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You watch a movie through once and that should be enough and besides who wants to hear a director or actor talk over movie dialogue, talking about the scene or whatever. So what movies have you watched twice for the commentary track?
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Dec 31, 2016 21:50
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Cloverfield, for some reason
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Dec 31, 2016 23:37
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I read that post by TV Zombie and now I want to read it again with a commentary. What was s/he thinking to write a post as bad as that? I blame the script. Clearly the producers screwed around with that post after negative feedback from test audiences. People were walking out before the third sentence. I liked TV Zombie's early posts* but this new one is poo poo. It needs to be remade in a different font by a more popular poster. Thanks for reading. Alan Smithee * full disclosure: I have never read anything before by this idiot
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Jan 1, 2017 00:06
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Spring Breakers is the only movie I've watched the commentary for I think. But I've seen that movie 10+ times before I watched the commentary just to get a new spin
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Jan 1, 2017 00:26
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Dude, Where's My Car. I have no explanation it was just really interesting.
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Jan 1, 2017 04:46
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I really liked the commentary on the first Spider-Man movie where Kiersten Dunst clearly isn't following what's going on and just making fun of the movie the whole time.
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Jan 1, 2017 07:49
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Arnold Schwarzeneggar commentaries are a treat, try some.
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Jan 1, 2017 09:19
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McSpanky posted:Arnold Schwarzeneggar commentaries are a treat, try some. Total Recall especially.
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Jan 1, 2017 14:13
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The Evil Dead 2 commentary is fantastic and I've watched that multiple times. Just super hilarious with Raimi and Campbell ripping on each other the whole time. The Superbad commentary is really good too and sometimes I prefer it to the actual movie. and of course who could forget Armageddon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U
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Jan 1, 2017 18:20
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I love commentaries. Some of them can be downright hilarious (Evil Dead 2). - Evil Dead Trilogy - Black Dynamite - Fear of a Black Hat - Every Ridley Scott film I own - Every Sergio Leone film I own - Seven Samurai - Big Trouble in Little China - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - A bunch more, but I forget, and don't care to look. 
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Jan 2, 2017 00:18
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Commentaries are a great way to learn about the craft and industry of filmmaking. I haven't watched/listened to that many commentaries, but based on this criteria, I highly recommend The Godfather and Slacker commentary tracks. The Slacker commentary is available in full on Youtube.
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Jan 2, 2017 02:06
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I recently listened through The Phantom Podcast which was a series of ten podcasts these guys did about The Phantom Menace, and they capped it off with a commentary they recorded for the movie (not on that site but you can easily find it via Google). The commentary was good but not quite as good as their podcast episodes, and the movie was kind of poo poo, but it was worth it, I think. I'm looking forward to their commentaries on Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith once I've listened through the ten episodes they did on each of those movies.
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Jan 2, 2017 07:13
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Stephen Prince's commentary for Straw Dogs is the gold standard for me, it completely changed how I saw the film.
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Jan 3, 2017 01:28
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Stephen Prince's commentary for Straw Dogs is the gold standard for me, it completely changed how I saw the film.
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Jan 3, 2017 02:20
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I eagarly listened to the writer and directors' commentary for Fight Club when it first came out, hoping to glean some insights into why the movie was so cool and deep to my teenage mind. I... did not get any, but it was cool learning about the process.
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Jan 3, 2017 05:17
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I wish more films had commentaries by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, even ones they had nothing to do with.
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Jan 3, 2017 13:13
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Egbert Souse posted:I wish more films had commentaries by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, even ones they had nothing to do with. These are always fun, and I think you can hear them drinking scotch on the rocks during at least one of them.
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Jan 3, 2017 18:23
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the commentary for anchorman is amazing.
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Jan 3, 2017 19:26
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McSpanky posted:Arnold Schwarzeneggar commentaries are a treat, try some.
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Jan 3, 2017 23:35
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I was extremely dissapointed with Roger Moores' commentary for Moonraker
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Jan 4, 2017 04:11
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Tropic Thunder just to hear RDJ stay in character throughout the movie depending on how his actor's acting. I actually have seen the movie Holes more times with the kid cast commentary than without it. Sad that out of that kid cast only Shia did anything else of note afterwards. First time I heard a DMX song to when they sung it during a scene. Holes is a surprisingly good movie, but maybe that is nostalgia because we were also reading the book when it came out to theaters, even had a field trip to the movies to watch it.
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Jan 4, 2017 05:12
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achillesforever6 posted:I actually have seen the movie Holes more times with the kid cast commentary than without it. Sad that out of that kid cast only Shia did anything else of note afterwards. First time I heard a DMX song to when they sung it during a scene. Holes is a surprisingly good movie, but maybe that is nostalgia because we were also reading the book when it came out to theaters, even had a field trip to the movies to watch it. Are we the same person?!?!
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Jan 4, 2017 15:10
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Abel Ferrara is the best director for commentaries. http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/2006/05/this_commentary.html
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Jan 4, 2017 22:35
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KidVanguard posted:
Ben Affleck doing Billy Bob's NASA character as Karl Childers in Sling Blade was great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teIqBNT7Muk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQygtsP2FLc
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Jan 22, 2017 00:55
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Resident Evil. In which I discovered: Despite working with her for months, Michelle Rodriguez never learned how to pronounce Milla Jovovich's name, and just always avoided having to say it. MIlla Jovovich doesn't know how to stage fight. When she punches people in the movie, half the time she actually just punched him during filming. Jovovich considers any actor who complained about it to be a pussy. Resident Evil contains a lot of subtle Alice in Wonderland symbolism. By the time they recorded the commentary, the director had forgotten about most of it. Rodriguez had to point it out for him.
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Jan 23, 2017 02:02
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Guy Goodbody posted:
I've been doing this with the Korean who started working at the bakery, it's not something I'm proud of.  Buckaroo Banzai has a subtitle commentary in addition to the audio one, and it's played as if the movie was a totally straight historical recording of reality.
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Jan 23, 2017 06:35
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Mister Macys posted:
In interviews the writer and director always act as though Buckaroo and his friends are real people and the movie is a docu-drama based on actual events.
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Jan 23, 2017 16:45
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Mister Macys posted:
The commentary on This is Spinal Tap is done completely in-character, as the three main guys lamenting how the documentary made them look bad. It's like getting a sequel included on the DVD for free Speleothing fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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Jan 23, 2017 19:34
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I really like commentaries with the director and some actors. Having a cinematographer or writer is a bonus too, but I think the commentaries are kinda lame when it's only the director or only the director and writer. Having the actors is a huge bonus because they almost always have some insight to the characters they played and usually have good conversations with the other speakers. It's loving PRIMO when you get a rare movie with TWO commentary tracks. Holy crap. I remember the DVD back to the future having two different commentary tracks. Holy balls That's some good bonus content. It's really the worst thing about switching to streaming services. I'd legit pay 5$ extra a month to Netflix if they'd license the commentary tracks
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Feb 3, 2017 00:53
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Darren aronofsky did an "unofficial" commentary on his The Fountain since the studio didn't wanna pay for a DVD commentary. He had it on his site but I can't find the link now. It's on YouTube either way.
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Feb 3, 2017 01:07
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Cabin Fever with the "guys" commentary (there's five total. Yes, five) is a riot. Ditto for Cannibal! the Musical
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Feb 3, 2017 20:21
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Seconding the hilarity of Tropic Thunder commentary, if only because Robert Downey Jr. steals some In-n-Out fries.  The Lord of the Rings had some great commentary, especially when Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd mock how "pretty" Orlando Bloom looks as an elf. Another good commentary came from the season 1 DVD set for The Simpsons. Initially, the animation for the Babysitter Bandit episode was not correct, so they had to redo parts of it. Hearing the animator walk out because the original animation was that bad really cracked me up for some reason. And Marge did indeed look like a bullfrog.
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Feb 3, 2017 22:59
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Commentaries were a lot better in the early days when the studios didn't give a poo poo and you had actors and poo poo just burying the movie.
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Feb 3, 2017 23:09
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whiteyfats posted:Commentaries were a lot better in the early days when the studios didn't give a poo poo and you had actors and poo poo just burying the movie. For a while it felt like the THE STUDIO DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THE COMMENTARY meant you were in for a real treat
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Feb 4, 2017 05:30
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I remember the movie Gorgeous had a commentary with Jacky Chan and by the end of it he's just complaining about the production company, how he didn't really care about the commentary and that he's been stuck in the room for hours now and they only gave him a single glass of water to get him through it, like I'm actually surprised they didn't make him re-record it. Babylon 5 had good commentary tracks, the actor ones were them just making fun of he show and sharing embarrassing moments. The director ones were also super interesting since the guy is a huge nerd and was sharing a lot of details while clearly enjoying it, however for some reason he clearly assumed anyone listening to it had already watched the full series, as he spoils the hell out of how the show ends, including the fate of several major characters and important plot events. I watched the show for the first time on DVD and went back and listened to the tracks once I finished a season, so I more or less knew what would happen by the end of season 5 before starting season 2.
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Feb 4, 2017 06:30
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Original_Z posted:I remember the movie Gorgeous had a commentary with Jacky Chan and by the end of it he's just complaining about the production company, how he didn't really care about the commentary and that he's been stuck in the room for hours now and they only gave him a single glass of water to get him through it, like I'm actually surprised they didn't make him re-record it. The crew commentary is simultaneously hilarious and cringeworthy, because they don't remember most of the minutiae. Kinda wish they included the bloopers/outtakes. My Local Comic Book Store owner still has a vintage VHS of those.
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Feb 4, 2017 06:38
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the commentary for the godzilla criterion is real good an makes a good case for why the american recut is kinda important and worth remembering
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Feb 4, 2017 06:45
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When I was like 14 I didn't have any internet or a Netflix subscription or anything so I ended up watching the commentary tracks on all our DVDs just to hear something different. Anyway the anchorman one stands out to me because will Ferrell apparently gets decked by someone and they just talk about what an rear end in a top hat he is for the next hour
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Feb 5, 2017 20:17
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ahaha what? I remember random people like Kyle Gass showing up, but I don't think I watched it far enough to get to that.
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Feb 5, 2017 20:27
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Garry Parrish posted:When I was like 14 I didn't have any internet or a Netflix subscription or anything so I ended up watching the commentary tracks on all our DVDs just to hear something different. Anyway the anchorman one stands out to me because will Ferrell apparently gets decked by someone and they just talk about what an rear end in a top hat he is for the next hour Oh, man the Anchorman commentary is legendary. Just totally ignoring the movie to have little skits and poo poo.
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Feb 6, 2017 00:30
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