# Director's commentaries on DVD's. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-commentaries-on-dvds/244816 "2004-05-12T17:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-commentaries-on-dvds/244816/21 "2004-05-13T19:23:30Z")
> [@rackensack](#): > > I’ve only seen/heard his commentary on _The Usual Suspects_, but I’ll second what **Mausmagill** says about Singer’s commentary on that film. I’ve had the misfortune of choosing _US_ as the first time I’d listened to the commentary. Very few directors have been able to rise to the bar. Siger’s commentary on X-men is very good, too. I think he has the same fellow with him on both. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-commentaries-on-dvds/244816/22 "2004-05-13T20:15:51Z")
_The Blair Witch Project_ had a good commentary; because of the unorthodox production style some of the behind-the-scenes anecdotes are more interesting than the movie itself. And I liked the movie. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-commentaries-on-dvds/244816/23 "2004-05-13T21:34:39Z")
I enjoyed Cameron Crowe’s commentary on “Almost Famous” a lot. FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-commentaries-on-dvds/244816/24 "2004-05-13T23:42:36Z")
Cannibal! the Musical; the director and cast get drunk and critique the movie… Modern Vampires; the commentary was even mor fun than the movie, and the movie was quite fun in a B-Movie kind of way Richard Elfman (Director) and Casper Van Dien (lead vampire) are viewing a scene where Kim Cattral’s character hits Van Dien’s character, lands about 3 blows… CVD “that’s _IT_??!?!, that’s all you used, she beat the shit out of me in that take!!” Futurama Season 3; The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz; Billy West has Zoidberg do commentary A Pharaoh to remember; Billy as Fry, John DiMaggio as Bender in the commentary (the Professor drops in as well) UHF; Wierd Al has a lot of fun in his commentary, other actors “drop in”… the scene with Emo Phillips running the circular saw is playing; Al on commentary; Oh look, there’s Emo Phillips, i wonder where he is now Emo; I’m right behind you! Al; \ near the end of the movie Al calls up Victoria Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-commentaries-on-dvds/244816/25 "2004-05-13T23:43:28Z")
The best commentaries of all are John Carpenter paired off with Kurt Russell. Two guys who’ve been friends for 25 years, almost certainly half-cut and having a great time while still remaining informative and amusing. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-commentaries-on-dvds/244816/26 "2004-05-14T03:40:11Z")
I got through about half of “Big Trouble in Little China’s” commentary, and I loved the movie. I think what did it for me was when Russell and Carpenter were talking about their kids. Some of the commentarys would come off much better if they had someone conducting an interview. With a cattle prod handy to keep 'em in line. “Pirates of the Caribbean”: the Knightly/Davenport commentary was pretty good but not very informative. They josh each other and he tosses off witty deadpan lines that the English do so well. The commentary with the writers was more interesting to me, because they discussed how the drafts of the script changed (originally, Davenport’s character was supposed to turn pirate!). They also mentioned how the actor who played Barbosa worked for a long time with the writers on his speech with Knightly’s character aboard the pirate ship, making sure each line flowed right and reflected his character properly. Sounds agonizing to go through, but they didn’t seem upset about it. I’ve said it before, but Ebert’s “Casablanca” commentary was excellent. Lots of information about the making of the movie (a lot of which I knew), but he also went into how the movie was shot. Great trivia. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-commentaries-on-dvds/244816.md?page=1)