Been listening to a few lately, a few John Carpenter’s, Mayhem was pretty out there, looking for more that are interesting or wildly off topic or entertaining.
An unexpected one for me was the commentary for Godzilla 2000 on the American/English release. I kind of laughed when I saw it was an option because this is one of the Japanese-made films that was dubbed into English and I had no idea how they’d handle that. Would it be in Japanese? Would that be dubbed? In fact it was the director of the English version explaining the whole process of creating the English release, including that the dialog was not dubbed but looped, and what that difference meant. It was a fascinating look at something I knew nothing about.
GalaxyQuest included an alleged commentary track that was all in Thermian. No one should ever listen to it, but my hat is off to whoever put it together.
Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog has a commentary track called Commentary! The Musical! It is exactly what it sounds like, and it’s hilarious.
Not quite a director commentary, but I thought this side by side without vfx sounded super interesting
Blood Simple has a commentary track that’s a satire of overly serious, artsy fartsy commentary tracks. It’s hilariously applied to a very serious movie.
https://jasondeanbooks.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-greatest-dvd-commentaries-ever-in_21.html?m=1
The Venture Bros. Doc Hammer and Jackson Public are hilarious.
Shawshank Redemption.
The Big Lebowski.
Also Star Trek 2.
So many great ones though.
The firefly ones are great.
The one for Predator is hilarious - done after the fact they can’t remember half the movie, and lots of amazing stories come out, such as the heat-camera not working in the jungle (as everything is hot) so they tried dousing the scenery in ice water, making the cast stand next to a fire, then quickly record it. It didn’t work well.
