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Post by Alice Syndrome on Feb 1, 2016 15:44:29 GMT -5
In Tropic Thunder, RDJ's character said he doesn't drop character until after the DVD commentary....
...I'll give you 2 guesses as to what happens, and the first one doesn't count
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 1, 2016 15:58:18 GMT -5
The Saw commentary is great. It's just Leigh Whannel, James Wan, and Cary Elwes cracking jokes and riffing on their movie. There's more than one of these. One of them has the other two without Cary, and Leigh's impression of Cary is priceless. Futurama has some great commentaries ... One gave us this moment: Futurama's commentaries are generally about as funny as the episodes are, quite frankly. Absolutely brilliant. Tropic Thunder. Robert Downey Jr. changes persona based on whoever he is playing on screen. This is majestic, with how much it references the movie itself. Some commentaries are next level. There's one commentary, I forget which one, I think it's Dodgeball, where it consists of Ben Stiller arguing with Vince Vaughan and the director (with Vince playing the other two off against each other) until everyone storms out and the producer just puts on the There's Something About Mary commentary. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace has a fantastic commentary series, they're all in character. Sanchez in particular has some absolute gems, such as what he'd call makeup for racial minorities. |
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Post by weaselboy on Feb 1, 2016 16:10:38 GMT -5
Noel Gallagher's grumpy commentary on the Music video compilation DVD is priceless. He has a whale of a time pointing out what a pretentious and pointless endeavour creating a music video is.
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Post by Hurbster on Feb 1, 2016 19:54:40 GMT -5
I actually despised that Dodgeball commentary, really pissed me off.
Funnily enough, one of the best commentaries is for the first Resident Evil movie. Jovovich and Rodriguez just having a laugh.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2016 20:55:55 GMT -5
The Step Brothers commentary is hilarious. Will Ferrell is just singing the plot of the movie as it happens and then gets bored and talks about basketball for an hour.
Also, Metallica's Some Kind Of Monster with the band doing commentary is hilarious. They make fun of themselves the entire time.
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Post by nickcave on Feb 1, 2016 21:02:06 GMT -5
Best commentary is for UHF, only one I've listened to multiple times.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 1, 2016 21:10:02 GMT -5
Funnily enough, one of the best commentaries is for the first Resident Evil movie. Jovovich and Rodriguez just having a laugh. "It's Jovovich! YO-VO-VICH!" |
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Feb 1, 2016 21:46:43 GMT -5
The Step Brothers commentary is hilarious. Will Ferrell is just singing the plot of the movie as it happens and then gets bored and talks about basketball for an hour. Also, Metallica's Some Kind Of Monster with the band doing commentary is hilarious. They make fun of themselves the entire time. It's funny, Jason Newsted's departure from Metallica was predicated on an argument with James Hetfield over Newsted's doing the Echobrain side project. Yet on the commentary track Hetfield seems a bit more empathetic towards Jason's mindset at the time, but Lars seems a little salty towards Jason. This resulted in two of my favorite part arts of the commentary track. 1. James Hetfield's wife and his young son are visiting at the Presidio studio and as they're leaving this happens: Francesca Hetfield- Say "bye daddy, bye Lars!" James & Lars- Bye Caster! Lars (on commentary)- Bye, bye Jason! Film then cuts to an MTV news brief on Newsted leaving the band. 2. Lars mocking Jason while he talks about his objections to group therapy. "Us, the biggest heavy band of all time!" |
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Feb 1, 2016 21:53:51 GMT -5
I remember David Lynch's commentary for Eraserhead featured him talking in great detail about everything he was up to during the film's long production while barely saying a word about the film itself.
I recall Hunter S Thompson's on the Criterion Fear and Loathing being just awesome. This one has even less to do with anything than the Eraserhead one but if there's anyone worth hearing ramble incoherently for 2 hours, it's HST.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Feb 1, 2016 21:54:32 GMT -5
Noel Gallagher's grumpy commentary on the Music video compilation DVD is priceless. He has a whale of a time pointing out what a pretentious and pointless endeavour creating a music video is. the videos from Be Here Now are worth every penny. Noel is in top form on those. I have to throw in any Monkees commentary track Micky Dolenz does, dude just MST3K's the stuff. I love his commentary on the "monkees story" made for tv movie VH1 made. Mike's commentary is alright too, mostly for him getting aggravated as the episodes he chose ALL have the video of "daily nightly" attached, after about the 3rd time it pops up he just goes "OH LORD THIS AGAIN?!?!!!" |
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Post by FinalGwen on Feb 1, 2016 21:59:49 GMT -5
Spaced has some amazing commentary, one of the only series where I've seen every episode with commentary on. They point out references that might have flown right past me, you see the origins of some gags that turned up in their later work, like "fried gold" and the Shaun Of The Dead bit about how dogs can't look up, and the cast just have such chemistry and they're tremendously funny to listen to.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Feb 1, 2016 22:07:58 GMT -5
Man, as physical media becomes obsolete, so go audio commentaries... :/
The commentary for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is great. Informative and really really funny.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Feb 1, 2016 22:38:04 GMT -5
I have a love/hate relationship with the commentaries on the Looney Tunes Golden collections. A lot of them are this one guy, I think Eric Goldberg (but my memory's bad so I could be wrong), who just tells us what we already just saw constantly. John Kricfalusi's are a chore to get through - when he's commenting on a Bob Clampett short, it's pretty much "Bob is God! Bob is God!" and for some reason they let him do commentary on some non-Clampett ones and you can hear how bored he is and how much he doesn't want to be there, just constantly tearing everything down or just being an ass.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 8:45:01 GMT -5
One of the worst for me is Mel Brooks on Young Frankenstein, he spends a lot of it just watching the movie, and a lot of the rest explaining the jokes, I was expecting something much better. I agree about Mel's commentaries, and I remember the one from Spaceballs he did. When they had the whole bit with the "he's an asshole, sir", "I know but what's his name?" "That IS his name...", Mel was all embarrassed and said he didn't really want that in the movie but he was talked into it. He's a great comedic mind, but why he wants to sweep a lot of stuff under the rug and not explain a lot asks the question "Then why do a commentary?" |
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 2, 2016 8:47:02 GMT -5
One of the worst for me is Mel Brooks on Young Frankenstein, he spends a lot of it just watching the movie, and a lot of the rest explaining the jokes, I was expecting something much better. I agree about Mel's commentaries, and I remember the one from Spaceballs he did. When they had the whole bit with the "he's an asshole, sir", "I know but what's his name?" "That IS his name...", Mel was all embarrassed and said he didn't really want that in the movie but he was talked into it. He's a great comedic mind, but why he wants to sweep a lot of stuff under the rug and not explain a lot asks the question "Then why do a commentary?"  |
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Post by moondoggie on Feb 2, 2016 9:12:42 GMT -5
I agree about Mel's commentaries, and I remember the one from Spaceballs he did. When they had the whole bit with the "he's an asshole, sir", "I know but what's his name?" "That IS his name...", Mel was all embarrassed and said he didn't really want that in the movie but he was talked into it. He's a great comedic mind, but why he wants to sweep a lot of stuff under the rug and not explain a lot asks the question "Then why do a commentary?" its forgetting the big number 2 romain numerals |
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Feb 2, 2016 9:16:01 GMT -5
If Wes Craven is on a commentary it's a damn good bet it will be fantastic. They're just a delight to watch and hear him talk about his movies. He, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon and one other guy had a fantastic one for the original Nightmare, Craven and Langenkamp in particular are just having a blast during the entire thing.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 2, 2016 20:37:38 GMT -5
One of the worst for me is Mel Brooks on Young Frankenstein, he spends a lot of it just watching the movie, and a lot of the rest explaining the jokes, I was expecting something much better. I agree about Mel's commentaries, and I remember the one from Spaceballs he did. When they had the whole bit with the "he's an asshole, sir", "I know but what's his name?" "That IS his name...", Mel was all embarrassed and said he didn't really want that in the movie but he was talked into it. He's a great comedic mind, but why he wants to sweep a lot of stuff under the rug and not explain a lot asks the question "Then why do a commentary?" I remember the commentary he did for Blazing Saddles was at least pretty decent, but it's been years. That had a lot of stuff about behind the scenes, such as a misunderstanding when casting Madeline Kahn that had to be pretty awkward. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 14:43:24 GMT -5
Futurama has some great commentaries ... One gave us this moment: The only times I don't like a Futurama commentary is when they ignore something I really wanted them to mention, like in "That's Lobstertainment" where they discussed David X. Cohen's arcade machines and only mention one small part of "The Magnificent Three" because I actually wanted to hear where the hell that idea came from. But, I'm that kinda nerd who wants to hear certain stuff and gets peeved when it's glossed over. "The Simpsons" (which I'll discuss later) did this with them forgetting to explain how George Meyer came up with the idea behind "Homer Simpson in Kidney Trouble" (they remembered at the very end and George didn't have enough time) and ignoring "the Refuge of the Damned" bit from "The Last Temptation of Homer", to me. It also bugged me that Katey Sagal did commentaries for Sons of Anarchy, but was the only main cast member to not do a commentary for the entire series. |
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Feb 3, 2016 15:10:34 GMT -5
The ones that are recorded before the movie is released are awkward if you know the movie bombed.
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