By skyforbes Had the director commentary on for Jurassic World Rebirth this weekend so there was something in the background while I was doing home chores and it was a sad audiocast to listen to. The whole 2 hours was director Gareth Edwards just going "that's CG, this is CG, we added CG there, I asked the CG team to put this in" and it just bummed me out. Of course the dino stuff is CG but him pointing out how straightforward scenes that twenty or even ten years ago would have been shot IRL, were all either CG shots or touched up so much with VFX that it was more an animated frame than real, just made me feel sad and hopeless about the realness and the art of filmmaking in general. Establishing visual shots of the Thailand locations, people sitting around on the boat talking, Scar Jo in action with the boat and these guys running around in the jungle… Hearing how much they Frankensteined every scene with CG for mass appeal beauty instead of letting at least some flaws or realness in there kept piling on the disappointment as the commentary went on. Listening to commentaries from eighties blockbusters or nineties or 2000's where they talk about the insane labor and luck involved in making just one scene come together made me appreciate even the smaller scenes more and made it feel like this commentary was some forbidden knowledge about the filmmaking world. Now they just seem to be "yep we got that out of a bottle" basically. Does anyone else feel this way? Have you stopped listening to blockbuster commentaries overall? What is your favorite director's commentary?