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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      Non-Film Score Discussion: Commentaries you enjoy on Movie DVDs   Last Post   Posted:   Sep 8, 2015 - 6:04 PM     By:   Zooba   (Member) If this has been posted and I think probably yes, please excuse, but if you'd like to mention any DVD Audio Commentaries you particularly enjoy. Thanks. I kind of enjoy the Michael Okuda commentaries on some of the STAR TREK Movie DVD's. He's a great artist/designer and like me I'd say borderline "nerd" when it comes to a lot of technical Star Trek stuff, but I always find his comments fun, educational and entertaining. Please share.    Posted:   Sep 8, 2015 - 7:39 PM     By:   Adam.   (Member) I really like the commentary on the DVD deluxe edition of The Thing (1982) with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. Pretty entertaining and you can periodically hear Carpenter striking his cigarette lighter to light up another smoke.    Posted:   Sep 9, 2015 - 9:58 AM     By:   David Sones (Allardyce)   (Member) I really like the commentary on the DVD deluxe edition of The Thing (1982) with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. Pretty entertaining and you can periodically hear Carpenter striking his cigarette lighter to light up another smoke. Don't know if it's this Carpenter/Russell commentary or a different one, but you can here them pouring cups of coffee too. I just picture the two of them sitting there in clouds of smoke holding two giant mugs of steaming coffee. Heh.    Posted:   Sep 9, 2015 - 10:10 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Anything with Ridley Scott. Love Jack Nicholson's cigar-and-whiskey-voiced commentary on PROFESSIONE: REPORTER. Elfman's for EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is brilliant. Some others. But I don't listen to them as much as I should. By the way, we've done this topic a few times over the years: http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=17906&forumID=7&archive=1 http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=51910&forumID=7&archive=0    Posted:   Nov 28, 2015 - 10:30 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Terry Gilliam provides an energetic and insightful commentary track for the Criterion edition of FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. Hunter S. Thompson does one as well and it is fascinating in its own right though the 1978 documentary also included with the DVD set reveals him to be quite the headcase. He was a brilliant writer but he burned himself out. David Cronenberg contributes a superb commentary for NAKED LUNCH. I'm fairly certain I could listen to him talk about movies forever.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2015 - 11:57 AM     By:   Xebec   (Member) Any Russell/Carpenter commentary is immense, even if they digress into their kids hockey tournaments. Just great stuff. i probably watch them more than the films. Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers has a really excellent and informative commentary for that great film. I recommend that. It's on the DVD not the Blu-Ray though. Cronenberg is so great and thoughtful, i could listen to any of his commentaries. Any Ridley Scott commentary i really like. There are a couple of Fright Night commentaries not on the DVD but done with a lot of the cast and director/SFX guy but you can find them on the internet, not sure where, but i think Tim Sullivan moderates them from the Icons of Fright website maybe? Robocop has a great commentary. Die Hard has a very interesting commentary from John McTiernan (and the production designer, i think). I really like John Boorman commentaries, too. Even for duff films like Zardoz. I actually like commentaries for bad films, just to see what the filmmakers intended, what they achieved and what their levels of delusion were; like Prometheus, that has 2 great commentaries on it. Even something like Pathfinder or Doom i can enjoy the commentaries on more than the films themselves There's actually a load of commentaries i really like so i don't want to yammer on about them.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2015 - 11:58 AM     By:   Xebec   (Member) Terry Gilliam provides an energetic and insightful commentary track for the Criterion edition of FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. Hunter S. Thompson does one as well and it is fascinating in its own right though the 1978 documentary also included with the DVD set reveals him to be quite the headcase. He was a brilliant writer but he burned himself out. David Cronenberg contributes a superb commentary for NAKED LUNCH. I'm fairly certain I could listen to him talk about movies forever. Gilliam does a very good one for THE FISHER KING, too.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2015 - 12:20 PM     By:   Francis   (Member) Not movies but TV show commentaries like those on the Seinfeld or Newsradio DVDs spring to mind first. I tend to gravitate to commentaries that feature the actors and less the writers as I find the former have a better grasp of editing themselves and not going on too long. Owning all sorts of movies, you often come across unintentionally funny commentaries; I remember Lenzi's commentary for Nightmare City in lousy english as well as Lamberto Bava's for Demons to be mind boggling amateurish at times. Before they get to explain what it is they want to say, the movie is over lol. Often times when there is an interviewer present, he or she can be terrible at leading the commentary and sometimes taking over to the point it's annoying. Hooper's commentary for Lifeforce springs to mind. But when there are no featurettes or extras other than the commentary, it's a joy to get to hear the director/dp/writer/... give an insight into making the movie. In that regard I liked audio commentaries such as those on Something Wicked This Way Comes, Silver Bullet, Thirst, Outland, ... I'll also nominate Roger Ebert's commentary for Dark City as a strong one. And I believe it was the commentary to "Ninth Gate" where you can hear Polanski drink and eat and take a break halfway through to smoke lol.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2015 - 1:18 PM     By:   RoryR   (Member) The best commentaries are the scripted ones, where the facts have been checked and the information is plentiful. Just about anything done by Rudy Behlmer or some film scholar -- with a good speaking voice -- qualifies. Director and actor commentaries tend to be mutual admiration type things, and most are ultimately worthless. I do have to admit to never hearing the famous Carpenter/Russell even though I've just noticed -- and I'm not kidding -- that I have the Blu-ray of THE THING remake! Can't recall when I bought it, mostlikely just a casual buy -- but I've never watched it! I need to go listen to that commentary. Man, I think I've had this Blu-ray at least three years now. This is awful because I've got many more I've never watched! Oh, boy.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2015 - 2:01 PM     By:   Mr. Jack   (Member) There are a couple of Fright Night commentaries not on the DVD but done with a lot of the cast and director/SFX guy but you can find them on the internet, not sure where, but i think Tim Sullivan moderates them from the Icons of Fright website maybe? Both tracks were included on the second printing of the Fright Night Blu released by Twilight Time.    Posted:   Mar 15, 2017 - 8:01 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) The commentary in SILICON VALLEY season 1 was almost as funny as the episodes.    Posted:   Mar 15, 2017 - 10:17 PM     By:   RoryR   (Member) Is there any DVD commentary for a Guy Madison movie?    Posted:   Mar 16, 2017 - 5:45 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) Is there any DVD commentary for a Guy Madison movie? It would be sound of people snoring.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Commentaries you enjoy on Movie DVDs    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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