Just went to the DVD UK commentary site. It has been siezed by the U.S. government on multiple charges of racketeering, piracy, and conspiracy(ies) to commit fraud.

Stevie Wonder did write “Superstition” himself. “Effete” is pronounced /ef FEET/. Robert Heinlein’s name is pronounced /HINE line/.

Re: listening to the commentary after watching. Don’t care. If it doesn’t sync with the films, it’s not a proper commentary. I listen to almost everything while watching the movie: I can’t waste 2 hrs watching the film and then another 2 hrs listening to the commentary and trying to remember what was going on in the film.

Pretty funny and informative.

They deliver all the usual fannish commenting, great background, and thoughtful analysis (of things like patriotism and plastic surgery). But—and I can’t stress it enough—this is a terrible movie. I say that as someone who loves Big Trouble in Little China and The Thing and who doesn’t hate most other Carpenter movies.

Automatic dialog replacement automatically fits your spoken line to the mouthing of the line on-screen. According to IMDb and a couple of other sources, Russell did indeed make all his own basketball shots—eventually. Eddie’s car is a 1959 Cadillac Series 62. Cuervo’s parade car is a 1959 Buick Electra.

And yes, you can buy sub-machine guns in America, but they can’t be fully automatic. However, it is supposedly very easy to modify them to make them fully automatic.