When I've seen the movie, heard one of the commentaries, and watched all the making of documentaries.

Film itself

Oh, man. That's just sick! -wink-

When I watch everything on it that I want to watch.

For most DVDs, that's just the movie. I have to really like a movie, somthing like LOTR, to watch all the extras. Even then I still skip the commentaries.

you win. you are :editking:

Just when I've watched the movie. Too many in the collection to worry about seeing all the extras, etc.

Only the movie itself as thats why i bought it. A lot of times I never watch commentaries.

That's not anal, that just plain ridiculous. Especially the example of not watching it (while cleaning) with the subtitles on. Hello? McFly? Isn't the whole purpose of subtitles is because you might be hard of hearing?

I consider a DVD watched when I watch the movie, and perhaps check out a couple extras.

I enjoy commentaries, but I must admit, I rarely watch/listen to them. I consider an extra that's a great added bonus, but not necessarily a necessity to watch/listen to. In fact, I have several discs that I wished had commentaries that don't.

Making-of documentaries are fun, but again, not always a necessity.

Now for completely useless extras in my book are the story boards. I'd rather watch paint dry than to look at a bunch of black and white scribblings that are nearly impossible to make out. But then again, I'm not a student of film, nor do I want to be.

It's a little like going to a restaurant ..... just because I didn't eat the bread and butter, or nibble on the free bowl of olives/pickles/whatever doesn't mean I didn't have dinner.

Extras are extras ..... the movie is the thing.

I'm not done till the movie is watched, the commentaries listened to and the bonus stuff (all of it) gone through.

I make two exceptions. I don't have a DVD-ROM, so I skip that stuff. And I don't do scripts or anything else that is hundreds of pages of static text.

It may be a bit anal and I'm the first to admit I probably have a touch of OCD, but on the plus side, it helps me to pace my purchases out to a comfortable level. That's why I have about 250 movies and a happy marriage rather than 2000 movies and divorce. :D Actually my wife doesn't care what I buy as long as the family is taken care of first. But it does help to keep things under control.

After i've seen the film and listened to the commentaries along with most of the extras (I dont read any of the on screen scripts and cant be bothered to scroll through the photos)

Once I've watched the feature, I consider it watched. I then enter a movie rating in dvd profiler. I'm then able to sort by those that are not rated, so I can see the 100+ movies I own that are still unwatched......

"Isn't the whole purpose of subtitles is because you might be hard of hearing?"

Well, the captions are. Those assume that you can't hear anything, so sound effects are pointed out, and if it's someone offscreen talking it'll indicate who it is. Regular subtitles assume you can hear but can't understand the language (in the case of English subs on an English movie, they assume you can hear the sound but can't make out the dialogue, but can read English.) Those only show the dialogue, nothing else.
I mostly like to see the different fonts and colors that are used on different discs. I studied Spanish in school so checking out the Spanish dubs or subtitles lets me keep up with that language. Since I've been getting DVDs I've been learning a bit of French also, though the French on most Region 1 discs is Canadian French, which is supposedly different from traditional French. There's at least one laugh-out-loud moment in every dubbed track I've listened to though. On the movies I have with Asian languages, it's fun just to look at the characters but don't think I could ever learn one of those languages.

I consider it 'watched' when I've seen everything on it that I intend to watch.