Quotes from Commentary Track Stars

This one wasn’t shot by Dave Klein. … Wes Anderson’s DP is who it is. … That’s really … weird to imagine that Wes Anderson has a cinematographer. Yeah, he just tells him to do the same thing all the time. — Commentary Track Stars and Sofa Dogs,
Dogma @2:01:37

Why didn’t he tell her all this from the beginning? It could have save a lot of problems. … The same thing’s true of the bible. ‘Spoilers, J! You gonna be killed, bro! I’m out!’ — Commentary Track Stars and Sofa Dogs,
Dogma @1:22:44

It’s a poop monster. … We’re talking about the potential end of the world, and … angels and God and demons, and then there’s this. … What are you, movie? … This would be an awesome single issue [of a comic book]. — Commentary Track Stars and Sofa Dogs,
Dogma @1:01:31

I bet ya priests have a lot of tricks for staying off God’s radar. … There’s probably a bag with chicken bones in it that you put on your doorway and then God can’t see what you’re doing inside. That’s probably why they can still have oral sex. — Commentary Track Stars and Sofa Dogs,
Dogma @0:34:39

Take out the supernatural elements, and just look at it in terms of the action beats, and it falls apart. Well, the action beats are all cut out of the movie. That’s part of the problem. — Commentary Track Stars and Sofa Dogs,
Dogma @0:17:55

I just kind of believe, well, there’s probably this greater being that’s bigger than me that’s looking out for fools and children, as the saying goes. I know how that goes. I’ve felt like that most of my life… until James Cameron made Titanic. — Commentary Track Stars and Sofa Dogs,
Dogma @0:09:01

I think, if anything, this movie, while it asks a lot of tough questions and makes some bold statements, it is at the end of the day a celebration of faith and the belief in God. — Commentary Track Stars and Sofa Dogs,
Dogma @0:05:08

[Mike's former priest father couldn't join] I think what you’re saying is that your dad, fearing God’s wrath, is in hiding, and he does not want to appear on our podcast because he knows God has our RSS feed. — Commentary Track Stars and Sofa Dogs,
Dogma @0:34:14

What the hell’s with the ‘ID4’ thing? There’s no 4 in the title. … We should abbreviate [Commentary Track Stars] to a smiley face and a shot of the cobra from Raiders of the Lost Ark. — Commentary Track Stars,
Independence Day @0:06:37

[alien ship vibrates moon surface without contact] It’s dumb thing number one. This is gonna be a long list. Get your notepads. — Commentary Track Stars,
Independence Day @0:05:23

Here comes the most awkward side break in laser disk history. … And when you’re playing this on 8 mm, with an 8-track tape for the audio, you have to take out so many tapes! You know what: f*** you. Laser disk is my Rosebud. — Commentary Track Stars,
Citizen Kane @1:02:21

This is a very old movie that still works today. … That is the biggest testament to this movie’s quality. … You can show it to a modern 15-year-old, and they will get it, and they will appreciate it. — Commentary Track Stars,
Citizen Kane @0:39:09

Tyler Perry comes from the stage, and all his movies look like stage productions. … We’re never gonna get any DVD screeners now. Yeah, I know. You just compared Tyler Perry to Orson Wells. We’ll get them from Lionsgate. — Commentary Track Stars,
Citizen Kane @0:20:25

I missed out on the Batman & Robin commentary. … And I had some things I wanted to say about that movie, so I’ll say them now. Okay. ‘What?! Oh come on! Really? Pfft.’ — Commentary Track Stars,
Citizen Kane @0:18:48

[re: sequel] His grandson is drift racer in Tokyo, and he runs a Huffington Post-style blog. — Commentary Track Stars,
Citizen Kane @0:13:50

We could spend the entirety of this movie doing really in-depth film analysis. … But I thought, instead of that, we should talk about possible sequels and animated series adaptations. — Commentary Track Stars,
Citizen Kane @0:12:32

They’re making the guy who’s calling Charles Foster Kane a fascist look like a fascist. … That’s brilliant. That’s exactly what a corrupted news organization would do. — Commentary Track Stars,
Citizen Kane @0:10:20

The only time I really laughed out loud was out of surprise. … To me, laughing out loud is not a good indicator of something being funny. — Commentary Track Stars,
Portlandia ‘One More Episode’ @0:03:15

You really sort of do go to sleep during this scene. I mean, it is still going. Yeah, they probably could have lost most of this and— No one would’ve cared. — Commentary Track Stars,
Psycho (1960) @1:47:20

They still think it’s about the money. [laughs] … If he killed her for the money, then he’s a completely different person. … But considering he killed her because he’s a f***in’ psychotic, they’re all in trouble. — Commentary Track Stars,
Psycho (1960) @1:31:58

That’s one hell of a house, tho. Yeah. If it didn’t have all that creepy-ass history, it would be awesome to live in that house. — Commentary Track Stars,
Psycho (1960) @0:46:15

[re: the book] Norman is older, overweight, balding—a much more pitiful character. More like Hitchcock himself. Yeah, more like Hitchcock himself. [laughter] So they changed that. — Commentary Track Stars,
Psycho (1960) @0:06:15

Earlier in this story, he punched a man’s face thru brick. Mm-hmm. This is a man who’s strong enough to punch thru brick… trapped in a brick room. Well, I think that’s a stylistic thing. — Commentary Track Stars,
Sin City (Hard Goodbye) @0:15:19

Rodriguez [said] it’s going to be … an exact adaptation of the books. It’s all the same story. It’s a guy’s pissed off. He’s gotta go save a girl or get revenge. … And he’s gotta go kill a bunch of people on the way to killing one guy. — Commentary Track Stars,
Sin City (Hard Goodbye) @0:10:47

This nullifies its own audience by being too stupid for people who are sophisticated enough to deal with the violence and too violent for people who can’t deal with the sophistication. No. I don’t think that that’s true. — Commentary Track Stars,
Sin City (Hard Goodbye) @0:03:40

Doesn’t Uhura look like she was drawn by Michael Turner in this thing? … She does, to a great degree. Altho Michael Turner would give her slightly bigger boobs. — Commentary Track Stars,
Avatar @0:43:56

There’s … a good rationalization for why the Na’vi have 4 when everything else has 6 limbs. … No. I just personally believe that the correct number of limbs is 4. And if you have more or less than that, you’re evil. … That includes amputees! — Commentary Track Stars,
Avatar @0:37:15

I would loved to have seen a movie where Jake joins the culture of AMP suits and becomes one of them and then fights against the humans with his AMP suit friends. [laughter] That’d be awesome. That’d be better than this. — Commentary Track Stars,
Avatar @0:25:16

[Luke meets Biggs] I don’t like this scene. Guess why I don’t like this scene! Why? Because it’s from the Special Edition. … ‘Stupid Edition’, that’s what they should call it. — Commentary Track Stars,
Family Guy: Blue Harvest @0:41:46

‘They let us go.’ There’s that whole thing. … So do you think that Obi-Wan didn’t actually turn off the [tractor] beam? He actually just, like, turned off the soft serve in the cafeteria? Hmm, yeah, maybe. — Commentary Track Stars,
Family Guy: Blue Harvest @0:40:06

When I was a little kid, [I wondered] ‘What does the Empire do that’s so bad?’ … Suddenly I recalled from school there was this civil war and the rebels wanted slavery. … I started thinking, ‘Are the rebels the bad guys?’ — Commentary Track Stars,
Family Guy: Blue Harvest @0:23:44

They did a book of … what everyone was doing in that cantina. The Figrin D’an story was pretty good.… They hold up one of the Hutts’ places; try to get them to play their demo tape on the radio? — Commentary Track Stars,
Family Guy: Blue Harvest @0:20:39

You gotta watch Family Guy to get this, ’cause this guy is a pederast. Yeah, yeah. I picked up on that. I don’t think that you— That’s pretty blatant. — Commentary Track Stars,
Family Guy: Blue Harvest @0:15:46

During scenes like this where somebody can’t breathe, I always hold my breath. … In this scene, I can do it. I can’t do it in Star Trek 4, where Kirk dives … to free the whales, ’cause he holds his breath for like a minute and a half. — Commentary Track Stars,
Star Wars 5: Empire Strikes Back @1:43:20

What order are you going to show these movies to your kid…? Original versions of 4, 5, and 6. … When they turn 18, it’s their choice … to watch the prequels. But just giving it to them? Pssh. It’s like giving your kids whiskey! — Commentary Track Stars,
Star Wars 5: Empire Strikes Back @0:42:17

Who’s gonna hear this? Uh, you never know. People. … If we say anything questionable, we can always trim it out here and there. I killed a homeless guy once. Set him on fire. Watched him burn. — Commentary Track Stars,
Star Wars 5: Empire Strikes Back @0:34:50

[re: 'There is another'] What was the speculation amongst fans…? … I don’t think I guessed that it was Leia. … I vaguely, vaguely remember … speculation that Boba Fett was the ‘other’. … That’s just people being idiots. — Commentary Track Stars,
Star Wars 5: Empire Strikes Back @0:11:56

I would totally not do that. I’d be like, ‘Just shoot me, because that’s less scary than doing this.’ … You’re never gonna save the day from terrorists with that attitude. — Commentary Track Stars,
Die Hard @0:50:16

In 1988, I pretty much dressed just like this dude. Wha— What? … Sweatpants. Sweatshirt. No glasses. No machine gun, really. Well, those kind of make the look. — Commentary Track Stars,
Die Hard @0:36:16

A lot of people are critical of this Blu-ray transfer because Hot Rod is pink. … But for someone to not go with the Blu-ray route because of that is ridiculous, since the widescreen DVD is just one giant compression artifact. — Commentary Track Stars,
Transformers: The Movie @0:10:00