Do you listen to the audio commentarys on your DVDs?

[WDWHound]

Most DVDs these days allow you to watch the movie while listening the audio commentary of the director or one of the actors. Last weekend, Mandy and I watched Apollo 13 three times; once with the normal soundtrack, once with Astronaut Jim Lovell's audio commentary and finally with director Ron Howard's audio commentary .

The audio commentarys added so much to the film. They made what was already a fantastic movie even better. However, when I mentioned this to someone at work, they told me they never bothered to listen to the added audio commentarys because they were always boring. Granted, some audio commentarys are pretty bad, but many are worth listening to. For example, The Willy Wonka audio commentary that features all the kids from the original cast (now grown) talking about what it was like to film the movie back then is a lot of fun. Debbie Reynold's commentary on the Singing the Rain DVD is really good too.

So, do you listen to the added audio commentarys on your DVDs? If so, are there any that you really enjoyed?

 

[caitycaity]

yep, i do. i thought the director's commentary on the lotr's movies was good. the cast one was very disappointing, though.

 

[Micca]

I try to watch all the special feature material, but usually once is enough. I think the LOTR bonus features are extraordinarily well done.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Sometimes. For Valentine's Day DH bought me the tenth ann. ed of "Pretty Woman" on DVD. Just for the heck of it one day, I tried watching it with the commentary (by director Garry Marshall) on. I hate to say it, but Garry Marshall is the most BORING man I've ever had to listen to. I got about 45 min to the movie before I turned the commentary off becuse it drove me so crazy.


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[olena]

Oh yeah! Kevin Smith's movies have GREAT commentaries. I love when all the guys start ripping on Bender Affleck....LOL!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

I do, but it really depends on which DVD I'm watching.

 

[Razor Roman]

The best commentaries to listen to are the Pixar movies... those guy absolutely LOVE what they do, and you can tell!

 

[ibouncetoo]

I really enjoyed the commentaries on the LOR DVD's.....felt like I was taking a film class! Kind of disappointed on the Pirates cast commentary though.

 

[MelessaG]

It depends on the DVD-I usually do though. It's one of the reasons I bought a DVD player in the first place.

 

[4greatboys]

Not usually, the kids dont like to.

 

[flaps]

Yep! Usually only the ones on DVDs I've purchased, though. I really enjoy 'em. My favs so far have probably been Pixar's.

 

[Alice28]

Pixar and Austin Power's Goldmember- funny!

 

[CourtasanSatine]

I do depending on the film

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I'm waiting to see if dadof3disneyholics posts on this, he ALWAYS does this. I have on a couple of movies, but I usually don't even have time to sit down and watch a movie with or without commentary.

 

[FroggyinArk]

best audio commentarry ever was the rutt and took commentary on brother bear,, i'm 37 and i still watch that version just to laugh



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