10 Most Embarrassing DVD Commentaries Ever
8. Guy Ritchie Thinks His Movie Is A Lot Smarter Than It Is - Revolver
Guy Ritchie's 2005 gangster flick Revolver is a textbook example of a movie made by a director who has started to believe their own hype and in turn gotten completely high off their own supply.
The DVD release of this insanely pretentious and scarcely coherent movie quite fittingly includes an outrageously pompous commentary from Ritchie himself.
For starters, the director implores audiences to watch the movie three times (without commentary, with commentary, and then without again), insisting that "each time you watch it, the concept becomes deeper and deeper." Right.
He also discusses the film's themes - particularly that chess is a metaphor for life - which he clearly believes are both deep and subtle, before launching off on an insane tangent about the film's three-pronged colour scheme mirroring how everything in nature occurs in threes.
Basically, it's toe-curlingly hilarious confirmation that Ritchie had disappeared entirely up himself at this point in his career, though at least the derisive general response to Revolver didn't validate his glue-sniffingly insane ideas any further.