Favorite Audio Commentary Tracks

[schmendrik]

No standouts in my mind except maybe "The Incredibles" (or was this supposed to be limited to B-Movies). I'm kind of an animation geek, so I loved all the behind the scenes stuff.

A general comment though: I've decided that producers and directors are going to have interesting stuff to say, stuff I'm glad I learned. And actors, as a general rule, not so much. Partly that's because the actors just weren't aware of 90% of what was going on aside from the brief time they were on the set.

[JaseSF]

The Old Dark House: Commentary by star Gloria Stuart.

It Came From Outer Space: Tom Weaver brings up some interesting and thoughtful points that inspired a great thread one time at scifilm.org's old message board.

The Day the Earth Stood Still: Robert Wise and Nicolas Meyer

Those stand out in my mind.

[Foywonder]

C.H.U.D. - The funniest cast commentary I've ever seen. Starts out serious for the first few minutes and then goes total MST3K of their own movie. A must see (or should that be hear?)

[inframan]

Re-Animator, the track with the cast is great, you can tell the really love the movie and had a good time making it.

Bruce on the Evil Dead films, although I remember a spfx guy on ED2 track that was really annoying. Bruce did a good commentary on Thou Shall Not Kill Except...

I'll have to check out those Carpenter/Russel DVD tracks.

[BTM]

Re-Animator, the track with the cast is great, you can tell the really love the movie and had a good time making it.

Wow, be interesting to hear what Barbra Crampton had to say about that one particular scene (don't play dumb, you know what I'm talking about!)  :)

[Menard]

Just edging out over some others is the commentary from The Hills Have Eyes (the original). I originally didn't think too much of the film (didn't dislike it, just wasn't that impressed) until I watched it a second time with the commentary on, and it made the film much more enjoyable, to me anyway.