This is, of course, one larger documentary broken down into lots of bits to fill the menu screen up, but you do get a fair bit for your money. So chalk both commentary tracks up as successes of different sorts.Īlso on the disc is a long list of featurettes. They entertain a lot less as they do so, but you will get a lot of factual nuggets. These two are the effects maestros, and while they do try and flog their book to you at one point, in terms of cold information, they have a lot more to say than Messrs Strause, Strause and Davis.
The second commentary, from Tom Woodruff Jr and Alex Gillis, is drier yet more informative.
Why don’t you make a Batman movie without the suit next? That’d save a few quid. For instance, why doesn’t the Alien acid melt people this time round? Ah, that’s easy. They usually manage to drag you back down to earth though. But on the other hand, their enthusiasm for it still makes for an engaging track. Sometimes, though, you don’t know whether they’ve actually sit through the shambles of a movie they all managed to put together – the invitation to come round and meet the effects boys is one that one or two less enthusiastic recipients of the film may well choose to take up. Get them on special effects, clearly their forte, and they dig into far more detail, and the commentary suddenly has real merit and interest (love the anecdote about cutting all of Arnie’s dialogue from the original Predator, too).
Whenever there’s a need to talk about filmmaking proper, it descends into a volley of ‘cool’, ‘exactly’ and stuff like that. It’s a fascinating commentary track, to be fair.
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