They Owe Me Two Hours Of My Life

[tourmaline]

They owe me. Those three guys doing the DVD commentary for Dead Poets Society. Utter crap, two hours and three of them and no mention of Robert Sean Leonard. And the Australian has the most awful vomit-inducing voice ever.

They make the occasional mention of the characters, to the extent that they'd probaby get a decent GCSE grade if they were doing this for a Film Studies course. But they just witter on about themselves, how they made the film, how super other people with absolutely no connection to the film are, how it was hard work for them and no concept of other people being invovled. Robin Williams was mentioned, Ethan Hawke was briefly mentioned, but not RSL - and he totally stole the movie for me.

The movie should be re-released, with DVD commentary by Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke. And banish Larry, Curly and Moe here to the voiceover trashcan. There's no excuse for bad commentary - people who do bad commentaries should be barred from the movie industry. Those trying to make their way into the industry would do well to listen to Stephen Fry's commentary on the DVD of Bright Young Things - he could go on all the time about his directing of the film, or his screenplay adaptation, but he chooses instead to be informative and entertaining and enlightening, giving everyone involved a namecheck, telling witty anecdotes about the making of the film, giving praise where it's due, no matter how big or small the role.

I could go on about the other things they should have mentioned, like where they filmed the location stuff (a school in Delaware I believe), I suppose any hope of anything more enriching is pointless.