Last night I watched the DVD commentary for Fight Club with David Fincher, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter. There are three commentaries on the disk -- another with Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Uhls, and the last with the digital effects guys. It was better than the commentary on The Matrix, which supposedly had Carrie-Anne Moss, the editor and the digital effect supervisor. But when I listened to it, it sounds like Carrie-Anne left after the first half-hour, and the editor sounds like a dolt. The only reason for listening is for the sardonic comments by the visual effects supervisor.

In Fight Club, the commentary was edited so that there is talking nonstop throughout the film. Helena was recorded seperately, but she's edited in so that it doesn't effect the commentary, except for one part in the project mayhem flashback scene, where the globe in the fountain is destroyed and rolls into the coffee shop. Helena is edited in, and when she's finished, the commentary reverts back to Edward Norton and Fincher talking, only I can't follow what they are talking about because I don't know what they are referring to.

There's one point, the bar scene with Tyler and Jack when they first meet, when Ed and Brad are talking about Rosie O'Donnell's reaction to the movie -- how it disturbed her and how it wasn't kind of her to give away the ending on national television. They talk about whether it's good or bad to be trashing her on the DVD. Ed says that anyone watching the commentary who has gotten this far is a true fan... anyone listening he assumes is cool. I like that.

Overall, I give the commentary an 8/10. Although I liked it, sometimes the stars talked over one another, and there wasn't a set plan of what they were going to talk about. They also were watching the movie with no sound -- I don't know if that affected what they were commenting about or not. But it was good, and I recommend listening to it.

Next is track 2, with the writers...