Best/worst commentary tracks? Just listened to A Few Good Men's commentary track by the director and it was fricking awful. I don't even think directors should do commentary tracks, critics should, director commentary usually reveals way too much about the movie, and critics are better at putting thoughts to words and actually putting in some fricking effort and research into the commentary.
I like the commentary on Good Time with the whole cast, funny in a chaotic way. Vincent Gallo's Brown Bunny commentary is another great one.
donnie darko commentary shows you how delusional that guy is
Conan The Barbarian. Arnold is clearly drunk, stoned, and having a good time.
Idk about stoned but all of Arnold's commentaries are like this
Total recall he talks as if he actually is the main character it's too funny
The commentary tracks from the good years of the Simpsons are great. All these intelligent, funny guys bouncing off each other and discussing cool aspects of the show.
Except when they have Nancy Cartwright on and they have to explain jokes to her. I know she’s just a voice actor but she comes across stupid as frick and I don’t know why they included her.
Same goes for Futurama
-I remember Once Upon A Time in the West's as pretty good.
Multiple directors did it, including john carpenter.
-Ebert's Citizen Kane commentary is excellent as he explains in plain english why it was such an important film, and every scene he explains how they did the effects etc.
-Garth Marenghi's dark place is basically the best commentary ever created as they do it in character, it's probably even funnier than the actual show.
The worst ones are Criterion's. Because they always get some idiot """film scholar""" in and most of them literally just read out an essay that they wrote, and it's always about some off topic nonsense.
There's a couple of guys in those simpsons commentaries that just re-explain what is happening on screen, it's really annoying. "and now homer says doh *rest of the crew shits themselves laughing*" Yes we know, we can see it too.
the best one
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Bruce Campbell doing commentary on the first Evil Dead is bretty gud.
Evil Dead 2 he's doing it alongside Raimi and someone else and they just keep talking over him, it's total shit.
ebert liked dark city so much he did a commentary track. also any werner herzog commentary track is nonstop gold.
Alien theatrical commentary: Ridley Scott is drunk with cast and crew as they tell stories about the production. Fun times, good commentary.
Alien directors cut: Ridley Scott is so hammered it’s a wonder he made it through his own two hour movie. Great commentary, funny shit, will watch again
Michael Mann always has good commentaries. He goes into great detail on character motivations and what emotions he was trying to get out of every scene. I recommend his commentary for Heat especially.
I remember on the Memories of Murder commentary, they had the two main detectives, the director, and then the moronic kid actor for some reason. The moronic kid actor stayed quiet for most of it then the director asked the actors a question and the detectives responses were very smart and the moronic kid's was moronic and they all laughed at him and he never spoke again lol
Listening to Selma Blair in the Hellboy commentary made me realize shes fricking insane
How so?
she freaks out anytime somebody cusses, he just had a real schizo vibe
>Listening to Selma Blair in the Hellboy commentary made me realize shes fricking insane
Selma Blair is literally mentally unstable, or has had long sections of her life were she was.
Stallone on First Blood is kino he just shoots the shit like your boomer uncle
one of my favorites. sometimes when I'm gonna pass out I just put it on for mellowing out
>looks like beijing to me
Director/producer/writer commentary for lotr extended editions is amazing. A lot of good details about why decisions were made to change stuff or keep things accurate. The cast one is pretty good and so is the effects and design guys who built stuff but the director one is top tier.
Judd aptaw movies have great commentary tracks
Knocked up Super bad are the best ones. I believe one of them has bill hader and through out the movie they ask him to do impressions. i also really liked the south park movie commentary.
Tropic Thunder. In the film, Downey's character says he doesn't break character until after the dvd commentary. So naturally, Downey himself stays in character as a black man the entire commentary (except near the end when he switches to being the australian guy his character actually is instead of the black guy he's pretending to be).
>Jack Black starts eating a burger halfway through the commentary
Transformers 2007
Any Michale Bay track really. Armageddon is a good one too
The Grandma’s Boy commentary track is great, almost as funny as the movie
The Saw 1, 2 and 3 commentaries that have Leigh Whannell are great.
George Lucas commentaries are absolute garbage. For the guy that created Star Wars you'd think he'd have one or two interesting things to say, but goddamn does he just refuse to be anything but the most boring motherfricker ever.
One of my favorite commentaries of all time though is Jonathan Frakes doing a 10th or 15th anniversary commentary for Star Trek First Contact. Dude works his way through a bottle of scotch while he does it and even though he doesn't go off the rails it's just a hilarious and comfy listen.
McTiernan commentaries are good. predator, huntfor red october. This guy made three kinos in a row then got blacklisted or something
he went to federal prison
spaceballs. it's literally Mel Brooks saying stuff like "oh that's a cheap joke I remember when israeliteie israeliteie him drop wrote it"
The commentary for the whole first season of upright citizens brigade is hilarious
I really like the John Carpenter commentary tracks with Kurt Russell
Big trouble in little china is the best from the comfy aspect. So same as I suppose.
Bruce Campbell commentary is generally great because you get a second level of BC for the movie. Bubba Hotep is my favorite for that since he did a solo commentary as Elvis.
Some of the early 2000s l adult swim and comedy central shows have commentary that's better than the shows, but I feel like they are hard to find and fairly limited.
I'm biased towards commentary that is only sort of about the movie itself and spends time on just tangentially related BS the commenters want to talk about. And yes I just posted this same thing a couple of days ago in a BTILC thread and I'll post it every time.
I love this one. I don't know if they were high as frick or what but the laugh their asses off the entire movie and then they talk about baseball.
>Big trouble in little china is the best from the comfy aspect.
Came here to post this. It's funny how little they actually talk about the movie.
I like the Fincher commentaries. Guy has a really relaxing voice and some great insight on the technical aspect of film. I particularly love the one from Se7en where Brad Pitt's with him and occasionally would tell weird production stories. The one from Gone Girl is also great, where the first thing he literally says is how shit the Regency logo is.
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Anything John Carpenter/Kurt Russel is great. I recall listening to the cast commentary for Sean of the Dead ages ago and a third of the way through it the girl playing Sean's girlfriend says she thinks they're ruining the movie by talking over it and it has to be explained to her that the commentary is optional viewers aren't forced to listen to it. I don't think I made this memory up.
Anything by Guillermo del Toro. One of the most enthusiastic people alive. Clearly very passionate about the work but not overly precious, will literally point out the fx shots that he fricking hates.
Agreed with everyone who said John Carpenter and Kurt Russell.
Wes Craven did some good ones back in the day.
Edgar Weight discs usually have multiple commentaries, some funny, some more focused on the craft.
Ridley Scott has done some good ones.
Michael Mann really gets into interesting stuff about backstory, character motivation, research.
Paul Verhoeven is a fricking wild man, always worth it. His Total Recall one was with Arnie, who basically just interrupts him occasionally to announce what his character is doing, or laugh at whatever act of violence is happening onscreen.
wait a minute this is just react content for boomers
Maybe, but at least the commentators have something to say
>Matrix trilogy - The Philosopher's Commentary
>Any Joss Whedon commentary track - if you like his work, it gives good insights
>Babylon 5 commentaries - JMS wrote so much of the show, that all his comments are useful
>Battlestar Galactica commentaries - Moore did commentaries for basically every episode, and Eick did a bunch of specific episodes
>Farscape commentaries - nerds talking about insights
>Futurama commentaries - probably some of the best insights and comments
Sorta, but it's not by random buttholes. It's by the buttholes who made the thing that's being reacted to.
The commentary for the first Wrong Turn was very repetitive and full of awkward silences despite being done by three or four people.
I remember a commentary for one of the Friday the 13ths just seemed to be made up of soundbites.
>producer Fred Olen Ray does commentary with the director
>Fred constantly mocks the film and the director just gets more and more annoyed until it escalates into an outright argument and he storms off
i had a vague memory of this and have been wondering for years what it was from. thanks
do they still do commentaries? whenever i look at the back of discs now, its just some cheap 5-10 minute bts extra shit
I have no idea but I doubt there is the demand for physical media any more so I bet the money just isn’t there to warrant them. Wish they’d do them for streaming.
What's there to even talk about with current slop? I feel like there needs to be some pride and individuality in it to make a commentary track. If they CGI all the effects and decide everything by focus tested committee then who cares.
So I see things like the lighthouse with commentary, I bet yorgos has them, but there's nothing to talk about in slop.
Friday the 13th part v
>reminded I didn't remove commentary from Jerry McGuire
>start it up
>I did this voice over while I was working on Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut which came out in 1999, was being worked on prior to Jerry McGuire releasing in 1996?
Eyes Wide Shut began filming in November 1996 and it lasted until June 1998. One of the longest shoots ever.
Aliens. Anything with John Carpenter amd Kurt Russell. Fear and Loathing
>Fear and Loathing
Kino
Jackass.
The Criterion Collection Silence of the Lambs commentary with Hopkins and Foster is iconic. Also, there are some King of the Hill and Family Guy commentaries where the characters themselves do the commentary.