Commentary

[SLAW]

I want to know if anyone listens to the directors commentary on their DVD's at all? I have listened to much commentary threw the DVD's I own and have rented. And I must say that the two most interesting commentary I have ever listened to was by Paul Verhoeven and the screen writer of "Starship Troopers" and Roger Christainsan and the set designer on "Battlefield Earth." I'm not kidding! Regardless of what you thought of the movies, it was really interesting, because they both talked more about the story and characters then just where they shot the scenes. It was entertaining to hear them talk. Most commentary is pretty dry stuff. I think it's wiser if you don't have the director by himself discussing the movie. Oh yeah, the "Mallrats" commentary was also very entertaining to listen to.



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[RogueSpear]

I usually end up listening to the commentary later rather than sooner. If it's a commentary by an actor or director that I like I'll listen to it as soon as I can. If not, I wait until I'm bored with nothing better to do.

The best commentaries that I have listened to were for Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell were very entertaining.

The least entertaining commentary I listened to was for T2: Judgment Day. The commentary was very informative but there were just too many people to keep track of. After awhile I just gave up on it.

[sloopyfan]

You win DVD's? I want to win DVD's how many have you won and how did you win them?

[VicVega]

I love Paul Verhoeven's commentaries. He talks a million miles a minute and is funny as hell. Especially when him and Ah-nuld did the commentary for Total Recall. Pretty cool stuff. I liked Paul commenting on Sharon Stone not getting naked in the film. He joked and said that he got even when she acted in Basic Instinct. Hehehehe.

[SLAW]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by sloopyfan:
You win DVD's? I want to win DVD's how many have you won and how did you win them?</font>

Sorry dude, typo. I meant own. It's fixed now. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[[SD] Bob Plisskin]

I really love commentaries because I'm an aspiring director and it's great to actually know why certain scenes were filmed in such and such a way (Robert Rodriguez's commentaries are great for that). But also I like to think about a movie after I've watched it, think about the themes and what it means to me and also maybe what it was really about, it's pretty cool to hear what was actually meant which can be totaly different. I'm a strong believer in that movies are an art form and the most influencial artist in a movie is a director, it's a bit like getting Van Gogh to talk about one of his paintings!

&lt;OB&gt;

[Fade0ut21]

I love commentaries because I too am an aspiring film director. I do have to say that John Waters has the best commmentaries that I have listened to so far. I can listen to them over, and over..

[jiff]

I LOVED Cameron Crowe's commentary for Almost Famous.

I also enjoyed the John Carpenter In The Mouth Of Madness commentary.

[FeverDog420]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by VicVega:
I love Paul Verhoeven's commentaries. He talks a million miles a minute and is funny as hell.</font>

I've tried to listen to his track on the Robocop DVD but his accent is a little difficult to understand while casually watching a movie.

The Kevin Smith commentaries are fun, but would be better if Jason Mewes would have refrained from shooting up during them.

[Bomont the Destroyer]

I've listened to some. I'll list some of my favorites. I just listened to the one on UHF, the Weird Al movie, it was great. Al wouldn't stop talking, which was good because he was really funny, and very informative. He even remembered exact addresses of where they filmed certain stuff. Then near the end Michael Richards stopped by, and at the end Al called Victoria Jackson and talked to her for a few minutes.
Cannibal! The Musical - Trey Parker and Matt Stone and the rest of the cast get really drunk while watching the movie. Hilarity ensues.
Idle Hands - Again hilarity ensues.
Donnie Darko - Very informative and entertaining.
Well, that's all I remember now, although I've seen about 20 movies with the commentary on.

[SLAW]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jiff:
I LOVED Cameron Crowe's commentary for Almost Famous.</font>


His commentary in "Vanilla Sky" is also very good.

[pat00139]

I love commentaries. The first one I listened to was The Mummy's with Stephen Sommers and the editor. It's actually one of the best I've heard.

I love Verhoven's commentaries. I find him so interesting. One of the big reasons why I bought the Total Recall tin was because it had a commentary on it. I want to try to find Criterion's Robocop (good luck!) to hear that one.
The Evil Dead ones are also great, especially Evil Dead 2.
The American Pie one is great also.
I also really loved the commentary from Run, Lola, Run.
And I agree for the Donnie Darko one with the director and Jake. (I haven't heard the other one.)
Any commentary from a Monty Python movie is always entertaining.

The worst one I've heard is on The Matrix. You'd think it would be interesting considering it had the visual FX guy, but even with 3 people there were a lot of dead air. At least the Don Davis track was better.

If you want informative ones, T2 and The Phantom Menace are really good for that. Any of the Criterion ones are also good for general info, like Haxan and Hard-Boiled for example.

But the best I've ever heard is the John Woo commentary from The Killer(not the Criterion, the crappy version). It got me hooked on the first sentence.

Christ, I think I've yakked enough now.

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