Worst or most annoyingCommentary on a DVD

[Guest Anglesault]

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Personally, I've never wanted to break the jaw of a person I've never met more than when I was listening to Brett Ratner on the Rush Hour 2 DVD. If he said "literally" or "BUT NAKED~!" one more time, I would have snapped the DVD.

[Nighthawk 0]

Quentin Tarantino on True Romance. Towards the end, he actually said "Ok, I've said what I had to say. Now I'm just going to watch the movie and if I've got something to say, I'll say it." in his usual smug way. Asshole, if I wanted that, I wouldn't have turned on the commentary track. But of course, he can't shut up, and soon starts talking again and keeps it up to the end, so it could have been worse.

[MrRant 0]

I agree with AS.

 

And most cast commentaries piss me off too.

[the pinjockey 0]

American Pie 2

 

The commentary with Mena Suvari, Jason Biggs, and whatshisface who played Kevin. About 80% of the "comments" was just Mena chuckling at something. So everytime she laughed the sound were go down, she would chuckle, 2 second pause, sound comes back up. It was all just silence or chuckling.

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

American Pie 2

 

The commentary with Mena Suvari, Jason Biggs, and whatshisface who played Kevin. About 80% of the "comments" was just Mena chuckling at something. So everytime she laughed the sound were go down, she would chuckle, 2 second pause, sound comes back up. It was all just silence or chuckling.

American Wedding's track wasn't much better. Only real commentary I hate on the DVD's I have.

 

I also hate one man commentaries. No discussion going on, just one guy rambling.

 

The EXCEPTION is Mel Brooks. His Audio Commentary on Spaceballs is very entertaining.

[Nighthawk 0]

I also don't like it when several people record seperate commentaries and they get chopped together. They can be quite informative in certain scenarios (Criterion does it a lot, but they're usually alright), but I'd prefer them in the same room.

 

I haven't seen it, but I hear Dennis Hopper on Easy Rider is as if they brought in someone off the street who had never seen the movie.

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

I also don't like it when several people record seperate commentaries and they get chopped together. They can be quite informative in certain scenarios (Criterion does it a lot, but they're usually alright), but I'd prefer them in the same room.

 

I haven't seen it, but I hear Dennis Hopper on Easy Rider is as if they brought in someone off the street who had never seen the movie.

Thats how Terminator 3 is. All the actors did seperate commentary, and they just splice it in together. Just a mess. I preffer having 3-4 people actual discuss with each other.

[the pinjockey 0]

It was funny hearing Arnold just droning on and on about getting in shape.

[Ravenbomb 0]

I also hate one man commentaries. No discussion going on, just one guy rambling.

 

The EXCEPTION is Mel Brooks. His Audio Commentary on Spaceballs is very entertaining.

 

I dunno, Bruce Campbell's commentary during Evil Dead is one of my favorites.

 

 

 

It's probably my fault for listening to a commentary track consisting of nothing but kids, but the Holes commentary with the kids is the worst thing EVER!

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

It was funny hearing Arnold just droning on and on about getting in shape.

I could honestly guess the first 10 minutes of his commentary is getting in shape and talking about his BUTT.

[Guest T®ITEC]

Family Guy, Seasons 1 & 2.

 

After the first disc, they don't say anything! It's just long stretches of quite with the occaisional laugh or brief comment. Waste of time.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Family Guy was hit and miss. It was great when Seth would break into Peter or Stewie out of the blue.

 

And while I loved the Mallrats commentary, I hated the Clerks one. Very boring

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

The Critic Complete Series kinda pisses me off. They only did commentary for about 6 or 7 episodes. None featured Jon Lovitz. Only the 2 annoying guys from The Simpsons and the voice actors.

[Guest Mindless_Aggression]

Yeah, I was shocked at how fucking awful the Family Guy commentaries are. You'd think a room full of comedy writers would be more entertaining.

[Guest Anglesault]

Yeah, I was shocked at how fucking awful the Family Guy commentaries are. You'd think a room full of comedy writers would be more entertaining.

That's why they're writers and no actors.

[Karnage 0]

I hate it when commentaries say "we're gonna talk about that later on" and by the end on the commentary, they never do.

[Ravenbomb 0]

I hate it when commentaries say "we're gonna talk about that later on" and by the end on the commentary, they never do.

Yeah, I can't stand that either. If I'm ever in the position to do a commentary track, I'm doing two, cause there's always stuff they don't talk about.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

I also don't like it when several people record seperate commentaries and they get chopped together. They can be quite informative in certain scenarios (Criterion does it a lot, but they're usually alright), but I'd prefer them in the same room.

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe that's how Criterion runs all of their commentaries (separate recordings for each party involved). Although this method results in a lack of real chemistry or flow (in some cases) between everyone involved in the one commentary track, it's not always so bad. You can hardly tell that none of the people involved with the CC RoboCop commentary are together, as it has a nice flow and doesn't seem at all disjointed.

 

The Critic Complete Series kinda pisses me off. They only did commentary for about 6 or 7 episodes. None featured Jon Lovitz. Only the 2 annoying guys from The Simpsons and the voice actors.

 

Granted Lovitz would've been fun to hear, but he was unavailable for the sessions (he'll be doing the episodes he was a part of during the fourth season of the Simpsons, btw). I find those on the creative end usually provide the better commentary track, anyway.

 

I honestly haven't checked any commentary tracks out lately, but I usually find the ones for classic films that are done by historians to be a bore most of the time. Although they can be very informative, they're often reading what they say, which makes for a very unemotional and dry commentary.

[Guest El Satanico]

I haven't seen it, but I hear Dennis Hopper on Easy Rider is as if they brought in someone off the street who had never seen the movie.

That was probably the first time he remembers seeing it. Then he probably doesn't remember anything about the filming since his sweat was likely half LSD at that time.

[Guest wrestlingbs]

I have Family Guy Vol. 2. Most of the people on there are either just laughing or being silent. Epecially the girl from That 70's Show. But yeah, Seth talked a lot.

[Nighthawk 0]

I also don't like it when several people record seperate commentaries and they get chopped together. They can be quite informative in certain scenarios (Criterion does it a lot, but they're usually alright), but I'd prefer them in the same room.

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe that's how Criterion runs all of their commentaries (separate recordings for each party involved).

Out of my 20 or so, at least 2 (I haven't gotten around to watching all of them) have the commentators together. Chasing Amy and Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, with Hunter S. Thompson basically requiring a wrangler to keep him subdued and on topic.

[Star Ocean 3 0]

Fox edited the crap out of Family Guy commentaries, that's why there are so little, and so many long silences.

[Some Guy 0]

It was funny hearing Arnold just droning on and on about getting in shape.

I could honestly guess the first 10 minutes of his commentary is getting in shape and talking about his BUTT.

[Arnold voice]I tried to have the same bosy fat as the first, so on the first I had 4% and the 2nd I was 4.5%. BLAH BLAH BLAH[/Arnold voice]

 

 

The new Beyond the Mat commmentary with Jesse and Mick is stupid beyond words. The clearly talked through out the whole movie but we only get crudely spliced in segments (sometimes begining or ending mid-story or sentence), that actually cause the movies to pause for a few seconds and then up pops Jesse and Mick's heads into the screen and we hear a few seconds of stuff and then back to the movie for a while. It might be the most annoying thing I've ever seen. Jesse claimed that Jimmy "Superfly" Snoooka (as he pronounces it) was the best worker he'd ever been in the ring with, after he told a story (with the first part cut out about how Terry Funk carried him through an hour broadway. I thought Mick was going to flip out and slap him for saying Snuka was a better worker than Funk.

 

BTW, the dinner with Mick and Jesse IS funny. As Jesse goes on and on about "In my day...." and Mick rolls his eyes. Jesse actuallt seems to think he was a good worker because he could have a match where he didn't touch his opponent for 10 minutes and the crowd would go nuts. Well no shit they'll go nuts from fucking boordom. Try that today and watch the bathrooms fill up and the ratings go down.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Jesse makes great points in the dinner bit. And I skimmed through the commentary and was thinking "what the hell..." it was done very poorly, and my pictures does a little freeze bit in between chapters when the commentary is on

[DCMaximo 0]

The Jackass The Movie DVD has two commentaries- one is very good (Knoxville, Tremaine and Elyashkevich). The other one, which is the rest of the cast is terrible, just lots of private jokes or laughter. Nothing entertaining or insightful at all.

[Karnage 0]

And I skimmed through the commentary and was thinking "what the hell..." it was done very poorly, and my pictures does a little freeze bit in between chapters when the commentary is on

Is this similar to the UHF dvd where Al pops up on the screen while the movie is playing? Because the way Al did it was awesome.

[Guest TheArchiteck]

For me it was the Chappelle show dvd.

It was pretty dissapointed...since I was expecting them to describe how they came up with some of that crazy stuff.

But him and the producer was just laughing with a breif comment saying something about a different topic.

I only kept it on for like the deleted scenes.

[Guest JSL]

I know the topic is bad movie commentaries, but the Ready to Rumble commentary is probably the best part of the DVD. Plus, it's only like $10 and an awesome movie already. Except David Arquette, although this IS one of his almost tolerable roles.

[Some Guy 0]

Jesse makes great points in the dinner bit. And I skimmed through the commentary and was thinking "what the hell..." it was done very poorly, and my pictures does a little freeze bit in between chapters when the commentary is on

He does make some good points, but the "jaded ex-wrestler who claims he doesn't watch wrestling but everybody knows he still does or he wouldn't be doing a commentary track for a film about modern wrestling" bit is old.

 

I was disapointed with the commentray track. I was hoping to get 2 hours of Jesse talking about Funk, Jake, Vince, Hogan (I figured he's find time to bash him), etc... Instead I a disjointed, poorly edited track that only covered half the movie.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Airplane.

 

Youd think with the movies these guys did, the commentary would be hilarious. Sadly, it's just so, so boring.