Just recently, I got the Return of the Living Dead III DVD, and listened to the commentaries. The commentary with Mindy Clarke, and the Special Effects guy was interesting. Unless the guy was doing a damn good job at being sarcastic, this is the only commentary I've ever heard, where a speaker is openly conservative. Can anyone think of any more?

Anything by John Carpenter.







(*ducks*)

Thanks for the warning.

Hopefully not, I don't need these scumbags ruining my enjoyment of these movies.

AFAIC, If they're not talking about the movie, they should just shut the hell up.

George Clooney take notice.

Wow! Let's have a round of applause for open-mindedness!

I can't think of any political leanings either way in any commentary I've heard. Maybe I don't know what to listen for?

I've never heard the commentary for ROTLD3 (holding out for an UNRATED version) and I'm sort of puzzling at how the discussion of the movie could be political.

I am unable to recall any commentary that seemed political... they're generally limited to either technical aspects of film-making or telling stories about production.

Maybe a John Milius commentary on something would go in that direction; though I don't know if he's ever provided a commentary or given political insight in one if he did one.

(Just in case anyone doesn't know who John Milius is, he's a screenwriter and director with a lot of right-leaning views. He wrote the screenplay for Red Dawn and was the basis for John Goodman's character in "The Big Lebowski.")

Do we need to have this conservatve bashing? Some of us may be conservative. If you want to bash conservatives, there's another forum. I think we should stick to posts relating to answering the OP's question.

Pro Conservative commentaries? There aren't many that I can think of, and I'm a conservative. Why would there be? For what movies would that come out in a commentary?

I'd almost guarantee one on Another Gay Movie.

If the world was fair and safe to grow up in, I'd expect one for An Inconvenient Truth.

So eat that, digitalfreaknyc!

Many Troma films have radical left commentary. Lloyd tends to throw in his political stuff at the end during the credits. Usually stuff like how Bush is too stupid to be in the White House and he's just a "puppet" and Dick Cheney and Haliburton are really running the show.

Dune (miniseries) had a very interesting commentary that leaned heavily to the left politically. They started talking about Afghanistan (AFGHANISTAN!! Not Iraq!!) and one of the guys was saying "Just what the hell are we doing in that country!!!". The other guy (the director?) then said "Shhh... shhh... shhhh.... Let's not talk about that." and quickly changed the subject. Keep in mind the guy was being very pissed off over us going into Afghanistan!!! To go after the Taliban!!! Wow!!!

James Cameron made some subtle conservative remarks in his ALIENS commentary. Actor Bill Chepil went on a born-again conservative tangent in the behind-the-scenes doc "The Meltdown Memoirs" in the STREET TRASH DVD, the most recent example I can think of.. There's more, trust me, we're not alone!

Doy! Many of the South Park (mini) commentaries have a slight conservative slant.

There is no such thing as a conservative commentary. They wouldn't be able to get a job if they did one.

There's a conservative bashing forum? Wow! They must have opened that up after the Political Forum got renamed to "Liberal Bashing Forum."

Never heard any of DVD Savant's commentaries, then? His film noir commentaries definitely slant to the left -- and while in most cases he probably is picking out a political subtext intended by the writer or director, some times (just as in his reviews here) he gets on a tangent.

i just wanna hear anecdotes about bloopers or hardships during filming...not any conservative (or liberal) bs...well especially not conservative

I think the closest thing I've heard like this was on the Aliens commentary, where James Cameron talks about Sigourney Weaver's intense dislike of guns, and her surprise at being asked to fire several weapons.

After talking about how much Weaver enjoyed the experience, Cameron laughs and says something along the lines of "Another liberal bites the dust." But that's the only remotely political comment he makes.

ha ha... yeah, I remember that one (Aliens commentary).

Actually, I agree with people who want to have no political commentary in the commentaries (from either side). Just talk about the movie! If I want to hear a political commentary, I'll put on Rush or Hannity (which I do often).

I don't think people should be limited to any one thing in a commentary. Some of the best stuff in a commentary comes from tangential comments or stories.