periods of pause.
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post #54 of 82
1/17/08 at 11:04pm
Guillermo del Toro has such an infectious enthusiasm when he is discussing his movies, you can't help but get caught up in it.

I totally agree with the Sideways commentary. It makes me wish Church and Giamatti did every track for every movie. Ever. And have Guillermo there as well.

Also, the drunken Orgazmo commentary is pretty fun to listen as well.
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post #55 of 82
1/18/08 at 12:51am
Guillermo and his producer's commentary on Blade 2 is a blast. "So, you started this up and are wondering, 'Who are these two assholes talking over the movie?'" And, you know what, the one with Snipes is pretty fucking fun, too. You won't take away anything, but it's damn entertaining.
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post #56 of 82
1/28/08 at 12:48pm
Which is more important to you guys: that a commentary be entertaining, or informative? I know we'd all love it if they can be both, but if you had to choose only one.
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post #57 of 82
1/28/08 at 12:58pm
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Originally Posted by Syd View Post
Which is more important to you guys: that a commentary be entertaining, or informative? I know we'd all love it if they can be both, but if you had to choose only one.
Definitely informative. The movies themselves are supposed to be entertaining; the commentaries are a chance for something special.
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post #58 of 82
1/28/08 at 3:33pm
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Either works for me.

The Commenraty for Forrest Gump was pretty disapointing since it was one of those "splice together different commentaries/interviews" instead of them all being in the same room. But Zemeckis had some priceless zingers like "Gary Sinise's character was a metaphor for the crippled part of America". Really? Nice.
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post #59 of 82
2/14/08 at 3:16pm
Enter the dragon was nothing but silence.

Running Man was merely just randomness
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post #60 of 82
2/14/08 at 3:42pm
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail, both commentaries were recorded with each person seperately and pieced together, which is lame.

King of Kong had a nice informative commentary, and then had a commentary with 2 random gamers not involved with the film that was very amusing.
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post #61 of 82
2/14/08 at 3:47pm
Depeche Mode 101 also has the same chopped together style commentary.
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post #62 of 82
2/22/08 at 10:59pm
Has anyone here gotten infected with an inflated ego and decided to try the "record your own commentary" feature on most dvd's? I wouldn't because im too stupid, unwitty, and uninteresting.
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post #63 of 82
9/21/08 at 6:03pm
*bump*
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post #64 of 82
9/21/08 at 8:09pm
I haven't listened to a DVD commentary track in a loooooooong-ass time.

Anybody reccommend any good ones from recent releases? Say, anything that's come out in the last 12 months?
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post #65 of 82
9/21/08 at 11:36pm
I recommend the commentary on Needless Thread Bump.
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post #66 of 82
9/22/08 at 1:23am
Well, I didn't bump it, but I saw it and figured it'd be a good a place as any to make my question.
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post #67 of 82
9/22/08 at 1:26am
It's alobek's favorite track though.
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post #68 of 82
9/22/08 at 1:33am
Mike, it was bumped because of this thread. Surely it's better to post in here than to have two big, separate threads on the same topic.
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post #69 of 82
9/22/08 at 4:55pm
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Listened to the Sideways commentary again yesterday. Great great stuff.
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post #70 of 82
9/27/08 at 3:44am
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Originally Posted by James Kimbell View Post
Mike, it was bumped because of this thread. Surely it's better to post in here than to have two big, separate threads on the same topic.
Especially since I totally repeated myself on the new thread. Sorry guys.
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post #71 of 82
9/27/08 at 4:00am
There have been at least 10 threads devoted to DVD commentaries since I first joined the boards. I can't keep up, but I can sure stop bumping the newest one. My bad.
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post #72 of 82
9/27/08 at 7:23am
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Especially since that shit's not even official, like this is.
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post #73 of 82
2/25/09 at 2:33pm
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Tom McLoughlin's commentary for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is excellent. He's informative, entertaining, and not afraid to point out where the film doesn't work. He really put a lot of care and thought into the film, and it's crammed with references to classic horror films.
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post #74 of 82
2/26/09 at 7:11pm
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Originally Posted by Syd View Post
Kurt Russel and John Carpenter commentaries are aces, I especially love how, whenever something freakishly violent happens (like that head sprouting spider legs in The Thing) Russel just starts cracking up like it's the funniest shit ever.
Thx man I never even realized they had made a commentary on this so I crossed my fingers and checked out if I had the proper version which I did. I saw it today with the commentary and it's really great. Man I want more of Russel.

Oh and a Thing sequel that takes place in the open landscape and desert heat of New Mexico is a FUCKING TERRIBLE idea!!! The thing should be about claustrophobia and isolation, that's the reason Carpenter's remake works so well.
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post #75 of 82
3/21/09 at 11:23pm
Peter Berg's commentary for "The Kingdom" is a little dry, but pretty good. Good insight into the man's directorial style and how he works with actors, etc.
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post #76 of 82
3/23/09 at 2:06am
Joe Carnahan (and his editor) on the Narc Commentary is both Entertaining and Informative.

Worst Commentary is Joseph Gordon Levitt, Brady Corbet, and director Gregg Araki on Mysterious Skin. Every other line is "This is my favorite scene in the entire film.

They say that like 15-20 times.
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post #77 of 82
3/23/09 at 2:47am
Speaking of Berg, his Friday Night Lights commentary with the author (also his cousin?) is pretty entertaining. I find most commentaries to work better with 2-3 people. A gang commentary can be fun, like the Smith stuff, but usually gets too muddled.
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post #78 of 82
3/23/09 at 3:28am
The Rundown commentary with Berg and Dwayne Johnson was great. Pretty much them just making up dumb facts about the movie the whole time, but the stuff they come up with can be pretty hilarious.
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post #79 of 82
5/22/09 at 6:21pm
Just got finished with the Dirty Dozen commentary. Usually hate those spliced together commentaries, but this one's pretty fun and eclectic: small snippets of recollections from Jim Brown and Trini Lopez, historian David J. Schow reading from some letters where Robert Aldrich is describing the flick in total metaphysical beatnick purple prose, E. M. Nathanson being quite interesting and even-handed about the differences between the movie and his original book and military adviser Dale Dye being all blustery nitpicking every last technical inaccuracy and doing endless rhetorical questionings ("is this what would have happened? No. Is it entertaining? Yes. Would I have done it differently? Yes. Would it be even better? Yes." it just goes on like this.)
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post #80 of 82
5/24/09 at 3:47pm

Mad Love (Peter Lorre NOT Drew Barrymore)

I cannot imagine that the HST track from Fear and Loathing has not been mentioned here. So if I am reposting I apologize.

Recently watched Mad Love w/ commentary. Informative and what not, but whenever the douchebag film historian quotes Peter Lorre he HAS to do a Lorre impression. If that sounds like fun to you, trust me it is not.
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post #81 of 82
5/24/09 at 4:22pm
Cronenberg's commentary on THE FLY is amazing, almost as amazing as the movie. He is effortlessly brilliant and able to provide insight into his process, behind the scenes stories (he has a great one on how he had to train Gina Davis on how to NOT act like Jeff Goldblum) and cover all of the film's themes in this incredible succinct manner that is never dull. I always felt he was a genius, but I never grasped on how well he understands his own mind and how to express it until I heard this.
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post #82 of 82
5/24/09 at 5:31pm
Cronenberg always gives good commentary. Even Fast Company.

I don't know if these have been mentioned yet but Abel Ferrera is so batshit insane that any commentary from him is a must. King of New York and Driller Killer crack me up (KONY even has a little Schooly D cover from Abel over the end credits). Bad Lt. is coming in July and the commentary for that will no doubt be epic. I just wish he didn't have anyone else with him (the DP will be there as well). He flies well with only God as his co-pilot.
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