Recently re-watched Dark City, and decided to give this a listen again.

This is probably the most frustrated I've ever been with Teague listening to any of these.
I pretty much vehemently disagree with every single point he brings up.
Thankfully Trey and Dorkman call him on it, so it makes for a pretty solid commentary.
You really oughta give it another shot at some point Teague, I would argue that not only does the movie do a great job of gradually explaining everything without resorting to exposition dumps (at least in the director's cut), but it also makes great use of visual storytelling. There's tons of clues littered throughout that help tip
you off to what's happening.

The Matrix comparisons are interesting, as watching this again, it really does manage to pull off everything the Matrix trilogy tried and failed at, and does it in a brief 95 minutes. I would say that The Matrix 1 is definitely more entertaining on an action movie level, and consequently more fun to watch, but I've definitely come around to the opinion that Dark City is the better movie.

^^^ What he said. I absolutely love the idea of explaining a project from start to finish, and all the difficulties encountered along the way (part of why I love commentary's where its a movie Trey worked on). This is the best episode of the intermission to date.

It's a tough balancing act, I don't know personally how I'd approach this premise to make it work (and I can't say that they're doing it wrong until I see it), but I would say that you should have characters taking themselves somewhat realistically no matter how crazy the premise.

Look at Dr Who and the completely insane things that happen there, but the characters always buy into their reality to enough of an extent to get the viewer engaged. I think that's the kind of tone they'll need to strike to make this work.

The political jokes I'm seeing in this make me nervous because I just feel it's so played out and tired at this point, it just comes off as super lazy satire. If they had real balls, they'd have the democrats be presented as misguidedly wanting to reason with the Nazis, and have the religious rah rah extremists end up being the ones who save the day in the end (a la Team America), at least it'd be refreshing.

You can probably rent it from one of the online places like iTunes or Amazon too

Yep, next Sat/Sun would be good

I think that'd be fun actually, I'd maybe be interested in doing it if we can get a couple people together. Perhaps this upcoming weekend? Don't know if there's enough to talk about to fill an entire commentary though. I suppose you can talk about how the 1st movie is basically an almost exact remake of Point Break but with cars, Vin Diesel rising to stardom from this one etc. The second movie is almost funnier because it's one of the most unintentionally homo-erotic movies ever made. 3rd one is a shot for shot remake of The Karate Kid.....I guess maybe there is stuff to talk about.

Great work Teague, that turned out way better than I would have thought possible considering the crazy-random nature of the project and the tiny time-schedule.

I'm getting really excited for Chronicle. As someone living in Seattle, it just seems extremely awesome to finally see a superhero movie actually taking place here. Cause of our proximity to Vancouver, which is cheaper to shoot in, almost nothing high profile ever gets shot here. If they actually have super hero fights on the Space Needle I'm fucking in.

The Abyss commentary was the one that converted me. Just all of Trey's behind the scenes stories are awesome on that.

All hatred aside though, I'm always happy to be proven wrong. If Lucas goes and makes something amazing again I'd be the first one to say "well done", but you've gotta earn it.

Hmmm, will have to investigate that then, I'm most familiar with using Premiere so it would be nice to stick with it (also I just really dislike Apple and their proprietary format bullshit, and lack of proper blu-ray support, and complete nerfing of Final Cut.....ya I basically dislike Apple).

Wait, why not just have your characters using an open source OS. Just install Ubuntu for the desktop, and you're good to go, you don't need any sign off for that. For phones, I can't say for sure. I would think that Android would be safe since its open source as well (and I can't imagine why google would care), but I'm not 100%