# Worst director's commentaries on DVD **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321 "2004-07-03T02:43:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321/41 "2004-07-05T02:55:46Z")
Every Buffy/Angel commentary with David Greenwalt **sucks**. It doesn’t matter who else is with him, even when the esteemed Joss Whedon did a commentary track with DW it sucked. Greenwalt sucks all the life out of people. He is like a black hole of interestingness. GAH. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321/42 "2004-07-05T07:12:02Z")
> [@pesch](#): > > On “Big Trouble in Little China,” I turned it off when Carpenter and Kurt Russell went on and on about their kids. What? Those two are great fun to listen to. It’s commentary as it should be - two mates grabbing a sixpack and sitting down to watch a movie. Sure, there are digressions, but they don’t last long. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321/43 "2004-07-05T07:26:11Z")
The commentary (and I use that term loosely) on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume One is astoundingly bad. On one of the episodes, the commentary is nothing but a horrible guitar solo. On another episode, there are such long pauses consisting of nothing but complete silence that I actually forgot that I was watching the commentary. It was just like watching the show with the sound turned way down. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321/44 "2004-07-05T07:44:39Z")
> [@raz](#): > > The commentary (and I use that term loosely) on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume One is astoundingly bad. On one of the episodes, the commentary is nothing but a horrible guitar solo. On another episode, there are such long pauses consisting of nothing but complete silence that I actually forgot that I was watching the commentary. It was just like watching the show with the sound turned way down. What’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321/45 "2004-07-05T08:06:02Z")
There were some SD execs who were telling us we were crazy to try to make a full-length thread out of a lot of kvetching from dorks with a DVD player - - oh yeah they did! - but we had a strong opening post, really good solid material, and then a number of very good single instance posts and then once we had the key longer post from \*\*Little Nemo \*\* in place, the thread was really launched - oh yeah, Little Nemo added this touch of sex, and he did it so well, just as if it was an afterthought -yeah, really captured the demographic there! - and I 've always liked his work. He revisits the thread as well, after the soggy patch in the middle - -yeah there were too many threads with no sex in them - always a problem - -and I think he did a lot to lift the thread there - yeah, oh yeah that’s right. - y’know, we were hoping to get a really good post to make a solid finale , but it just kind of petered out. Well, yeah, except for the post just about to be made - that one is a real amazing, funny-yet-serious post, y’know, the sort of post that can lift a whole thread straight into \*\*Threadspotting \*\* and then it’s just a matter of time until Oscar shows up - yeah, this next post is Really Good. Let’s all pay attention for a minute. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321/46 "2004-07-05T09:50:50Z")
Wibble ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321/47 "2004-07-05T15:58:21Z")
> [@pesch](#): > > The few “Simpsons” episodes features vast stretches of silence and little else to remember. I didn’t listen to them all, but I was batting a thousand with the first season and decided not to press the point. Some are good and some are bad. One episode I was disapointed in (with the commentary) was “New Kid on the Block”, from the fourth season. It was basically a Conan O’Brien love fest. ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321/48 "2004-07-05T17:56:17Z")
The commentary on Romper Stomper was terrible. He would say things like “There’s Russell Crowe”, and it sounded like he was being recorded in a bathroom it echoes so badly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-directors-commentaries-on-dvd/253321.md?page=2)