Top 10 Favorite Audio Commentaries

[Herbert]

What are your favorites?

[coffeeaddict6]

My absolute favorite is True Romance Quentin Tarantino. Fascinating to hear his take on it.

[UltraMario9]

1. Hot Fuzz
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Godfather Trilogy
4. True Romance
5. Zodiac
6. Blade Runner
7. The Yards
8. Fargo
9. One Hour Photo
10. War On Everyone

[cheez avenger]

1. The Thing
2. Big Trouble in Little China
3. Escape From New York

Whenever JC and Kurt Russell get together - hijinks ensue!

[oilers73]

This Is Spinal Tap, with David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel. The commentary is as funny as the movie.

[stvn1974]

Blade Runner
Alien
Serenity
Bubba Ho Tep
______ by Kevin Smith and all.
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
The Thing
Big Trouble In Little China

[Archedamian]

The Thing and Citizen Kane immediately come to mind.

[rickmagnum]

Tropic Thunder and Evolution have to be 2 of the funniest out there.

[tonylopez]

My top 10 personal favorite commentaries are...
1. Russell (They just make you smile)
Escape from New York
Used Cars
Big Trouble in Little China
The Thing
2. Ebert (So informative)
Citizen Kane
Dark City
3. Del Toro (Such a great guy to listen to)
Pans Labrynth
The Devils Backbone
Blade 2
4. Scott (Overall entertaining)
Alien
Gladiator
Blade Runner
5. Stone and Parker (Single funniest commentary ever)
Cannibal: The Musical
6. Downey Jr, Stiller and Black ( Downey in character!?)
Tropic Thunder
7. Tarantino (Fountain of knowledge)
True Romance
Hot Fuzz
8. Romero (Love hearing his views)
Dead films
Martin
Creepshow
Knightriders
9. Many people (Get educated)
Seven Samurai
10. Ferrell and McKay and gang (Bat sh!t crazy listen)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Yeah I cheated with more then 10 but there's another 30+ commentaries I'd easily recommend.

[tonylopez]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Blade Runner
Alien
Serenity
Bubba Ho Tep
______ by Kevin Smith and all.
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
The Thing
Big Trouble In Little China

Yes! To all Smith tracks and I do love the Evil Dead 1 and 2 commentaries.
Raimi jokingly chewing Campbell out for the worst reverse motion acting he's ever seen is priceless!

[Kill Bren]

Evil Dead 2, Re-Animator, The Thing, Creepshow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bubba Ho-Tep, Tropic Thunder, Robocop, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Night of the Creeps.

[Grethiwha]

My absolute favourite is Werner Herzog's English commentary track for Aguirre: The Wrath of God. Just, the casual way that he goes from one absolutely insane story about the production of the film, to the next - in between confidently asserting his audacious filmmaking opinions/advice ("storyboards are for cowards", etc) - really made a big impression on me when I watched it. Herzog's commentaries are the best, and I could probably cull together a top 10 list, just from him! (Shout did a really great job of gathering together a definitive selection of commentaries, in English and subtitled-German, for their Herzog Collection boxset...)

But jeez, actually coming up with a top 10 list would be hard. Vampire's Kiss comes to mind as one of them...

I don't know if we're including TV here, but I also adore Doc & Jackson's commentary tracks on (every episode of) The Venture Bros...

[The Great Owl]

I always listen to the audio commentaries for all of my Blu-rays, and it's near impossible for me to pick favorites, but here are a few standouts...

Michael Jeck's commentary for Seven Samurai

David Forgacs's commentary for Red Desert

Jordan Peele's commentary for Get Out

The John Carpenter/Kurt Russell commentaries for...well...all of their movies.

Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier commentary for Road House
(These two don't really add anything constructive to the movie background, but this commentary track is just pure hilarious comedy gold.)

The Joe Bob Briggs commentary for I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
(Joe Bob Briggs is sort of like the good-natured humorous protective older brother who keeps you company during a scary nighttime walk in the woods.)

Alan Silver commentary for Murder, My Sweet

James Ursini commentary for Out of the Past

[Hoke Moseley]

John Sturges' for Bad Day at Black Rock

[eternalbiz]

The commentary to Silent Night Deadly Night 2 has to be one of my top favorites. It's like watching a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. Hilarious.
Also just watched Halloween '78 with Carpenter and Curtis today and it was a very entertaining commentary.

I really need to watch more audio commentary's. I really enjoy them. Just hard to make time for them.

[prkchopexpress]

verhoeven commentaries are fantastic

[drush9999]

John Carpenter and Kurt Russell are a magic combo as already mentioned. JC is good with Roddy Piper as well. But his best is with Jeff Bridges.
Arnold Schwarzenegger commentaries are hilarious (Conan & Total Recall).

[Charles Essie]

Oliver Stone's World Trade Center had an amazing commentary from 9/11 first responder Will Jimeno (played by Michael Peña in the movie) and rescuers Scott Strauss, John Busching and Paddy McGee. It's better than the movie and a must-listen even if you hated the movie (which apparently a lot of people did).

[dr. wai]

These are just a few off the top of my head. There are tons more, but these are my absolute favorites.

-John Carpenter and Kurt Russell (Escape from New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China

-Kevin Smith and Company (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy (Criterion commentary), and Dogma)

-Roger Ebert (Citizen Kane, Dark City, Story of Floating Weeds)

-Bey Logan (Dragon Dynasty Releases, Hong Kong Legends releases)

-Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather films, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now)

-The Hysteria Continues (88 Films and Vinegar Syndrome slasher movie releases)

-Lloyd Kaufman (Toxic Avenger films, Terror Firmer, Class of Nuke Em High)

-Astron-6 (The Editor)

-Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Midnight Meat Train, Lord of Illusions)

-J.R. Bookwalter and Company (SOV Six Pack, Robot Ninja, The Dead Next Door)

-Roy Frumkes (Street Trash)

-James Muro (Street Trash)

-Mike Leeder and Arne Venema (The Fearless Hyena, Once Upon a Time in China Trilogy, Dragons Forever)

-Brandon Bentley (The Big Boss, Heroes Shed No Tears)

-Greydon Clark (Satan's Cheerleaders, Wacko, Without Warning)

-John Waters (Crybaby, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble)

[Jay H.]

I'm not gonna narrow it down to ten - that sounds like a homework assignment - but my all-time fave track is the band members on This Is Spinal Tap. It's brilliant.