DVD commentaries
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Best commentaries I've heard, Kurt Russell/John Carpenter. The one on Big Trouble in Little China is great, Kurt's so obviously drunk as a monkey! From memory I think they also did commentaries for The Thing and Escape from New York.
On the TV side, the Babylon 5 cast commentaries are good as well, they just have a riot!
On the TV side, the Babylon 5 cast commentaries are good as well, they just have a riot!
I like them when the people have something to say. I watched Entourage season 4 over the weekend, and the commentaries were rather uneventful despite having the most of the cast present. They just seemed to struggle to say something.
The last release of Bladerunner had numerous commentaries and it was very interesting to have multiple points of view about this film, how it was put together and what it meant. You could spend whole weekend watching that movie (and I did).
One of my favorite DVDs is 24 Hour Party People. One commentary is by Tony Wilson, who the film is more or less about. He points out things in the film which are accurate, inaccurate, and tells why storyies or more or less ture or apocryphal. There is also a very funny commentary with Steve Coogan, the star. Both tracks are as enteraining as the film proper. Likewise, Coogan did a commentary for Tristram Shandy with Rob Brydon which they described as "watching the film with a couple of mates." Again, it was insightful, funny, and as entertaining as the film.
The last release of Bladerunner had numerous commentaries and it was very interesting to have multiple points of view about this film, how it was put together and what it meant. You could spend whole weekend watching that movie (and I did).
One of my favorite DVDs is 24 Hour Party People. One commentary is by Tony Wilson, who the film is more or less about. He points out things in the film which are accurate, inaccurate, and tells why storyies or more or less ture or apocryphal. There is also a very funny commentary with Steve Coogan, the star. Both tracks are as enteraining as the film proper. Likewise, Coogan did a commentary for Tristram Shandy with Rob Brydon which they described as "watching the film with a couple of mates." Again, it was insightful, funny, and as entertaining as the film.
I like commentaries, but I don't find myself listening to them very often. I tend to prefer writers and actors' commentary to those of directors, probably because I'm more interested in the writing aspect, or what the characters were thinking/where they were coming from in a particular scene. I'm not really into the technical aspect of filmmaking, though it is kind of fun to hear some of that stuff.
We know he didn't learn how to do press releases from Rick "Fuckhead" Berman.
^And we are very pleased. We'd like to see more honest commentaries, if they're done well.
Depends who is doing them. some of my favorites that pop out to me right now
First Blood - the one with the writer, not stallone
Star Trek II, VII
Road House with Kevin smith
Evil Dead trilogy
there's more, but I've watched so many it's tough to remember
First Blood - the one with the writer, not stallone
Star Trek II, VII
Road House with Kevin smith
Evil Dead trilogy
there's more, but I've watched so many it's tough to remember
Hudson Hawk... the first commentary track i ever heard. Honest, which is good for a flawed film. He keeps pace well.
Generations and First Contact (writers) I'd imagine it was one session, they did them both simultaneously. Good, honest and funny.
Generations and First Contact (writers) I'd imagine it was one session, they did them both simultaneously. Good, honest and funny.
Tonight I'm thinking of watching The commentary for the 1978 Dawn of the dead. Is George Romero interesting to listen to?
BTW, Ghostbusters has a great track! It has Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis if I recall correctly.
And the Charlton Heston Track for Ben-Hur is awful. I ADORE Heston but he only talks for about 20 minutes......maybe less, of the whole 3 hours. They even put in a feature so you could skip to his next comment, it was that bare.
BTW, Ghostbusters has a great track! It has Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis if I recall correctly.
And the Charlton Heston Track for Ben-Hur is awful. I ADORE Heston but he only talks for about 20 minutes......maybe less, of the whole 3 hours. They even put in a feature so you could skip to his next comment, it was that bare.
