a million dollar DVD Commentary idear

how about have actors do voice-overcommentary in character?

imagine a star wars dvd commentary with yoda and darth vader.

'in this scene, to the dark side annakin goes'.

'with all due respect, master yoda, lord sidious has better beer'.

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how about scarface commentary with tony montana?

'look at that motherfuc*ing scene, man, i shoot all them cockroaches.
i show them piece of shi*. if i known that scum walk behind me like a
fag, i turn around and shoot his fuc*ing face! and the gunshot not
kill me. i just not know how to swim.'

or how about tuco and blondie commenting on good bad ugly?

or dirty harry?

it'd be great with comedies. woody allen in character commenting on
woody allen characters.

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it'd be like sunset boulevard with the dead man's commentary.

RSF Group

RSF Group wrote:
> how about have actors do voice-overcommentary in character?
>
> imagine a star wars dvd commentary with yoda and darth vader.
>
> 'in this scene, to the dark side annakin goes'.
>
> 'with all due respect, master yoda, lord sidious has better beer'.
>
> -----
>
> how about scarface commentary with tony montana?
>
> 'look at that motherfuc*ing scene, man, i shoot all them cockroaches.
> i show them piece of shi*. if i known that scum walk behind me like a
> fag, i turn around and shoot his fuc*ing face! and the gunshot not
> kill me. i just not know how to swim.'
>
> or how about tuco and blondie commenting on good bad ugly?
>
> or dirty harry?
>
> it'd be great with comedies. woody allen in character commenting on
> woody allen characters.
>
> -------
>
> it'd be like sunset boulevard with the dead man's commentary.
>
Spinal Tap

Jason Fitch

RSF Group wrote:
> how about have actors do voice-overcommentary in character?
>

Nah, they did it for cheaper than that:
http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=MGD000973

(And that one goes back about five years...
THAT was it? THAT was your attempt to get the RASSM threads and
obligatory stoner-Scarface ref mentioned?
Geez, you're still in that purple haze!)

Derek Janssen (who would've bought it, but still sentimental for the
Criterion)

Derek Janssen

Pixar did this for the cartoon short on the Incredibles DVD. It was a
cartoon based on Mr. Incredible and Frozone, and the two actors did
commentary as their superhero characters about the kid's cartoon. It
was pretty funny.

Also, the children's movie "Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie" featured
feature length commentary with two of the main 'characters' (Larry the
cucumber and Mr. Lunt the squash, or whatever the heck vegetable he
is).
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doug


RSF Group wrote:
> how about have actors do voice-overcommentary in character?
>
> imagine a star wars dvd commentary with yoda and darth vader.
>
> 'in this scene, to the dark side annakin goes'.
>
> 'with all due respect, master yoda, lord sidious has better beer'.
>
> -----
>
> how about scarface commentary with tony montana?
>
> 'look at that motherfuc*ing scene, man, i shoot all them cockroaches.
> i show them piece of shi*. if i known that scum walk behind me like a
> fag, i turn around and shoot his fuc*ing face! and the gunshot not
> kill me. i just not know how to swim.'
>
> or how about tuco and blondie commenting on good bad ugly?
>
> or dirty harry?
>
> it'd be great with comedies. woody allen in character commenting on
> woody allen characters.
>
> -------
>
> it'd be like sunset boulevard with the dead man's commentary.

perc2100

perc2100 wrote:
> Pixar did this for the cartoon short on the Incredibles DVD. It was a
> cartoon based on Mr. Incredible and Frozone, and the two actors did
> commentary as their superhero characters about the kid's cartoon. It
> was pretty funny.
>
> Also, the children's movie "Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie" featured
> feature length commentary with two of the main 'characters' (Larry the
> cucumber and Mr. Lunt the squash, or whatever the heck vegetable he
> is).

And then, of course, the various Muppet movies.
(Particularly "Muppets From Space", with director Tim Hill convinced
that DVD commentaries were "sorta like MST3K", and thus doing his best
attempted fanboy imitations of Michael J. Nelson's "Huh..." cadences)--

In fact, just how MANY real commentaries can we smart-slap Gaza's
none-too-inspired thread with, before we all get bored with it?

Derek Janssen (I mean, one like this, you gotta pound it six miles into
the ground)

Derek Janssen

RSF Group <> wrote:
>how about have actors do voice-overcommentary in character?

Been done before (examples: Futurama, couple of eps here and
there, and some recent Disney movie had Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas doing
essentially a full comedy album as a commentary track), but unless your
actors are absolutely aces at improv, you're going to need some quality
writing, and then it's really more trouble than it's worth.

--
ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!


TEXT EDITOR. -Patrick J. LoPresti

Andrew Ryan Chang

Jason Fitch wrote:

> RSF Group wrote:
>
>> how about have actors do voice-overcommentary in character?
>>
>> imagine a star wars dvd commentary with yoda and darth vader.
>>
>> 'in this scene, to the dark side annakin goes'.
>>
>> 'with all due respect, master yoda, lord sidious has better beer'.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> how about scarface commentary with tony montana?
>>
>> 'look at that motherfuc*ing scene, man, i shoot all them cockroaches.
>> i show them piece of shi*. if i known that scum walk behind me like a
>> fag, i turn around and shoot his fuc*ing face! and the gunshot not
>> kill me. i just not know how to swim.'
>>
>> or how about tuco and blondie commenting on good bad ugly?
>>
>> or dirty harry?
>>
>> it'd be great with comedies. woody allen in character commenting on
>> woody allen characters.
>>
>> -------
>>
>> it'd be like sunset boulevard with the dead man's commentary.
>>
> Spinal Tap

Yeah, that was good. You can watch the movie again for the commentary,
and it's another comedy in itself. Hell, the stuff that was cut out was
damned near another whole movie. But it was sort of just more of the
same stuff.

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Alric Knebel
http://www.ironeyefortress.com/C-SPAN_loon.html
http://www.ironeyefortress.com

Alric Knebel

Funny you should bring this up. I watched the OT DVDs a few weeks back w/
the commentary on and found the ANH & ROTJ's commentaries to be incredibly
dull. I like commentary where insight is given into the making of the movie
or anecdotes are shared, but it seemed like all these were was the sound guy
going on and on about how great he was. ESB had Kershner giving a great
commentary, though.

Crimson*

Bruce Campbell does a commentary track on "Bubba Ho-Tep" as "The King."

Mildly hilarious.

Kate

khalleron@netzero.com

Not a movie, obviously, but Steve Coogan did commentaries for the
British comedy series "I'm Alan Partridge" in character as Alan
Partridge. He also did alternate audio tracks as himself.

SoHillsGuy