Rian Johnson Releases LOOPER Commentary Track

Todd Brown, Founder and Editor
What's that? A commentary track for a movie just freshly released in theaters? You bet. It's a concept Looper director Rian Johnson first messed with for The Brothers Bloom, the idea being that after seeing the film once you could put the commentary on to an iPod and go back to the theater and watch the film a second time on the big screen while listening to the commentary on headphones. It's a clever idea and Johnson had enough people asking him whether he intended to do it again that, well, he did it again.

Says the director:

I recorded a commentary track to be downloaded, put on an ipod and listened to in the theater as you're watching Looper.  This is an odd thing I tried with Bloom, and have gotten a few requests for it again, so here it is.  It is totally different from the commentary track that will be on the Blu/DVD, a bit more technical and detailed.  Needless to say, this is NOT to be listened to on a first viewing, or before you've seen the film.  Also, please work it so that a glowing screening is never out of your pocket during the movie.

Listen to the introduction before heading to the theater, it has instructions.  And lemme know how it works.

Download the commentary here.

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  • ColinJ

    The idea of taking an iPod into a theatre and listening to a commentary while the movie plays is incredibly douchey. It's just one more thing fuckheads can use to annoy people who want to sit and enjoy a movie in peace.

    I seem to remember Kevin Smith toyed with the idea for CLERKS 2 but was shut down when theatre owners got wind of it and pressured the studio.

  • Slaughter

    What a bunch ungrateful little c&*ts you all are, and as IF you are going to hear the f&cking DIALOGUE coming out of someone's headphones during a film. People don't have to fiddle with their players whilst listening, how many of you actually KNOW how TECHNOLOGY works? Jesus Christ. Tossers, all of you.

  • Slaughter

    AND, at the start of the recording, the director ASKS the listener to not play with their phone / iPod whatever during the film, or to have it up so loud that it disturbs other viewers!

  • Ard Vijn

    If people wear headsets and keep the volume to a social level I do not see the problem. Douches are douches, this won't add any nor remove any.

  • Mr. Cavin

    Oh, I'd far rather hear someone talking on the phone during a movie than have to see their little light flashing on and off. That's what makes texters so totally asinine. I assume that anyone managing their MP3 player in the middle of a theater would come off just as irritating. Also, seem like most people aren't going to have access to, or carry around, truly silencing earphones--they're going to use tinny little earbuds that we'll all be able to hear tinkling away in the quiet moments.

  • ColinJ

    I think we've all been on a bus or train and had someone with their cheap MP3 player headphones hissing away at top volume, pissing everyone off.

    The ONLY things anyone should ever bring into a cinema are their eyes, their ears and soft food items.

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