20 November 2008 12:41 PM, PST | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news
Allow me to bombard you with some shocking honesty. I am bored with DVD extras. When DVDs first came out, I was the King of the Extras. And there was nothing more treasured than that holy grail of extras - the director’s commentary. I still remember the first one I listened to. It was Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation. I learned so much! Like the see-through rain jacket he wears....it’s symbolic! Today, I divide commentary tracks into two categories. Group one is “World Film” classics from the Criterion Collection where some (probably British) scholar drops a heavy load of dense knowledge. I usually last for about twenty minutes. Group two is everyone else, where the director just says what it is you are seeing and how awesome the cast was that day. I usually last about eighteen seconds.
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