November 26 movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Georg and I watched some of the DVD extras, and the movie with commentary by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. It was interesting, although not as much as I expected. Part of the problem was that Gilliam and Jones obviously weren't together when they recorded it. We could tell because they never interact with each other, and they spoke of each other in the third person, the same way they spoke of everyone else in the cast. One problem this caused was that most of the commentary was very generic, in other words usually not related to the scene that's on screen at the time. I guess they had to do it that way, because if both of them talked about one moment of one scene they could only use one or the other.
On the bright side, both Georg and I know the movie so well that the commentary didn't make us miss anything. There's also a commentary by Eric Idle, Michael Palin and John Cleese. I'm mildly interested in it, but not so much if they do the same thing where the actors aren't together.
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