kwigibo

Good or Bad?

I like them. I find them informative and amusing especially on tv series box sets like the Simpsons or Futurama. But, on the other hand, i know that some titles are really too bad for the commentary to be anything other than ironically funny. Anyone heard a really bad commentary?

livius drusus

The Godfather, special edition. Francis Ford Coppola needs to just shut. The fuck. Up. Never have I heard such substanceless, self-important meandering in my life, and I went to Catholic school for 12 years. I swear to gog he wasn't watching the movie at all. He certainly didn't deign to talk about it.

I paid a shitload of money for that motherfucker. If I had wanted the black beret NYU Pilgrim's Progress dense allegory edition, I could have bugged some dank pit in the East Village for free.

elwoodblues

The only commentary tracks I've ever sat down and listened to was on the LotR:SE DVD. And they were excellent, especially the track of the actors.

I can see how on other movies it'd be silly or superfluous, though. No one needs a commentary track on Big Daddy.

kwigibo

I thought the commentary on Part II was alright

tronvillain

I virtually always listen to audio commentary, though I didn't listen to all of the commentaries on [i]The Rules of Attraction[i]: there were just too many and I didn't have time (good movie though).

Jacey

Really enjoyed the Roger Ebert commentary on Dark City . Some movies I see no need for a commentary track though..............case in point is Dude, Where's my car? ...........all they did is laugh through the movie, but I guess there was little else to do.

Solsticin

My absolute favorite thing about getting most movies on DVD is any comentary at all. I'm fascinated my the process of movie making. I think it's amazing some movies ever get made at all.

Chicken Girl

depends on the movie and the person commentating (is that a word?) it.

I've heard commentaries that were interesting, humorous, informative, etc, and I've heard commentaries where the director/producer/whoever just rambles on and on and on and on and on about stuff that has this much to do with anything.

Calzaer

I just don't have the patience to watch a movie OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again to get all the peoples' commentary on it. The only time I actually made the effort was with Dog Soldiers, in the hopes they'd explain some things I was confused about (and they did!). But that wasn't so bad; it was just one commentary, not, like, 12.

Secular Pinoy

I don't really care much for audio commentary in DVDs. Nor for most other extras. I watch DVDs because their audio and video quality are better than VCDs.