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Frankenheimer and John Carpenter always make great commentaries.
Completely agree, and I'd add to that list:
Richard Donner - always has fun stories, some interesting technical detail AND tells it like it is.
Disagree re: Peter Bogdanovich, at least on THE SEARCHERS, which is the only one of his I've listened to. Amazing commentary track, made all the more amazing by the fact that he wasn't involved in the making of the film and yet, nonetheless, has great insight. Remember, he's worked with so many amazing filmmakers. Not a big fan of his work myself, but this track is surprisingly great.
Sir Christopher Frayling - his Leone commentary trax are always insightful.
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Let us add to this list the commentary of Paul Verhoeven (a filmmaker I like) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (no comment) for TOTAL RECALL.
And the one person I wanted to hear about (Roy Brocksmith, an actor with a plateful of interesting roles in his lifetime) and Verhoeven insists on continuing to tell me OVER AND OVER that this COULD have been a dream, and here is evidence in this scene why......
Schwarzenegger could do little more than talk about what was going to happen next, and "oh, this is a great line!"
Cripes.
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Jul 24, 2011 - 3:34 AM
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I just wish that those TV stars who haven't seen the episode they're commenting on since who-knows-when would do their homework. Taking the time to watch it once beforehand might improve the quality of their comments. Robert Conrad in the Wild, Wild West pilot comes to mind. He might have avoided saying something like "Nehemiah Persoff didn't do much TV." Yeah, right; when wasn't Persoff on TV!
Wrong, Bob. Nehemiah Persoff did lots of television. He appeared on "Marty" on "Goodyear Television Theater", was the only actor to guest star on all four seasons of "The Untouchables" in different roles (including three episodes as Jake Guzik) and appeared on "The Flying Nun", "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", "The Twilight Zone", "Gunsmoke", "Quincy", "Gilligan's Island" and "Marcus Welby M.D.". Apparently Mr. Conrad has taken too many blows to the head from doing all those stunts on "The Wild, Wild West" that it has jumbled his brain cells loose.
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The best commentary I have heard is from John Carpenters the Thing with Russel and Carpenter...
The most dissapointing commmentary, must be from Total Recal, because I heard Arnold got paid alot for doing it but shares shit (atleast we had a goofey Verhoeven there  )
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Jul 25, 2011 - 10:43 AM
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dan the man
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Generally speaking i like commentaries and i am glad they came around during the DVD days, how many people gone now would have been nice to hear do one, Peter Cushing, Georges Delurue, Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Reeve, Vincent Price, on and on, it is also touching with the ones who did it and now are gone, i remember listening to the one Ingrid Pitt did just before she died and then listening to it after she died, really got to me,.Some are better then others, i just hope when DVD leaves us, whatever the format will be they will continue to have commentaries, they are an important historical reference on the people who brought much pleasure to people with their talents. I try to collect the ones i can, so that somebody maybe 30 years from now can hear what Christopher Lee had to say about a film or person, just like how wonderful it would be to hear what James Stewart would have said when making one of his classic westerns.LONG LIVE COMMENTARIES.
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Since no one has mentioned him, for me the nadir is Dr. Drew Casper, the most annoying, pompous "academic" twit ever. I actually had to stop listening to commentaries, because I don't want to know all that stuff, frankly. I loved The Social Network when I saw it - I loved it a lot less after watching the making of on the blu-ray. It just made me really not like Fincher and his methods and I won't watch the film again until I forget all that stuff. I prefer to watch movies and let the magic remain.
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Since no one has mentioned him, for me the nadir is Dr. Drew Casper, the most annoying, pompous "academic" twit ever.
I took classes from Casper back in the early 80's, then heard him again on the commentary for ADVISE AND CONSENT.
It's pretty much the same style as his class lectures, which worked in class (I found him mildly entertaining as a lecturer), but I was bored on the dvd to hear him read text to me out loud.
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