apparently the only thing I care about anymore are commentary tracks???
So, Talladega Nights is a movie I sort of randomly own, and I randomly watched it, and randomly decided to listen to the commentary.
Uh, WOW. The entire commentary is the director Adam McKay and Ian Roberts (who is not only from UCB, but also played the overly literal doctor on Arrested Development). And it is basically this incredible work of performance art?? They spend the entire movie talking about how the movie cost approximately 600 million dollars to make, and how they kept flying to Ecuador and Liberia and India to shoot interior scenes because of the quality of the light and the existential sense of otherness, and they talk about how Walker and Texas Ranger are animatronic robots created by NASA and at one point they went on a rampage through a sleepy North Carolina town, and the original cut of the movie was a two hour shot of a stick of butter melting while an overly made up woman slept in the background, and-- wow.
Plus, they only break character maybe three times. It's truly impressive. Perhaps my favorite part is when they keep telling stories about Sacha Baron Cohen, and because he's BRITISH, all the dialogue they invent for him is basically "Crikey Big Ben Lorries! Cockney ride in a lift PARLIAMENT, blimey!"
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Uh, WOW. The entire commentary is the director Adam McKay and Ian Roberts (who is not only from UCB, but also played the overly literal doctor on Arrested Development). And it is basically this incredible work of performance art?? They spend the entire movie talking about how the movie cost approximately 600 million dollars to make, and how they kept flying to Ecuador and Liberia and India to shoot interior scenes because of the quality of the light and the existential sense of otherness, and they talk about how Walker and Texas Ranger are animatronic robots created by NASA and at one point they went on a rampage through a sleepy North Carolina town, and the original cut of the movie was a two hour shot of a stick of butter melting while an overly made up woman slept in the background, and-- wow.
Plus, they only break character maybe three times. It's truly impressive. Perhaps my favorite part is when they keep telling stories about Sacha Baron Cohen, and because he's BRITISH, all the dialogue they invent for him is basically "Crikey Big Ben Lorries! Cockney ride in a lift PARLIAMENT, blimey!"
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