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the audio commentary on the new DVD


Not to insult the guys who did it, as they clearly did their homework and taught me a few interesting facts in the commentary... but COME ON! They were obviously just reading prepared notes, and often having a hard time doing so. The worst has to be when Godzilla first appears - you can tell the guy is pretty excited by the whole thing but he's commentating in a decidedly unexciting way, sounding really phony and sing-song like this is the first time ever he'd read this out loud.

I'm not Mr. Charisma myself and don't know nearly as much Godzilla trivia but I KNOW I could do a much better, at least more natural-sounding commentary than that.

It would have made more sense to just have Teruyoshi Nakano (who is still alive and quite lucid) do a commentary in Japanese, then subtitle it... that's what they did for the Shriek Show discs of the older Toho movies.

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I hear ya. It is a SUPER informative commentary, but it is delivered in a goofy "wikipedia entry" kind of way. Also note the 2 contrasting styles of the commentators: one guy gives up tons of contextual knowledge such as who the actors are, and what they've been in before, while the other guy routinely delivers a "Cliff's Notes" summary of each scene's plot! Its like "commentary for the blind." "In this scene the doctor reveals his research." "In this scene the military decide to use bigger weapons." Etc.

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They were mostly accurate but it surprised me that they had no clue as to the identity of the guys Murakoshi rescues from the alien base at the end, when it's quite clearly the submarine crew from the beginning (they're even wearing their uniforms still).

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I've heard both kinds of commentary: the kind that is scripted and the kind that is improvised. There are strengths and weaknesses to both kinds.


...Justin

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