#commentary tracks

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Perhaps by not naming Hugo (in a poem arguably about him), Sainte-Beuve endeavors to instill humility in his friend.

well mission spectacularly failed then yeesh

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panic attack finding out that Brad Pitt was supporting the gays in fucking 1999

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Setting up an astonishing array of fancy Paranormal Investigation Equipment and calling upon the spirits…of dead movie directors and stars.

“I have summoned you here to perform a ceremony called…the Commentary Track! Please watch this cross-dimensional projection of your classic film and speak your thoughts clearly into the spectrovibroplexagraph. Yes, that thing there. Any thoughts. Technical…salty gossip…you’re dead, who’s going to squawk?!”

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rian johnson creating an in-theatre commentary track for knives out was the coolest thing ever and more filmmakers should have been inspired to do something similar 👀

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'OZ' Audio Commentary on 'The Routine'

Continuing on with my series of audio commentaries, I have decided to take a break from “Homicide: Life on the Street” and do one on another show, the infamous HBO prison drama “OZ.” I became aware of this show when I found out that, like “Homicide,” it was executive produced by Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson. It was created by Fontana who originally sought to create a show about a…

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The Ultimate Rabbit and Keon Kobra's Live Commentary on 'Night of the Demons'

The Ultimate Rabbit and Keon Kobra’s Live Commentary on ‘Night of the Demons’

I recently had the pleasure of checking in with Keon Maghsoudi (a.k.a. Keon Kobra), a most excellent friend of mine from high school. We joined up to do an online commentary on the horror movie “Night of the Demons.” Released in 1988, the same year we got “Child Play’s,” “Maniac Cop,” “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street IV: The Dream Master,” “Phantasm II” and…

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Some of Mark Hamill’s commentaries on Return of the Jedi from the 2011 Complete Saga blu-ray box set’s second commentary track:

Those movies have a different personality. And that first one, I think, has a sort of wonderful, breezy innocence, and it seems very fresh and unique. The second one has the more spiritual aspects to it, and we love the fact that the good guys lose and get damaged along the way. The third one’s difficult because you really do have to tie up all the loose ends. And I complained about that to George. I said, “It all seems so pat.” And he said, “Well, so are fairy tales.” ‘Cause I thought when they unmask Boba Fett, it’s gonna be my mother, or something wild. You know, she’s gonna shake out her hair. “Why, Miss Fett, you’re beautiful.” Or he’s a double agent, or whatever. And when he just went, you know, flashing away - I think they flipped the switch on his backpack, and off he goes. You thought, “Did you make this up the day before we shot it?” But it’s sort of being backed into a corner, because if he’d - I think - again, this is my own opinion - if he’d known that he would be able to make three films, he would have saved the Death Star for the third film and had a different climax of the first film. You know, along the way, he sort of set me straight because I kept thinking “Well, this is what I want to see. This is what we should do, and this shouldn’t happen and that should happen.” And he reminded me that it was always meant to be for children. So he’s not making a movie for me or for you. He’s making a movie for probably the nine year old that’s in all of us. People get very covetous of the material. Not just the people involved, but the audience as well. And they feel like they should have a say in how it should all be done and how they should, you know, be executed...

...I remember giving George this coffee table book that was alien artwork and so forth, and the inscription was, “Dear George, pick a girlfriend for me from this book. Love, Mark.” And I didn’t know the whole story line - that there’d be one eligible girl. That’s the good news and the bad news is she’s your sister. But again, I’m thinking too much like Mark. “Hey, I want this - I want a great - I want to have this girlfriend.” Whereas he’s much more doing what’s right for the story where somehow having those romantic relationships weaken the character rather making it strong. Let’s not forget that Obi-Wan is a very solitary character. And when you’re able to look back in retrospect and see how all three come together, that’s the direction - He loses in love, and yet he realizes in the process that that’s not the most important thing...

...I remember we were finishing the third one, you know it really had the sense of it was the end, that they were gonna tie up all the loose ends and there was a “clearing your locker out at the end of the semester” feel to it all. Because when things come to an end, you think, “oh gee, I sort of took it for granted, and you know, it’s all gonna be over.” You always look forward to seeing the old gang again. Whereas before I thought the bookend trilogies, or now just the presiding trilogy was a really good idea, I started thinking of it as a bunch of strangers rummaging through my toy box. I got very possessive for no justifiable reason. But you know, Threepio was mine, just the way the Wookie was Han Solo’s. So uh, part of us were happy to see - ‘cause it had such a beginning and a middle and an end - to come to the conclusion of it all, but there was that aspect of if you were looking at it just from the standpoint of Luke, here you have a story that tells how he comes to be this Jedi, and that’s the end of the story. It’d be like telling three movies to tell you how James Bond got his license to kill and then when he gets it, the movie’s over. So part of me was saying “I’m so glad to put this behind me.” The other aspect was, “Well what about all the adventures that Luke could have?” Because once I figured out that he wasn’t gonna get the girl, I figured he’d wind up following in Obi-Wan’s footsteps and becoming someone who was very cerebral and spiritual, and he’d probably be out meditating in the desert like Sir Alec was…

And as a bonus, on that same commentary track, Mark’s thoughts on the Legends EU:

I was gonna say that really for people that are interested in that that my character’s had more adventures outside the movie than in the movie, with graphic novels and real novels and games and comic books and whatnot. And not really following all of that, I’ll be surprised by people saying - you know, I was doing a documentary down at the San Diego Comic Book Convention. And someone said, “Oh, here’s your wife. This is Mara Jade.” I’m saying, “Hello?” “No, come on! It’s your wife! Your wife!” And I realized that in the story line, Luke, I guess, marries this girl. I don’t know whether we have kids or what. But, you know, it lives on in so many mediums.

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