Very rarely do I care anything at all about those extras. Rarely watch them, except maybe some deleted scenes and alternated endings, though, often, the alternate ending seems to be almost the same or make no sense.

The dumbest thing is having the director/actor commentary playing with the movie. Seriously, does anyone do this? Why the heck do I want to listen to a different audio track while watching the movie?

Also, a pet peeve is the adds and coming soons before the movie on Blu Ray. More often then not, you cannot just hit a button and go to the main menu. You have to keep pressing the skip button to move through the 30 min of crap.

Yeah, it sucks to have a scholar of Japanese cinema illuminate you to the meaning behind Ozu’s films, for example.

I guess conservativism means you already know what you need to know.

I love the audio commentaries. The more the better. I’ve enjoyed nearly every one I’ve listened to except the one for Anchorman. Some folks can’t watch a movie over and over. Others enjoy it and the Audio commentary makes the experience different and more informative. It’s really the only special feature I give a damned about.

I have enjoyed Robert Rodriguez’s 5 minute film school which he’s done on a few of his dvds. Each one different and from a wanna be filmmakers perspective very short and informative.

I’ve abandoned deleted scenes and alternate endings in most cases and documentaries? These look like the informercials on E! and although they might have served to get you to watch it in the first place after you’ve seen the movie they come off as mindless fluff.

Keep your meathooks off my blooper reel, Warner, unless you want a kick in the crotch. :)

I guess conservativism means you already know what you need to know.

Posted by Jack Schite
2009-11-29 15:15:19

Unlike liberalism, which assumes any other viewpoint other than your own is incorrect.

How is that man made global warming treatin ya’ Jack?

I’ve seen some interesting commentary on older movies “re-released” on disc, but for new releases, yeah.

I will say this, though. There is no experience quite like listening to the director’s commentary of an Uwe Boll movie. Listening to Uwe Boll try to explain his own movies to you is right up there with A Clockwork Orange as one of the most surreal experiences you can possibly have while not taking drugs.

One of the best commentaries I’ve ever heard on a DVD is the one for Magnificent Seven. Several of the seven (and the writer) are there, and its an incredible trip into the past of film making, what they were doing and why. There are little anecdotes and stories, different bits of information on the setting and work, technical information, and more. It was amazing and well worth the listen.

One of the worst I’ve heard was the Fellowship of the Rings commentary. The only actor who had the vaguest clue about the books or the story was Christopher Lee, and the rest were idiots, just air whistling through their ears morons. Viggo Mortenson turned it into some vast statement on Bush and Iraq, the other actors thought the entire movie was about multiculturalism and diversity, and they all sounded like 12 year olds.

Christopher Lee knew the book so well he was able to from memory quote parts of it. He’d have been an awesome Gandalf if he hadn’t been so old :( That was his dream role, never to happen.

Oh and avoid the Spider-Man voice over. Kirsten Dunst is so stupid you’ll be dumber for hearing her bleating. She’s dumb as a fist full of sand.