I've been on a commentary kick lately. Listened to the famous Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back track in which Mewes was (later admittedly) on smack the whole time. He speaks only a few times during the whole thing -- in incoherent, trailing-off sentences -- and excuses himself at one point to go to the bathroom. Also Netflixed some of those new Dirty Harry DVDs with tracks. The one for The Enforcer is a B-, with director James Fargo sounding upbeat and giving a lot of background on exactly how he and future DH series directors were chosen and promoted from within Eastwood's company, etc.
I can't say the same for The Dead Pool, which has one of the lamest tracks I've ever encounted. Producer David Valdes seems almost embarassed to be actually recording a track for that piece of shit movie -- okay, except for the toy car chase -- and he doesn't say a single interesting thing for the entire running time. He's also a repeater -- we have to hear twenty times about how fortuitous it was that they selected "Welcome to the Jungle" for the soundtrack. He has nothing to add about what it was like working with Neeson, Clarkson, Carrey pre-fame or any insights on why they, the producers, never returned to the well again after this one. It's a waste of time.
Go Ahead, Make My Commentary Track Remarkably Uninformative
I've been on a commentary kick lately. Listened to the famous Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back track in which Mewes was (later admittedly) on smack the whole time. He speaks only a few times during the whole thing -- in incoherent, trailing-off sentences -- and excuses himself at one point to go to the bathroom. Also Netflixed some of those new Dirty Harry DVDs with tracks. The one for The Enforcer is a B-, with director James Fargo sounding upbeat and giving a lot of background on exactly how he and future DH series directors were chosen and promoted from within Eastwood's company, etc.
I can't say the same for The Dead Pool, which has one of the lamest tracks I've ever encounted. Producer David Valdes seems almost embarassed to be actually recording a track for that piece of shit movie -- okay, except for the toy car chase -- and he doesn't say a single interesting thing for the entire running time. He's also a repeater -- we have to hear twenty times about how fortuitous it was that they selected "Welcome to the Jungle" for the soundtrack. He has nothing to add about what it was like working with Neeson, Clarkson, Carrey pre-fame or any insights on why they, the producers, never returned to the well again after this one. It's a waste of time.
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