Movie Commentary

[jfrost]

Slightly off-topic: has anyone played Portal with commentary on? For a game with such low replay value, it was a very interesting addition.

[Bradtemple87]

I have shelves upon shelves of movies I have not watched the commentary for

[Jrecee]

I used to more often. Now I have so many movies I haven't even watched, it's hard to justify rewatching the same movies with commentary. I don't keep up with the special features as much either, which I always used to do. I don't even buy the special editions as much anymore, although the blurays tend to only come in one version.

Honestly I was getting bored with a lot of the special features, as they basically all say the same thing anymore; "Here's the scene where he cuts the dude in half, to do this shot we used CGI". "Ok here's the scene where he flies through the lollipop jungle. . . we used CGI for that"

[Hobie-wan]

However, when I have watched a good film I normally go to the PC and read all the interesting facts and interviews that I can find.

Granted you won't know if the commentaries are good are interesting for a given movie until you give it a shot, but this is exactly why you'd want to listen to the commentaries in the first place. If you've just watched the movie recently and it is fresh in your mind, then you can concentrate on the commentary instead of thinking of it like an annoying theater patron.

[Curlypaul]

Yeah I guess so. I did once watch Clerks with the trivia sub titles on and that was interesting enough.

@jreecee - I totally hate how CGI has taken all of the wow out of special effects for me. Remeber seeing the transformation scene in American Werewolf, or how about the spider walk in the excorcist or Capt Rhodes decapitation in Day of the Dead? all of those left me gobsmacked at how they acheived that. When I first saw Avatar I thought 'hmm looks nice'