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I've just wasted way too much time on http://actualteenadultteen.tumblr.com/ lol, they put together a picture of an actor playing 16 or 17 alongside a picture of what they actually looked like when they were were that age. It's so weird to see Hollywood's example of what passes for teenage in tv and film










I always thought Sarah and Alyson passed okay actually (well Sarah was only 2 or 3 years older than the part anyway), but Nicky and Charisma were ridiculously obvious when they were both close to 30 and still playing 16/17 wtf. And Joss did hire an actual teenager for the part of Kendra unusually, but Bianca Lawson is 31 in the second pic and still playing a teenager...

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[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty certain people are paid to do the tracks aren't they? that's something to keep in mind, although I'm not certain of it, but how else would you guarantee participation?

I bought a dvd of Thelma and Louise, one of my all-time favorite movies, and it had a new commentary track with Susan, Geena, and screenwriter Callie Khouri. It started out very high energy at first (Geena sounded like she'd just consumed a cup of espresso and a whole bag of chocolate bars beforehand) and then gradually petered out and became boring. They kept talking about how the movie was received at the time and people were offended by women doing violent things in a movie (when men did similar things as a matter of course in action films); etc. But they got stuck on that loop and ran out of things to say. Bored, now.

If you can't talk about your own movie for the whole period, then forget it. Give me trailers or featurettes or something else instead. (The deluxe package for Moulin Rouge is awesome in that regard - hours worth of features. But Baz is on both commentary tracks and lady of mercy does he like to listen to himself talk.)

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I don't think they are, although I couldn't say for sure? I know for Smallville Tom Welling pulled out of participating in any of the extras and wouldn't even allow his image to be used on the gag reel because the actors don't get compensated for DVD extras, and I've always assumed that it's the same for all shows

The Farscape commentaries with Ben and Claudia were amazing actually and really surprised me after sitting through some of the Bts ones, you could really tell that Ben Browder had done his research and had so much to say that there was literally no dead air. Him and Claudia were feeding questions to one another to keep things going, sometimes they had an occasional goofy moment, they have some of the most dynamic commentaries I've ever listened too and there's no comparison to most of the boring commentaries I've listened too for Bts. For Hell's Bell's they were literally describing the plot of the episode an sshing one another for certain moments because they didn't think the audience would want to miss them...

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Didn't know that about the compensation thing (would make sense why we don't hear commentaries from the main actors more often I suppose.) I just assumed.

I think though it may well differ from instance to instance? I can't imagine Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman not getting paid but they are A-list actresses with powerful agents and can demand what they want.

FYI, Jodie Foster said that she was paid more to promote the movie The Inside Man than she was to actually appear in it. So doing commentaries may be something that's negotiated by the actors, covered under the rubric of promotional duties or - maybe sometimes it's just a labor of love?

Of course I'm just guessing.

Mostly I skip commentary tracks. Which means I prob miss some good ones but after too many dull ones, I'll survive.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Heh yes, commentary always seems like something I care about more than I actually do if that makes sense. Like I get annoyed if a tv show doesn't have enough commentaries on the DVD's, but then when I think about it, how much do I really listen to them anyway...

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

And my dvd collection is so small anyway, and I don't have any tv shows.

I'm still pondering whether or not to find a btvs set on ebay at some point (hopefully reasonably priced. given my budget is minus zero) but then I don't know which set, or does it really matter?

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I have the complete collection and I think it is worth getting. There's a few fun featurettes for each season covering things like make-up, stunts, wardrobe etc, so it's great if you're into going behind the scenes

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Is that the one that came in the big red and white box, or the previous one? It seems like there's been more than one "set".

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My one is

http://www.amazon.com/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Michelle-Gellar/dp/B000ARSJVU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1375213739&sr=8-3&keywords=Buffy+complete

It has all of the usual seasons with special features, and then it also came with a bonus disk with some extra retrospective features, and Joss and some of the actors having a round table discussion. I think that the current complete set is a red box that doesn't have the bonus disk, but just groups all of the DVDs together?

If cost is the biggest issue then your best bet is probably to buy the seasons individually on eBay though. Each season has plenty of bonus features, and they usually go pretty cheaply once a series is over and a lot of people are selling their individual sets for the complete one

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Yep cost is definitely my biggest issue (alas). So doing the individual ones would work. And thanks for the link - so I can see now that there was a 1997 set and a 2010 box set. Not so confusing now.

BTW - a lot of your replies to me the last day or two end up being duplicated in my inbox 2-4 times. Weird. Are you editing your replies a lot?