How often do you view extras on DVD's?

[MVS]

Depends.

I like good commentaries.

Fight Club is a great commentary.
Gladiator is interesting.

[Timber]

I'll listen to the comentaries if it something I really dig. Family Guy, most of Kevin Smith's stuff, great action flicks & Buffy/Angel eps.

[animegirl]

I watch ALL the extras and always listen to the commentaries. Kevin Smith movies, Futurama and Simpsons commentaries are the funniest and best I have ever heard. Family Guy is OK but I wish they did one on every episode. Did anybody listen the the ones on King of the Hill? They were pretty funny on a few of the episodes they did the commentaries in character.

[Regus]

I always look at the extras, but I may not look through every single thing. But if the movie is really good I'll check everything out, commentaries and all.

[salmonax]

I usually only watch shorts that comes with the movie and that happens "very rarely." Occasionally, I'll watch an interview or documentary if the movie is really old and is the only real access I have to that time period.

I'll never play commentary since it kills the joy of the movie. A lot of directors take the opprotunity to clarify plot questions and reveal information that you can't get anywhere else. In that case, why make the movie if you were good enough to do everything you needed to do?

Because directors don't have God-like powers. They have to deal with studio interference, budget/time constraints, crew, cast, writers, and the vagaries of weather and nature. I like commentaries because I look at movies as manufactured objects, and I'm always interested in how and why something is made. But commentaries like John Carpenter's are cool too, where they just shoot the shit and talk about their lives.

[Cheebs]

If there is something amazingly cool or I'm amazingly bored, I'll watch an extra. 99.9% of the time I never give them a look. Most of the time I quietly resent them for taking up disc space that could have been used for DTS sound or less compression on the picture...

[MVS]

The Armageddon commentary is pretty good as well.

Ben Affleck say something like "I asked Brukheimer why it's easier to train a driller to be an astronaut rather than an astronaut to be a diller and he told me: Shut the fuck up."

[Sqoon]

Because directors don't have God-like powers. They have to deal with studio interference, budget/time constraints, crew, cast, writers, and the vagaries of weather and nature.

That's not exactly what I was referring to. Let's say, you're watching Blade Runner with commentary on and at the very end Ridley Scott says, "Oh, by the way, Deckard is a replicant." (Which he eventually did say in an interview.) Where's the fun and mystery in watching Blade Runner now? It ends all debate. And in that case, shouldn't the movie have been effective enough so that it's clear he was a replicant? Even the Director's Cut is based on ambiguity. Movies should exist solely as movies, and you shouldn't have to delve into websites, commentaries, and DVD trinkets and extras to fully discover and enjoy them.

[BioMechanic]

I always watch everything at least once. If the extras are done with care, you can learn a lot of interesting information about the film, even gaining new appreciation for the film. Those are the extras that will be worth watching again years down the road.

I find myself enjoying director/cast/etc commentary the most (except for The Exorcist; William Friedkin's track on that is horrid). I also enjoy documentaries and alternate/deleted content.

[Jeremy]

I always watch the extras at least one full time through. For movies, I don't usually listen to the commentaries more than once. For TV shows, I listen to them just as much, if not more so, than the show itself. For me though, the DVD is only worth buying if the feature presentation on it is good, extras alone can't make a DVD of a shitty flick worth buying.