March 28th, 2012 / 8:01 am
 Film

I recorded a commentary track for “Drive”

Hey, HTMLGiant. I recorded a commentary track for Drive; you can download it here. It’s an mp3, 42 MB, 104 minutes long.

Of course I made it so brilliant that you can just listen to it on its own. But if you watch it with Drive (recommended!), it’s all synced up, so cue it to start when the Universal logo starts.

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Next, I’ll record commentary for Inception.

And Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

And The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

And Southland Tales.

Update: I forgot to include a link to Scorpio Rising. Here’s a clip:

And here’s the full film.

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27 Comments

  1. March 28th, 2012 / 8:34 am Nicholas Grider—

      If you really have the iron constitution needed to make a commentary track for Southland Tales I would absolutely love to listen to that though there’s no way I’d see the film again (I did it on a dare).

  2. March 28th, 2012 / 9:01 am Frank Hinton—

      the link doesn’t work. 

  3. March 28th, 2012 / 9:37 am Bobby Dixon—
  4. March 28th, 2012 / 10:05 am A D Jameson—

      Thanks! I’ll try to correct it…

      OK, it should be fixed now. Sorry about that.

  5. March 28th, 2012 / 10:06 am A D Jameson—

       I’ve seen ST maybe four or five times. I’m more concerned about sitting through the LOTR films again…

  6. March 28th, 2012 / 10:32 am Caketrain Journal—

      As someone who rips audio commentaries to mp3 for on-the-go listening, this is exciting. Thank you, A D — hope you really are planning to do a lot of these.

  7. March 28th, 2012 / 10:54 am A D Jameson—

      Thanks! And, yes, I am planning to do more!

      I’m also going to make some short videos critiquing some scenes/sections of certain films. I’m almost finished with one that analyzes the first three scenes in Inception.

  8. March 28th, 2012 / 1:29 pm Frank Lloyd Wong—

      am i the only one who wasn’t wowed by drive?

  9. March 28th, 2012 / 2:08 pm M. Kitchell—

      yes

  10. March 28th, 2012 / 2:08 pm M. Kitchell—

      not only are you the only person who reads htmlgiant who wasn’t wowed by drive, you are the only person in all of history who wasn’t wowed by drive

  11. March 28th, 2012 / 2:30 pm Frank Lloyd Wong—

      i love a good monosyllabic title (jaws, saw, north, mash), but drive, i think, could’ve been drivier.

  12. March 28th, 2012 / 2:54 pm Scott Riley Irvine—

      Excited for the Southland Tales commentary. I’m the only person I know with a fondness for it.

  13. March 28th, 2012 / 8:26 pm reynard—

      i thought it was ok

  14. March 29th, 2012 / 1:20 am A D Jameson—

       Ignatiy Vishnevetsky also likes it.

  15. March 29th, 2012 / 1:20 am A D Jameson—

      Driviest?

  16. March 29th, 2012 / 5:24 am Jackson Nieuwland—

      I like it too

  17. March 29th, 2012 / 7:30 am Nicholas Grider—

      Wow.  Though I’m the only person left on earth who hasn’t seen any of the LOTR films so I can’t compare.  The only thing in ST that didn’t make my face ache was Justin Timberlake lip-syncing to the Killers song in the abandoned arcade because I can always get on board with music videos.

  18. March 29th, 2012 / 10:08 am A D Jameson—

      I didn’t say the film doesn’t make my face ache! Portions of it, at least. But it’s some kind of weird achievement, though, warts and all.

      What can I say? I’m drawn to the outliers.

      The JT/Killers segment is easily my favorite part. That and the dance scene aboard the blimp at the end.

  19. March 29th, 2012 / 10:09 am A D Jameson—

      Yeah, exactly! My commentary is for those who wanted more talking in the film!

  20. March 29th, 2012 / 10:29 am A D Jameson—

      I just updated the post, adding some links re: Scorpio Rising.

  21. March 29th, 2012 / 1:23 pm Frank Lloyd Wong—

      i like the idea of commentary for short art films. how about one for invocation of my demon brother?

  22. March 29th, 2012 / 7:44 pm reynard—

      that scorpio rising update is like slapping a tramp stamp on an old lady with little fangs & way too much time to tell you about her fucking lap dogs

  23. March 30th, 2012 / 9:26 am Robert O'Brien—

      I love the mask and the scorpion jacket and the weird teenage vision of masculinity. Thanks for doing this commentary. It gives me an excuse to rent the movie again.

  24. March 30th, 2012 / 2:56 pm A D Jameson—

      That’s a very good idea!

  25. March 30th, 2012 / 2:57 pm A D Jameson—

      You’re welcome!

  26. April 2nd, 2012 / 8:01 am I made a video that critiques the opening three scenes of “Inception” | HTMLGIANT—

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