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Location: Lilburn, Ga
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When I watch a DVD I watch every single extra thing they put on it, even if it includes more than one commentary
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The only thing I watch is bloopers and deleted scenes. Once you've seen one "The Making Of..." bits, you've pretty much seen them all. Ultimately most special features are a waste because, unlike a good movie, they are usually ony good for a single viewing.
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Who You Crappin?
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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The only movie I've watched the whole way through with the commentary on was This is Spinal Tap.
I watch all the making of stuff though. The LotR Extended DVD's have days of that stuff.
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Location: Where morons reign supreme
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It depends on how much I enjoyed the movie. Movies I love or find really thought provoking I'll sometimes watch the commentaries. I'll often watch deleted scenes and bloopers too.
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Cosmically Curious
Location: Chicago, IL
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Usually I watch all the special features, I just love getting into the whole process of the making of the movie, probably because I've been involved in "backstages" in my own life. Before I buy a DVD I always look to see what the special features are, if there's a version of the movie with more features, I will always buy that one. Special feautres are my favorite part of DVDs!
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"I'm sorry. What was the question?"
Location: Paradise Regained
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Spoken like a true man. Example: The Notebook has a nice extra love scene. No boobies, but it's a nice scene. For the record, I love watching the extra's and deleted scenes... I also love the "making of..." segments because all that behind the scenes stuff fascinates me for some reason. I guess I just like seeing all the work that goes into making a movie. I've never been on a movie set before, so the behind the scenes stuff allows me something close to that opportunity.
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I like special features. To me, the process is just as important, if not more important than the finished product. Watching 'making of' and extra scenes and commentary really gives me insight in what was going on when the film was made. Now if they'd only do that with more video games.
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Sky Piercer
Location: Ireland
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When I'm bored I'll whip out a DVD and have a look at some of the extras and give them a chance. If it doens't seem intersting in the first minute/whatever I'll stop it.
As for commentary tracks...it depends. Some commentary tracks are really interesting and entertaining (I loved the 'Chopper' commentary done by the man himself - that was great), but some are excruciatingly boring (British DVD of Romero's Dawn Of The Dead featuring Tom Savini and some other guy talking on such rivetting topics as being out of cigarettes and being desperate to use the toilet...I can't believe I actually sat through the entire thing!)
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Hey Now!
Location: Massachusetts (Redneck, white boy town. I hate it here.)
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I love special features. I watch every one. I hate DVDs without any special features, it's a bummer.
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Location: Ellay
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One more for lovin' the SF. I also usually watch the commentary tracks... This adds up in movies like LOTR Extended Editions where they have 3 or 4 different commentary tracks... They're good for train rides.
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Location: Angloland
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Whenever i get my lego out, extended extras are an absoloute godsend, as most of lego building is searching for one damned peice.
I learned so much from the commentaries, having watched the movies enough i knew exactly what was going on, was really very interesting. The design teams ones are always the funniest, they've always got something to swear about. Extras are one of the best bits of a DVD, providing they've been put together well. So many extras are just thrown in as seemingly an afterthought, when they could add to the quality of the whole movie experience so much more.
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Location: In a State of Denial
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It depends. Some have well made documentaries (occasionally better than the film itself). Some commentaries are insightful and fun. But, many are lame, tacked on, pieces of drivel not worth the space they take up on the disc, and since Hollywood has caught on that "Special Editions" usually sell more copies, we are getting a lot more of the drivel nowadays.
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Idolator
Location: Vol Country
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Well after the movie I'll usually just instinctively check out the Special Features, but I only watch the ones that intrigue me. I love some good Special Features, but I have found that I usually don't enjoy them in general all that much. I mean usually you'll see that the deleted scenes were deleted for a reason.
But hell, I watch em anyway, so what do I know?
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Location: Oregon
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I regularly watch the extra features on DVD and listen to the commentaries, though I think the biggest waste of my time regarding these is "deleted scenes." Usually those scenes were deleted for a reason.
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Darth Papa
Location: Yonder
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I watch special features like a rabid beast. Love 'em. I've watched all the special features on all three LOTR extended edition multi-disk tomes.
The single best director's commentary I've ever heard, though, was on the film Primer, a brilliant indie film made on a budget of $7000, which totally swept Sundance a couple years ago. Guy had no idea the technical side of making a movie, and learned as he went along. This movie is 78 minutes long, and they shot a grand total of 80 minutes of film, because they had no money for extra film. He made all the special effects, music, etc on his home computer. Edited it on his home computer (sometimes cutting dubbed voices apart syllable by syllable to match on-film mouths, to compensate for his not knowing how to properly record audio). Amazing documentation of guerilla filmmaking. |
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Location: Ireland
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But sometime they can be interesting. For instance one set of deleted scenes that I found very interesting were from the TV series Spaced (by the same people as Shaun Of The Dead). The scenes were indeed deleted for a reason, but having seen them, it made me appreciate just how well put together the whole show was - what they didn't say being just as important as waht they did. But yeah, usually deleted scenes are just extra unentertaining crap - made even more so by the fact that you are seeing them completely in isolation and out of any kind of context.
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Mine is an evil laugh
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Some commentaries are interesting - I find the actor's ones most interesting - "wasn't it cool when we had to do XYZ...".
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